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Speaker 1: spirit we bring to this show. I'm Luke Thomas, I'm

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Speaker 1: Brian Campbell.

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Speaker 2: This this Morning Combat.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a little little bonus action, little instant reaction

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Speaker 3: for you on this Saturday evening at least East Coast time.

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Speaker 3: Here UFC two eighty six in the books in London

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Speaker 3: and a trilogy welterweight title main event. Leon Edwards and

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Speaker 3: Kamara Usman is behind us. I'm here to break it

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Speaker 3: all down for you, Brian Campbell. You're looking at me,

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Speaker 3: one half of your award winning Morning Combat duo every Monday,

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Speaker 3: Combat Channel. Luke Thomas idle this evening. But you know,

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Speaker 3: still a little art brush style. Okay, let's break this

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Speaker 3: thing down. Mikey Morml on the ones and twos behind me,

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Speaker 3: and uh, I guess there's no need any more to

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Speaker 3: say spoiler alert. Right. If you're watching an instant reaction,

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Speaker 3: it's because you want to talk about what just went down.

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Speaker 3: And what went down was Lee on Edwards majority decision

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Speaker 3: over five rounds to defend his welterweight title against former

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Speaker 3: pound for pound king Kamara Usman. Wow, this wasn't the

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Speaker 3: fight I expected. I don't think it was a fight

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Speaker 3: a lot of people expected. There were certainly elements of

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Speaker 3: drama and intensity to it, but it was largely a

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Speaker 3: technical affair. But if you're looking for me to come

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Speaker 3: out here and do a Maya kulpa, which I think

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Speaker 3: a lot of us in this industry, especially us here

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Speaker 3: on Morning Combat who picked Kamorrow Usman, have a lot

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Speaker 3: of respect for Leon Edwards, but didn't see him climbing

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Speaker 3: this hill, at least in this way. Once again, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you that I was wrong, and

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Speaker 3: I've been wrong about Leon all along. This victory was thorough,

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Speaker 3: this victory was technical, and ultimately this victory was about

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Speaker 3: the graduation, the evolution, the growth of Leon Edwards as

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Speaker 3: not just a mixed martial artist, but almost like a

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Speaker 3: man in general. Because Kamara Usman, even literally up to

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Speaker 3: the point of the start of the fight, was trying

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Speaker 3: everything to get into the head of Leon Edwards, was

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Speaker 3: trying to dull the potential of what that home crowd

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Speaker 3: could do as a buoyant factor in lifting Leon and

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Speaker 3: Leon was ultimately unfazed, unshakable.

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Speaker 2: That's the fight right there.

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Speaker 3: Look, it comes down to if you're able to keep

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Speaker 3: one of the most dominant wrestlers in the history of

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Speaker 3: this sport in Usman away from routinely taking you down,

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Speaker 3: and then the rare times that he does, away from

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Speaker 3: establishing a presence of dominance of grounded pound, of really

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Speaker 3: any sort of lengthy time on the ground, that's going

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Speaker 3: to be a big opportunity to help you win. But

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Speaker 3: the bigger reason here along with that, why Leon Edwards

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Speaker 3: wasn't this one hit wonder at the elite level who

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Speaker 3: came into that title shot after a ten fight unbeaten streak.

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Speaker 2: But let's be fair.

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Speaker 3: On the look back, a lot of us saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: Will he belong there?

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Speaker 3: In round five of their rematch last August when he

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Speaker 3: hit the head kick heard around the world. But you

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Speaker 3: have to love the maturity and the growth and how

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Speaker 3: he did this against thirty five year old Usman in

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Speaker 3: this trilogy, the takedowns were huge, but on the feet,

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Speaker 3: Usman put on a lot of pressure on him, constantly

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Speaker 3: Edwards that that pressure was largely ineffective. Let's be fair,

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Speaker 3: it turned out to be somewhat basic pressure. It's usman

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Speaker 2: Level changing doing it was.

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Speaker 3: You know, a lot of the takedowns were very telegraphed

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Speaker 3: on him. That's all credit to exactly what Leon was

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Speaker 3: able to do this night. The judges scores in the

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Speaker 3: end forty eight forty six, forty eight forty six for edwards,

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Speaker 3: which is essentially four rounds to one with that point deduction,

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Speaker 3: a round three for the blatant fence grab, and then

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Speaker 3: forty seven forty seven. What could these scores have been?

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Speaker 3: That's an interesting question. A draw would not been out

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Speaker 3: these rounds were so close.

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Speaker 2: I ultimately scored it the same way.

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Speaker 3: Two of the three judges did forty eight forty six

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Speaker 3: the round one to Rocky Edwards, which most people did.

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Speaker 3: Round two was very close and really could have gone

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Speaker 3: an aggressive rate that could have been enough to steal it.

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Speaker 3: But I think it was Leon's sharp shooting down the

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Speaker 3: that I had him up to nothing. Round three another

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Speaker 3: Point deduction from Herb Dean was perfect because Leon Edwards had,

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Speaker 2: Gone either way, could have been a split decision. It

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Speaker 3: Of Usman, but I think if it had, even though

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Speaker 3: This is one of those fights that watching it without

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Speaker 3: who won?

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Speaker 2: Who would you rather be? It was Edwards.

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Speaker 3: I think the only thing, you know, again ultimately potentially

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Speaker 2: Him up so much. But Osman just ineffective.

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Speaker 3: And you know, is that a mixture of the long

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I saw that.

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Speaker 3: defensively countering technique that Leon ultimately did. And you know,

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Speaker 3: be fair, Leon had lacked some big name wins throughout

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Speaker 3: the totality of this unbeaten streak, But when he stepped

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Speaker 3: that second fight, when we look back more about that

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Speaker 2: But some of the posturing for Usman.

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Speaker 3: because you know, you wonder because when Ronda Rosey gets

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Speaker 3: look at how mannic Rondo was acting, and you start

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Speaker 3: Kamara was doing, mixed with the idea of let me

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Speaker 3: real champion here. What happened last year was a fluke,

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Speaker 3: and I'm going to show you. So Tomorrow comes walking

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Speaker 2: None of that worked at the end.

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Speaker 3: So when it doesn't work that consistently and you start

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Speaker 3: to look back on it, you wonder how much of

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Speaker 2: The maturity level on this can't say enough about it.

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Speaker 3: those shots. Never showed the tell of when his left

439
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,880
Speaker 3: lead leg was getting charred up. And interesting enough though,

440
00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,919
Speaker 3: Kamorrow open southpaw does a lot of stand switching, but

441
00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,679
Speaker 3: even after that steady supply of kicks, stays in that

442
00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 3: orthodox stance the rest of the way with that damaged

443
00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,840
Speaker 3: leg lead forward. So didn't love across the board, but

444
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,080
Speaker 3: did love the performance from Leon. What an interesting night

445
00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,119
Speaker 3: though on this UFC two eighty six there at the

446
00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 3: O two arena we talked about changing of the Guard

447
00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 3: now completed atop the welter with division. I thought there

448
00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:18,679
Speaker 3: was gonna be potential like end of an era moments

449
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,439
Speaker 3: here in that Cole main event when Justin Gaichie and

450
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 3: Raphael Phazeve touched glove because Zie the betting favor coming

451
00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,719
Speaker 3: in six fight win streak spectacular knockouts.

452
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 2: I mean, you saw the.

453
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:33,080
Speaker 3: First round of this fight insane speed, video game speed,

454
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,919
Speaker 3: stupid stupid, scary level speed.

455
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,160
Speaker 2: You know it had you feeling like it's Justin Gai Chee.

456
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,359
Speaker 3: I don't want to say the last of this old

457
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,560
Speaker 3: Guard group because Dustin Pourrie just had a big win

458
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,879
Speaker 3: over Chandler and is in the larger title picture for sure.

459
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,960
Speaker 3: But you know, a loss here for Justin Gaichie following

460
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 3: two title losses in the past three years, would have

461
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 3: been the end of the run for him and the

462
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 3: division at large, for this aging group of the Ferguson

463
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 3: the con you know, Habib's gone poor, ye I gainst

464
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 3: you all those guys. Although Connor could stumble into a

465
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,400
Speaker 3: welterweight title shot after if he beach Chandler, who knows

466
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 3: about that, But it didn't go that way. Again, this

467
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 3: was a hell of a three round victory for Justin Gaichee.

468
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,160
Speaker 2: I mean, just you know, a thirty four. I didn't

469
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 2: expect him to be washed. I didn't expect him to

470
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 2: get stopped, right, I didn't expect him to be a

471
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 2: you know where he's getting lit up, but he's still

472
00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 2: trying to come forward and make the fight. I thought

473
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 2: he would get out out technique here against I knew

474
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 2: it would be big, big picture moments with the with

475
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 2: the violence and aggression which you expect from these two.

476
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 2: And ultimately this fight lived up to some level of

477
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 2: the expectations for just batch of craziness. Right.

478
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 3: It wasn't a fight of the year necessarily type of

479
00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,920
Speaker 3: back and forth brawl, but it had big moments and

480
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 3: the threat of big moments in there. But I thought

481
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,399
Speaker 3: what we saw in round one really could have been

482
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,360
Speaker 3: the theme the rest of the way for Raphael phasive,

483
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 3: which is to control that fight from distance and really

484
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 3: get justin Gaichee looking, you know, looking like he's in

485
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 3: concrete at times, trying to catch up with they're trying.

486
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,479
Speaker 2: To get off shots.

487
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 3: The only thing is, though we're asking if Azeb, who's

488
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 3: had you know, those six wins, three early ish spectacular stoppages,

489
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 3: is can you do this grind? Not at the five

490
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,440
Speaker 3: round pace that would be to come if he keeps advancing,

491
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,919
Speaker 3: but at the three round pay per view cole main event.

492
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 2: Pace against a guy who just won't freaking go away.

493
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 3: And I thought, you know, Daniel Cormier had had that

494
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 3: great line what it's like to make this leap from

495
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 3: the you know, top fifteen, top twenty guys into now

496
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 3: the title contending top five or six guys. Is that

497
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 3: that quote he had about you know, the elite guys

498
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 3: that don't go away when you hit them with their

499
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 3: big shots. And that started to happen there midway and

500
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 3: round two and it's kind of onto itself. Had some

501
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,439
Speaker 3: interesting scoring there that Justin Gatchee takes a majority decision

502
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 3: twenty nine to twenty eight, two rounds to one, twenty

503
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,640
Speaker 3: nine to twenty eight, and then that third scorecard.

504
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 2: But good old Donald Sutherland.

505
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 3: Which will will be a repeated pattern of mentioning this fella.

506
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,239
Speaker 3: Tonight he scored a ten to eight round, which I

507
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 3: did not agree with than round three. I scored round

508
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 3: three for Gei Chee. He landed huge shots, the cuts

509
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 3: that were in the bruising that was already there around

510
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 3: the eyes of Raphael Phaziv got busted open Crimson mask.

511
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 3: I understand the feelings the notion there of a potential

512
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 3: ten eight round, but that ultimately made a little bit

513
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 3: weird majority of decision.

514
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 2: But this was Justin Gaiche's fight. Gave Brown one to

515
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 2: Physive like everybody else. He was so scary.

516
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 3: But when his gas tank starts to slow down a bit,

517
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 3: when Justin Geegee getting starts getting up on you and

518
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 3: it's starting to be able to close that distance more,

519
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 3: you found out where Physive belongs right now, and he

520
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 3: still is going to be something dangerous and super special.

521
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 2: But I think he needed this sort of leveling up

522
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 2: moment where you hit where you level up, right.

523
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,119
Speaker 3: I mean, he showed a lot of himself at a

524
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 3: very high level against his toughest opponent to date, but

525
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 3: he hit that ceiling in leveling up where Okay.

526
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 2: I gotta go back to the drawing board. I gotta

527
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 2: work on this. I gotta work on that.

528
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 3: The look the third round it turned more into a

529
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 3: Justin Geigee fight. And when it did and he could

530
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 3: strike at range, it was upper cut city. And you know,

531
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 3: does not only is Justin Gechie as he says, and

532
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 3: I agree with that, the most exciting fighter consistently in

533
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 3: the history of the sport. I don't think I've ever

534
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 3: enjoyed watching somebody mix, you know, a brawling, savage nature

535
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 3: with some technical craft and set up. You know, he's

536
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 3: a calculated destroyer, calculated brawler. The third round, when they

537
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 3: were at some very close range, that's that's exactly what

538
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 3: it was. But that second round, ultimately I thought, was

539
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 3: the swing and Gaichie gaining back not only the control

540
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 3: and the scorecards to win this fight, but the fight itself.

541
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 3: And what's interesting is Phaziv opened round two with a

542
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 3: kick that looked like it rock Geichee, and you know

543
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 3: you had that quick flash of like, we know when

544
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 3: that chin goes, boy, it's gonna go Chi held true, he's.

545
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 2: Stuck in there.

546
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 3: And when Phayzife slowed down just enough, you got to

547
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 3: really see where that craft of Gei Chee is, where

548
00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 3: it's not just going to come and through brawn crazy

549
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 3: And if it was, he probably would have gotten lit up.

550
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 3: But it was it was working some hard lave kicks,

551
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 3: which of course he's known for. His ability to land

552
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 3: explosively hardly kicks in close.

553
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 2: Range is particularly unique.

554
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 3: And you know, depending on your understanding or look back

555
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 3: on history, will will you go to bat one day

556
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 3: agreeing that he was one kick away from putting Abib

557
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 3: in peril in that lightweight title five.

558
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 2: It's up to you, right, it's up to you.

559
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 3: It's either the most ridiculous thing you ever heard, or hey,

560
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 3: I think adiab confirmed at one time. But that did

561
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 3: a lot to slow down a physigue who was starting

562
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 3: to kind of look around and go, man, I just

563
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 3: hit this guy with some shit in round one and

564
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 3: he did. That Guy's not going anywhere. Getchee's still in

565
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 3: this and He had some interesting quotes afterwards, ultimately and

566
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 3: saying I've got one more I feel like I got

567
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 3: one more title run in me, but I'm not going

568
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 3: to be around a long time. And I actually liked

569
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 3: hearing that from him, because with the style of that

570
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: explosive and crazy that takes so much out of himself,

571
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:56,719
Speaker 3: you can't be around and if you are, you're going

572
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 3: to become a you know, a punching bag.

573
00:25:58,359 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 2: And I like to hear that.

574
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 3: A win this, this hard fought and earned against a

575
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 3: guy that dangerous and skilled and technically sound too from

576
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 3: the outside, He's gonna have another shot at probably winning

577
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 3: another fight that or two that are gonna put him

578
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 3: right back in that title picture. I think it's good

579
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 3: to see because when Gaechie can mix the violence with

580
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 3: the with the the Trevor Whitman coaching and just the

581
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 3: slight adjustments and just take a little bit off your

582
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 3: fastball here and do this, and here, he's dangerous, he's

583
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 3: hella dangerous. Did it help in this particular matchup that

584
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 3: we weren't going to the ground for the most part, Yes,

585
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 3: of course it did, because we see what happens to

586
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 3: Geigee at the super elite level when that lack of

587
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 3: ground game uh comes out to hurt him, and it

588
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 3: hurt him against Oliver, it hurt him against Habib. But

589
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 3: how about Justin Gage trying a takedown defense. I think

590
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: that was late in round two and it was his

591
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 3: only the second takedown attempt he's had in his entire

592
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 3: UFC run, as we talked about on Friday's MK show,

593
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 3: which is really ridiculous when you think about it, especially

594
00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 3: considering his amateur wrestling background. But score and successfully complete,

595
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 3: say take down late in round three, and you heard

596
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 3: that quote afterwards?

597
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 2: Do we have that quote, Michael Mormon perfect dance point.

598
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 2: There's no way this fight is not exciting. Got my takedown.

599
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 4: Nobody can shut the fuck helping him.

600
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of the critics, not the fans, all the

601
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 2: critics can shut the fuck up about those takedowns. I

602
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: like that.

603
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 3: That was funny to see ultimately. But you know, another

604
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 3: thing that Gayshi did in round two, which I think

605
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 3: was key, was shortened up his strikes because in round

606
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,479
Speaker 3: one when there were most like Phizzie was so good

607
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 3: at keeping distance. In round one, keeping distance hop in

608
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 3: you know, I want to say almost Manny Pacio, like,

609
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 3: not the same sort of footwork patterns, but the idea

610
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 3: of let me get in land explosive shit and then

611
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 3: get out of there. You saw Justin Getchi winging a

612
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 3: lot of his hooks, which which you can do in

613
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 3: close range fights that are ultimately monoy mono battles. Phaziue

614
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 3: was moving too much to allow that. But the adjustments

615
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,479
Speaker 3: just In Gai made it in round two were not

616
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 3: just the calf strikes, which I think helped him slowing

617
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 3: down Phazive as his own stamina of a very high

618
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 3: paced and crazy dramatic round one.

619
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 2: And when I say high, I don't mean just a

620
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: lot of volume.

621
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of dancing around each other tension

622
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 3: when you've got two knockout threats and there's that tension,

623
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 3: like sometimes the best fights aren't even batchit crazy, but

624
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 3: that constant threat of it. Think Deontay Wilder Tyson Fury

625
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 3: Part one right, that constant lingering threat that creates anxiety,

626
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 3: which equals.

627
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 2: Fatigue in a lot of ways.

628
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 3: That's why a lot of times pressure fighters remain pressure

629
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 3: fighters because just that constant threat of being in a

630
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 3: guy's face and just throwing you know, it can tire

631
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 3: somebody out mentally just as much physically. But in that

632
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 3: second round, when things were starting to get a little

633
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 3: bit more on even terms, Justin Gates shortened up those

634
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: punches and started started to wear on Physique.

635
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 2: A little bit more.

636
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 3: This was a hell of a good victory, a really

637
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 3: good victory that I didn't necessarily think he had he

638
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 3: had in him.

639
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 2: It's not too far removed from what I thought.

640
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 3: I thought Physique was gonna was gonna hold that distance

641
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 3: from the majority of it be in some tough back

642
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 3: and forth exchanges and he was, but ultimate use that.

643
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 2: But Geigy inevitable.

644
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 3: He's inevitable at luring you into some shit because if

645
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 3: you are quick and smart enough like Physigue was in

646
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 3: that first round, along with having the type of striking

647
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 3: that a couple of times it looked like Gaygee was wobbled.

648
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: That's great, but can you keep that up.

649
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 3: In rounds two, three, and then obviously in the championship

650
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 3: blow four and five where guys start to implode. That's

651
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 3: why the victories that Eddie Alvarez and Justin and sorry

652
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 3: that Dustin Poier had over the you know, one point

653
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 3: zero version of the highlight in the UFC. Right, the

654
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: guy that was in that spectacular war with Michael Johnson,

655
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 3: those victories where they like walked through the depths of

656
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 3: hell and met Justin Gaigie at his gnarliest and ultimately

657
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 3: stopped him. Like, there's a couple people on the planet

658
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 3: that can do that to that version of that guy, right,

659
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: you know, and he through the years of adding just

660
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: enough alteration to his game, even though he's he's crafty

661
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 3: and smarter, that equation is still mat that's it's still

662
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 3: there for you. If you're gonna fight him, you're gonna

663
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 3: use a lot of energy to stay away from him,

664
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: or you're gonna use a lot of your gas tank

665
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,959
Speaker 3: and your resistance standing with him, and he's gonna suffocate you.

666
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 3: And he did ultimately suffocate Phazive, but did it in

667
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 3: such a smart way that you gotta you gotta give

668
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 3: him a lot of a lot of credit there in

669
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 3: that regard. Still a factor in this lightweight title picture.

670
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 3: Still one of my favorite fighters of all time. And

671
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 3: if he's not yours, it's not in your top three.

672
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, re examine your life process. Surprisingly

673
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 3: quick win there for good and Nelson not that he

674
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 3: wouldn't have a huge advantage on the ground against buying Barberina,

675
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 3: and he got the arm bar finish with nine seconds

676
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 3: to go in round one. But with the long layoff,

677
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 3: you know, I was I was really ready to pick

678
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 3: against him.

679
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 2: I thought Barbarina could could make it a sort of

680
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 2: a war.

681
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 3: And I thought, you know, you heard those pre fight

682
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 3: comments from Gooder Nelson where he said like, I don't

683
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 3: look to win point fights. I don't look to win rounds.

684
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 3: I look to find the avenue to finish you and

685
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 3: go after that. I assumed here that that would be

686
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 3: to his not to his fit. When you're coming off

687
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 3: a long layoff and you're looking more to find something

688
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: against a durable opponent that isn't there, could you lose

689
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: a scorecard on activity alone.

690
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 2: I thought there was that potential there.

691
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 3: But Guda Nelson got back into focused shaved head, you know,

692
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 3: child muster mustache looking guy.

693
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a director's insult.

694
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but you know, a guy with a mustache

695
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 3: like that with the bolts, what kind of looks like

696
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: he's driving one of those cargo vans with the curtains

697
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 3: in the windows. But man, quick, efficient performance and I

698
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 3: don't always get it right on okay, bet you know,

699
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 3: and more often I don't. But how about that gutsy

700
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 3: effort from Jennifer Maya to turn down the recent two

701
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 3: defeats at a very high level here against a tough

702
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 3: Casey O'Neil and just outboxer over three rounds and get

703
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 3: the decision.

704
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 2: Really like that performance.

705
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the pay per view opener, though, because

706
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 3: I had big picture potential here in the middleweight division,

707
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 3: as Marvin Victory, who's been here at the highest level,

708
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 3: was taken on a real clumber here in Roman Dalize,

709
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 3: who big time, big time sickening power. But did he

710
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 3: have the well rounded game, did he have the stamina?

711
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 3: Did he have the ability to make the adjustments to

712
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 3: win a fight on this Even though I felt like

713
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 3: he was going in the other direction by the end

714
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 3: of the fight de led z meaning he was exhausted,

715
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: He's starting to get lit up with shots that he

716
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 3: wasn't always getting hit with early. I still thought he

717
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 3: won this fight, and I thought he won this fight

718
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 3: twenty nine to twenty eight in the end. But the

719
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 3: scorecards did I say there was going to be a

720
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 3: recurring theme? Can we show these scorecards, so that fell

721
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 3: on the right there as the yellow scorecard, and that's

722
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 3: Paul Sutherland. He scored this fight thirty twenty seven for Vittori.

723
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 3: And it's not that this fight wasn't close.

724
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: It was a very.

725
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 3: Interesting fight, very interesting chess match here. Outside of those

726
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 3: big shots that Delize landed in the opening round and oh,

727
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 3: by the way, there's some people and you know, you

728
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 3: can see the judges here. Ultimately they gave victory that

729
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 3: opening round because they felt outside of the big shots

730
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 3: that rocked him and blooded his nose from delieds that

731
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 3: Vittori ultimately did everything else better, and I think for

732
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 3: the most part he did. I couldn't give him around

733
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 3: one though, and I certainly couldn't give him all three rounds.

734
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 3: This is not a robbery anyway. I think that Paul

735
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 3: Sutherland scorecard. I tweeted that it's gross and the reality

736
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 3: is okay, Paul Sutherland's performance on the night.

737
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 2: I'll get to that round up in a second. That

738
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 2: was a little bit gross.

739
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 3: That scorecard is just a close fight that could have

740
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 3: gone either way. But I think a lot of us

741
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 3: watched that fight and we felt, hey, man, it could

742
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 3: have or should have been de LEDs A two to

743
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 3: one could have just as easily been Vittory two to one,

744
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: as you saw two of the judges scored. But let's

745
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 3: give a Tory a lot of credit. I don't think

746
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 3: he's ultimately fixed. The problem with him, and the problem

747
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 3: with him to me is what we said coming in.

748
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 3: He's a jack of all trades, master of none. He's

749
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 3: got warning trek power in every category, which means he's

750
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 3: not gonna get He's not typically unless he's fighting you know,

751
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 3: Whittaker or Adasania. He's not gonna get handled or manhandled

752
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 3: or dominated or lit up to a high degree. Although

753
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 3: you know it doesn't always have the best defense. It

754
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 3: comes in very aggressively, so he's there to be hit

755
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 3: in that regard, but in a fight against a guy

756
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 3: you don't want to.

757
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 2: Be there to be hit against.

758
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 3: And in the first round Victory learned that the adjustments

759
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 3: he made to just stand in a you know, to

760
00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 3: rely on his technique, get off with his jabs, avoid

761
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 3: the big shots, and bring this to the third round

762
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 3: where we're gonna find out exactly what Delidze had. You

763
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 3: got to give Victory a lot of credit for that.

764
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 3: He played the angles much better in round two. After

765
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 3: round one, I think he was a little overwhelmed by

766
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: that pace, by Delizie backing him up just by you know,

767
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 3: Delis doesn't overly set up his shots.

768
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 2: It's a lot of big time clubbing.

769
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 3: But that big time clubbing and bullying matters when it's

770
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 3: at a high pace and he's pushing you back into

771
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 3: the fence.

772
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 2: But you got to give a lot of.

773
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: Vittoria a lot of credit, Like, if Delis wasn't truly

774
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 3: ready for the top, Vittori should have been able to

775
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 3: beat him. And I think ultimately that's what he did,

776
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 3: even if I felt the Leeds should have had the

777
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 3: edge there. Roman turned it on to open the third round,

778
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 3: tried to get back to that bully beat down style,

779
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 3: put up a good face pace, but that gap between

780
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 3: the two of them and technique that played in the

781
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 3: advantage of it Tory. And that's what's interesting about him

782
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 3: is I don't think he fixed the problem that against

783
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 3: the very elite, he's not dangerous enough in anyone category'd

784
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 3: ultimately beat them. He's sort of inevitably set up to

785
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 3: be stubborn, be competitive, but lose a a you know,

786
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 3: it lose a competitive but wide decision. Ultimately, when he's

787
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 3: facing the very best, it's those guys in the middle,

788
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: or those guys that want to be the best. Like

789
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 3: That's why there's some gatekeeper qualities to him, even though

790
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 3: it's an insult to him after this big win here.

791
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 3: But you know, he can usually rely on technique and

792
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 3: outpoint these guys. Some of those guys he can hurt

793
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 3: and get out of there. But I still would like

794
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 3: to see a commitment in one direction to really raising

795
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,240
Speaker 3: up his game, whether that's becoming more of a wrestler

796
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 3: or really looking to set up big power shots that

797
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 3: change the game more often. He had a big customer

798
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 3: against him, and he used technique, he pulled on the

799
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 3: gas tank, and overall it was a thorough performance. I

800
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 3: just think that third round they traded big time late.

801
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 3: It could have gone either way. It was a close fight.

802
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 3: For Tory was the better technical fighter in this one,

803
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 3: and that's ultimately why the judges gave it to him

804
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 3: and he survives in advance. But I think for deledes A,

805
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 3: it's certainly a okay, you know, hit my own ceiling

806
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 3: hair like Phayziev did. I got to figure some things out,

807
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: But there's got to be a lot to like here

808
00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 3: because this was a.

809
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: Fighter who had been around the UFC for a couple

810
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 2: of years.

811
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 3: It traded wins and losses, but it was this past

812
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 3: calendar year of twenty twenty two and the three very

813
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 3: early and violent knockouts that it woke us up. He

814
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 3: can catch anybody on the right night if you if

815
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 3: you play k his style, or if he lures you

816
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 3: into it, you know that could be trouble for you.

817
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 2: But he does have and he's not young at.

818
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 3: All, came to the Sport Ladies thirty four years old.

819
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 3: He does have significant things to add and work on

820
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 3: to try to make another run at this and you

821
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 3: know there may.

822
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 2: Not be time, that may not be possible.

823
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 3: But it's funny how this game goes because he could

824
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 3: have just as easily won this two to one. And

825
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 3: then we're talking about, Okay, how high of an opponent

826
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 3: is he get?

827
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 2: Now?

828
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 3: Is he getting a top five guy? Is he two

829
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 3: wins away from a title shot? One one big a

830
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 3: win away from a title shot?

831
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 2: What is it? Now?

832
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 3: He's got to go back to the drawing board. But

833
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 3: you know, but Tori, I don't see it's hard.

834
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 2: It's hard. You don't see a lot of elite guys

835
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: truly like this that are sort of like good in

836
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 2: every category but not great yet able to I mean,

837
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 2: you know, he works hard. You can see the conditioning there.

838
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 2: He's very dirt and I think that's all.

839
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,760
Speaker 3: Those two are probably the ultimately the things that separate

840
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 3: him from being an average fighter and being allowed in

841
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 3: this upper group. But can he figure out another gear

842
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 3: to get ahead in that upper group? It's still it

843
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 3: still remains to be seen in the long run. Let's

844
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 3: bring back judge Paul Sutherland here. So to recap, he

845
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 3: had three particularly I don't want to say egregious necessarily,

846
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 3: but interesting moments.

847
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 2: The first one started in those prelimbs.

848
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 3: It was in the regular preliminary card and it was

849
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 3: a lightweight bout between Chris Duncan and Omar Morales. That

850
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 3: goes down as a split decision for Chris Duncan. Only

851
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 3: guess who had the dissenting scorecard, Paul Sutherland thirty to

852
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,240
Speaker 3: twenty seven for Omar Morales, who was the losing fighter

853
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 3: in this one. Yeah, that one's not good.

854
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 2: Then he goes thirty twenty seven for Vittori, which again

855
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 2: it's either two to one either way for the most part.

856
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 2: Although you know, it's not lost on me.

857
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 3: That there's an argument for victory in the first round.

858
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 3: It's not lost on me. But you have to give

859
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 3: him every benefit fit of the doubt in the entire

860
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 3: fight to score that one thirty to twenty seven. And

861
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 3: then the Saint Paul Sutherland rocking that ten eight and

862
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 3: round three for Justin Gaegee, which was what made that

863
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 3: a a majority decision win and not an ultimate and

864
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 3: not at a unanimous So I mean, are these enough

865
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 3: to like, you know Stone, that man shame that I mean,

866
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 3: you know, no, he's not, He's not you know, Adelaide

867
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 3: Bird on the boxing side, although she's apparently welcome cage

868
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 3: side any times she wants.

869
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 2: You know, this isn't c J. Ross, This isn't what

870
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 2: Douglas Crosby. But that's not a that's really not a

871
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 2: great showing altogether, just the same.

872
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 3: There, let's go up and down the thundercard a little

873
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 3: bit more on what we learned. Nice bounce back win

874
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 3: for Jack Shore and moving up and wait from bantam

875
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 3: weight and he's in there against Makwanamirkannie the second round

876
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 3: rear naked choke submission.

877
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 2: He's smooth.

878
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 3: There's a nice element to him, and I know he

879
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 3: had that loss against Simon that was a come down

880
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 3: to earth leveling moment for him in that regard. But

881
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 3: went back to the lab, found a better weight class

882
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 3: for him. Wasn't facing a world beater here, but but

883
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 3: looked looked pretty good across the board.

884
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 2: Here's a little preview for mondays. Have you seen this ship?

885
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 3: How about debuting from Israel? Here yanal ash Maz a

886
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 3: Schmas look like a Schmas match in the end here

887
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 3: against a very hungry Sam Peterson.

888
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 2: Uh do we have this highlight here?

889
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 4: Michael Sam fights spoiled it?

890
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 2: Some good ship right there. There's certainly a name to circle.

891
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 3: The size difference heightwise between them for a lightweight about

892
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 3: was overwhelming. Patterson looked like at least the middleweight maybe more.

893
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 3: Ashmos standing across from looked like, you know, I don't

894
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 3: know freaking bann wait.

895
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: But he's compact, he's powerful.

896
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 3: That was a one minute and fifteen seconds and a

897
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 3: very eye opening performance.

898
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 2: But the fight before that, this was wild so flyway.

899
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 3: Muhammad Makayev is what just twenty two to twenty three

900
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 3: years old, twenty two years old.

901
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 2: From Dukistan nine and O coming in seems to.

902
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 3: Be dark horse, legitimate title contender in this division. It's

903
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 3: got a crapload of submissions coming in. He's taken on

904
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 3: a Joffell fuelhole from Brazil, Philo feel hole. I don't

905
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 3: want to butcher it to in soul anybody, but it's possible,

906
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 3: you know, it's very possible. Can we show the picture

907
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 3: of the late in round three, Mokayev gets caught in

908
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 3: this knee bar and yeah, that's painful, that's nasty, that's uh,

909
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,959
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if he'll ever walk again. Potential there

910
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 3: Sean Cheehan, who also had that tweet right there then

911
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 3: pretty much had the tweet of the night. Apologies if

912
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 3: this offends anybody more than my child molester van joke earlier.

913
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's Mokayev celebrating the wind because the same

914
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 3: guy that got his knee jacked up turn that fight

915
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 3: around into a neck crank submission there with just twenty

916
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 3: eight seconds.

917
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 2: To go in the fight. That was wild.

918
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 3: That was wild that Makayav looked like he was on

919
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 3: his way to winning that fight. Anyway, there was a

920
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 3: bunch of submission threats from both.

921
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 2: Of them in that third round.

922
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 3: But for him to score that and you know he

923
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 3: could barely stand after the win, yet he's still jumping

924
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 3: up on the cage and celebrating. That's somebody to watch

925
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 3: it flyway moving forward, That young got that dominant wrestling ability,

926
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: that high motor just goes after it. But under that

927
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 3: type of perseverance in danger to turn that around is

928
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 3: that's some gnarly frickin' shit right there. The rest of

929
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 3: that early card, you know, there's a lot of bollocks

930
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 3: in there. It's an interesting Ji Herbert Ludvoyit Klein fight

931
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,399
Speaker 3: that could have gone either way. There was Herbert get

932
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 3: that majority of decision win in the end. That saves

933
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 3: part of Luke Thomas's Okay bat campaign. Looking to not

934
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 3: go zero to five again this week. But let's talk

935
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 3: about the front of the program to kick it off.

936
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 3: Felt good to see Veronica Hardy nay Maceto come.

937
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: In here three years removed from her last fight.

938
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, she got married Dan Hardy and he's in her corner,

939
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 3: and you know, I think the commentary team rightfully played

940
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 3: up what that meant to her in terms of the

941
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 3: you know, the education and the time she put into

942
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 3: the to the gym during this long layoff. But the

943
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 3: layoff was injury fueled, and it was also she had

944
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 3: some it turns out severe concussion issues for a while

945
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 3: and took a long stretch of time off and you know,

946
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 3: you know, when you're in that spot, you're sort of

947
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 3: contemplating your future. But three years removed, now twenty seven

948
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 3: faces the always aggressive and fun Julianna Killer Miller.

949
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 2: And you know, I over, I mean Looke did too.

950
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 2: Luke picked Juliana.

951
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 3: Miller to win this by submission in r okay bet

952
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 3: and I you know, I had big, big hopes here

953
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 3: for Miller to come in and make a lot of noise.

954
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 3: She's got a fun personality of very aggressive style. But

955
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 3: for all the good that she showed on the ground,

956
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 3: particularly of course her Ultimate Fighter victory, this is a

957
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 3: big regression in terms of her performance. It was raw,

958
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 3: it was sloppy at times. She got into trouble a lot.

959
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 3: You heard the announced teems sort of questioning her decision making,

960
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: even on her jiu jitsu setups in the end.

961
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 2: But I think a lot of what she thought she

962
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 2: would be effective with Veronica Hardy just stood in there.

963
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 3: That's a Greaty performance to be off that long and

964
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 3: then to go fifteen hard minutes in a fight. And

965
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 3: even though you know Hardy largely dominated this fight, there

966
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 3: were some close moments of submission attempts, some clean punching

967
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 3: from Miller from distance.

968
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 2: But this is a humbling loss.

969
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 3: And I guess it's not her UFC debut officially because

970
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 3: that would be the tough finale win, but you know,

971
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 3: humbling in that regard because she does have a lot

972
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,959
Speaker 3: to work on after this. But Veronica Hardy, I don't

973
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 3: know long term, if she can stay active and stay healthy,

974
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 3: what she can be at one twenty five. But the

975
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 3: human spirit of her coming back. Congratulations And you know

976
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 3: the Hardy's are a friend of this program, you know,

977
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 3: so congratulations Dan in the corner there. I like the

978
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 3: addition of Bisping on the commentary because of that English connection,

979
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 3: the first British champion there and all that, but I

980
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 3: don't like him on the on the pay per view

981
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 3: broadcast as much. I think he's better in the studio.

982
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm alone on that great on the podcast, amazing personality.

983
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 3: I don't think he meshes well with DC ultimately, is

984
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 3: really where I'm going with that.

985
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 2: I don't think Rogan does either. I think what they've

986
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 2: got to figure out is they got John Anick.

987
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 3: He's the best in the game, and you know, if

988
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 3: he keeps this up, he's going to be the best

989
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 3: of all time at this uh in Knick martial arts.

990
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 3: And that's saying a lot you know more n now

991
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 3: is in this picture, right. I mean, you know, you can,

992
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 3: like Luke Offen says, moral might be the best of

993
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 3: all time considering the flexibility of combat, discipline and the

994
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 3: ability to be such a leading man. But they got

995
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 3: the right guy in John, and I like d C

996
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 3: in that role. And he's not outside of the wrestling.

997
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,760
Speaker 3: He's not always going to give you the the most

998
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 3: in depth analysis, But I think you need an entertainer

999
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 3: in there. I think that's why a lot of ways

1000
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 3: Rogan has worked so well through the years. Even though

1001
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 3: Rogan obviously really knows his stuff in certain and most

1002
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 3: you know, disciplines of the game, and certainly you know

1003
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 3: a factor in his own right in taekwondo, but.

1004
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 2: Pairing them together it becomes too much of a watch

1005
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 2: along party. You need one. And I like d C

1006
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 2: in that role.

1007
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,760
Speaker 3: I think he's you know, he's got that of America's

1008
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 3: you know, huggabule bear feeling going and and and he

1009
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 3: can raise the the wow factor, you know, the sound

1010
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 3: effect factor in the big moment. I think they got

1011
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 3: to figure out who should be that consistent third, because

1012
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 3: I think that third should be a student of the game.

1013
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 2: It should really be.

1014
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 3: And it's not that when you pair Rogan and DC

1015
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 3: together or bisping in this stance, and that the two

1016
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 3: of them combined don't know what they're talking about. They do,

1017
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 3: but is it a consistently you know, does does it

1018
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 3: work in their roles?

1019
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 2: It's hard to do. I love, you know, sports broadcasting.

1020
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 3: We always have, even long before I ever believed that

1021
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 3: I could actually do this, you know, I sort of

1022
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 3: studied it.

1023
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 2: Had my favorite announcers in every sport. Loved it.

1024
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 3: Not easy, not easy to play a role, you know,

1025
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 3: if you go from a two man booth to a

1026
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 3: three man booth, not not easy at all. I give

1027
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 3: anyone who as this and I'm trying myself to make

1028
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 3: a career out of it. Looke the same and it's

1029
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 3: and it's the most fun thing you could.

1030
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 2: In this game. It's I mean, it's a it's a

1031
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 2: druggun to itself. It's the most fun thing you can do.

1032
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 2: But I do think you.

1033
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 3: Need the entertaining guy, and I do think you need that,

1034
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 3: you know, and you can play different roles sometimes on

1035
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 3: fight broadcast, I play the role of not being an

1036
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 3: ex fighter or trainer or having a ton of training experience.

1037
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 3: I can play the role more of narrative pusher and

1038
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 3: and you know, and more of the more of the

1039
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 3: mindset side of it and all that. But you got

1040
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 3: to have the technical person. I just don't think there's

1041
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 3: anyone better than Dom Cruz at it right now. Dan

1042
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 3: Hardy's really good, he's with the PFL. Now Dunker's really good.

1043
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 3: And you know you can say, is that is he

1044
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 3: too rigid at times? Well, hey, you pair them with DC.

1045
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 3: It's fun right as you can poke each other in

1046
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 3: the belly, one more rotn than the other and.

1047
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 2: H and you can have that.

1048
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 3: But I just didn't love that trio tonight ultimately is

1049
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 3: really what I'm trying to say.

1050
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 2: But A big fan of businessing the personality and I

1051
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 2: mean he won a world championship with one eye? Can

1052
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 2: you take that away from him? So did Joe Frazier,

1053
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 2: by the way, crazy right. They ended up finding out

1054
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: the heavyweight legend years later that he really only had

1055
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 2: the use of.

1056
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,919
Speaker 3: One I throughout his entire career. Like when you find

1057
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 3: stuff like that out, I know, biz Ping's there was

1058
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 3: a turning point where it happened. But that's wild, that's wild.

1059
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: What a night though? What a night? I mean, I

1060
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 2: don't know, are you still watching this? My only one

1061
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: in here?

1062
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 3: That's the question right now. You know, I'm sure you

1063
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 3: want Luke Thomas's thoughts. I'm sure he'll be back on

1064
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 3: Monday's Morning Combat and we'll chop it all up.

1065
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 2: You know.

1066
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 3: Maybe you know sometimes he'll surprise you on his own

1067
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 3: personal channel too, despite my constant requests to stop, you know,

1068
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 3: I mean, let's put this brand first, now, go for it.

1069
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 2: Charge those people.

1070
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, speaking of charging people for stuff,

1071
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 3: I'm on Cameo now, I don't know how that happened,

1072
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 3: but uh cameo dot com slash Brian Campbell.

1073
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,919
Speaker 2: Okay, don't don't uh don't hesitate to reach out.

1074
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 3: You know, you want to shout out there. You want

1075
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 3: to you want me to sing nineties tunes. Whatever you

1076
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 3: got there, all right, we can all we can all

1077
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 3: have our side hustles.

1078
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 2: They're just the same. Luke Thomas though will be back.

1079
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 2: You can follow those socials below. But you know, your

1080
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 2: boy BC.

1081
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 3: For better or worse, just just spend an hour with you.

1082
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 3: And it was fun watching these fights UFC two eighty six.

1083
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 2: Leon Edwards he's the guy.

1084
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 3: He's the freaking guys good as when man, he's absolutely back.

1085
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 3: He's that man, you know, and it's let's let me

1086
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 3: admit you because you know a lot of people go, oh, BC, yeah, yeah,

1087
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 3: you know you I heard. You know, even though you

1088
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 3: give him their flowers, you're still heading and you're still

1089
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 3: saying usman that did didn't do this and this, You're

1090
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 3: still not trying to give him the love.

1091
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 2: I'm trying to give him the love here he deserves it.

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Speaker 3: I did think it was interesting on like early in

1093
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 3: the broadcast when when Cormier is like, you know, tonight

1094
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 3: we'll have you know, two of the all time greatest

1095
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 3: welter weights of all time squaring off against one another,

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00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 3: and you know, I was like, we got one of them,

1097
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,720
Speaker 3: and Leon Edwards comes out in defensive title and shuts

1098
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Speaker 3: me the hell up.

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Speaker 2: He's freaking good. He's that good. He really is. I

1100
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: mean all time great. I don't know about that, but

1101
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 2: he is.

1102
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 3: See it's that good right now in this moment. Mike

1103
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 3: Morma behind the scenes, thank you for pressing the buttons.

1104
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 2: We made it. We made it to the end of this.

1105
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 2: Onward and upward, folks.

1106
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Speaker 3: We transition in the Morning Combat space from UFC two

1107
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 3: eighty six this week. Of course, UFC be back next

1108
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 3: weekend with a fantastic vandam Wait Cheeto Vera Corey Sanhagen

1109
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 3: match up there in San Antonio, and we'll also have

1110
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Speaker 3: show time.

1111
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 2: Pay per view, kayleab Plant David Benavite. So we're gonna

1112
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 2: we're gonna shift the gears forward.

1113
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 3: Look back on Monday's MK show, set the stage and

1114
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 3: then drive it forward. We're hitting Vegas, big top boxing.

1115
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Speaker 2: Can't miss it.

1116
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 3: Two guys that hate each other, don't miss that. If

1117
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 3: you're an MME fan, you don't even touch the box.

1118
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 3: You know, you don't even know what step three is.

1119
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 3: You know, open the box, then you know, put put

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00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 3: the put the thing in. I mean that's what they

1121
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 3: used to say, right put the thing in the box.

1122
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 3: This is a boxing match. You do you need to

1123
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 3: see kayleb Plant, David Benavite Ish hop blooded check.

1124
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 2: In and see right you got fever of one hundred

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00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 2: and three.

1126
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, I mean you know what am I

1127
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 3: doing right now?

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00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 2: Right?

1129
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 3: I got a UFC's Ultimate beat Downs here, Volume one,

1130
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 3: courtesy of the great guys over there at may On

1131
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 3: Point in the UK. Shout out to my guy Bailey,

1132
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 3: and they're nicely done there. All right, I found my

1133
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 3: hotel room key again, r d A and Conor McGregor.

1134
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 3: I this is arguably my favorite piece of generic memorabilia

1135
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 3: that I own, you know what I mean, maybe maybe

1136
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 3: with the exception of this, uh leo, Santa Cruz had

1137
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 3: been so uh you know, my name is Brian Campbell.

1138
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Speaker 2: We just chopped it up.

1139
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,280
Speaker 3: Let me go, put my sweats back on, enjoy yourself

1140
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 3: the rest of the weekend. And you know, I was

1141
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 3: going to try to close with some you know, some

1142
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 3: interesting life advice, but you know, am.

1143
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Speaker 2: I I mean, look at me, right, you know what

1144
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Speaker 2: I mean? All right, we're out of here. Thanks,