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Speaker 1: Hi everybody, How are you doing? It is the twelfth

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Speaker 1: of February twenty twenty three. My name is Luke Thomas.

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Speaker 1: UFC two eighty four took place at the I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: guess it's pronounced r ac Arena. This is in Perth, Australia,

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Speaker 1: out in Western Australia. And of course it took place

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Speaker 1: February twelfth. There, it's February twelve. Now. But remember they're

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Speaker 1: ahead in the time calendar, so to speak, so they're first,

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Speaker 1: so it's February twelfth for them. But either way, February

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Speaker 1: eleventh February twelfth doesn't really matter. Let's get to these results.

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Speaker 1: I used to give warnings about spoilers. I'm really not

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Speaker 1: going to do that anymore. So if you're here, it's

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Speaker 1: because you want to be here, all right. In getting

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Speaker 1: to these results, let's start where the party starts. Ready,

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Speaker 1: here goes Islam. Makachev defeats Alexander Volkanowski via unanimous decision.

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Speaker 1: He wins forty eight to forty seven on two of

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Speaker 1: the judges scorecards. He wins forty nine forty six on

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Speaker 1: the other one. I had it forty eight to forty

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Speaker 1: seven for Makachev. But I want to be very very

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Speaker 1: clear about something. Number One, Volkanowski ended that fight with authority.

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Speaker 1: He easily took the fifth round the best round of

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Speaker 1: that fight for him. You could even argue the best

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Speaker 1: round in terms of clear offense for either fight or

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Speaker 1: Makachev had the back for a lot of different times,

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Speaker 1: But in terms of how like threatening or punishing it was,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that it matches up to getting dropped

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Speaker 1: like he was by Volkanovsky in the fifth and then

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Speaker 1: that ground and pound from full guard debatable, but certainly

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Speaker 1: by far Volkanovski's best round. There is a very defensible

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Speaker 1: scorecard for three to two Volkanovsky. If you had it

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Speaker 1: three to two Volkanovski, I really don't have a problem

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Speaker 1: with that at all. I think at worst he won two.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you could find four for him, but

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Speaker 1: I do think you can definitely find three. I think

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Speaker 1: two and five. I have to go look and double check.

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Speaker 1: I had rounds two and five for him, and I

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Speaker 1: think the third round was also very very close. I

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Speaker 1: that point. So it was either two two heading into

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Speaker 1: the fifth or three to one Islam, and so in

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Speaker 1: under the three to one Islam view, Volkanowski would have

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Speaker 1: making it a bare minimum two rounds that he won

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Speaker 1: the forty nine, forty six the four rounds for Islam.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, So which one would you give Islam?

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Speaker 1: You would so you would give Volkanowski, you'd give him

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Speaker 1: And if you're granting that it's close, then both of

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Speaker 1: denied anyway by that third judge, is totally unfair. All right,

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Speaker 1: You know, you heard him say it. I almost tweeted it,

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Speaker 1: But I was like, dude, Islam is way outperforming on

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Speaker 1: into this contest. My basic problem with the Volkanovsky case

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Speaker 1: The defense he had then, hand fighting, the scrambling to

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Speaker 1: I thought, defensively, like it was weird how Islam overperformed

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Speaker 1: It's not like that, but it's very useful, including like

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Speaker 1: intercepting Volkanowski numerous times. Volkanowski's trying to blitz. Volkanowski's trying

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Speaker 1: He's trying to set up something, and Islam would catch

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Speaker 1: Islam would make him pay. I was blown away by

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Speaker 1: some of that stuff. And then in certain ways to

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Speaker 1: countering up the middle, he would get clinched. There were

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Speaker 1: catching him like that, intercepting him. That was something Max did,

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Speaker 1: I think in the second fight that he had. That's

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Speaker 1: the closest you could argue between Max and Vulk, right,

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Speaker 1: is the second one, right because Max was really strong

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Speaker 1: wasn't like it was perfectly lights out. He is defensively

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Speaker 1: going to get through eventually, he's too good not to.

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Speaker 1: But in general, we've talked about this before with Islam

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Speaker 1: these come to us from thirty twenty seven, formerly known

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Speaker 1: So he was certainly busy. Or zero for four on takedowns.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here leg kicks that was a big part

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's an amazing first title defense. If you

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00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,919
Speaker 1: wanted to have Markachev pound for pound number one. I

426
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: really wouldn't. I wouldn't argue heavily against the idea. I

427
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: don't think that's the craziest thing in the world. But

428
00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,399
Speaker 1: if I think, if you it's quite the problem. The

429
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,439
Speaker 1: problem is not now that I'm talking it out in

430
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 1: real time. The problem is not that. The problem is

431
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: if you don't have Islam, who do you have right

432
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 1: because you can't give it to Usman. You can't give

433
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: it to now Volkanovski, he just lost. I mean, I

434
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: guess you could still give it to Volkonowski based on

435
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: your criteria, but now it becomes more difficult, especially if

436
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 1: Islam was already sitting at too. You can't give it

437
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: to style Bender. You can't. I mean, there's a lot

438
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 1: of guys you ordinarily would have been able to give

439
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 1: it to you no longer can. And so if Islam

440
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: wins this contest, I suppose you have to anyway, There's

441
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,719
Speaker 1: just not a doubt in my mind he's gonna end

442
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: up there. But if you have a feeling like me

443
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 1: that like these two wins by themselves are extremely extremely commendable,

444
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: but not by themselves enough to be number one pound

445
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: per pound, I guess we can die on that hill together,

446
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: but it really isn't worth it. The question is what

447
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 1: Makachev does next. I don't really know what he's going

448
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: to do next. We're waiting to see what happens between

449
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: Gaechee and Physiv. That is going to be interesting. We're

450
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: waiting to see what happens with Poortier next. Obviously Chandler

451
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: and Connor, who the hell knows. I don't know that

452
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: the fight's going to be at one seventy, but if

453
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: Connor wins, If Connor McGregor beats Michael Chandler and then

454
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: calls for a title shot against Islam at one fifty five,

455
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: we all know what's going to happen, right Like he's

456
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: gonna get it. So it's it's it's at least whether

457
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: we like it or don't like it, whether we accept

458
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 1: it or don't, whether we're happy about it or not,

459
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: you at least have to acknowledge the reality of what

460
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: is very possible. I think it is a good way

461
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: to put it, so I guess we'll have to see

462
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: about that. For Volkanovsky, he goes back down to one

463
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: forty five, which I think is good, and I guess

464
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 1: he'll fight yeah here, which we'll talk about in just

465
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: a second as well. But for Volkanovsky, man, what an

466
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: what a ridiculous competitor he is. He's a special breed

467
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: of competitor. I don't I'm sure he's down that he lost,

468
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: but he didn't sound down to me in the sense

469
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: of like he seemed lifted by the experience. I think

470
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: this was the right This was the right moment to

471
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: press that butt. He can make a very clear argument

472
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: that he won. Yeah, I'm not sure what the problem is, right,

473
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: Like that was an that makes me what I mean,

474
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: sometimes fights like this, Okay, why was this fight made? Like?

475
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: Why was this fight made? I mean a few different reasons. Probably,

476
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: I uf he wants to take a big fight to Australia.

477
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: They didn't have to pick Volkowski for that. They could

478
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: have picked Whitaker or something else. But you know, maybe

479
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: that's one of the contributing factors. Volkanovsky has been beaten

480
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: the shit out of every one on one forty five.

481
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: He really wanted to step up. That's a factor. There's

482
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: also not really a super obvious contender at one fifty

483
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: five right now where you like, I mean, yes, you

484
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: could say Daryush, but you know, against a guy like

485
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: Volkanovski given what he had been doing, they're never going

486
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,959
Speaker 1: to go that to So you know, those are all

487
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 1: reasons why they made that fight. But the pint I'm

488
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: trying to make here is a big reason is that

489
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 1: they got lobbied into it. Right they got there was

490
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: there was external pressure to make it. It wasn't like

491
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 1: it was this organic thing that everyone just kind of

492
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: had to see, like for you know, for years on end,

493
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 1: we have to see these two matchup or you could

494
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: see it coming a mile away, that these two special

495
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: guys were connected on some journey where they were clashing

496
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 1: into each other. It ended up being a place where

497
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: they ended up clashing, but it didn't have these these narratives,

498
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: these overarching ways of describing the fight. It was there

499
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: was they were pressured, so to speak. They were lobbied

500
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: in a sense into making it happen. And the reason

501
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: why they had done that is because a guy like

502
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: Volkonowski had not only just achieved a lot, but was

503
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: willing to take risks. And what you'll just find is

504
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: like it's very you know, no people are gonna say, oh, well, yeah,

505
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: he he lobbied himself into becoming a champ champ just

506
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: because that's what everyone does now, in the sense like

507
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: that this is some kind of ordinary thing that's no

508
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: longer special. First of all, becoming champchamp is insanely fucking difficult.

509
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: Volkanovsky couldn't do it tonight, and that tells you a

510
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: lot about how hard that must be. Right, And the

511
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: best of fight sports takes place when people like Alexander

512
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: Volkanowski lean on their courage, right, when they lean on

513
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: their vision and their courage and their willingness to see

514
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: that through despite the difficulties and how long it might take.

515
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: That makes the fight game better. Right. What you need

516
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: are fighters internally willing to push the envelope and then

517
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: bring you along for the ride. It's very very hard.

518
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: It can be happened. It happens that the fans can

519
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: pressure fighters into taking certain things, or that the promotion

520
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: can strong arm. That does happen, right, But the real

521
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: best stuff in the fight game, the true big time shit,

522
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: is not typically promoter driven. It's not typically Yeah, the

523
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: fans can define, they can play a huge role. Please

524
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: don't misunderstand me, because of course they're the customers and

525
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: what they can sell but the historic shit is what

526
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, right, This kind of stuff, this kind

527
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: of stuff only happens when both parties, and in particular

528
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: one party is willing to actually put it out there

529
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: and lose if they lose, but to like force promoters

530
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 1: into recognizing moments, forced fans and skeptics and onlookers and

531
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: fans whoever into this particular vision. They have to get

532
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: out there and seek it. And yes, by the way,

533
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: Islam deserves credit for that too. They wanted Volkanovsky. They

534
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 1: wanted that fight in Australia, right in the first title defense,

535
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: like out of the frying pan and right into the fire.

536
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: They wanted that too. But this has just sort of

537
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: proves my point. It's that great fighters with vision and

538
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: the discipline to see that vision through. And of course

539
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: they already have to be great. It can't just be average.

540
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: They have to be great. That is what creates the

541
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: biggest stuff in the fight game. That is the star

542
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:15,479
Speaker 1: dust of That's why they're great at that. But that

543
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: is the engine, that is the catalyst. It has to

544
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: come from those guys, and not even great fighter wants

545
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: to do that. There's you know again, what makes them great?

546
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: What makes them not okay, I should say there are many,

547
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: many very talented fighters who don't want to do that,

548
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: and I understand that part too, like they have different

549
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: risk calculus. So just be grateful to guys like Volkanovsky tonight,

550
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: whether you thought he won or he didn't, that vision

551
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: and that that willingness to believe that his courage can

552
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: take him places. It's not automatic, it's not easy, and

553
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: tonight it wasn't really fully rewarded. But when it becomes

554
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: just a mode of living, these guys can push the

555
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: fight game into incredible places. And that's what we got

556
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: here tonight. I don't know, you know, are they going

557
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: to do a rematch of it? I don't. I don't know.

558
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: I don't. It doesn't seem that way because these fights

559
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: can be disruptive to divisions, and I think now they've

560
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: got an interim one at one forty five and everything else,

561
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: So probably not. But that was exceptional, truly exceptional from him.

562
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: Islam was getting booed by the way, by the by

563
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: the by the offseis and I get that. I get not,

564
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: you know, drinking at six am in the morning, and

565
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: then your guy puts in a hell of a performance,

566
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: then it doesn't come away with it. And numerically he

567
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: got he was the better I a should say numerically

568
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: he was the more active striker anyway. And by the way,

569
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: Volkanowski credited with a knockdown, that's pretty great. Got a

570
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: great knockdown. I get I get that, But I really

571
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: hope that islam Stock doesn't suffer from this. I mean,

572
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to like lord his wrestling over Volkanowski

573
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: like he was other people. But I think most critics

574
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: might have said, well, if Makachev can't get the takedown

575
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: in any kind of meaningful sense, he can't win. Not

576
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: really true, not really true. All right, let's talk about

577
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: this comaine. Holy smokes, what a comaine this was? I mean,

578
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: Geebus christ all right? Who Yeah? Here Rodriguez defeats Josh

579
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: Emmett via triangle choke at four nineteen of round number two.

580
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: I scored round one for Let me look at my

581
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: phone as I had to send it to CBO Sports.

582
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: There we go, all kinds of fucking hairs on me.

583
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: I think I scored round one for Emmett. Yeah, but

584
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: Rodriguez was doing really well in the first round. He

585
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: just got dropped at the end of that first remember

586
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: kind of like what happened to Markachev in the fifth.

587
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: He got dropped it in the first and Emmett, who

588
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: just has nuclear power, I mean crippling power, dropped him,

589
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: had good ground and pound kind of stoleed around back

590
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: a little bit because they were kind of far apart,

591
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: and I'll get to Rodriguez's kicks. He was landing a bunch,

592
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: and then in the second round, Emmett was just getting

593
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: torn up from the word go and ate a bunch

594
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: of body kicks. He eventually let me see if I

595
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: can go back in my mind, So he eventually gets

596
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: on top. I think Rodriguez had slipped or he has

597
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: going No, he landed a knee and he caught the

598
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: knee and then turned him over to get him down,

599
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: and then he eventually gets ground and pound from underneath.

600
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: He can believe such a thing, and then gets tried

601
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: to get the arm bar. He misses it, goes to

602
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: the triangle choke, and I thought for sure Emtt was

603
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: gonna pull out of it and just kind of stood there.

604
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: I guess he was hurt and he couldn't really move

605
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: all that well, and then got triangled and that was

606
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: all she wrote. Now you'll notice that they're so if

607
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: two arms in, two arms out, you're safe. It's one

608
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: arm in. That's where all the problems start with the submissions, right,

609
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: So he's got one arm in. The arm that was

610
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: in and going across. If you notice, uh Rodriguez had

611
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: it under risk control, he was pulling it across. So

612
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: that does two things. One, it cinches the choke tighter.

613
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: That's one thing that it does, right. It brings the

614
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: shoulder into the carotid artery, So that's what changes part

615
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: of it. The other part is it kind of holds

616
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: you in position. So you might be saying, oh, well, Luke,

617
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: if he's holding him a position, then how could he've

618
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: escaped Because even with that, you should be able to

619
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: move a little bit more than he was, Like, if

620
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: I just hold your arm, I don't have control over

621
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: your hips. You know, he didn't stand, he didn't try

622
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: to pull, he didn't he didn't try to get the

623
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: leg over on the other side like he didn't. He

624
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: didn't really react, which tells me that yes, that grip

625
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: was probably pulling him down a little bit. But also

626
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: he must have been like real banged up by the

627
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: time that even happened. Incredible job by Yeayer Rodriguez, absolutely

628
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: truly phenomenal. But the story of the fight to me

629
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: was one was I mean, it played out kind of

630
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: how you thought it might, I think, which was you

631
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: knew that if Emmett landed, it was gonna do damage,

632
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: sure enough, that was true, but you didn't know if

633
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: he was gonna land enough because he was gonna have

634
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: trouble getting through the distance and the long range and

635
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: short range weapons of Rodriguez. And that was definitely true.

636
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,439
Speaker 1: The commentary team said something that I thought was really

637
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: important actually, which was he doesn't just throw these big

638
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: ass kicks to land the big ass kick, although that

639
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: happens like the bodykicks from Rodriguez, the open stance bodykicks

640
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: were tearing Emmett's guts to pieces. It's like he made

641
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: him swallow piranhas or something that was just shredding the inside,

642
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: I mean, destroying him. I couldn't believe how hard some

643
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: of those were. So he's devastating at long range with

644
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: all of those weapons. That was phenomenal, and then in

645
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: close range he was connecting with elbows or you know,

646
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: from the risk control just surprising offense. But more than that,

647
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: he'd landed the bodykick and then switch dance and then

648
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: come with the punch right over the top, right behind it,

649
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: something similar to what you might have seen from like

650
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: Johnny Walker and Paul Craig. And what you noticed was

651
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: the body kicks from your ear were so fast and

652
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: so hard. They would land on Emmett and he would

653
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: kind of catch it and absorb it and it would

654
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: freeze him for a moment, just a second, just a

655
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: split second. But dude, in prize fighting a second, I mean,

656
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: just thinking about it. One two, dude, that is a

657
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: fucking eternity in the fight game. That's an eternity. So

658
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: it only freezes him for a moment, But a moment

659
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: is all you need if you're AA Rodriguez. So he

660
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 1: gets hit with the bodykick, he kind of freezes Bah.

661
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: The punch is right behind it, man. He's not waiting

662
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: on it too long. Man. The timing on these are perfect,

663
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: and he's got he's catching them. And so the point

664
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: the commentary Booth made was they're not just throwing these

665
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,760
Speaker 1: big strikes to land. Although yes, sometimes they get through,

666
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: it's a lot of times they're throwing that to set

667
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: up a whole lot of other things that come behind it,

668
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: with the with his with his you know, you think

669
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: the flashy kicks are all like, oh, he must be

670
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: trying to land that flashy kick. Why else would you

671
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: throw a flashy kick? And yes, of course, if it lands, great,

672
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 1: but the whole points it leads to really a whole

673
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 1: constant array of other free offense that Emmett was able

674
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: to give him. Emmett just couldn't find a place to

675
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: stay dry in the rain. There was just too much

676
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: offense from too many ranges catching him all the time,

677
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: especially to the body. He's got this kind of hunched

678
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: over stance or whatever. And what's amazing about that is

679
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: he was like, you know, listen, Emmett's a good wrestler.

680
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: Rodriguez wasn't at all fearful that he was gonna get

681
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: kicked or he was going to kick and then get

682
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: taken down. Right, Oh, I'm not gonna care. I'm not

683
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: gonna you see a lot of striker against the grappler.

684
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw too many kicks for fear of

685
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: getting taken down. How does that change their game, dude,

686
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: It doesn't change Yeah, your's game fucking at all at all.

687
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: You wrestle, don't wrestle, doesn't matter to him. And of

688
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: course he's got all different kinds of varieties, right, there's

689
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: hard to detect which one's what. The inside cut kick,

690
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: the outside leg kick, the bodykick, head kicks, question mark kicks, teeps,

691
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you name it. And he can kind of

692
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: chamber them all and make them look a little similar,

693
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: or he could change the timing up and the and

694
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: the angle and everything else. So he's got a lot

695
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: going on with that. And Emmett was just two. Will

696
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: you know, we did it a We did a room

697
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: service diaries with Emmett, and in that room service diaries

698
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: we talked about his game plan. He definitely comes up

699
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: with one, but a lot of it is just kind

700
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: of making reads on the fly. And the other part too.

701
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: He says something to me which was like, if you

702
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: look at the numbers on Emmett, he kind of takes

703
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 1: a lot of punches. He eats a lot of strikes.

704
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: But he's just been willing to He's been willing to

705
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: do that in a way where Okay, the Jeremy Stevens

706
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: fight he lost, but in general, like it's just part

707
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: of the game. And I know every fighter says that,

708
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: but I mean, like his acceptance of getting it is

709
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: an acceptance of getting hit a lot. It's not just

710
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: that he gets hit, it's that he has a tolerance

711
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: for a fairly high amount of it as a strategic necessity, right, Like,

712
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: this is just what has to happen in order for

713
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: my game to thrive. So I'm totally okay with it.

714
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: That's the way he would look at it, and you know,

715
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,479
Speaker 1: through most of his career that's probably been a really

716
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: useful way to look at it. Like, you can take

717
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: big punches. They're gonna cut you, They're not gonna hurt you.

718
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get stopped. You know, obviously you don't

719
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: want to take the biggest ones if you can avoid it.

720
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 1: But you know, if you get banged around, like really

721
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: that's you just get banged around. And he probably just

722
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: thought that was like, I can do that against guys

723
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: my size, and I don't have to worry about it.

724
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 1: But Rodriguez shows you that that is really not the case.

725
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: And also I feel like Rodriguez may have aged Max

726
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: going you know, so here's the thing, So Max's win

727
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: over a guyer to me looks even more impressive. But

728
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: to me, that fight he shouldn't have taken because he

729
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: was that fight I think fucked Max up. I mean

730
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 1: Max one, Max did the majority of the fucking up,

731
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: but he got fucked up in that one too. I

732
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: don't think he would tell you otherwise. And then he

733
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: went right from that fight into the Vulk fight, which

734
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: was you know, we'll see what kind of condition Max

735
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: comes back in against Arnold Allen. But it may be

736
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: the case that that Rodriguez fight was the actual turning point,

737
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: you know, where he like took a shitload of abuse,

738
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: even though he got the dub, but he took a

739
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: shit ton of abuse. Be getting back to Josh Emmett,

740
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: his calculation of how much damage his peers could unleash

741
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: on him was just, and how much he was capable

742
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 1: of tolerating was It was useful up until it wasn't

743
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: like he was right up until he got to ya

744
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: ear and then all that shit was out the window.

745
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: You know, Yayir is an incredibly special fighter. And I

746
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 1: made this point. Here was a guy who I think

747
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: was at twenty eighteen or so. UFC briefly released him

748
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: you know, and then brought him back and he gets

749
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: he gets to the point where he now has a

750
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: belt around his waist as a consequence. I know, it's

751
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: the interim championship. And nevertheless, to me, like even that

752
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: is very very hard to get. It's not like people

753
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: act like the UFC's interim champions are all bullshit fighters.

754
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: They're not. They're all real good like all the guys

755
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: who are interim champions, Like you know, these are fucking

756
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: very good fighters. Like it's you know, people acting like

757
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: it's some Mickey mouse rinky thing thing. It's like, Okay,

758
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: it's not the real thing, fair enough, but bro, you

759
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: gotta be YAYI Rodriguez good to get one like that's

760
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: hard to do. And uh, you know, Danny Segura has

761
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: been talking about this like those guys I think like

762
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: ten years ago. These are to him and Brandon Moreno,

763
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: two poor kids out of Mexico who were part of

764
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: the UFC's talent development program. Both of them eventually got

765
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: kicked out of the UC. Both of them, through different ways,

766
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: made their way back, and now both of them Mexico

767
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: has two simultaneous UFC champions. That's never happened before. First

768
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: time in UFC history. There's never been two Simon, I

769
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: don't think so, right, there's never been two simultaneous Mexican champions.

770
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Pretty big deal, Pretty big deal. Uh.

771
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: And Rodriguez is such like you know, I've said this before,

772
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: like his style. It gets lauded for its acrobatic characteristics

773
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: and how wild and crazy it is. Dude, it's Rodriguez

774
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: is striking is fucking mean. It's mean. The toes dig

775
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 1: in and it whips to the body to break all

776
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: your ribs, and it finds you. It just feels his

777
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: strikes feel like they're like the bullies of strikes that

778
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: they just find you in like the worst ways. They

779
00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: land in the hardest and most hurtful spots. They it it.

780
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: You know, it has this like devastating effect on these

781
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: guys and it changes who they are in other dimensions.

782
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: You know, this kind of reminds me in the way

783
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: like kind of getting hurt. He got taken down. So

784
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: it's not like, yeah, it's similar, you know, it kind

785
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: of reminds me of It reminds me a little bit

786
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: of the second fight between Anthony Pettis and Benson Henderson.

787
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: Where Benson Henderson gets hit with a body kick and

788
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: eventually gets arm barred when he gets takes down Anthony Pettis.

789
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: I think either off that kick or like a subsequent one,

790
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: and I think later on, like the sub kind kind

791
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,399
Speaker 1: of came out of nowhere, and it even I think

792
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: it was Henderson later being just like, yeah, yeah, I

793
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: couldn't breathe or I was hurt or something like. He

794
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: just wasn't in his right mind defending the arm bar

795
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: so he got he got beaten up. Like but you know,

796
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: to sub an elite fighter off of your back. We've

797
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: talked about how the guard can be useful, but like

798
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: against the highest level, most submissions don't come from guard

799
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: against a very again at the highest highest level, just

800
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: the majority of them don't come from guard. But you

801
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: can make that a little bit of a generality when

802
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: you add in, well, what if you punish them really

803
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: bad first and again in the case of the second

804
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: Pettis Henderson fight and now Rodriguez Emmett, you have a

805
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: similar kind of arc there. For Emmett, who turns thirty eight,

806
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: I believe, yeah, he'll be thirty eight next month. You know,

807
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: I don't suspect that he'll be able to make another

808
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: run at one forty five title could be wrong. He

809
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: gave it everything he had. Again, another guy like trying

810
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: to just do great by himself, do great by the sport,

811
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: take on the toughest guys. Never never never asking for

812
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: anything easy, never getting anything easy. And you know, not

813
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: not a talker, I think it's pretty fair to say,

814
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: but an extremely impressive fighter. And the way Rodriguez was

815
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: able to get dropped and not change his own style,

816
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 1: I'll stick to how just devastating and mean that shit

817
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 1: is really highly commendable. Shit. Look, let's look at the

818
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:15,240
Speaker 1: fight here a little bit more detail. Emmett is credited

819
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: with one takedown. That takedown came in the second, correct, Yeah,

820
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: that's the one. He caught the double knee. Rodriguez landing

821
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: sixty two to Emmett's twenty two significant strikes god total

822
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: strikes Rodriguez ninety eight, Emmett just thirty five, just thirty five.

823
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: He did have three minutes and one seconds of control

824
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: one second of control time which came a minute twenty

825
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: seven in the first round, a minute thirty four in

826
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: the second. But like you know, if you're getting beaten up.

827
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: And by the way, how about your ears ground and

828
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: pound from underneath where he extends his back all the way,

829
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: brings his elbow up and then drives it down as

830
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: he kind of like does a crunch, and he's so

831
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: long he can get great separation and then bring it back.

832
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy. I was able to do that,

833
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: So that's pretty impressive. Let's see about targeting to the body.

834
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: Rodriguez twenty nine percent of the body here, so I

835
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,479
Speaker 1: want to see how much he normally targets. Let's see

836
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: how much. So he's twenty nine percent of the body here.

837
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: So against Brian Ortega, which didn't go very long, he

838
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: was thirteen percent to the body. Against Holloway, he was

839
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: just fifty excuse me, fifteen percent to the body. Against

840
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 1: Jeremy Stevens, he was fourteen percent to the body. So

841
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: he's usually in the mid to high teens, and in

842
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: this one he was nearly thirty percent to the body.

843
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: So I think he also just knew that, like a

844
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:46,919
Speaker 1: guy like Emmett is gonna be at range. It could

845
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,720
Speaker 1: be hard, not hard to hit his head per se,

846
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: but we're gonna get his defense to be in trouble

847
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: by how much we're gonna light him up? And by

848
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: the way, a guy who moves like that, how do

849
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: you slow him down? Body attacks? Right, same thing as

850
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: you would in boxing. Right, you got a bit of

851
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: a mover, you got a bit of a pressure guy,

852
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 1: how do you slow him down? Take his body away?

853
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: That's what you see here, same similar kind of idea.

854
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: And uh boy, he executed that fucking amazingly. Twenty six

855
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: to twelve strikes landed in the first round for yeah, year,

856
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: thirty six to ten in round two. Holy smokes, he

857
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: won that one. He got dropped in the first round,

858
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: but that the overall effort is very impressive. I mean,

859
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: the guy who got beaten up by Frankie Edgar. You

860
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: know that dude doesn't exist anymore. He doesn't exist. His

861
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: takedown defense looked excellent in this fight. Sorry, I got thirsty,

862
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:45,919
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, so phenomenal job by him.

863
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: How what a fight between Yayir and vulk go right.

864
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I think that's a pretty interesting fight.

865
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: I like that fight. I like it a lot. I

866
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: think it's probably better than the Emmet fight would have been.

867
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: Personally speaking, I like that fight, because I think that's

868
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,240
Speaker 1: a much more interesting puzzle for either guy to solve.

869
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: For Rodriguez to be able to land on a guy

870
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: who's going to be, you know, moving in and out,

871
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: not there, playing with range, you know, setting traps, being confusing.

872
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: That's a tough guy to beat. And if you're a Rodriguez,

873
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: and conversely, if you're Volkanovski, if you're not careful, the

874
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: guy can just damage you in fight ending, fight altering

875
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: ways quickly. He can do it from a lot of

876
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: different ranges, even if you're the one playing with them.

877
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: He's resilient, he has pretty good cardio, his takedown defence

878
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 1: is massively improved. He's taking him down, He's damaging from underneath.

879
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 1: He's just damaging in every respect. Man, You really, really

880
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: really have to be on your game to beat a

881
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: guy like that, and even if you do, you might

882
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: take some serious fucking abuse the whole way. Dude, Rodriguez

883
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: changes these guys. Man, he changes these guys. I mean,

884
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: look looking at his opponents here. We'll see what happens

885
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: with Ortega. But he got his shoulder all jacked up.

886
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: Max Holloway beat him, but Max got super fucked up

887
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: Steven's not in the UFC anymore. Chan Sung Jung. You know,

888
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: he was winning, but until he wasn't And now we're

889
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: kind of getting into twenty eighteen, which was not that

890
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: long ago. But I don't know, man seems like more

891
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: recently everything about Yeah, your style has gelled and everything's

892
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: come together and it's working, and his defense is much better,

893
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: and his timing and precision and just like knowing what

894
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: works for him has really like is just next level

895
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 1: at this point with a guy like Rodriguez, he really

896
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: really is shining and it just seems like everything is

897
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: really together for him. I had mentioned that the UFC

898
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: had put a bunch of money into him and Brandon

899
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: Moreno in around twenty thirteen that they that had really

900
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: worked out. That's a very very smart investment by UFC.

901
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: You can see why they want to put performance centers

902
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: in China, Africa, They got this one they're going to

903
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: finish in Mexico City. Why they want to put these

904
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: places in strategic markets for long term future growth because

905
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: the PI by itself doesn't get it done. But having

906
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: established recruitment and development programs in these countries through the

907
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: almost like the trojan horse of the PI. Look what

908
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: it's doing to Mexican mma. It has fast forwarded the

909
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: growth of Mexican mma probably by a decade, right, It

910
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: probably had a fast tracking effect. Like you guys know,

911
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: I criticized UFC all the time, and you know they're

912
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 1: not trying to develop these markets so that all of

913
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: their competitors can win. They're trying to do it so

914
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: that they can get the best of that, which you

915
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: would understand. But in terms of what it does for

916
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: the sport overall and how it fast tracks it, I

917
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: don't know how you can deny it. I don't know

918
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: how you can deny it. It clearly has a noteworthy

919
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: and demonstrative effect. How about Jack Dalea Madalena defeating Randy

920
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: Brown via rear naked choke at two thirteen of round one.

921
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: This was supposed to be jack Dale Madelena's toughest test,

922
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: and he breezed right through it. He breathed right through it.

923
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: Randy Brown is a very talented fighter. He's a fighter.

924
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:32,439
Speaker 1: I think he was on a four fight win streak

925
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: heading into this contest. We all knew that Dala Madelena

926
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 1: had phenomenal boxing, but this was a step up Randy

927
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: Brown has fought good competition, and he's beaten some good competition.

928
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: Tall rangy, much more experienced. Dylan Madelena had a good

929
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: strong guard right here right bringing his hands up, had

930
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: great reads early about what was happening, didn't pressure early,

931
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: slowly begin to kind of corral with good footwork. Randy

932
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: Brown close to the fence line and from there was

933
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: under shortened range. Forced an exit to his own right,

934
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,720
Speaker 1: at which point he caught him. Exiting to that space,

935
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: Randy Brown goes face first into the mat, tries to

936
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: roll and recover. Daily Madeleine is just beating on him

937
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: with hammer fists, and I think eventually he rolled, and

938
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: Daily Madelena got the choke and uh closed the show.

939
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: Made it look effortless, made it look like he could

940
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: have done that one hundred times out of one hundred.

941
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: Not saying that that's the best that Randy Brown can do.

942
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: I don't know, but on this night, that's what it

943
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: looked like. It looked like Jack dalely Medelena could have

944
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: done that a hundred times out of one hundred without

945
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: much without it being different that many times. You know,

946
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: that was extremely impressive. His boy boxing is already some

947
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,919
Speaker 1: of the best in the UFC's walterweight division. I think

948
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:09,720
Speaker 1: a fight between he and Vicente Luke would be Chef's kiss.

949
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: That's the company he's keeping now, Jack Dayla Medallana. Hello

950
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: is this guy twenty seven? They said on the broadcast

951
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: twenty six Holy shit, this dude is twenty six years old.

952
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: He'll be twenty seven in September. In September, and he

953
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: looks phenomenal. Can you His record is fourteen and two.

954
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: Do you know which two fights? He lost? His first two?

955
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: His first two he got knocked out and finished off

956
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: in the first fight, he got submitted in the second,

957
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: and then hasn't looked back since all of those were

958
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: in the same year twenty sixteen, and he just kept

959
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: working and working and working, and here he is. He

960
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: gets on a contender series, he wins, and then he's

961
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: had a first round stoppage over Pete Rodriguez, first round stoppage,

962
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 1: this was impressive over Ramazan and meive, first round stoppage

963
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: over Danny Roberts, and now a first round stoppage of

964
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: Randy Brown. All three of the last ones earn a

965
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: Performance of the Night bonus. Dude. They can't find a

966
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: guy in UFC to take him to the fucking second round.

967
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: He's twenty six. These guys like this different fighter, but

968
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: you know, very young in the same way, but already

969
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: very advanced, like an Ilia Toporia. Guys like that do

970
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: they are terrifyingly good to be that young, and that

971
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: good brown belt Brazilian jiu jitsu is remarkable. And again

972
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: he's not going in there and then just I'm gonna

973
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: wing a heavy punch and it's gonna rattle a guy,

974
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: and then I'm just gonna overwhelm him with force. No,

975
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna overwhelm him with force only after I have

976
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: corralled and trapped him into a space where he can

977
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: no longer do anything but that, right, I'm not just

978
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: going to hulk smash ah. I'm learning to very strategically

979
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: guide him to a place where he exits one direction

980
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna hit him on the exit, and then

981
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna be all that we need. I mean, I

982
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: don't know what else. He's good, very very very very good.

983
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,399
Speaker 1: I know they wanted tonight where all the Aussies could win.

984
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: It wasn't in the cards. Although the Aussee's all made

985
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: a pretty strong account of himself. But while Volk was

986
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: unable to get his hand raised in the main event,

987
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: boy Australia should not. I'm not gonna weep too much

988
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: for Australia tonight. I'll tell you that because I know

989
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: their guy didn't win the main event. But to see

990
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: what's coming down, you know, the pike from that what

991
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: the next generation of their TI I mean, their next

992
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: generation guys are monsters. And I can't think of many

993
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 1: in the sport who are as exciting and this good

994
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: and this just like technically clean in the ways that

995
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: Jack Dala Medelena is. He's so clean. You ever noticed

996
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 1: he never is like out in front of his punches,

997
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: leaning over. He's always got his feet under him. You

998
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: ever notice that, Like, just just watch Jack Dela met

999
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: Elena move around. Just watch him move around. Do you

1000
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: ever notice how he's got his feet always underneath him, right,

1001
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: He's always balanced, even when he's kind of leaping, he's

1002
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: still got his feet underneath him a little bit, right,

1003
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:13,919
Speaker 1: He's always he's always in motion, like with his feet

1004
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: setting up angles, you know, never sitting up a stationary

1005
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: target for his opponent to hit. He's using that to corral.

1006
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 1: He can switch stances in order to not just like

1007
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: mesmerize you, but but to anticipate where guys are going

1008
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: and then meet them as a consequence. Like, there's just

1009
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: so much he can do with it being technically precise,

1010
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:36,880
Speaker 1: technically advanced, very foundational with everything and just again just

1011
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: watch daily Medeleine a move. Everything flows in exactly the

1012
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: way that it's supposed to, forward, back side to side, switching, throwing, receiving.

1013
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: It's just always balanced and always moving and always you know,

1014
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:56,399
Speaker 1: always having some kind of function. He has footwork with purpose, right,

1015
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: Everything has purpose, it has balance, it has motion. Everything

1016
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: is like working the way it's supposed to. And look

1017
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: at the result, and you might be saying, like, why

1018
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: don't more fighters do that? Yeah, it's fucking hard to

1019
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: do that. It's like really hard to do that. But

1020
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: if you can, if you can be one of those guys,

1021
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: and then you're also a great athlete and you can

1022
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,439
Speaker 1: punch hard, like I'm sure he can punch hard, right,

1023
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: But the fact that he can put himself in great range,

1024
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 1: the fact that he can do so without putting himself

1025
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: at risk and having to absorb a bunch of punishment

1026
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: and he's been hit before too, like he's made mistakes,

1027
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: but you know, in general, in this case, it was

1028
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: nearly flawless to be able to do that, to have

1029
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: your feet under you whenever you throw, all the time,

1030
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: so you can root for power, so you can move

1031
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: for defense. Like, it's just crazy how much he's able

1032
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: to do that. A very different kind of striker than

1033
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: Robert Whitaker, for example, but just he's just he's a

1034
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: joy to watch compete. He's a joy to watch compete.

1035
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess he gets a top ten guy next,

1036
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess. Hard to say with any certainty, but

1037
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: certainly top fifteen. Where was Randy Brown ranked? Let me see.

1038
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: Let's see the old rankings, shall we. So this is

1039
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: obviously not updated for tonight's results, But where was I

1040
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: guess they didn't have him inside that top fifteen. Well yeah, okay,

1041
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: so top fifteen at one seventy would be well, I

1042
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: should say eleven through fifteen, Jorge Mas with Old, Michael Kissa,

1043
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: Neil Magni, Michelle Paeda, Lijiang Lang. He'll get someone in there.

1044
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: He'll get someone in there. Not Jorge, obviously, I don't think.

1045
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: But Kisa, he's got a fight coming up, so not him,

1046
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:51,479
Speaker 1: maybe Neil Magni coming off that loss. Maybe we'll see

1047
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: or or the leech something like that solid wind though

1048
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: to be quite clear, let me look at also the

1049
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: numbers on this one, if I can very quickly, Jack

1050
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: Daleen and Alanna credited with a knockdown. He landed just

1051
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: fourteen strikes, it's all he needed out of thirty one.

1052
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: And where was he throwing? Sixty four percent to the head,

1053
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: twenty six percent to the twenty eight percent excuse me,

1054
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: to the leg. It's interesting, what is his usual breakdown?

1055
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: So he landed, So his breakdown was head sixty four,

1056
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: body seven, leg twenty eight. So head and the leg

1057
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: account for the ninety three percent of everything. Let's see

1058
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: what he did on other ones. So against Danny Roberts,

1059
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: same for the head sixty nine, but then twenty seven

1060
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: percent of the body, three percent of the leg. It's interesting.

1061
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: So he definitely wanted to cut out the legs of

1062
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 1: Randy Randy Brown right, slow him down against the against

1063
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: Ramazon and Meve, Let's see, how did he target sixty

1064
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 1: one thirty eight? Yeah, so he tends to be sixty

1065
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: plus two the head. Yeah, eighty eight percent against Pete Rodriguez. Yeah,

1066
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: but he'll mix up a little bit the rest to

1067
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: the body or leg depending on what he's trying to do,

1068
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: trying to transfer defense, trying to whatever he wants out

1069
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: of that. So amazing job by him. Jesus Christ, listen

1070
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: to this. Strikes landed permitted eight point four to five,

1071
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: strikes absorb four point two to two. The guy has

1072
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: a positive differential of over four integers. That I mean

1073
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: our four integers plus I should say, like that is crazy, crazy,

1074
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: crazy high. I was credited with the sub attempt obviously

1075
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: in this one as well. Pretty amazing job by him.

1076
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: The rest of that car was not that money. Can

1077
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: I just be honest about that? Justin Taffa defeating Parker Porter,

1078
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: he hit him with the left hook when he was

1079
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: switching stances. Do you guys notice that? So he was

1080
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: trying to go from orthodox to south ball. He takes

1081
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:01,439
Speaker 1: a big ass step with his right foot to cut

1082
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: the angle right, but it was kind of telegraphed, and

1083
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:05,919
Speaker 1: then tries to come over the top with the right

1084
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: fucking top. I just if the punch is coming here,

1085
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: all you have to do is get it on the

1086
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: inside and he does. He just gets it to the

1087
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: inside before he could get him and just you know,

1088
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: good timing. Yeah, that was I don't know what that was.

1089
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: Jimmy krup and Alonzo Minfield fighting to a majority draw.

1090
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: So what ends up happening. Minifield wins the first two round,

1091
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 1: loses the third plus gets a point deducted I think

1092
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 1: for a fence grab something like that, and they just

1093
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: ended up being two twenty eight twenty eight's a majority decision,

1094
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: So what are you gonna do? Modesta s bbukowskis getting

1095
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: a hard fault win over Tyson Pedro thirty twenty seven,

1096
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: and then two twenty nine twenty eights Joshua Kulebau defeating

1097
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: Milsick Bagdasarian. That was a great one. They had some

1098
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 1: bad blood at the weigh ins and everything too. That

1099
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: was a great job by him, just jumping on the

1100
01:00:57,160 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: back the way he did, extremely impressive. Clayson Hadriguez just

1101
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 1: running over Shannon Ross, Jamie Malarkey defeating Francisco Prado thirty

1102
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: twenty seven across the board, then called out by the

1103
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: way Patty pimblet Jack Jenkins defeating Don Chenis Loma look

1104
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 1: Boomby getting I think her first submission in the UFC

1105
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: Viya nikod Chok and then a couple other ones Zubayer

1106
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:20,919
Speaker 1: to Googov, losing by the way, although there's some some

1107
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: dispute about that decision. I don't know if I put

1108
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: a thing up for questions. Let's see. Let's see, coming

1109
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 1: into today's fight. This is from fight Metric, Alexander Volkanowski

1110
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: averages six point nine to seven significant strikes landing per minute.

1111
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: Over the course of twenty five minutes. Versus Islam, he

1112
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: averaged just two point eight. Whoa Makachev enter Today's about

1113
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 1: absorbing just point nine significant strikes permitt at the best

1114
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 1: rate in UFC history. That's crazy, that's crazy. Let's see

1115
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 1: if we got any questions. I don't know if we did.

1116
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: Maybe I got a little bit here. I watched that

1117
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: fight in an uber with the volume off, and I

1118
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: thought Islam won a close three to two. Okay, well

1119
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 1: that's really a great way to judge fights. Ah, yes, Mma,

1120
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: Vulk wins easy on the feet and Islam drowns him

1121
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: on the ground. Volk's defense was amazing, but Islam outstruck

1122
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: him all right. Surely this makes it a potential darry

1123
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: USh versus market chef matchup far more intriguing. It does. Actually,

1124
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: it's a great point because if darry Yusch could stuff

1125
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 1: the takedowns, Maketchev is certainly much more of a creative

1126
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: customer on the feet than we had originally realized. But

1127
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: dary USh is a hammer on the feet, so that

1128
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: could be really interesting. Vulk won the fourth round? Is

1129
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: that the round he got his back taken? Because if

1130
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: he did, then he didn't win that round. I hate

1131
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: to be the bearer of bad news. Let me double check.

1132
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: That was that the round he got his back taking? Yeah,

1133
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 1: that was the one with three minutes and twenty five seconds. No,

1134
01:02:53,000 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: Volk did not win round four. Sorry, everyone brought up

1135
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: how size would give Volk difficulties. But did it prove

1136
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: to be a bit of a double edged sword for

1137
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: Islam struggling to control a fighter of close to equal

1138
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,439
Speaker 1: strength and a lower center of gravity, unable to wrap

1139
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 1: Vulk's legs with his own in round three for example? Yeah,

1140
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: it did prove to be. I think a slightly confusing

1141
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: thing for him is the Islam is better than Habib

1142
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: narrative dead? I mean I'm old enough to remember when

1143
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: Islam got excuse me, when Habib got slandered for wins

1144
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: as well, right, oh, he didn't know. He barely beat

1145
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: Ali a Quinto on late notice, and you know, the

1146
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: least in Tebell fight is certainly a controversial one. But

1147
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that the Islam is as good as

1148
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: Habib thing has always been somewhat overplayed. So yes, like

1149
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,440
Speaker 1: should that one, should that narrative be dead? Yes, probably,

1150
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like we should be very

1151
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: clear the idea that Habib didn't get routinely undermined during

1152
01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: his career, not every time that against kai Che, not

1153
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: against Poirier. I mean there's times where it was less

1154
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 1: so true, but certainly at other times where he had

1155
01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 1: like close or unimpressive wins and or you know, just

1156
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: not as what you thought they would be at a

1157
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: bare minimum, and he got killed for it all the time.

1158
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 1: Like that's that was the thing that happened, So let's

1159
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: not forget that it didn't. How did you feel about

1160
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: the air fight after that performance? Voc will do terrible

1161
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: things to him, I would say, Vocal will win. But

1162
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 1: I think that ya Eric is clever and again a

1163
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 1: punishing fighter to go up against. We need a second fight.

1164
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: You're not going to get it. Someone writes, coming in,

1165
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 1: I thought Islam was going to slaughter Volcan. Now I

1166
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: believe that if Vulk had taken it closer to a

1167
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: year to build a one to fifty five frame, he'd

1168
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: probably have come away with a win tonight. Because of this,

1169
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: I don't think Vulk should lose his number one pound

1170
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: for pound ranking. I mean, I'm not sure how you can

1171
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: lose a fight and keep your status. Someone says in

1172
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,920
Speaker 1: harassing decision, Volk landed more damage while stuck in a

1173
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: body triangle. This isn't a wrestling match. Well, you can't

1174
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:07,360
Speaker 1: do body triangles like that in wrestling. I don't think,

1175
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 1: not the way he was doing it. Anyway, Vulk just

1176
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 1: ran out of time to an extent, that's true. This

1177
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 1: is why styles make fights. This was Taylor made for

1178
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 1: a draw. I don't know about that. We finally got

1179
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: to see how impressive islam striking is at length. Is

1180
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: there any lightweight outside of sarryuki and who can deal

1181
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 1: with his complete game? Daryush is gonna give him some problems. Yeah,

1182
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: should have been an ESPN plus plus. So it says,

1183
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 1: I recognize Islam won across five rounds and was so

1184
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 1: good defensively and with his jab, but Vulk finished so strong.

1185
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 1: I might still think he's a better skilled fighter. Yeah, yeah,

1186
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 1: I think you can think that. I don't think it's

1187
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: crazy to think that Vulk has more skills. I don't

1188
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: think that's insane. The question is did he use enough

1189
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: of them to win tonight's contest. Here's my water, Okay,

1190
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty good. Yeah, I think that's it

1191
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: for the evening. Here. I'm exhausted as shit. And Tonight's

1192
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: fights were crazy. We'll talk more about these. Brian Campbell's

1193
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 1: and KEEBLEI. Brian Campbell first time ever in Europe, flies

1194
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: back to Dallas, not even to Connecticut where he lives,

1195
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: so he could go to tonight's card, and San Antonio

1196
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: has a layover in Dallas that was like crazy long

1197
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 1: and didn't get to San Antonio until late last night,

1198
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,160
Speaker 1: and then he has to fly back home to Connecticut tomorrow,

1199
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: and then he has to go back to Topeka on

1200
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 1: Kansas on Wednesday, so he might die, but he's gonna

1201
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 1: be on Monday Show and he's gonna give us his

1202
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: views on everything, so it would be good to hear it.

1203
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for watching. I greatly appreciate it.

1204
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: I am tired his ball, so I'm gonna get going.

1205
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's been this Tonight's fights. Catch us on

1206
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: Monday for more. I love you guys, so until next time,

1207
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: thank you so much for watching. Yeah, stay frosty, bitches,