1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Hey, how are you. Everybody? Hi? It is let's see, 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: it's the fourteenth of January twenty twenty three. My name 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: is Luke Thomas. This is I guess, the official post 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: fight show Instant Reaction for UFC Vegas sixty seven. As 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: I mentioned, I'm Luke Thomas, one half of the hosting 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: duo for Morning Combat. Brian Campbell is off tonight. It'll 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: just be me here with you for a little bit. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: We'll do some results, we'll do some analysis of this card. 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: It was not a great card. We knew it wasn't 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: a great card, and it was at the Apex and 11 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks were like, is this 12 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: really the way the UFC is kicking off its ear? 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: I sort of view it as a soft opening, right, 14 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: I sort of view it as like this is obviously 15 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: not the biggest event the UFC could have done to 16 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 1: kick off the year, but you know, it got the 17 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: ball rolling and they can work out whatever they have 18 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: to work out before they get to one of the 19 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: bigger events that will be in the subsequent weeks. And 20 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: by the way, there are some stand up performances that 21 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: are worth talking about from today's card, So we'll do that, 22 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: so thumbs up on the video. If you're watching hit subscribe. 23 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: You know what, for years I've been doing the because 24 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: I've been posting this and getting the feedback. They're like, oh, 25 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: you know, why are you putting spoilers in this? And 26 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: it's like, well, it's the post fight show, like by definition, 27 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: they're spoilers in it. But okay, and then they're like, well, 28 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: it's just the title. But then he turns out it's 29 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: actually not just the title of the video, it's actually 30 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: the content and the audio. People still get better about it, 31 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: but I just don't care anymore. So if you're here, 32 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: you're here. That's the end of it, right, So let's 33 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: do this thing, shall we? Yes, and we're back. Okay, Okay, 34 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: we are not going to go super long. Usually for 35 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: these we do them after pay per views and they 36 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: go for about an hour and some change. I don't 37 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: think we're going to go that long today. I don't 38 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: think there's much of a need or frankly a demand 39 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: that we go that long here tonight. But we will 40 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: go just the same to get things started. Usually what 41 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: I'll do is I talk about the main, the comane, 42 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: then a little bit of the rest of the card 43 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: to Because this is not a typical pay per view, 44 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go a little bit differently. I will do 45 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: Man and Coman because I think those are important. I'll 46 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: do most of the main card overall. But there's a 47 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: couple other folks in the prelim card that I want 48 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: to shout out as well, that I thought had pretty 49 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: important and very good results. So we'll get to that, 50 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 1: all right. Let me pull up the notes here and 51 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: then we shall get this started, all right. So UFC 52 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: Vegas sixty seven. This was also known as UFC Fight Night. 53 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: Let's see Strickland versus Imovov. I hope I am saying 54 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: that correctly. I'm gonna make an effort at it. Of course, 55 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: it's at the Apex, which is the UFC's private facility 56 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. So here are the results. Sean Strickland 57 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 1: defeated Nasordine Imovov excuse me, Imovov forty ninety six on 58 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 1: two of the judges scorecards forty eight forty seven. Now 59 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: this is a fight where I really want to go 60 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: to the stats right away. I was not really scoring 61 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 1: this when time. I just kind of felt like by 62 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: the end of the third Imovov was a little bit. 63 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, when guys are exchanging and 64 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: there having some success, like there, he definitely landed some 65 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: good shots, but it's it's not sustained. The opponent is 66 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: able to push back on it, and then what you 67 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: see them do is resort to frankly kind of gimmicky 68 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 1: stuff where they're like throwing I mean it's someone like, yeah, 69 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: you're Rodriguez, it's not gimmicky for him. But when they 70 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: start going to spinning attacks and they're like, you know, 71 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: they're they're widely missing, and then like you know, long 72 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: box spinning back elbows and they're not even really coming close. 73 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: Imovov had some nice elbows, but they were from direct 74 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: contact in the clinch. They were not from at range, 75 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: and so we need just throwing these wild things. It's like, 76 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind that in the last minute or the 77 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: last couple of minutes of the fifth round, but he 78 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: was starting those I think much earlier, even as early 79 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: as the third, certainly within the fourth, and they were 80 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: going nowhere. And as soon as you start seeing that, 81 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: you're like, uh, they're out of ideas, they're out of ideas. 82 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: That's really that generally is what that tells you that 83 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they can't win, doesn't mean that they 84 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: won't win. But when you start seeing stuff like that, 85 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: that usually is a signal to the audience that they 86 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: are a little bit not sure what to do quite frankly, 87 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: maybe frustrated, maybe not, but just confused. Or I've tried 88 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: everything and I've got what I've gotten and now I'm 89 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: just going to start going to this stuff I don't 90 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: like it, and then it might work on lesser opponents, 91 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: you know, in sparring or on the regional scene. But 92 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: when you get to main event levels, even for you know, 93 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: this is going to be one of the lower level 94 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: UFC events that you'll see this year. But even for that, 95 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 1: Sean Strickland is a you know, what is he up to? 96 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: How many fights does Sean Strickland have? What does he 97 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: have to only nearly thirty fights? What's his record? Yes, 98 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: twenty six and five, so he's got more than thirty 99 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: pro fights. You know, this is a very experienced, decorated competitor, 100 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: and that kind of shit is just for the most part, 101 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: never going to work. It's never gonna work. So when 102 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: you see that, that's like Red Flag City. But okay, 103 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: the story of the fight. The story of the fight, 104 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: as best I can tell, was that Sean Strickland basically 105 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: took time to get his style going, but then once 106 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: he did, it was basically Imovov just didn't really know 107 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: how to counteract it. It was funny on my personal channel, 108 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: I did a live chat recently and someone asked me, like, 109 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: you know, Sean Strickland, if you just look from like 110 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: a technical boxing perspective, he makes a fair amount of 111 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: what what you would call like very foundational errors like 112 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: rearhand parrying, backing up straight, standing, very tall, and you know, 113 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff that gets him in trouble. And 114 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: it's not like those things are not necessarily true, but 115 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: like and yes he's been stopped by Pareeda and other things, 116 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: but like, why, you know, why is he able to 117 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: have success? As I mentioned twenty six and five, he 118 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: won this one on what you know, insanely short notice, 119 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 1: and he had just bought the last UFC fight of 120 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: the last part of the year and then picked this 121 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: one up. And I think he had to bump up 122 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: boy class to light heavyweight to take it. But by 123 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: virtue of how late notice, it all was like how 124 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: was he able to get away with stuff? And it 125 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: turns out like there's a couple of things that I 126 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: had mentioned, which was the quick it. He does have 127 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: quick reactions, even if it is a rear hand perry, 128 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: which by the way, is not always the worst idea, 129 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: but it's quick, and he kind of leans very quickly. 130 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: He has very quick reactions to kind of get it, 131 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: and then he stays right back in position, and then 132 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: there's the forward pressure that comes behind it. But the 133 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: other part too, that you really have to admire. It's 134 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: not like Cormier, which was much more direct wrestling to 135 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: striking transitions. It was much more intentional with the particular grabbing. 136 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: But his hand fighting, or at least his bare minimum 137 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: his hand obstruction in all of this is kind of amazing. 138 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: Like what he basically does is he bears down on 139 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: opponents through pressure. He does a lot of boxing combinations 140 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 1: to the head. He doesn't have much bodywork. How much 141 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: did he target to the body, so he only targeted 142 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: twenty two percent to the body, He targeted seventy one 143 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: percent to the head. In fact, I'd like to go 144 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: back and look at the last couple of fights against 145 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: Jared Kennoneer. How much did he target the body? He 146 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: targeted it just fifteen percent. Now the Panata fight doesn't 147 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: really count because it didn't go very far. How about Hermanson, 148 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: how many did he target to the body there? He 149 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: targeted just fifteen percent. So he went slightly more to 150 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: the body this time, but the vast majority is to 151 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: the head. And he keeps this close range and he 152 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: bears down to you and he kind of puts hands 153 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: in your face and almost if like your natural reaction 154 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: is to reach back out to put the hands up 155 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: and then to fire in that same range as well. 156 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: But then he's hand fighting or parrying or just blocking 157 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: or framing, or he's outright grabbing wrists. He just just 158 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: does ton to both pull you into the fight in 159 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: that range and then obstruct it. It's almost like you 160 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: think you're close enough to just hit him. He just 161 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: gets out of the way. He kind of blocks, he 162 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: kind of shelters, he frames a little bit, he'll grab 163 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: a wrist, grab it inside high and move out of 164 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: the way or whatever. It's all quick, but it's this 165 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: constant weaving of that style of pressure and offense, and 166 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: it pulls guys into it. I would love to see 167 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: for Imovov. Now he targeted the body thirty two percent. 168 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: Let's look at some of his previous wins and the 169 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: amount he targeted. How much did he target the body 170 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: against Buckley? So right, so we're talking about against Strickland, 171 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,679 Speaker 1: he targeted thirty two thirty two to the body. This time, 172 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: how much did he targeted? And then this is different 173 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: too because this was two extra rounds. But against Buckley 174 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: he only did seventeen percent. Interesting was this was on 175 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: the ground, so this was not gonna count. Agains Shabazi 176 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: and yeah, he only talked we targeted nine percent, but 177 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: that wouldn't count because I think he had mounted crucifix 178 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: Ian hinanchialcy about him. Let's see seventeen percent a little 179 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: bit higher. So he went even more to the body 180 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: here this time, although I think some of that was kicking. 181 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: I don't have to go back and double check. But nevertheless, 182 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: what do we have here per round? I have to 183 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: go back and look at some of these numbers. The 184 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: numbers don't really bear out this theory a little bit, unfortunately, 185 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: but it does feel like there was a lot of 186 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: how about this, There was a lot of effort. I 187 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: think paid to that space at a bare minimum. It 188 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: just occupies a lot of the attention of the opponent, 189 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: whether or not the direct targeting really leads up to that, 190 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: and so you end up having this this constant battle, 191 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: where again Cormier was much more direct about grabbing the wrists, 192 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: pulling them down, yanking them, you know, keeping his hands 193 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: up constantly in a much more direct way. This is 194 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: a little bit more subtle because Strickland's back here with 195 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: this right he's got one when he's got his one 196 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: hand up by his ear, one hand a crowding across 197 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: the midsection. He's not as Cormier where he's just almost 198 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: an upright wrestling stance. It's a little bit more boxing 199 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: centric in that way, and so he does roll with 200 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: stuff too. But part of it is, I do believe 201 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: this is to be quite true, just the amount of 202 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: hand fighting he does really makes it difficult. I think 203 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: the other part too, was I had you know, he's 204 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: really changed his style up Early on in his career, 205 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: he was doing a lot more leg kicking. You saw 206 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: some return to that a little bit a little bit here, 207 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: but more I thought the front teeps or really the 208 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: things that has become the dominant weapon of his below 209 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: the waist, so to speak, in terms of what kind 210 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,959 Speaker 1: of kicking or stomping or you know, whatever kind of 211 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: game he would have been employed. There's been a big 212 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: switch there. But really the answer for me is that 213 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: Imvov was getting pressured backwards. He had a hard time 214 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: landing in terms of setting his feet and getting the 215 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: right distance he wanted. He was kind of getting just 216 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: just inched into and overwhelmed. There was the hand fighting 217 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: that I thought constantly forces resetting. How about this Strickland 218 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: when he needed to, especially in the later rounds, especially 219 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: in that fifth maybe it was the fourth or the 220 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: fifth round, clinching, clinching and then pressing Imovov into the 221 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: fence and doing it with like double underhooks, like very 222 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: strong positions. Never really got much of it. I think 223 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: he got one takedown Sean Strickland in the in the 224 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: second round. He held it for a little while, but 225 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: in general, most of those didn't lead to much. They 226 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: didn't lead too much offense. In fact, sometimes that was 227 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: where Imovov was able to get the elbow over the top, 228 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 1: But never the less, we're talking about like what makes 229 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: Sean Strickland very effective when he is very effective. The 230 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: volume is one the stance that he kind of actually said, 231 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: the distance that he employs again, the hand fighting and everything, 232 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: the pressuring, all of that is part of it. And 233 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: I think just sort of another key to it is 234 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: he just constantly frustrates rhythm, He constantly disrupts people, He 235 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 1: constantly forces guys to start from zero and then and 236 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: all over again. There's really just a lot of that 237 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: going on. And of course I think overall overall with 238 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: you know, Podeta fight and a couple oft the ones, 239 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: notwithstanding he's hard to hit cleanly to most of these guys. 240 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: I also think that Imovov just wasn't ready in terms 241 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: of five round cardio. And when they were telling his 242 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: corner was telling Imovov, I think, but after the third round, 243 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 1: you have to take him down. I was like, good luck. 244 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: It's true that if you look at Imovov's record, the 245 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 1: two finishes that he has in the UFC, they both 246 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: come by way of a fight that went to the ground, 247 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: the Shabazi and fight and then forget the other one, 248 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: but they went they took place on the finish itself 249 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: took place on the ground. But dude Chell Strucklan's got 250 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 1: a very good takedown defense, right, that doesn't seem like 251 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 1: a great idea midway or actually say past the midway 252 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: point of a fight, like now you're like, oh, let's 253 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: just go take him down. Huh uh, that's not going 254 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: to be that's not going to be available. Really, just 255 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: you couldn't Imavov couldn't mount an offensive identity typically in 256 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: winning performances typically, and then this could obviously have a 257 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: million different caveats that you can think of, but over 258 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: the course of a five round decision, typically a winning 259 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: performance has some kind of identity around it. The winning 260 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: fighter was able to pick up on one, two, three, 261 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: four things whatever it was, meaningfully land offense in a 262 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: consistent and kind of reliable way, which leads to then 263 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: other kinds of offense which sets up other kinds of 264 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: problems and blah blah blah. But but like you can 265 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: kind of like paint a picture like what was this 266 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: person trying to do? What was successful? What did they 267 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: noodle through? And what what what can we infer from that? 268 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: There's a there's a substance there to it. With Imvov, 269 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: just there was no real offensive identity he was able 270 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: to produce Strickland's identity which the commentators were speaking to, 271 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: was very much noticeable. It was easy to detect. It 272 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: was a Sean Strickland fight by and large. He was 273 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive this time. I know there 274 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: were a lot of complaints after the Cannoneer fight. I 275 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: thought this was a better fight for him than the 276 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: Cannoneer fight. I thought this was a more entertaining fight. 277 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: The Cannoneir fight was more technical in either direction. I 278 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: think that it's probably fair to say, but stricly and 279 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: I think, you know, trying to go for it a 280 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: little bit more. His right hook early was big. He 281 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: would get Imanvov moving to his own right and he 282 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 1: would meet him with the hook. And what you would 283 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: notice that was Imalvov would not roll underneath. He would 284 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: just kind of shell up and move into it. And 285 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: he was getting greeted with it constantly. I thought that 286 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: was pretty great from Sean Strickland. He was just there 287 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: was a little bit more emphasis this time from him, 288 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: a little bit more intentionality. Some of the numbers here 289 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: for Strickland. Okay, so these are again quantitative totals, not qualitative, 290 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: but overall significant strikes. Strickland won. I mean refreshed this 291 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 1: to make sure it's the most Oh, here we go, 292 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: this is better, yes, thank you, the most up to 293 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: date numbers. I just refreshed it and fight Metric updated 294 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: it for Strickland one twenty three for Imovov. So first round, 295 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: second round. These are the updated numbers. Twenty four to nineteen, 296 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: Strickland to Imovov, twenty two to twenty two, Big round 297 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: three for Strickland forty seven to twenty four, Big Round 298 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: four fifty seven to twenty three, and then round five 299 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: thirty two to Imovov's thirty five. So he got he 300 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: got a lead in one of them, and they were 301 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: tied again numerically, not qualitatively in the second round. But 302 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: in that second round Strickland also got the takedown, with 303 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: him a minute forty nine seconds of on for whatever 304 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: that is worth. Let's look at the place where they 305 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: targeted in terms of the body. In the head, strickly 306 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: went to the head sixteen times in around one, thirteen 307 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: times in around two thirty one times in around three 308 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: forty seven in round four and twenty seven in round five. 309 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: To the body just five, eight, twelve, eight and then 310 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: five again. He was head hunting big time. In that 311 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: fifth round, but they were just kind of wildly exchanging. Again, 312 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: part of the story there for Strickland in terms of 313 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: more effort. Let's see how he looked against against Cannoneer 314 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: in that fight. We look at the numbers there, so 315 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: that much lower output one fifty two, so we have 316 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: thirty more significant strikes that landed. He attempted four hundred 317 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: and ten in that fight. Strickling attempted four hundred and twenty, 318 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: so he attempted about the same but much more got 319 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: about this, much more accurate, much more accurate, just was 320 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: able to land significantly more. That's going to be due 321 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: to probably a lot of the skill difference between Imovolv 322 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: and Kennonear. But nevertheless he was able to do that again. 323 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: So he landed one hundred and eighty two on Imo 324 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: Volv against Cannonear just one hundred and fifty two. And 325 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: then per round and see the numbers here, sixteen, thirteen, 326 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty eight he got. So this is always 327 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: the case for Strickland low level. Round one, he might 328 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: get the lead, he might not very close in round two, 329 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: and then in round three the number begins to pick 330 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: up substantially thirty five, thirty three, and then forty three 331 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: for him over down the stretch, he probably feels like 332 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: he won the last three. Interesting, Yeah, that's cannon air 333 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: very very much, reading very much, kind of laying back 334 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: right here and then when you and then when he 335 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: wants to throw, he's throwing, and then he waits, and 336 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: then the hands are up and he's grabbing, and it's 337 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: just disruptive. It's just disruptive. It's very very disruptive to 338 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: play that guy's game in that range. Dean Thomas talking 339 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: about how he just kind of forces guys to play 340 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: on that game. If guys don't have the footwork, if 341 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: they don't have the ability to get someone like Strickland 342 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: off of them right by jabbing in their face or 343 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: front kicking on their own way or just whatever whatever 344 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,160 Speaker 1: way to intercept them with wrestling, pressure make them not 345 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: want to pressure into them is really the kind of 346 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: key like somebody who can negate that or minimize that, 347 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 1: who can mitigate that that pressure that influence those are 348 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 1: gonna be the kind of guys that can beat Sean Strickland. 349 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: But if they are gonna be suspect, they're gonna be 350 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: victims of it if they don't really have a meaningful 351 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: way of getting the person off of them other than oh, 352 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: I'll just fight them. I'll just fight them in the middle. 353 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 1: I'll fight him in the clinch he's he can. Then 354 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 1: he'll tie you up and then he'll know he'll have 355 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: his hands up, wrap in yours or whatever, and then 356 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: he'll double undhook you and press you into the fence, 357 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: and then the force the reset, and then he's back 358 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: to pressuring again. It's just a very it's a very 359 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: overwhelming way to fight if you don't have some of 360 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: the other requisite ways of what are ways to repel 361 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: in a pressure fighter in that way, more, I think 362 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: much more attacks to the body have to be there. 363 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 1: I think much more attacks to the leg. You have 364 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: to have great jab you have to have good footwork, 365 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: you have to be able to be able to put 366 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: pressure on them, and imvolv just couldn't get much of 367 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: that in conjunction working together, all right, some of the 368 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 1: other results here, by the way, So where does he 369 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: go in terms of the rankings. So let's pull up 370 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: the rankings as it stands today at this moment. So 371 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: at this moment, they're doing powerslap ads on UFC dot 372 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: Com slash rankings. Yeah, great, thank you all. Good for middleweight. 373 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: So they have Sean Stricklin at seven and Iman Vov 374 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,880 Speaker 1: at twelve. This won't do much for him in the rankings. 375 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: Ahead of him is Costa, Brunson, Vittori, Kennon, ear Whittaker, 376 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: and Old Izzy. So I guess a fight against and 377 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: Vittoria is now training it extreme coutre so that that's interesting. 378 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 1: So I guess you would have to do. I think 379 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: Brunson has a fight coming up. Brunson's fighting who the 380 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 1: leads a something like that or yeah, something like that. 381 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: I have to Who is Derek Brunson. Let me see 382 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: now that I brought it up, Let's see Derek Brunson 383 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: is fighting. Excuse me, he is fighting? Uh No, Drigg 384 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 1: is Duplessy. Driggs Duplessy. That's interesting. Where's Drick has ranking ten? 385 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: So yeah, I get we'll see what He's gonna have 386 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: a tough time. I guess they could maybe do costuff. 387 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: That's nothing they can do. We'll have to see. But 388 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: it's a lot of guys probably below him, because I 389 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna get it. Also depends what 390 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: they do with Patta. It's gonna be really hard to 391 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: say Vitry. Maybe maybe I don't really don't know. All right, 392 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: let's see your next fight on the card. How about 393 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: this one? This was great at by the way, Dan 394 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: Egay defeating Damon Jackson via KO four thirteen of round 395 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: number two. This is another one that was kind of 396 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 1: like that now in the second in the sense that 397 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: one guy was much more defining the terms of the 398 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 1: fight than the other guy. Now, Damon Jackson at the 399 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: beginning of the second round came out quite well, but 400 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: Danny Gay. What you noticed from Dany Gay was I 401 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: thought he had the edge in punching power. Even though 402 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: he's a smaller guy in terms of frame. He seemed 403 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: to be like maybe the more physical of the two. 404 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: Damon Jackson was having to rotate on the outside. There 405 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: were times he was blitzing to get in there. Obviously, 406 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: there were times he wanted to get the takedown. Although 407 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: Ega got the takedown at the end of the first 408 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: which was nice and authoritative. But really what you saw 409 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: them from Ega was he kind of had to follow 410 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 1: the guy. Was he was changing stances, he was mixing 411 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 1: up looks for entries and whatnot. But really what you 412 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: saw was he was at times able to catch Jackson 413 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: rotating on the outside. But the better guys are the 414 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 1: ones who have good shot selection and good accuracy, great 415 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: combination from him, how did he do it? Jackson decided 416 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: to close the distance on him, and as he did, 417 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: he kind of double jabbed then smothered himself a little bit. 418 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: So you actually saw Ega go right to the body 419 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 1: and then left upstairs. But the reason why it landed 420 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: first was partly partly landed authoritatively won because if I 421 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: go right to the body and I pull my left 422 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: shoulder back when I when I come over the top, 423 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: it's gonna land like a you know, like a sledgehammer, 424 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: which is exactly what you saw right. So you're essentially 425 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: you could just be here and then load up like 426 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: that or whatever, or you can greet him with a jab. 427 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: He decided to greet him with a body hook to 428 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: load up the left so he could come over the top. 429 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: But the other part was he beat him on the timing. 430 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: If you watch carefully, Egay threw and landed the right 431 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: just prior to fully damon Jackson being able to set 432 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: his feet and throw, and because he had thrown the 433 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: right and then he was going to be first coming 434 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: with his left. He was actually on the inside of 435 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: the punch of Jackson, so he got to the target 436 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: just quicker. But if you notice, he was kind of 437 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: having a head down like this, and Jackson was about 438 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: to throw a rear hand uppercut, but he just got 439 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,719 Speaker 1: beat because the timing. Ega was just a little bit 440 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: ahead of him in the timing and was selling it 441 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: by kind of looking down. He wasn't waiting for it, 442 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: and then just kind of touching to the body so 443 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 1: he could obviously meet him up there. He was looking 444 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 1: like I'm gonna go to the body like almost he 445 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: was gonna stay down there keeping his head down, which 446 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: drew the uppercut. But that's what drew the end of 447 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: the fight. That's just great work from Danny Gay. Great work. 448 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: And you know you heard him that very very emotional 449 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: postfight sort of interview speech that he gave where he 450 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,479 Speaker 1: is detailing how hard it's been to lose and then 451 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: to get up day after day after day, to find purpose, 452 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: to find belief that you can actually get back out 453 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: there and you can do this and you can win. 454 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: It's been very difficult for him and setting then example 455 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: for his son, Man, I can believe all that, I 456 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 1: can't believe all that. That was a sensational win. Now I 457 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: don't know what that does for him in terms of 458 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: the rankings. The story of this fight we had talked 459 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: about it in a morning combat was Dannya was a 460 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 1: guy who in the last couple of years really kind 461 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: of you know, I want to see what he was 462 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: made of, Like he really made a push through the 463 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: top of that division and kind of came up short 464 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: against the ones who were the very, very best, the 465 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: cream of the crop there. Gave some of them very 466 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 1: good fights, but in the end, you know, a little 467 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: bit short. But he obviously is very skilled, very powerful, 468 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: you know, and he black belt in jiu jitsu, trains 469 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: it a good team, like, really works on his craft. 470 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: Like it's a guy you should take seriously, and uh, 471 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: you know, he couldn't beat the very best guys at 472 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: the top of the division, but he wasn't done. He's 473 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: still young. There's time to get better, make a second 474 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: push at it, see what you can do. And this 475 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: was part of maintaining that belief that here's a guy 476 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: who on the right night, with some work on his 477 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: craft and everything else, like he can he can beat 478 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: he can he can beat good fighters. And Damon Jackson 479 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: is a guy who you know, washed out of the 480 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: UFC and had a long journey back and it had 481 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: really come to life. Not through this style of fighting. 482 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: He's much more hands on, grapple, get on top, transitioned, 483 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,439 Speaker 1: you know, that kind of thing. He's a little bit 484 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: more of that, that style of fighter. But you know, 485 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: he really wanted he wanted to get the push that 486 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: Ega had had had. He wanted that. He wanted like, 487 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: I want my shot at that. He both both of 488 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: these guys had experienced redemption. Jackson was sort of still 489 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: on that tour and they kind of met at a 490 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: moment where it was like who's coming or going here? 491 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: That was a great win for dan Egay to, like, 492 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: I think, you know, remind folks when he's capable of 493 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: remind him that. I think it'd be very foolish to say, well, 494 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: we saw him against the top and that's that he is. 495 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: Let me see how old Dan Egay is. Danny Gay 496 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: is thirty one. He's thirty one now. Of course he's 497 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: had some tough fights, right. He lost consecutively to Chan Sung, 498 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: John Josh Emmett and Mosarvloev like those are you know, 499 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: and by the way, and Calvin Cator we talked about 500 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: it some morning combat as well. None of those guys 501 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: could finish him, right, So he lost all those via decision. 502 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: And I just want to point this out, like loses 503 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: to Cater fights, Gavin Tucker KO round one, loses those 504 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 1: three fights fights Damon Jackson's KO round two. Like, clearly 505 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: he's better than a certain level of featherweight. Now there's 506 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: a big question about how far he can actually go, 507 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: you know, and that this first major crack at it, 508 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 1: it didn't go well. But thirty one years of age. 509 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: You look at all the improvement he's made already. You 510 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: just look at some of the physical tools that he's got, 511 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: some of the other pieces of the puzzle that I've mentioned. 512 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,439 Speaker 1: There's good reason to believe in him. There's good reason 513 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: to believe, you know. Again, how far can he go? 514 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. My only point is we shouldn't be 515 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: slamming the door shut on him. How far he goes 516 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: is really up to him, up to him, and obviously 517 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: the rest of his com I mean, this is very 518 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: much unwritten but I like his game. I like some 519 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,239 Speaker 1: of the specificity of the things he can do. I 520 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: like his accuracy. I like his subterfuge in terms of 521 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: how he sets things up, you know, selling it with 522 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: the eyes and that's the real pinpoint timing of it. 523 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: That's nice, man, that's good work. That's high level stuff. 524 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 1: Putting more of that together I think would do him 525 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: a lot of favors. There also is a question about 526 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: at one forty five how he physically matches up with 527 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: like the Caters, the Emmetts. There is a bit of 528 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 1: a question long term, like those guys do seem to 529 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: be physically ahead of him in ways. I don't know 530 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: how much of that bridge can be gapped. Excuse me, 531 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: how much of that gap can be bridged? Excuse me? 532 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 1: But skill for skill, he's not done. He's not done 533 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: at all. That was a nice win and a walk 534 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 1: off KO two. I know some folks are like, oh, 535 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: he wasn't done. Guys, he was done. You didn't see 536 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: him protest and like, the rule is not knocking somebody 537 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: unconscious like that obviously is a very clean and forthright 538 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: way to do it. That's obviously great. If you can 539 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 1: do that, you don't have to do that. That's not 540 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: a rule. The rule is not they're done when they 541 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: are no longer, you know, when it looks like they're 542 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 1: on anesthesia. That doesn't that that does. That's not how 543 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: this works. What works is that he kind of fell 544 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: back and didn't really motion to cover or to roll. 545 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: He just kind of laid there, right, And so, yeah, 546 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: he's breathing and he's like there in the sense that 547 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 1: he's awake, but he's not in any kind of combat 548 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: ready position after getting physically dropped, like he's done, he's done. 549 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,959 Speaker 1: He's just he's laying there. You know. That's an easy call. 550 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 1: That was a good call. I don't have any issue 551 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: with that call whatsoever. All Right. I didn't really go 552 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,400 Speaker 1: to the stats on that fight because I don't really care. 553 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: Uh okay, going down the line here, because I want 554 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 1: to get to some of these other ones. How about 555 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 1: Roman Kopylov. If he didn't put a Haley Soriano at 556 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: three nineteen of the second round, we'd be a bodykicks 557 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 1: some punches, dude. Kopylov's jab was firing like a piston 558 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: in that first round. I couldn't believe it. He was 559 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: getting hit with some big shots. It wasn't like he 560 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 1: wasn't but in general, he was just pumping that jab 561 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,479 Speaker 1: over and over and over again. He's laying some good 562 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,679 Speaker 1: leg kicks, he was laying some good bodykicks. But the 563 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: big real key to it is how does he stop 564 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: him in the end. By the second round, he discovers 565 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 1: he can land to the body with hard bodykicks. And 566 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: Soriano must be, i mean, other worldly tough because he 567 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: sat there and ate those like they were not a 568 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: big deal. And I know they must have been a 569 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: big deal. And he fought on for a little bit, 570 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: then he ate more of it. And there's only so 571 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,120 Speaker 1: much a human being could take. But what's the sort 572 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 1: of key to this story with Roman Copylov here? This 573 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: is the middleweight fight. You know, he's jabbing, he's jabbing, 574 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,439 Speaker 1: he's jabbing, he's jabbing, and Soriano is not like a 575 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: slip encounter guy. Soriano's like a high guard. Kind of 576 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: get in range with my high guard and then kind 577 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 1: of you know, bruise forward with punches and Doune switching 578 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: stands to cover distance. Right, But it's a high guard type. 579 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit behind us I'm gonna catch punches on 580 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: the edge of the forearms or whatever, and so Copylov 581 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: was like, sweet, great to Southpaws, No problem, right, I'm 582 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna eat this guy alive. He's gonna have 583 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: his liver is actually closer to me, So you can 584 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: get more power when it's open stance, but if it's 585 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: this way or this way, it's closer to you. So yeah, 586 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: tore him up with it, tore him to pieces with 587 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: a liverkick that he just could only handle so many times. 588 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: But what set it up was the guard comes up, 589 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: which transfers defense. Now there's no defense below my elbows, 590 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: and it's not like he's moving. He's kind of stationary 591 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: with his feet, so boom, there it is. Again. There's 592 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: nothing really right. Excuse me, there's a lot of things right. 593 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,719 Speaker 1: There's nothing really wrong with a lot of different ways 594 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: to defend a strike. People always ask like, what's the 595 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: you know this guy does X, or this guy does 596 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: why is that right or that wrong? Well, it's all 597 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: in many ways, I should say, not all, but in 598 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: many ways it's very context dependent. You know, Slipping punches 599 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: is I think, very very valuable in many ways. Probably 600 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: a little bit more valuable than just having a guard up, 601 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: but just having a guard up can be hugely valuable, 602 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: can be hugely effective both as a way to catch 603 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: punches and as a way to like cheat your way 604 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: into range like alxembdra Volkonowski does. Like there's there's not 605 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: a right or wrong answer. So we're talking about, like, oh, 606 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: Soriano had defense like this, Well, catching punches that way 607 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: is fine. It's just that you would like to see 608 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: that it combined with other forms, Like he's got to 609 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: be on his feet a little bit more. I do 610 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: think slipping should be a little bit more in the 611 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: main event. Yeah, you know what's funny. Last week you 612 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: saw Jervonte Davis against Hector Luis Garcia, him and Jeron Ennis. 613 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: Here come the punches. They would turn and then the 614 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: punches would kind of go by like that when they 615 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: would turn. You saw a little bit of that from 616 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: a mov Off tonight. A little bit of that, a 617 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: little bit of that. You know, he wasn't obviously as 618 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: slick as as a pro boxer would be. But my 619 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: point being is the more you can begin to incorporate 620 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: all of these other elements, the more it gives you 621 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: choices about how to build a game plan or what 622 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: tool you might need for any individual opponent or any 623 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: individual context. When you have a sort of a more 624 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 1: singular style of defense, and there's nothing wrong with having, 625 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: you know, like things you prefer to do than others, 626 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: no matter almost a context. I think even that is okay. 627 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: But if you've got a guy who's been going to 628 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: the botom let's look at the copy of law. I'm 629 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: not sure what the tape says on him. I'm actually 630 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: i'd be interested to see that. Let's take a look 631 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: at that. So Copylov in this fight, how much did Yeah, 632 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: I mean, look at this, Soriano targeted the boty the 633 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: head excuse me? Eighty nine percent eighty nine head hunting. 634 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 1: You know, how about this? For that's interesting Copylov. They 635 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: don't have the targeting broken down by round. That part 636 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: kills me because they only have copylov as going seventeen 637 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: percent of the body, fourteen percent of the live to 638 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: the legs, sixty eight percent to the head in round two. Yeah, 639 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: here we go. How about this? Okay to the body 640 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: in round one, Copylov four of four in the body 641 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: round too, ten of eleven. The only difference is that 642 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: he went to the head a fair amount thirty four 643 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: of fifty two in round two, and then he went 644 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: to the leg three of three. He went to the 645 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: to the leg nine of nine. So active with the 646 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: leg kicks. Copylov was in the first dialed it back 647 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 1: and then used those to go more. And that's all 648 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: the part of it, too, right, It's not just that 649 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: I'm putting this in your face and then the guard 650 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: comes up. He was, you know, mixing and kicks. So 651 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: it's hard to tell you didn't know they were going 652 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: to come to the body because they never really did before. 653 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 1: I mean a few of them did, right, but some 654 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: of those punches whatever, I'm just pointing out, you're mixing 655 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: and all these other things, giving them something else to 656 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: think about. Now it's light kicks and then you dial 657 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: back and then raise the elevation. They don't know what's coming. 658 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: Boom hits them right in the midsection. It's nasty. It's nasty. 659 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: That is good work, good work from Roman copy of 660 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: Love Let me see. So his breakdown was head body 661 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: leg sixty eight, seventeen fourteen, sixty eight seventeen fourteen, so 662 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: against Alessio Dicarico, What was it, Yeah, interesting seventy four 663 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: fifteen ten, not too much of a radical departure. And 664 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: then against Albert Dreyah, he lost that fight. What was 665 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: in him for there again? Seventy one, sixteen eleven, not 666 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: too dissimilar. And then against Carl Roberson, same thing, what 667 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: was it for him? Way different fifty one, forty to eight. 668 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: I'd have to go back and revisit that fight to 669 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: remember Roman Copulaw versus Carl Robson, but nevertheless a good 670 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,239 Speaker 1: win by him. Okay, moving down the card here, this 671 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 1: was a big one. Raquel Pennington defeating Kaitlyn Vieira via 672 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: a split decision twenty nine to twenty eight. This was 673 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: a very, very closely contested fight. Early in the first 674 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: the first round that like Vieira's round to me, her 675 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: jab was on point and you just saw like Pennington 676 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: had a hard time closing the distance, a hard time, 677 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: just couldn't find her and you saw her switch dancing 678 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: her way in. It just wasn't there for her, not 679 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: in the first round. And then when they locked up, 680 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: it just looked to me like Vieira was a little 681 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: bit stronger, so I was like man, the physicality is there, 682 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: like the jab is there. It's gonna be a long 683 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: night for Penton. But by round two, different story. And 684 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 1: she was able to find her way in there. And 685 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: part of it was like kicking, she was able to do. 686 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 1: Part of it was body punching. Let's pull up some 687 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: of the numbers for her if we can't. Yeah. But 688 00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: by the by round two, and especially by round three, 689 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: you saw that Vieira begin to get flat footed. That 690 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: was the big key. Vieia got flat footed. And when 691 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: she got flat footed, and she remember Vieena is not 692 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: a slipper as well, she's very much the handscome up. 693 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 1: She does not move her head hardly at all, so 694 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: she is relying upon trunk movement, catching or her feet 695 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: to get out of it. And there's not a whole 696 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: lot else she can do. Right, she wasn't using her feet, 697 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,879 Speaker 1: and so Pennington was able to just get right into range. 698 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,879 Speaker 1: That opened up her boxing, That opened up her drive 699 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: to the clinch. Even when she was kind of out 700 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: muscled in the clinch, I thought she was like craftier 701 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: in the clinch. She was the one doing better damage, 702 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: even though she was kind of being corralled and controlled. 703 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: She was just much better. She was just much better 704 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,279 Speaker 1: in that particular space. So overall striking differences eighty one 705 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 1: to sixty four. Again, these are quantitative, not qualitative totals. 706 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,839 Speaker 1: Pennington going forty five thirty nine, fourteen. In terms of head, 707 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: body leg breakdown, let me see here overall, first round 708 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,399 Speaker 1: landed more, Second round she landed more Pennington. Third round 709 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 1: she outland She numerically outstruck her in all three rounds. 710 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: But again the difference there with the like the quality 711 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,239 Speaker 1: of them in the first round in particular, I thought 712 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: made a big difference in terms of the placement of 713 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,319 Speaker 1: her strikes. Yeah, this is interesting. She landed nine to 714 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: the body in round one, eleven in round two, twelve 715 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: in round three, so she went more and more to 716 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,280 Speaker 1: the body. I think some of that was to them 717 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 1: from those clinch positions, right for your clinch. Yeah, twenty 718 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 1: seven percent of her offense was in the clinch, nearly 719 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,640 Speaker 1: thirty percent, so more than one out of every four 720 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:43,840 Speaker 1: here obviously four Raquel Pennington. In terms of where she landed, 721 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: where she did some of her best work, Yeah, a 722 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: lot of it was to the hedge. But you know what, 723 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,759 Speaker 1: This is the interesting part. Vieira's offense kind of fell 724 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,399 Speaker 1: off a little bit in the first round fifteen, second, 725 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: round ten, So I know I picked back up in 726 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: the third. That's not quite right. Actually, actually it was 727 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,800 Speaker 1: at Pennington who dropped off in the third. Excuse me, 728 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: I misread the numbers there. It was actually she began 729 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: to head hunt a little bit more. But in general, 730 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,279 Speaker 1: in general, uh just stayed a little bit busier, a 731 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 1: little bit, just a little bit busier. And let me 732 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 1: go to the leg here for Raquel Pennington. She landed 733 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 1: four or five leg kicks in round one, four four 734 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,879 Speaker 1: leg kicks in round two, four or four leg kicks 735 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,280 Speaker 1: in round three. Now Vieira landed more nine of nine 736 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 1: in round two, but nevertheless it seemed like it had 737 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 1: more of a pronounced effect on Vienna. She just wasn't moving, dude. 738 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: What if she's moving and she's slipping. If she could 739 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,120 Speaker 1: move and punch and slip, man, she would be terrifying. 740 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 1: But it's she's got to make trade offs the way 741 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,440 Speaker 1: she she punches and the way she carries her stance. 742 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: And once she became stationary, Pennington was off to the races. 743 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,839 Speaker 1: She's by the way. This won't mean about Pennington, dude, 744 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: Like this is who Paynington has fought in the UFC 745 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,320 Speaker 1: man Roxane Motafa, Roota Fair, excuse me, just Gonerage, Ashley 746 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: Evans Smith, Holly Holm just gone Drodge. She would just 747 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 1: gone Dorodge fucking twice and then subbed her out one time. 748 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 1: It's just insane. Betch go hey, Elizabeth Phillips, Misha Tate, 749 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 1: Amanda Nunez, Jermaine Deranda, me Irene Aldona, Holly Holm, Marion Renault, 750 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: Panny key On, Zad Macy Chasten. I think, is how 751 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:19,960 Speaker 1: you saying? Fuck me if I keep getting that one wrong? 752 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 1: Aspin Ladd and then Kaitlyn Viere. Dude, she has fought 753 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,440 Speaker 1: a fucking murderer's row. Where was the Amanda Noons fight? 754 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: Did they mention at some point? I think I did, Uh, 755 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: you know, a murderer's row with tough fights and injuries 756 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 1: and everything else. But she is like she has seen 757 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,040 Speaker 1: all different kinds of looks from all different kinds of 758 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 1: opponents in all different times of a fight. She's just 759 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 1: gonna know how to She's gonna steal rounds from me. Man, 760 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,839 Speaker 1: She's gonna steal if you let her be busier. If 761 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: you have a stand up clinch fight with Raquel Pennington 762 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: and you let her numerically outstrike you, Like, just let 763 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,799 Speaker 1: her be a little bit busier, let her find a 764 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: few more opportunities to score. She's gonna steal the rounds. 765 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: She's gonna steal the rounds. She's just clever enough to 766 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,840 Speaker 1: know exis exactly what she needs to win and to 767 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,719 Speaker 1: push the fight just far enough to get it. And 768 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 1: that's exactly what you saw. Clever, clever, clever. She knew 769 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,840 Speaker 1: she had to get it in close, beat him up 770 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,279 Speaker 1: a little bit, slow him down a little bit, make 771 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,399 Speaker 1: him work a little bit, and then once you did 772 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,800 Speaker 1: take over from there. That's really nice work from her. 773 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what else to say about this, dude. 774 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 1: Umar and Numergamdov defeating hyone but Warcelos via Ko and 775 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 1: four forty of round four Ladies and gentlemen, Umar Nurmagamdov 776 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 1: is a fucking hammer. He's a hammer. He's a hammer 777 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:40,799 Speaker 1: and a half. I mean, wow, I don't even have 778 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 1: the numbers on this fight. Let me just say this 779 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,279 Speaker 1: about him, Like, how did he do this? Boy? He's 780 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,319 Speaker 1: got he's he's crafty. So what he ends up doing 781 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,480 Speaker 1: is he's got all these different looks that he gives you, 782 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,160 Speaker 1: and he goes leg kicks to the inside, leg kicks 783 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: to the outside, and then that almost kind of looks 784 00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,839 Speaker 1: like his sidekick, but not quite. They're kind of set 785 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: up a little bit, which almost kind of looks like 786 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,759 Speaker 1: his bodykick, which is a little bit different. And then, 787 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,359 Speaker 1: by the way, he has a front kick, and did 788 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,520 Speaker 1: you notice something. He starts it to the body and 789 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,879 Speaker 1: then it goes a little bit higher as the fight 790 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: goes on, so he begins to relocate it. And every 791 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,359 Speaker 1: time he's throwing it, what reaction is he getting? Did 792 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,560 Speaker 1: he get exactly the right distance? What did he learn 793 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,920 Speaker 1: about this exchange? And he begins to put it all together, right, So, okay, 794 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,400 Speaker 1: so this I can throw this one under this context 795 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 1: and that works here. When he moves this way, whatever 796 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: he's looking for, he begins to realize what the reactions 797 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,839 Speaker 1: are to the various similar looking strikes that he throws are. 798 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: And then he'll weave a punch in there and see 799 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 1: what happens, right, And he'll do when he switched dances 800 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,040 Speaker 1: too a little bit, which is how he got him 801 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,720 Speaker 1: on this one. He switched stance and then the punch 802 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,719 Speaker 1: came behind it and he tried to throw something else, 803 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,520 Speaker 1: and it didn't even matter at that point. But here's 804 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,239 Speaker 1: what I'm trying to point out. When he's throwing all 805 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: those kicks and then begin to weave the punch, once 806 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:57,000 Speaker 1: he begins to weave in the patterns right where, once 807 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,560 Speaker 1: he's he's landed the inside leg kick, the outside the kick, 808 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,799 Speaker 1: the the the the location of the front kick is 809 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: going higher. Once he begins to like put those together 810 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,480 Speaker 1: in a pattern, it's all downhill from there. When he's 811 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:17,160 Speaker 1: throwing them single strikes or maybe one two, he's just testing, 812 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,239 Speaker 1: he's just gathering. I mean, if those land, great, but 813 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: like he's not expecting them to, you know, not cleanly anyway, right, 814 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 1: he wants to keep you honest with him, But they're not. 815 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,040 Speaker 1: Those are not the home runs he's looking for. But 816 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: once he starts putting those together where he's disguising one, 817 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,960 Speaker 1: then it comes from this angle, then I'll put another 818 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 1: strike behind it, and then another strike behind that, or 819 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,560 Speaker 1: you know, whatever the case. Like, all the different permutations 820 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:42,760 Speaker 1: of what he can do when he begins to stack 821 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,680 Speaker 1: those on top of each other in succession, through combination, 822 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:51,319 Speaker 1: often through distance. The fight win downhill immediately immediately. Barcelo's 823 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,279 Speaker 1: was was what we had had nothing for him like, 824 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,440 Speaker 1: and the fact that he could do it that quickly. 825 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: By the way, Barcelos has how many fights? Cellos is 826 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,840 Speaker 1: thirty five years old and has more than twenty pro fights. 827 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:10,759 Speaker 1: And he got dissected. He got diagnosed and then dissected 828 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:21,000 Speaker 1: and finished off in under a round. Shit, feel sorry 829 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,520 Speaker 1: for the guy who has to fight him next. Feel 830 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,839 Speaker 1: sorry for you already, Bro. I don't even know who 831 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 1: you are, but I feel terrible for you because you're 832 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:34,120 Speaker 1: not gonna win, almost certainly not gonna win. That fucking 833 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,319 Speaker 1: guy is good. Let me look at his numbers, man, 834 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: I've actually never looked up his overall stats. I bet 835 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,200 Speaker 1: they're sick. Let's see what old umar number Gamadov has 836 00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:51,919 Speaker 1: for us, man, let's see fuck me? Are you shitting me? Good? Lord? 837 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,839 Speaker 1: Listen to this strikes landed per minute four point thirty five. 838 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,600 Speaker 1: Let me tell you that is above average okay, as 839 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 1: well above average strikes ob sore per minute zero point 840 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: three seven. This dude's positive differential is nearly four. I 841 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:11,799 Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever seen anything like that, I've 842 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,840 Speaker 1: seen a positive differential when it's four. When it was 843 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,400 Speaker 1: like justin Gaechee and it was like, you know, crazy 844 00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,760 Speaker 1: amount landing but also taking crazy damage. This is landing 845 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:25,360 Speaker 1: on a high clip and taking virtually nothing. Striking accuracy 846 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,560 Speaker 1: seventy percent, that's high. That's usually around forty high forties, 847 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:34,200 Speaker 1: you know, between forty five and fifty. Striking defense eighty 848 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,959 Speaker 1: five percent. Yeah, he's hard to hit. Takedown average per 849 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:46,080 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. You're ready for this five shit taking. That 850 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:53,000 Speaker 1: accuracy is always low because uh because they're just chaining 851 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 1: it together, so they you know, you'll miss on half 852 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,320 Speaker 1: of them, but it doesn't matter. And they say it 853 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,680 Speaker 1: takedown defense is zero. I don't quite understand that. Uh, 854 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 1: no one's ever taken him down, so wouldn't have taken 855 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,600 Speaker 1: on defense be one hundred percent. He's never been taken down, 856 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,080 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say it's one hundred percent. I don't 857 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,719 Speaker 1: quite understand how they have zero there. But and then 858 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,680 Speaker 1: submission average, Dude, that is one of the most insane 859 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,719 Speaker 1: stat lines you're gonna see. Ohwen, by the way, undefeated, 860 00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:23,440 Speaker 1: If that I mean that dude is just a problem. 861 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,640 Speaker 1: Good lord, I mean that is nuts. And look look 862 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,000 Speaker 1: listen to how well he mixes it. This is his targeting, right. 863 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,319 Speaker 1: It is fifty five percent to the head, thirty three 864 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,359 Speaker 1: percent to the body, eleven percent to the legs. Right. 865 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,080 Speaker 1: So he's touching you everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. No, he's got 866 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,720 Speaker 1: places he likes more than others. But he's he's hitting 867 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,080 Speaker 1: you in every side to side, up, down. And then 868 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,520 Speaker 1: when he begins to put the combinations together, when he 869 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,359 Speaker 1: begins to weave two two, three things together, three four 870 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:56,759 Speaker 1: things together, this will rap Homeie. It's over for you. 871 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:02,080 Speaker 1: It's over for you. Good god. He is talented. Anyway, 872 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,720 Speaker 1: he switched dance through combination. I think he faked Eiln 873 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,839 Speaker 1: switched danced, and I think he hit him with a 874 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,240 Speaker 1: left right hook. I can't remember hit him with the hook. 875 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,520 Speaker 1: The follow up didn't even need to be there. He 876 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,399 Speaker 1: went and tried to finish him off with a hammer fist, 877 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,320 Speaker 1: you know, I think out of instinct. And then realizing 878 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:22,279 Speaker 1: that that the guy was done, Holy shit, Holy shit, 879 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,080 Speaker 1: that is a stat line and a half. That dude 880 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:29,400 Speaker 1: is he ranked. If he's not ranked, they are completely 881 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,759 Speaker 1: fucking up. These rankings. So this was bantawait. Oh he's right, 882 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,400 Speaker 1: he's ranking number eleven. Yeah, dude, So here's who's ahead 883 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:41,400 Speaker 1: of him, Ricky Simone, Yeah, I'd be awesome. Pedro Muno's okay, 884 00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:49,279 Speaker 1: song ya dong sure, Dominic Cruz at seven, Rob Font Yeah, dude, 885 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,359 Speaker 1: any of these, any of these, but if they want 886 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,799 Speaker 1: to do Simone or you know, like who's the guy 887 00:44:54,840 --> 00:45:02,399 Speaker 1: to beat Morob? Yo Mass? Morob is a very tough 888 00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:03,920 Speaker 1: guy to fight. Like you saw what he did to 889 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,799 Speaker 1: Aldo give him Umar. See what happens. That's a bad 890 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:12,920 Speaker 1: fight for Morob. That's a good fight for Umar. Dude, 891 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,480 Speaker 1: he's fighting for gold, if not this year or the next. 892 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:17,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I don't know what to 893 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,239 Speaker 1: tell you that dude. That dude is fighting for a 894 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:28,320 Speaker 1: title relatively soon. Like he's he's he's stupid talented. Okay, 895 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,600 Speaker 1: let's se If you have any questions, I'll get to them. 896 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any. I don't know if 897 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:42,800 Speaker 1: there are, We'll see just a few. Someone's saying it 898 00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,000 Speaker 1: was weird betting before the Flick fight. I haven't heard anything. 899 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,920 Speaker 1: What about Jones versus Gone? Did you guys see this, 900 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,720 Speaker 1: so an ad went up on out the T mobile 901 00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,960 Speaker 1: arena has this giant like screen outside of it, and 902 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,839 Speaker 1: there there was an ad for a UFC two eighty 903 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,480 Speaker 1: five John Jones versus Cyril Gone and apparently, according to 904 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,400 Speaker 1: Steven Mora fighting that that was premature and what the 905 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,600 Speaker 1: deal's not done. But then John Jones has a video 906 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,359 Speaker 1: in Henry Sojudo's channel where he basically announces that this 907 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,279 Speaker 1: is happening, or at least says it's happening. He doesn't 908 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,440 Speaker 1: really announce it, and he says it's serial Gain, Like 909 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,239 Speaker 1: he doesn't even say the guy's name, right, so it 910 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,279 Speaker 1: seems like it's happening. And an old who who was 911 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,799 Speaker 1: who was giving me shit on Michael Kassa was giving 912 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,840 Speaker 1: me shit on Twitter because I was like, listen, I 913 00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,880 Speaker 1: have I'm I'm being purely speculative here, like one speculative. 914 00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:32,000 Speaker 1: But you know, we have documented numerous times on the record. 915 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,680 Speaker 1: This is a fact. We know that the UFC has 916 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,600 Speaker 1: at times, for reasons you can only ask them, released 917 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,279 Speaker 1: news to the public about a fight being official when 918 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,920 Speaker 1: it never was official, in order to put pressure on 919 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,120 Speaker 1: the folks to sign to fight it. Like that's a 920 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,680 Speaker 1: thing that has happened multiple times, documented with evidence, So 921 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,120 Speaker 1: is it that crazy to think that that was released 922 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,120 Speaker 1: in some kind of way? And then all of this, 923 00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:56,560 Speaker 1: by the way, the tweet that he put out by 924 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,880 Speaker 1: Zero Gone, like, does the UFC ask certain guys to 925 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,439 Speaker 1: do things like that? I don't know about this particular case, 926 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:02,799 Speaker 1: but have I heard that in the past, Yes, of 927 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,240 Speaker 1: course I have, you know, to put pressure on guys. 928 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,280 Speaker 1: So is it part of a pressure campaign against Francis 929 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,560 Speaker 1: and Ganu? Only time will tell. But if the consolation 930 00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,839 Speaker 1: prize is Cyril Gone and John Jones, I'll take that. 931 00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,680 Speaker 1: I'll take that. Oh, Dana just announced that the post 932 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,120 Speaker 1: fight presser, Well, all that's up in smoke. Then fine, 933 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:30,000 Speaker 1: there you go. That's a sick fight. That's a sick fight. 934 00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,000 Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that later. I'll make a separate 935 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,040 Speaker 1: video for that later, I suppose. But yeah, that's great. 936 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,440 Speaker 1: I mean, we don't really know what to make of 937 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,680 Speaker 1: John Jones anyway. I stand by that it's fair to 938 00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,200 Speaker 1: be speculative, although in this case the speculation turns out 939 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:50,480 Speaker 1: is unwarranted ultimately, But nevertheless, if they're going to make 940 00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,880 Speaker 1: that fight and that is actually official now, then I 941 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,160 Speaker 1: guess we have to ask what happened with Francis. I 942 00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,560 Speaker 1: guess we have to ask. I'd have to hear what 943 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,839 Speaker 1: Dana had saying. I don't have enough information to really 944 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:07,120 Speaker 1: make a sound opinion about it. If Jones versus Gone 945 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,200 Speaker 1: is actually for the undisputed heavyweight title, what happens with Francis? 946 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,480 Speaker 1: I really don't know. I guess they script him. I 947 00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,879 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I don't have any I'm 948 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,200 Speaker 1: working with very limited information here. Who did the most 949 00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:25,239 Speaker 1: to raise their stock after tonight's fights? Umar and nimergermanoff? Okay, 950 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,520 Speaker 1: Danna just said that Francis is a free agent? Okay, 951 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,120 Speaker 1: and with stroke Jesus Okay, now I have more information. 952 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,680 Speaker 1: Dana just said Francis is a free agent and was 953 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,680 Speaker 1: stripped of his title. How damaging is that for the 954 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,440 Speaker 1: UFC brand? Isn't it crazy that the heavyweight and light 955 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:44,040 Speaker 1: heavyweight belts are both vacant at the moment? Wow? Boy, 956 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:53,120 Speaker 1: that has a lot to take in. So Francis is 957 00:48:53,120 --> 00:49:02,239 Speaker 1: going to play the free agent market? Huh aw, that's big. 958 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,200 Speaker 1: Let me see if anyone texted me about this news, 959 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:16,520 Speaker 1: because usually they do. Sorry, I know, I'm live on air. Okay, 960 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,440 Speaker 1: let's think about that for a second. So on the 961 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,399 Speaker 1: John Jones side, it would have been better to see 962 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,200 Speaker 1: him fight Francis, this overwhelming, terrifying force who had beaten 963 00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,239 Speaker 1: Cyril Gone in his last fight, although it had been 964 00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,680 Speaker 1: out for some time with mcl or acl injury. Yet 965 00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,160 Speaker 1: John Jones had been off for a huge amount of 966 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:34,640 Speaker 1: time that is now gone. They have stripped him and 967 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,960 Speaker 1: he is no longer So there's a big question of like, 968 00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:38,920 Speaker 1: would he go to PFL, would he go to Bellator? 969 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,239 Speaker 1: Is he going to try and box Deontay Wilder? Is 970 00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,680 Speaker 1: he going to try and box Andy Ruiz? Is he 971 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,560 Speaker 1: going to try and box Tyson Fury? What is going 972 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,880 Speaker 1: to happen with that? Is it a bad look that 973 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:56,000 Speaker 1: they stripped him? Well, in some sense, yes, you would 974 00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:00,239 Speaker 1: always want that title handing over process to be more 975 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,239 Speaker 1: linear and to just lose your champ like this to 976 00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,200 Speaker 1: free agency is not great in the sense that I 977 00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,400 Speaker 1: think fans will be disappointed. But at the same time, 978 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,680 Speaker 1: if the overall balance of how many of the bigger 979 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,000 Speaker 1: names they control hasn't shifted, then I don't know how 980 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,680 Speaker 1: much long term consequence there will be. That said, if 981 00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:23,680 Speaker 1: Francis were to join the PFL and get fifty percent 982 00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,359 Speaker 1: of this revenue and they could find an opponent where 983 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,680 Speaker 1: they could actually sell this and he could make a 984 00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:32,120 Speaker 1: reasonable amount of money, then yeah, you could do something 985 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,719 Speaker 1: with that. I suppose that would actually be big for him. Like, 986 00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,719 Speaker 1: on the one hand, there's something great potential here. There 987 00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,359 Speaker 1: is this potentially great return of John Jones, and could 988 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,040 Speaker 1: he be something special at heavyweight. There's obviously that's part 989 00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:46,399 Speaker 1: of it. On the other side, there is another sort 990 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,120 Speaker 1: of different kind of greatness where Francis has left the 991 00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,279 Speaker 1: UFC and is going to fight either boxers that he's 992 00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,239 Speaker 1: not good enough to be or PFL guys he's way 993 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,680 Speaker 1: better than but can make big money doing that in 994 00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,359 Speaker 1: what other other way? That does begin to rese set 995 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,960 Speaker 1: the market a little bit, Like it's all of these things, 996 00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,080 Speaker 1: Nate Diaz doing it, France is doing it, you know, 997 00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:12,080 Speaker 1: bigger names using leverage from contracts that were possible only 998 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:16,680 Speaker 1: because of the lawsuit the collective the collective lawsuit that 999 00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:20,560 Speaker 1: is happening for former fighters forcing the UFC to then 1000 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,880 Speaker 1: put these provisions in their contract. Now you're beginning to 1001 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:26,799 Speaker 1: see those provisions bearing fruit with big stars who still 1002 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,719 Speaker 1: have pay per view names leaving the company. Can they 1003 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,600 Speaker 1: get enough of that to matter? Can those guys actually 1004 00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:36,480 Speaker 1: find a lucrative afterlife therein? Can they can enough of 1005 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,760 Speaker 1: them do it where this really begins to change the market. 1006 00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:41,480 Speaker 1: No one really knows. We really have to see that's 1007 00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,839 Speaker 1: really what this is all about. Those are the two 1008 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,359 Speaker 1: things I'd be paying a lot of the three things 1009 00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,960 Speaker 1: I'd be paying attention to, the third being Conceirale Gone. 1010 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,040 Speaker 1: What would it say if he were to beat John Jones? 1011 00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,680 Speaker 1: If this is the John Jones redemption story, well, the 1012 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:55,839 Speaker 1: John Jones second or third actor or however he wanted 1013 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,120 Speaker 1: to to talk about this really the John Jones story. 1014 00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,440 Speaker 1: He comes back and adds another chapter. That's one way 1015 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:01,680 Speaker 1: to look at it. The other way would be, what 1016 00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,560 Speaker 1: if it's really serial story and he goes in there 1017 00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,160 Speaker 1: and he beats John Jones and John's not who we 1018 00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:09,399 Speaker 1: think he has a heavyweight, and blah blah blah blah blah. 1019 00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,680 Speaker 1: That's the other part of it. But this is huge, man. 1020 00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:13,719 Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'm reacting in real time, so 1021 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:19,600 Speaker 1: this is a lot for me to take in. Man, 1022 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,040 Speaker 1: you're asking, how damaging is that for the UFC brand. 1023 00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:26,719 Speaker 1: It's only really damaging in a long term sense if 1024 00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:33,160 Speaker 1: Francis actually makes good on the departure and enough guys 1025 00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:37,719 Speaker 1: follow his lead. Because I've seen big names in previous 1026 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:42,560 Speaker 1: years with different contracts, mind you, so meaning different scenarios 1027 00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,839 Speaker 1: leave UFC for other endeavors, and it never necessarily meant 1028 00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,360 Speaker 1: a whole lot. In the end, it didn't lead to 1029 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:55,200 Speaker 1: much we're talking about. You know, remember there was this 1030 00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,520 Speaker 1: big fighter lawsuit that happened almost ten years ago at 1031 00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,920 Speaker 1: this point, like it's eight years and it still has 1032 00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,239 Speaker 1: and fully even gotten close to being finished. But the 1033 00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:04,719 Speaker 1: UFC had to react to it, and one of the 1034 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,360 Speaker 1: things that they did was they put in the earlier 1035 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,040 Speaker 1: sunset clauses, like the five year clauses and some of 1036 00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,960 Speaker 1: the things as well. These first names you're seeing that 1037 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,359 Speaker 1: happened around twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. I think, so add 1038 00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,560 Speaker 1: in five years, here we are you're beginning to see 1039 00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:24,680 Speaker 1: some of that now bear fruit. But how far would 1040 00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,080 Speaker 1: it really go. I don't know, We're gonna have to see. 1041 00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:32,120 Speaker 1: I am skeptical because I've always seen people try and 1042 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,839 Speaker 1: beat the UFC at their own game and lose I've 1043 00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,120 Speaker 1: seen it over and over and over and over again. 1044 00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:41,600 Speaker 1: But we shall see, we shall see someone saying thoughts 1045 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,040 Speaker 1: on Jones versus Gone. The defensive wrestling of Gone, to me, 1046 00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,920 Speaker 1: seems like a very important question here. I was hoping 1047 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,560 Speaker 1: that Gon wouldn't take the two we'vev ossified, but instead 1048 00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,640 Speaker 1: would fight Curtis Blades. Now you might say, well, Gone 1049 00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,080 Speaker 1: can keep it arranged the whole time. I'm skeptical he 1050 00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,920 Speaker 1: can keep it arranged the whole time. I think he 1051 00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,200 Speaker 1: can keep it a arrange for a long portion of 1052 00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,520 Speaker 1: the fight. I think he's got good takedown defense. I 1053 00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,520 Speaker 1: don't know, and I got who only knows about John's 1054 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,759 Speaker 1: wrestling at this point. It fell off a cliff at 1055 00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,080 Speaker 1: the end of light heavyweight. But again, was that those fights? 1056 00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,640 Speaker 1: Was that John in the moment that he was in 1057 00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:20,920 Speaker 1: How do you was was it burnout? Was it? Well, 1058 00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,080 Speaker 1: none of that will matter at heavyweight anyway. Like there's 1059 00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:27,120 Speaker 1: all these unknowable pieces of information upon which we're forced 1060 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:31,839 Speaker 1: to make generalizations from this. It's just too difficult. This 1061 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,000 Speaker 1: won't tell us. But if John still has good wrestling ability, 1062 00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:38,239 Speaker 1: let's just say that something approximating what he had and 1063 00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,120 Speaker 1: some of his better days at light heavyweight. That might 1064 00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,920 Speaker 1: be a problem for Gone, that might be a problem. 1065 00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,000 Speaker 1: He's striggling the new Bisping dog, tough to put away, 1066 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:49,960 Speaker 1: a great cardio, good boxing, but not really a great 1067 00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:55,120 Speaker 1: knockout threat. Yeah, but but Biss being actually his you know, uh, 1068 00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,279 Speaker 1: was able to he took more damage. I think his 1069 00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:02,319 Speaker 1: fights were a little bit more back and forth. How 1070 00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,920 Speaker 1: can I answer that one already? What about the ipoke 1071 00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,560 Speaker 1: situation in the EGA fight didn't look like a ipoke 1072 00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:10,320 Speaker 1: to me. They're talking about like it being a rub 1073 00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,360 Speaker 1: over the top, But I didn't see a ton of 1074 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:17,600 Speaker 1: evidence for that. Strengthening thinking the UFC for the big 1075 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,360 Speaker 1: payday saying he's a company man, then following that up 1076 00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,719 Speaker 1: by saying, fancy the support fighters after their careers because 1077 00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,600 Speaker 1: they will likely be broke teaching karate kickboxing. Yeah, it 1078 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,680 Speaker 1: didn't make a lot of sense. Didn't make a lot 1079 00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:32,240 Speaker 1: of sense. Anyway, Someone goes f that card talk Jones 1080 00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:34,920 Speaker 1: versus Gone and gay Chee versus Physivee. I think Geyche 1081 00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:36,799 Speaker 1: Phyzib was one of the two eighty six London card 1082 00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:41,120 Speaker 1: if memory serves, Yeah, man, Jones versus Gone, that is huge. 1083 00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,560 Speaker 1: That is huge. We'll probably have to carve out a 1084 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,200 Speaker 1: piece of this and make a separate video out of it. 1085 00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,160 Speaker 1: All right, I have gone a long and I'm supposed 1086 00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:49,480 Speaker 1: to and I think I need to go do something 1087 00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,760 Speaker 1: else now because I'm being summoned by the people in charge. 1088 00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:54,960 Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for watching. I know this 1089 00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:56,399 Speaker 1: was all I have done of these in a little while. 1090 00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,680 Speaker 1: Was a little rusty, but I appreciate you guys tuning in. 1091 00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,880 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll be back soon with a 1092 00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,600 Speaker 1: full live show to react to everything. And yeah, that's 1093 00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,120 Speaker 1: it for right now, So thank you guys for tuning in, 1094 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,160 Speaker 1: and until next time, enjoy the fights.