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Speaker 6: Today is Monday, the sixth of July twenty twenty six,
Speaker 6: and for the first time in five years, it is
Speaker 6: a Connor McGregor fight week. I did go back and
Speaker 6: watch the leg break July tenth, twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 6: what a wild couple of months it was on that front, right,
Speaker 6: Chris Widman viciously snapping his leg against your Eyah Hall
Speaker 6: in April with no crowd amidst a global pandemic, and
Speaker 6: then Connor McGregor in July suffers the same fate. You know,
Speaker 6: of all the things that can happen in an MMA setting, Kenny,
Speaker 6: there are a few things that make me sort of
Speaker 6: want to turn away. I'm there for the blood, I'm
Speaker 6: there for a lot of the things that other people
Speaker 6: maybe aren't there for. But dude, seeing these two back
Speaker 6: to back was absolutely insane, and five years later, Connor's back.
Speaker 7: It's grotesque. It's grotesque. I hate seeing those like the
Speaker 7: Anderson Silva break, the Chris Widman break. I think I've
Speaker 7: only seen it once because I want to see it
Speaker 7: a second time.
Speaker 8: I turn away.
Speaker 7: There's something about compound compound fractures that are so unnatural
Speaker 7: where I just don't need to see that. I feel
Speaker 7: sick to my stomach. And the other thing is just
Speaker 7: the fact that you know a fighter can come back
Speaker 7: from something like that in a sport where there's obvious
Speaker 7: contact to those exact same spots is insane. It's a
Speaker 7: testament to, you know, the ton of mentality that fighters have.
Speaker 7: And yeah, I can't wait to see Connor backman.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there are a lot of fighters with titanium in
Speaker 6: their body right there, Fighters that people don't realize maybe
Speaker 6: have plates and things in their arms, you know. I mean,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of stuff that happens in mixed martial arts.
Speaker 6: But Connor McGregor, as we mentioned a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 6: was getting back in an active competition cycle when this happened,
Speaker 6: and at that point in time, Connor had so much
Speaker 6: money right that he was back for legacy, right or
Speaker 6: some point to prove. And certainly there's a lot at
Speaker 6: play here this weekend when it comes to why Connor
Speaker 6: is back. But I can't even believe it's a Connor
Speaker 6: McGregor fight week. I don't expect him to attend our
Speaker 6: fighter meeting. He is the last one scheduled. It just
Speaker 6: feels absolutely wild. I truly have no idea which version
Speaker 6: of Connor McGregor is going to show up in Las Vegas.
Speaker 6: But I'm excited for all the fight week he's gonna hold.
Speaker 7: I'd probably say this every single time he fights. But
Speaker 7: the fact that there was a one hundred and forty
Speaker 7: five pounder, right, that's when he came into the UFC,
Speaker 7: then became at five or now one seventy to gain
Speaker 7: this kind of attention to a guy who was able
Speaker 7: to elevate the sport as a whole that's how big
Speaker 7: of a star this guy's. This guy is one of
Speaker 7: the biggest ad named athletes in the world. Now, it's
Speaker 7: it's amazing what he's accomplished already, and it just feels
Speaker 7: right that he's back.
Speaker 6: Not sure what his show money is, I'm not sure
Speaker 6: what his vision is for the rest of twenty twenty six,
Speaker 6: but I do believe that if he performs well, win
Speaker 6: or lose, that we would see him again. But Mixed
Speaker 6: Martial Arts has grown for myriad reasons. I mean, when
Speaker 6: Joe Rogan says I'm seeing the ceremony only away and
Speaker 6: none of this would be possible without Dana White, I
Speaker 6: mean truer words have never been spoken. Lorenzo, for Tita,
Speaker 6: a lot of other individuals, but for all of us
Speaker 6: that extract a livelihood from MMA and witness these television
Speaker 6: deals that are monstrosities. Conor McGregor deserves a lot of
Speaker 6: credit for this, and a lot of his contemporaries dole
Speaker 6: out that credit. So we tip our cap to Conor McGregor.
Speaker 6: Really excited to see this man during fight week and
Speaker 6: we'll see what his performance holds against Max Holloway to
Speaker 6: the blue corner in Max Holloway for a minute. By
Speaker 6: the way, lot coming up on the program today, maybe
Speaker 6: the host could tease the guests. We are scheduled to
Speaker 6: be joined by UFC three twenty nine's Brandon roy Vall
Speaker 6: and King Green. Ray Longo gonna be here. We'll see
Speaker 6: if he is going to be the inducteur for Chris
Speaker 6: Widman in the Hall of Fame. I don't know if
Speaker 6: it's gonna be Ray, if it's gonna be Matt Sarah.
Speaker 6: So we'll get into that with Ray R J. Clifford
Speaker 6: coming up as well, Yanni the Greek also with eight
Speaker 6: selections for UFC three tw so a lot to get into,
Speaker 6: and we'll get back to Max Holloway in a minute.
Speaker 6: But now joining us one of the stars of the show.
Speaker 6: You have C three two nine. You can see him
Speaker 6: on the Paramount Plus main card and if you're in
Speaker 6: Australia or New Zealand you can still see him on
Speaker 6: pay per view. Brandon rod Dog roy Vall, one of
Speaker 6: the best flyweights in the world. It's good to see him. Man,
Speaker 6: Welcome to Fight Week.
Speaker 9: Good to see you guys. Can you hear me all right?
Speaker 6: Loud and clear? Bro all right?
Speaker 2: Cool cool?
Speaker 10: Hi guys doing today.
Speaker 6: We are doing well. We appreciate your time as always,
Speaker 6: you look well. So it's been a little while. I
Speaker 6: know you're no stranger to layoffs at times. Right the
Speaker 6: shoulder I think took some time away from you in
Speaker 6: the past. But what have the last I guess nine
Speaker 6: or ten months been like and how excited are you
Speaker 6: to get back on the proven ground.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a minute, but man, it was
Speaker 1: really just a lot of training, a lot of training,
Speaker 1: really long camp for this one, specifically how to take
Speaker 1: like an extra week, got a non sparring and just
Speaker 1: recover the body because it was a long camp. It
Speaker 1: was awesome, man, A lot of growth, a lot of adjustments,
Speaker 1: a lot of different things, and just excited to be
Speaker 1: back to it.
Speaker 6: Would a training can't be very different for you if
Speaker 6: you were competing at thirty five, like you and I
Speaker 6: have talked in the past about when the UFC almost
Speaker 6: got rid of the flyweight division, and we're seeing Holloway
Speaker 6: compete at seventy this weekend. Like, if you take a
Speaker 6: fight at thirty five at some point before your UFC
Speaker 6: career is over, would training can't be more joyful?
Speaker 1: No, not necessarily I could make flyweight in like two weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm walking around one thirty seven right now. So it's
Speaker 1: like I don't have a crazy cut. I'm just a
Speaker 1: little lengthy and all that stuff. I'm just scrying, but
Speaker 1: I really wish. But I will take fights at thirty five.
Speaker 1: I'll absolutely take prices at thirty five. I've asked my manager.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, they're short notice thirty five fights, and
Speaker 1: it's fittingly or like seemingly so, or like there's a
Speaker 1: good matchup or whatever. It's like, throw me in. I
Speaker 1: just want to buy often. And that's what talks about.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's cool, but it's like being in the
Speaker 1: top five of the division. It's just like you kind
Speaker 1: of have to wait sometimes and you're like, they offered
Speaker 1: me this long I think maybe right after the Mexico
Speaker 1: and it's like it's a long camp, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not going to not train the whole time.
Speaker 1: So it's like obviously it's just like you're preparing for someone,
Speaker 1: to getting ready for someone, and then it's like, so
Speaker 1: it's a pretty long camp.
Speaker 7: Brandon, you have a ton of experience obviously a huge
Speaker 7: advantage there over your opponent Kavanaugh. Do you think you
Speaker 7: faced someone like a Kavanaugh that you can kind of
Speaker 7: call on for for experience and to kind of maybe
Speaker 7: replicate a certain.
Speaker 9: Blueprint facing someone like it.
Speaker 1: No, not necessarily, but trained with people like Kavanaugh, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of good training partners that could
Speaker 1: emulate that. You know, are really good kickboxes, accomplished kickboxeres
Speaker 1: and I'll be above. But as far as fighting goes,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever fought anybody like that matches
Speaker 1: his repertoire in a sense.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: That being said is I think that I thought the
Speaker 1: best strikers of the division two fights in all three
Speaker 1: fights in a row.
Speaker 7: So really, and what do you think the keys to
Speaker 7: success are here against Kavanaugh?
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of keys to success. Without
Speaker 1: giving away too much of my game plan. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he makes a lot of mistakes. You know, he's awesome,
Speaker 1: he's great, he's really good. He's very explosive, and he's
Speaker 1: really good early on in these fights. He makes a
Speaker 1: lot of the same mistakes. It's cool even going back
Speaker 1: to like his old videos of just watching some of
Speaker 1: the habits and like, oh he's doing that here too.
Speaker 1: And he's doing that here, and like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes that maybe he won't do early,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna do him and I can just capitalize
Speaker 1: off of that. And you know, I could force these
Speaker 1: I could force his mistakes, I could force bad exchanges,
Speaker 1: and I could just you know, make a lot.
Speaker 9: Of that happen.
Speaker 6: In my opinion, Brandon Royball will us here live on
Speaker 6: the Annakin floor in podcasts. You've done so much your
Speaker 6: thirty three years of age, right, You've headlined, fought for
Speaker 6: the belt on all these different things as an American fighter.
Speaker 6: When you're watching UFC Freedom two fifty, I'd imagine you
Speaker 6: watched it live, right, Like some part of you is
Speaker 6: is there, right? I mean, every fighter deserves credit for
Speaker 6: the sport getting to that type of height. I'm just
Speaker 6: curious what it was like for you to maybe watch
Speaker 6: that show as a high level UFC fighter.
Speaker 9: Man, I thought I thought it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, I train it on it sometimes I
Speaker 1: train with Gae Chee and I you know, I'm from Colorado,
Speaker 1: so I see him often and it's like, dude, that
Speaker 1: was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 9: That was a's coole. As you get you know, I
Speaker 9: was maybe a little what is it my critical of having.
Speaker 1: A fight at the White House line on Trump's birthday
Speaker 1: and all that stuff originally, but it's like, dude.
Speaker 9: That was as cool as they can get, like fucking so, man,
Speaker 9: I was as happy as it could be. The coolest
Speaker 9: card ever. It was the coolest event ever.
Speaker 1: And like anybody that had dogs on that event is
Speaker 1: just a hater because that was a stick as it gets.
Speaker 9: The ending was as great as they could get.
Speaker 3: And yachee.
Speaker 1: Man, if I wasn't singing the national anthem morning, night
Speaker 1: and day and trying to rescue.
Speaker 9: A bald eagle, man, I don't know. Yeah, so I
Speaker 9: don't know.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 1: The flag in front of my house stood extra tall
Speaker 1: for the for the next two weeks, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it was really cool, man, and I
Speaker 1: was really stoked for him. It's really a great time
Speaker 1: to be an American, if I'm being honest, especially in
Speaker 1: the UFC as far as like our athletes are accomplishing stuff.
Speaker 1: And there was like a good dry spell or whatever
Speaker 1: we had for like a year or so where no
Speaker 1: American champions.
Speaker 9: Now we got three of them, and it's it's really
Speaker 9: cool man.
Speaker 1: And yeah, but if you don't think the red, white
Speaker 1: and blue are pumping through my veins, well walking out
Speaker 1: right after the Ports of July, go throw this tea overboard.
Speaker 9: Bro.
Speaker 8: You got me fucking dead.
Speaker 6: Bro, I mean I'm excited for you, right, card.
Speaker 7: Brat Are you watching the World Cup at all? You
Speaker 7: say is playing today?
Speaker 1: No, not really, bro, I have time to watch too
Speaker 1: much Real Cup, my girls, my girls, family's.
Speaker 9: Like really from Mexico. So I went and like.
Speaker 1: Maybe tuned in for like two minutes yesterday, and then
Speaker 1: they scored two back to back goals and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm bad luck, I'm heading.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: A little superstitious to a degree, but I'm like, this
Speaker 1: team has to have a goal scored on him at all,
Speaker 1: this whole entire World Cup. I watched for two minutes
Speaker 1: and two of the goals could have been my fault.
Speaker 9: I guess that I did.
Speaker 6: I did bet on Mexico last night. We got a
Speaker 6: few more minutes here with UFC Flyway Brandon roy Ball.
Speaker 6: So you mentioned Onyx Tiger Beatle as well Corey Sandhagen's
Speaker 6: Jim right. Are you are you training there in Advanced
Speaker 6: this fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm a little everyone in Colorado for sure,
Speaker 1: But yeah I got to train a lot with Corey
Speaker 1: for the Spy.
Speaker 9: I got a spar with him.
Speaker 1: Uh, definitely one of the great kickboxes that I got
Speaker 1: to train with leading up to a Cavan off by
Speaker 1: obviously different like dimensions or whatever, but like skill set
Speaker 1: wise is just lo. Corey's as high as it gets,
Speaker 1: you know, So super grateful for them, and super great
Speaker 1: for Taga Beetle. Uh being around Trevor with me just
Speaker 1: like it's the coolest thing ever. He's a genius when
Speaker 1: it comes to end the stuff.
Speaker 6: Very high blitch.
Speaker 9: Dag glitch. I'm sorry, do you guys hear me?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: I got you now, yep, all right, coop them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, just bet been around a little bit
Speaker 1: everywhere in Colorado, but uh, all around amazing people and
Speaker 1: Tigo Beatle's been super funis right now?
Speaker 6: Dude? So I gotta ask you, right if you think
Speaker 6: like I don't think that Gaichee over Toporia is one
Speaker 6: of the biggest upsets in UFC history, in part because
Speaker 6: I'm not even sure that Toporia is like a lightweight
Speaker 6: by frame, but you've rubbed shoulders with Whitman, whom you've
Speaker 6: just called a genius, and obviously you've spent a lot
Speaker 6: of time with Gaiche, so you couldn't I mean, I'm
Speaker 6: not like, I know you can't bet on this, but
Speaker 6: you couldn't have been totally shocked by that.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh no, especial when you see yeah game plan
Speaker 1: and stuff. It was like by the way he like
Speaker 1: displayed all of it, it was like that was perfect, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, a little clinching, a little dirty fighting, a
Speaker 1: little fake fit ins, a little bit that, and obviously
Speaker 1: it's partly kind of maybe like weighing pretty aggressively and
Speaker 1: Geisei hit so hard, so it's like, by the end
Speaker 1: of that first round you're like, oh, dude, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is you're starting front. You gave yourself a little bit
Speaker 1: of h gay Geychie a little bit of lead. I'm
Speaker 1: not gave it, but he obviously took it. But it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, just came in a little too disrespectful again
Speaker 1: to one of the hardest hitting guys in GIFC.
Speaker 6: So your last fight was against Manel Kop and certainly
Speaker 6: it's good for Team roy Vall that he went out
Speaker 6: and did what he did against Kyogi Hori Gucci that
Speaker 6: I really think helps you obviously. I mean the history
Speaker 6: with Joshua Van for you, I think helps you because
Speaker 6: it was so competitive and kind of turned on a
Speaker 6: dime there late you beat tatsu rote Tyra, who I
Speaker 6: thought fought so valiantly in defeat. I guess, like, I
Speaker 6: understand what's in front of you this weekend, right, I
Speaker 6: understand that you know you're not looking past that at all.
Speaker 6: You're probably the underdog, But like, what fight is it
Speaker 6: that that really would excite you of of past? Is it?
Speaker 6: Is it Pantosia one of the other guys that I mentioned,
Speaker 6: Like who are you looking at? Is it Van?
Speaker 9: As far as like who I want to fight next
Speaker 9: after this?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 9: I mean, bro, I don't know, man.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't really have anybody I'm I'm aiming
Speaker 1: my gun at besides besides the lowner.
Speaker 9: But yeah, yeah, I mean I think I.
Speaker 1: Gotta get a I got to accomplish a few things
Speaker 1: this weekend. I gotta I gotta make a statement, and
Speaker 1: I want to fight immediately afterwards. So hopefully just get
Speaker 1: back to back fights and uh and start a little role,
Speaker 1: you know, because like I told you, guys before. It's
Speaker 1: like I being in the top five division, you kind
Speaker 1: of get like a little put on pause and stuff.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I just want to fight, Bro.
Speaker 1: I want to fight a lot, and I want to
Speaker 1: make some money this year and I want to you know,
Speaker 1: and the kind of change the tune of things right now.
Speaker 6: Well, dude, do you have CE needs guys like you,
Speaker 6: the elite contenders who are willing to fight guys ranked
Speaker 6: below them to keep things moving. So we uh, we
Speaker 6: commend you for that. And hey man, they could put
Speaker 6: anybody on a Connor McGregor main card and they called
Speaker 6: your number for a reason. So we wish you all
Speaker 6: the best.
Speaker 3: Brother.
Speaker 6: I'll see at the Fighter meetings in a few days.
Speaker 6: But appreciate your time, my man, and best of luck
Speaker 6: on the weekend.
Speaker 9: Hey Ken, thank you, guys, Bro, thank you for having me.
Speaker 9: I appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Our theory is Brandon roy Ball with us here on
Speaker 6: the Antican Floran podcast.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm glad that uh, I'm glad the World Cup came up.
Speaker 6: We will get back to that later in the show.
Speaker 6: I'm glad that UFC Freedom two fifty came up because
Speaker 6: I've been on the receiving end of that question that
Speaker 6: I just asked, Brandon, what was that like for you?
Speaker 6: I'm not an American fighter, but my response has been, Oh,
Speaker 6: it's the sickest fucking thing.
Speaker 8: I've ever That's pretty much the aanswer.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, and if I came home to my kids, right,
Speaker 6: whom I swear in front of, right, because I'm trying
Speaker 6: to be real in case I die tomorrow, it's like, oh,
Speaker 6: how was it? It was the sickest fucking thing I've
Speaker 6: ever seen, you know, And you know, I think anyone
Speaker 6: who suggests otherwise on the back end, uh is just
Speaker 6: to hate. Yeah, I agree, dude, thanks to uh Brandon
Speaker 6: raw Dog Roy Vall oh Man, all right, we already
Speaker 6: got our J Clifford ready, so uh, I will table
Speaker 6: that immediate thought and get to Randall.
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Speaker 3: The fighting, that's that's the fun part. It's like Hansle
Speaker 3: from Zoolander, which is so fucking hot right now, dude, Like,
Speaker 3: well think about it, Like I don't know who he is.
Speaker 11: I just know he's arrestler.
Speaker 2: I you know, googled him.
Speaker 12: Only on the annek and Florian podcast Factor Fiction.
Speaker 6: You've texted that rated r J open from your phone
Speaker 6: to one of your buddies or your family? No, have
Speaker 6: you ever texted that open to anyone?
Speaker 2: I would?
Speaker 12: They have to watch the podcast if they want to
Speaker 12: experience what's going on.
Speaker 4: All right, we need the.
Speaker 12: Clicks, guys, we need those views, we need those those
Speaker 12: audio downloads. Whatever metric I don't know, Cody, what what what?
Speaker 12: Whatever metric we're looking for. They got to get it,
Speaker 12: all right.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 6: All right, So I got Belgium. I'm betting on Belgium.
Speaker 6: What do you guys think about the Americans chances.
Speaker 3: Belgium?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 12: I gotta I gotta imagine the book. He's had to
Speaker 12: have just taken a freaking bath with the with the
Speaker 12: USA winning some games around here, like Vegas might have
Speaker 12: to go bankrupt if they if they make it to
Speaker 12: like the round of I don't know soccer terms, semi finals,
Speaker 12: round to four.
Speaker 6: Quarter they try to get to the quarters.
Speaker 7: So yeah, and this is this is Anne's way of
Speaker 7: balancing things out. That way he wins every you know,
Speaker 7: like anyway, it's like he he wants us to win,
Speaker 7: but if they if.
Speaker 8: They lose, then he's got the money from the from
Speaker 8: the Belgium.
Speaker 7: I'll say this, I think this is the best, easily
Speaker 7: the best USA team we've ever had. I think that's
Speaker 7: clear based on the talent and where all those players
Speaker 7: are from and how they've been such a great cohesive
Speaker 7: unit and the other thing. For Belgium, they're very good,
Speaker 7: but they are a little bit of an older team,
Speaker 7: which is good as far as experience, but they're not
Speaker 7: going to be as fast and as physical as the
Speaker 7: USA team. So it's gonna be interesting. Dude, I'm like
Speaker 7: sweating thinking about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, let's be clear, right, Yes, I try to
Speaker 6: soften the blow with this sort of happiness hedge, but
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be feeling like there's any sort of
Speaker 6: win if the Americans lose. I have huge hopes for them,
Speaker 6: and I feel like I have to get involved in
Speaker 6: place a big bet on Belgium or the Americans are
Speaker 6: gonna lose. Call me superstitious, Randall, but we're getting involved.
Speaker 12: You know, you know, it's nothing, there's nothing that I
Speaker 12: can imagine pisses off the world more than watching America
Speaker 12: do well.
Speaker 3: It's something they just don't give a shit about.
Speaker 6: Ye Like, well, yeah, we really are.
Speaker 3: We're not a soccer country, Kenny. You know, I know
Speaker 3: you're a lifelong soccer player.
Speaker 12: You know, I'll credit to the sport, but you know,
Speaker 12: we're just gonna walk in half asset, maybe beat a
Speaker 12: couple of countries where that's what they live and diet.
Speaker 3: You know, that's the USA for you.
Speaker 6: I mean, Connor McGregor is fighting this weekend, So I
Speaker 6: appreciate your tank top and any World Cup discourse, but
Speaker 6: let us talk about the matter at hand. What does
Speaker 6: that say the British Blue?
Speaker 11: What is thirteen?
Speaker 6: Yeah? The nation should I root for, by the way,
Speaker 6: other than the United States of America is Brazil, without question,
Speaker 6: been there thirty fucking times. All right, Max Holloway, Connor McGregor,
Speaker 6: have you guys seen the thickness on Max holliway rocket
Speaker 6: walking around like eighty five? What do you make of
Speaker 6: Max competing at seventy as Certainly you would expect that
Speaker 6: he would put on some weight, but uh yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean I feel like he wears it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 12: I have a billion questions going into this fight, right,
Speaker 12: I mean it's the the ring rust of Connor McGregor
Speaker 12: with an eighteen hundred day layoff versus the wear and
Speaker 12: tear that Max Holloway has received over the last five years. Right,
Speaker 12: He's felt like thirty something rounds he's been knocked out.
Speaker 12: So clearly Connor, I would assume, would be like the fresher,
Speaker 12: healthier fighter while Max has got you know, he'll have
Speaker 12: his timing down and everything because he's been active. You
Speaker 12: know when has Connor's style changed all the last five years?
Speaker 3: Right? Like he early in his UFC career, he was
Speaker 3: very diverse.
Speaker 12: He was always kind of trying things out, and then
Speaker 12: towards like his championship ran the last few fights, he
Speaker 12: kind of wanted to just slip your big your big
Speaker 12: shot and hit you with the straight left. Like, is
Speaker 12: is he going to be back to being creative? Is
Speaker 12: he back to his old gage? You know that when
Speaker 12: Max fights south pause, he loves to step outside that
Speaker 12: front foot and throw his three to two like, and
Speaker 12: so he wants an angle. Connor wants distance management like
Speaker 12: and then there's like you said, the weight class, Like
Speaker 12: Connor's making a huge deal of how he has experienced
Speaker 12: at one seventy and Max doesen't's like I think he's
Speaker 12: big deep into his promotional bag for something like that.
Speaker 12: I don't think it's usually a massive issue. I think
Speaker 12: both guys have similar frames. So whether they fight it
Speaker 12: one seventy five, I think the the size is going
Speaker 12: to kind of cancel each other out. But yeah, that's
Speaker 12: one of a thousand variables, John of Max Hallaway Conor McGregor.
Speaker 9: Two.
Speaker 6: Are you drinking right now?
Speaker 9: Where are you?
Speaker 12: I am in Bernville, California along the Urne River. YESL
Speaker 12: Haggard saying about mosquito bitten, sun burnt, hungover, but the
Speaker 12: batteries are charged. Man, I'm ready for a coonor McGregor
Speaker 12: fight week. And yeah, this's my my heaven on earth
Speaker 12: right here, Kernville, California.
Speaker 6: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. Yeah, up in the mountains.
Speaker 6: I mean, you're one of the hardest working men in
Speaker 6: mixed martial arts that doesn't fight, but at least the
Speaker 6: early part of your week is providing a little bit
Speaker 6: of a respite. And we appreciate R. J. Clifford joining
Speaker 6: us here live on the Attic and Florian podcast. So
Speaker 6: there are a lot of different fights on this fight
Speaker 6: card that we could get into. You know, Ken Flow
Speaker 6: really likes this Lonnie Kavanaugh character. He's favorite to beat
Speaker 6: Brandon roy Ball. That's a fight that's on the main card.
Speaker 6: You got the sand Haaygen Eastern rematch. Mario was like
Speaker 6: a baby when they fought the first time around loss Antony,
Speaker 6: Patty pimblet King Ring, Terrence mc kenny. Uh what piature
Speaker 6: interest Randall a lot.
Speaker 12: I mean, the UFC does such a good job of
Speaker 12: you know, back in the day when it was kind
Speaker 12: of McGregor fights, they put like three title fights all
Speaker 12: on one card, really make it big, and now they
Speaker 12: kind of switch that up, and now it's just like
Speaker 12: a lot of like promotional guys that should have spotlight.
Speaker 12: Maybe their names aren't quite there yet, like Youtuge obviously
Speaker 12: coming event outstanding, but Gable Stepson's debut Man Gable Stepson's
Speaker 12: UFC debut. I mean, this is a guy that, like,
Speaker 12: you don't get more blue chippy than him, you know,
Speaker 12: like he's kind of like the next he's the same
Speaker 12: resume as brock lesnar basically right, little Wwe Russell the
Speaker 12: University of Minnesota. A couple of coffee in the NFL,
Speaker 12: just in an insane athlete that seems to have an
Speaker 12: aptitude for this. He's still on the right side of thirty,
Speaker 12: you know, Like why is he gonna, you know, deal
Speaker 12: with those right lights? Like this is a guy who's
Speaker 12: no stranger to the giant spotlight but that you know,
Speaker 12: that UFC debut, like you ask almost any UFC fighter, like,
Speaker 12: it's a little different. You know, it's a little different
Speaker 12: than anything they've ever done before. So, I mean, is
Speaker 12: this gonna be a trivia answer moving one day? Right
Speaker 12: when with Gable steveson the greatest headweight of all times
Speaker 12: UFC debut, You know it's something to I'll look out
Speaker 12: for all R Jaye.
Speaker 7: There's there's some photos circulating about Ben wasas antony and
Speaker 7: possibly a staff infection.
Speaker 8: I don't want to speculate it.
Speaker 7: Do you know any of the protocols that the UFC
Speaker 7: has or what may be happening on fight week if
Speaker 7: that is the case, and if there's any possibility that
Speaker 7: this fight doesn't go down.
Speaker 3: It is, I mean, I can't it's rare when that happens.
Speaker 12: I mean, I mean, you'll we'll hear a fighter, you know,
Speaker 12: fights falling through, and it'll say like undisclosed medical reason?
Speaker 3: Was that a staff? Was it an injury?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 12: Was it a female part that was pregnant? Right, there's
Speaker 12: like there's you know, it's it's medical information. So it's
Speaker 12: it's kind of close to the vest. But like I
Speaker 12: almost never hear of a staph infection stopping a fight
Speaker 12: from happening.
Speaker 6: I mean you just yeah, he picked a scab, Let
Speaker 6: him fight.
Speaker 12: Yeah, like put you put a little concealer on there,
Speaker 12: you know, yeah, you get you get makeup Chris to
Speaker 12: kind of do her work and no one knowing all
Speaker 12: the wiser, and you let him fight.
Speaker 3: You know, they signed a waiver, let him. Let him
Speaker 3: fight with some staph it is.
Speaker 7: I bought a couple of times with Stephy. It was
Speaker 7: under control with antibiotics.
Speaker 6: But uhan the other thing, the other thing r J.
Speaker 8: You know that I kind of had to go, whoa
Speaker 8: wa what? And I knew it was happening. Was Whitaker
Speaker 8: fighting at two old five? I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 8: that's right, he's fighting at two o five. What do
Speaker 8: you think his chances are beating a big two o
Speaker 8: fiver like Krilla?
Speaker 12: So I had talked to Whitaker about this several months ago,
Speaker 12: and it got me excited because, like, obviously, you know
Speaker 12: in the situation that he's that he's lost kind of
Speaker 12: one sidedly to kind of the top of the division
Speaker 12: right now, So getting back to UFC gold at that
Speaker 12: weight class seem kind of far fetch. And so I
Speaker 12: think too often fighters switch weight classes, not because the
Speaker 12: weight's and issue, it is just they wanted a reset,
Speaker 12: and it's an obvious one. He's gonna be very short
Speaker 12: for the weight class, but.
Speaker 5: Ken he like.
Speaker 12: He's isn't the best wrestler in the division at two
Speaker 12: o five, like he's there's there's some holes in there.
Speaker 12: You know, there's some prop there's some ranked fighters at
Speaker 12: two oh five where you're like, tell me what a
Speaker 12: curk can and he tap this guy and run a
Speaker 12: side mount on him.
Speaker 3: Like right, he's got he's got some He's it's interesting,
Speaker 3: it's very rangy.
Speaker 12: He's gonna be some of these guys are gonna have
Speaker 12: stick seven eight inches of height on him. But he's
Speaker 12: gonna be faster, he's gonna be able to move and
Speaker 12: and he wrestles better than almost anybody in the division.
Speaker 6: Like it's I'm intrigued, right, I mean, Krylov does have
Speaker 6: a lot of size for the light heavyweight division, but
Speaker 6: you're right, height isn't necessarily always an advantage, and Whitaker
Speaker 6: is long, he has a pretty reach. But yeah, it
Speaker 6: really is going to be interesting. He's a guy who
Speaker 6: made his UFC debut Kenfall and I were there in
Speaker 6: twenty twelve against Bradley Scott as a welterweight. So we'll
Speaker 6: see how it goes for Robert Whitaker. But a Whittaker
Speaker 6: Olberg fight would be huge. I mean, I know I'm
Speaker 6: getting ahead of myself, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 6: Australia versus New Zealand, so yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 6: meat on the bone for UFC three twenty nine. I'm
Speaker 6: really just fascinated to see how Connor McGregor attacks a
Speaker 6: potential five round fight, and how much interaction we're gonna
Speaker 6: have with him during fight week, and how much you're
Speaker 6: really going to be able to glean into which version
Speaker 6: of Connor McGregor is going to show up. I can't
Speaker 6: even wrap my head randall around the fact that he's
Speaker 6: competing this weekend. I've thought about this being the shortest
Speaker 6: pay per view open in UFC history, Like he's back,
Speaker 6: Like what more is there really to say?
Speaker 12: Yeah, right, let the let the moment do the talking. Yeah,
Speaker 12: I'm I'm, like I said, so intrigued by what he's
Speaker 12: gonna do that through the twenty five minutes, Like you mentioned,
Speaker 12: CARDI has been an issue for him, but he's he's
Speaker 12: got so many cool tricks when he's tired, Like he's
Speaker 12: so good in the clinch and he knows how to
Speaker 12: just kind of like hang there for a while. He
Speaker 12: knows how to keep distance and I make that not
Speaker 12: be an issue. And just like how much ring rust
Speaker 12: versus being fresh, right like Kenny, you know, like there's
Speaker 12: no comparing octagon time, Like there's no amount of sparring,
Speaker 12: no amount of drills can like replace like the timing
Speaker 12: and feel of actually fighting, like he just can't. But
Speaker 12: I mean, five years fresh, a chance to heal a
Speaker 12: little bit, like obviously he had big injuries, and I
Speaker 12: think you know, he'll be the tenth championship level fighter
Speaker 12: in UFC history to have a thousand day layoffs for more,
Speaker 12: A lot of fighters win in these situations, like your
Speaker 12: saint Pierre famously, Misha Tate Dominic Cruz one of his
Speaker 12: two thousand day layoffs. Brock Lesner, I mean he'll have
Speaker 12: the second most right. Only Nick dias ad a longer layoff,
Speaker 12: so he'll have.
Speaker 3: A long one.
Speaker 12: But like guys coming back after a thousand days, they
Speaker 12: do better than people think.
Speaker 7: So yeah, and I was gonna say sorry to drop.
Speaker 7: Connor is probably the guy I'm least concerned with when
Speaker 7: it comes to that, just because he feeds off of
Speaker 7: the crowd and the energy of the moment, and he
Speaker 7: has that competitor's mindset where I don't think that's gonna
Speaker 7: be an issue. You know, can he keep up with
Speaker 7: the evolution of the sport, I think is more of
Speaker 7: a question than will he perform on fight night?
Speaker 12: To me the way I see it, Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 12: as Max as I don't believe that Max's chin has
Speaker 12: gone from one knockout of maybe the best knockout artist
Speaker 12: in MMA, Like I do not believe that for a second,
Speaker 12: Like You've got a lot of miles for sure. But
Speaker 12: he's in his early thirties, So it's it's gonna be
Speaker 12: I think it's gonna be a long fight.
Speaker 3: I really do. I think it's gonna I think this
Speaker 3: is gonna be a really really long fight, and.
Speaker 12: I think it comes down to, you know, can Max
Speaker 12: get the time or can Connor get his timing down
Speaker 12: after being gone for eighteen hundred days fast enough before
Speaker 12: Max puts together just you know, button mashing tech and
Speaker 12: striking that he does, and just just all the level
Speaker 12: all four limbs and just overload your hard drive with
Speaker 12: info like and Connor can figure that out. Connor's got
Speaker 12: a mind for that. But you know he's got to
Speaker 12: shake that ring ross off pretty damn quick.
Speaker 6: I mean that holloway jab is just gonna be heavy
Speaker 6: with the thickness at seventy. You know, I do think
Speaker 6: that Holloway's chin is still there. But it's a fascinating
Speaker 6: main event. It's in the welchweight division, Connor McGregor's return
Speaker 6: against Max Holloway. A few more minutes with r Jay Clifford.
Speaker 6: I want to ask you about the co main event
Speaker 6: because Patty Pimlet to me, just still seems underappreciated, underrated.
Speaker 6: His only UFC loss was his last fight against Justin Gaetchee.
Speaker 6: As we have said repeatedly, Joe Silva tried to sign
Speaker 6: him back in the day, right, he could have gotten
Speaker 6: to the UFC as a very young man. He chose
Speaker 6: twice to cut his teeth on the regional circuit. He
Speaker 6: does have four pro losses nearly thirty professional fights, and instead,
Speaker 6: I think people want to lean into like caloric binges
Speaker 6: after fights, which it's almost like the Carlos protest cigarette thing.
Speaker 6: You know, it doesn't even matter, you know, the Welter
Speaker 6: way too. Aren't like periodically smoking cigarettes, are actually not
Speaker 6: using nicotine in the right way to help their careers,
Speaker 6: you know. So what are your thoughts on Patty pimple
Speaker 6: But I thought, I don't know, I thought he would
Speaker 6: be I thought I understand current form, but I thought
Speaker 6: Patty Pimblet would be a slight favorite. He's the underdog
Speaker 6: against Bev losaut.
Speaker 3: I have been exactly the guy that you're talking about, Annik.
Speaker 12: I've I've I think underrated Patty a lot, like ever since,
Speaker 12: Like I thought Jared Gordon beat him, and I thought
Speaker 12: Jared I thought Patty made Jared look like Floyd Mayweather
Speaker 12: the way he was countering those strikes. But then he
Speaker 12: just kept winning and finding new ways to win. Obviously
Speaker 12: that justin Gaegee lost age like McKellen thirty year Like,
Speaker 12: that's you know, that's not a bad guy to lose to.
Speaker 3: After what we just saw at the White House.
Speaker 12: Right, So I'm willing to admit I'm wrong as he
Speaker 12: continues to keep winning.
Speaker 3: But I think I think Ben was Saint Deini's. He's
Speaker 3: got so he just.
Speaker 12: Throws so much into every strike and he's well rounded.
Speaker 12: And I think Patty, like after he throws at combo,
Speaker 12: the hands come down a lot, and I think that's
Speaker 12: gonna be hard. I think it's gonna be tough. But
Speaker 12: he's got a chin like granite, right, he can take it,
Speaker 12: take a shot, no problem. Fun fight man, England versus France. Right,
Speaker 12: fourth July weekend, you know we had our ally taking
Speaker 12: on the enemy. Well, we'll know what we're rooting for
Speaker 12: fourth July weekend.
Speaker 6: So I will see you on Thursday, if not sooner, right,
Speaker 6: but we'll be working together on the UFC Hall of
Speaker 6: Fame induction ceremony. What else does your UFC three twenty
Speaker 6: nine week hold in Vegas?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 12: Well, I got the I got the Hall of Fame
Speaker 12: on Thursday. Excited for that, and they're gonna do go
Speaker 12: from the Hall of Fame right into the press conference.
Speaker 12: So a nice, big crowd, gonna be a great Thursday
Speaker 12: night at T Mobile. The UFC has T Mobile all weekend,
Speaker 12: so then I'll be the the Way In Show at
Speaker 12: T Mobile, not at APEX, will be at T Mobile. Nice,
Speaker 12: then ceremonial weigh ins and then onto uh, onto the
Speaker 12: big fight nights and Connor McGregor week finally comes to
Speaker 12: an end in crescendos with him versus Max.
Speaker 6: Don't wait, well, if you're not paying attention, r J. Clifford,
Speaker 6: one of the stars of the Way and Show, and
Speaker 6: that will be live from T Mobile Arena. Yes, we're
Speaker 6: doing the UFC Hall of Fame ceremony as like a
Speaker 6: matinee in the afternoon. You know, I don't know if
Speaker 6: that should affect do I still have to wear a tuxedo.
Speaker 6: It's at fucking four o'clock in the afternoon, you know,
Speaker 6: but four o'clock leading into the presser? Yeah, all right,
Speaker 6: randon O, can we appreciate your time. We'll let you
Speaker 6: get back to it the coozie around whatever that beverage is,
Speaker 6: and uh, I'll give you a big hugg in about
Speaker 6: forty eight hours my man, but enjoy the great state
Speaker 6: of California and we appreciate your time as always.
Speaker 3: Good sir, Thanks boys, see you soon, rated RJ.
Speaker 6: RJ. Clifford with us live on the Edica Floran Podcast.
Speaker 6: All right, we mentioned the UFC Hall of Fame induction
Speaker 6: ceremony Dimitrius Johnson, Domina Cruz and Chris Widman. Will Ray
Speaker 6: long Go be there to support? Uh, let's ask the man,
Speaker 6: the myth, the legend. It's the Ray long Go minute.
Speaker 10: It's now time for the Ray Longo Minute.
Speaker 6: I'm going to post a hole in this fucking substance.
Speaker 10: That's what the Ray Longo Minute.
Speaker 13: The John Annik and Kenny Florian Podcast.
Speaker 6: Oh hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey, look live
Speaker 6: out there. Happy Monday, Raymond Pete. So you know, I
Speaker 6: you know, I like substances and I am all for
Speaker 6: ending the mind at whatever hour, right, wake and bake? Fine?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 6: But I asked R. J Clifford if he was drinking
Speaker 6: at nine fifteen am Pacific on a Monday, and he
Speaker 6: dodged the question. He did seemed like he was drinking.
Speaker 8: That was the Bruce Kee for sure.
Speaker 11: I'll tell you straight up, I'm not I'm not dodging anything.
Speaker 6: No, I you do not dodge questions, that's for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you're in the line of fire willingly. So are you
Speaker 6: flying to Las Vegas for Waman's induction ceremony or what?
Speaker 11: Yes, I will be inducting my good Wow. Oh wow,
Speaker 11: you didn't know that.
Speaker 6: I assumed. But I haven't peeled back the curtains just yet.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm focused on fighter prep.
Speaker 11: Sorry, you know, I had that Bakoup trip killed me.
Speaker 11: But the preps. I'm still gonna put the finishing touches
Speaker 11: on today. But uh uh yeah, wait wait what do
Speaker 11: you say it's in the afternoon? Yes?
Speaker 6: Or is it just you? Is it you and Matt Sarah?
Speaker 6: I mean, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Just be me?
Speaker 6: But yes, sorry, with all respect to Matt.
Speaker 11: But honestly, Matt, Matt's getting a shout out because without
Speaker 11: him it wouldn't have happened. And he was involved in
Speaker 11: every decision and every you know, we talked every day
Speaker 11: about the fights and stuff. So I got to put
Speaker 11: that in there too, because I wouldn't want to leave
Speaker 11: that out. I mean, he's he was gracious enough to
Speaker 11: make me the frontman and bloody blady blah and the
Speaker 11: rest is history.
Speaker 8: Ray, are you practicing this speech in front of a mirror?
Speaker 11: I have not practice. I haven't got it's not done yet.
Speaker 11: But in my head, you know the stories, and I
Speaker 11: think I could do the stories without even looking at anything, which.
Speaker 6: This is what I was afraid of.
Speaker 11: Oh, no way, what's the matter.
Speaker 6: This is gonna be a three hour speech. I will.
Speaker 11: I will say this in writing it. It really brought
Speaker 11: up a lot of old emotions. And you know, this
Speaker 11: kid was out of control, man, from the second he
Speaker 11: walked in the gym. So it's I don't think it'll
Speaker 11: be longer than like five to eight minutes. And I
Speaker 11: can't see that.
Speaker 6: I'm just messing around, just messing about. You're Ryah Faber though.
Speaker 6: If you're out there, bro, he might still be talking,
Speaker 6: right Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: Well that you know. You know what's funny. Last time,
Speaker 11: when I inducted Matt Sew into the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 11: they were all over me, man, that guy and whatever
Speaker 11: his name was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, different different people running the show now.
Speaker 11: But nobody's even said anything, which is crazy, but they
Speaker 11: wanted Yeah, go ahead. Sorry, you have the.
Speaker 6: Conor McGregor press conference coming up right after the Hall
Speaker 6: of Fame. So it's in the afternoon at four, and
Speaker 6: I think the presser is at seven or seven thirty. No,
Speaker 6: I just like to knock your balls around a little
Speaker 6: bit and have fun when it comes to the length
Speaker 6: of the speech. But I could mention some of the
Speaker 6: longest speeches in UFC Hall of Fame history. You know,
Speaker 6: I've been up there for thirteen years, you know, I
Speaker 6: mean aber, I mean they were walking out, you know.
Speaker 6: So yeah, got to be I don't know who's headline
Speaker 6: in the class or when you're going what is the What.
Speaker 11: Would you think is the average what would be a
Speaker 11: good length of the speech?
Speaker 6: So I think five to seven minutes is good. I've
Speaker 6: taken a machete to my piece, ye to try to
Speaker 6: expedite things because I know what we're up against the
Speaker 6: press conference right afterwards, and the tendency is is that
Speaker 6: there's a lot of storytelling, and once you go off script,
Speaker 6: the five to seven minutes is out the window.
Speaker 11: No, I'm not saying a wolf script, but when I
Speaker 11: look down to I don't I wouldn't have to read
Speaker 11: a lot of the stories if I get them out,
Speaker 11: But I can't see them being more. Yeah, you're right though,
Speaker 11: who the hell knows.
Speaker 8: It all started? There's Kansas at nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 11: But you know, the problem I'm having is like, as
Speaker 11: I'm doing the speech, like today's fight is unrecognizable to
Speaker 11: what was going on back then. It's just, you know,
Speaker 11: it's just that, don't look Yeah, a different time. But
Speaker 11: you know, guys win a fight, they want a free
Speaker 11: meal at the fucking PI. They want their shoulders rubbed.
Speaker 11: You know, you gotta where's the grit? You know what
Speaker 11: I mean? Like, you know, Kenny, it's like you put
Speaker 11: a person on welfare, why do they want to get off?
Speaker 11: They keep giving him shit, you know what I mean,
Speaker 11: Like it's definitely weakened. I mean, this kid was living
Speaker 11: in his mother's basement. He wanted to get the fuck out.
Speaker 8: Like I'll forget.
Speaker 7: I'll never forget the twenty seven pound weight cut in
Speaker 7: ten days to fight Damyan Maya.
Speaker 2: It's just like that.
Speaker 8: Why it was different, dude, And that was early in
Speaker 8: his career.
Speaker 11: Like he would have said, he would have did anything.
Speaker 11: He had three pounds to go. We put him in
Speaker 11: the sauna for fifteen minutes. He didn't drop an ounce,
Speaker 11: Like it was just heartbreak. He was falling on the floor.
Speaker 13: It was.
Speaker 11: Uh, but I'm not going to go crazy with those stories.
Speaker 11: But he was a guy, you know, thirty pounds in
Speaker 11: a week, no problem, broken ribbed no problem. You know,
Speaker 11: fractured foot, no problem. He just went through shit. Man,
Speaker 11: And it's today, God for bid, you have a fucking headache.
Speaker 11: You know, I don't want.
Speaker 6: I don't want to.
Speaker 11: I mean, I can't get. Guys can't get. I'm losing
Speaker 11: fights for everybody. Nobody wants to fight anymore. They want
Speaker 11: to keep a perfect record. It's just it's disheartening, man,
Speaker 11: say it really is. So those days, I don't think
Speaker 11: they're ever coming back. But uh, he was. He was
Speaker 11: a stud for a second. He walked through the gym door.
Speaker 11: And one of the other stories, you know, I'll be
Speaker 11: telling us that. You know, there was a guy calling
Speaker 11: me up for six months with this guy, I want
Speaker 11: to bring him down. I'm not interested. I couldn't give
Speaker 11: a shit. I really couldn't. And thank god, he walked
Speaker 11: in the gym on his own. And then you know,
Speaker 11: once I met him, I go, man, I really loved
Speaker 11: this kid. And we spoke for like till two o'clock
Speaker 11: in the morning.
Speaker 2: And that was it.
Speaker 11: Man, we just were off of the races.
Speaker 6: But your careers are so inexorably linked, your career and
Speaker 6: Chris Wiman's right, And certainly if this was a Mixed
Speaker 6: Martial Arts Hall of Fame, you would already already be
Speaker 6: in the contributors wing for everything that you have done.
Speaker 6: But there are so many stories about Chris, right, and
Speaker 6: this is almost a great platform to tell some of them. Right,
Speaker 6: Like Joe Silva was more interested in John Valante back
Speaker 6: in the day.
Speaker 11: Joe Silva, there was a jersey card. This isn't in
Speaker 11: the speech, but there was a jersey card. He basically,
Speaker 11: we don't need you with selling the place out and
Speaker 11: bloody bla. And you know, it's just Joe Silva tortured
Speaker 11: that guy at times. It's nothing short of talk.
Speaker 6: Oh, I was still, let's keep it light. I wasn't trying.
Speaker 11: No, I'm just saying, oh, but it was yeah, did
Speaker 11: he know, Yeah I liked Joe. Yeah, no, No, I
Speaker 11: liked him too, but it was it was, I don't know,
Speaker 11: he had to take that. He took that Szakara fight
Speaker 11: on two weeks notice.
Speaker 2: We got the call.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, you know before that we went down to
Speaker 11: Philly to talk to Beyond Rebney. He was gonna be
Speaker 11: the face of Belatore. Rebney was saying, I think he
Speaker 11: was giving him like ten thousand dollars signing bonus, which
Speaker 11: for Chris at the time was a huge thing. It
Speaker 11: was thank god he didn't go.
Speaker 2: That route, you know.
Speaker 11: So, yeah, this made me know what we're excited. This
Speaker 11: might be ten minutes.
Speaker 6: No, well no, I just what sometimes happens is And
Speaker 6: I don't know if people enjoy this sort of behind
Speaker 6: the scenes conversation or not, but what ends up happening
Speaker 6: is that some of the speeches end up being like
Speaker 6: twenty two minutes, and we don't have like Austin like
Speaker 6: shuffle them off. But we have a hard deadline this
Speaker 6: time around. So I'm gonna do whatever I can to
Speaker 6: chop up my part to make sure that you know,
Speaker 6: you guys all have a ton of real estate.
Speaker 11: I get it. Yeah, sorry, Joe. When I get it
Speaker 11: done today, I'll read through it and if it's more
Speaker 11: than about I'll chop it up too. But I think somebody,
Speaker 11: I think it's good for the younger people to hear
Speaker 11: what things will like back then when this guy was
Speaker 11: coming up, and you know.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 11: He was a phenom at the time. He really was.
Speaker 6: So speaking of phenoms, Ken Flower was there April sixth,
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen in Sweden when Connor McGregor made his UFC debut.
Speaker 6: Connor McGregor's fighting this weekend, and I don't really know
Speaker 6: what to make of it. I sort of feel like
Speaker 6: it's going to be the easiest open for me to
Speaker 6: write that I've ever written, because the biggest superstar mixed
Speaker 6: martial arts history is back for the first time in
Speaker 6: five years. It feels unfair to ask you what your
Speaker 6: expectations are, but that's why they pay you the big bucks.
Speaker 6: Max Holloway is a pretty big favorite, less or so
Speaker 6: than maybe three weeks ago. But what are your expectations
Speaker 6: for Connor in a five round fight?
Speaker 11: You know, the expectations are to see if he could
Speaker 11: overcome his last five years of just being sidelines and
Speaker 11: he had that injury and you know, the partying and stuff.
Speaker 11: I just hope he he showed up in good shape
Speaker 11: and he puts on a good fight. That's all I'm
Speaker 11: looking for, you know. But the expectations as far as
Speaker 11: something spectacular having right now, I don't have it. Maybe
Speaker 11: by the time the fight comes out, be a little better.
Speaker 11: But wait, let me just switch courses for a day,
Speaker 11: just for a second. John'm sorry, you're gonna kill me.
Speaker 11: But Kenny, I mean back in the day, it was
Speaker 11: a different time you were there. I mean, I'm even thinking,
Speaker 11: what if it happened to that guy Burns with Curns.
Speaker 11: Wasn't he a conditioner? Like what happened to that Guyurns?
Speaker 8: He's still burning, He's still.
Speaker 11: That fuse didn't go out. You're saying it's not extinguished.
Speaker 8: It's always there.
Speaker 6: And he just got a fresh flattop at the barber shop.
Speaker 11: He seems like that type of guy that's he's not
Speaker 11: going anywhere but barnicle on a boat, right nolp flat.
Speaker 11: But I was thinking, even all the strength guys back then,
Speaker 11: we're getting, you know, some shine, And it was just
Speaker 11: a crazy period of time. Everything was kind of new
Speaker 11: and people will grind it. I don't know. I just
Speaker 11: came to me, but no, I just popped into my head.
Speaker 11: I had to get it out.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 6: No, it's funny, and I've said this before, but you know,
Speaker 6: I felt like, you know, when I started covering Mma,
Speaker 6: I was late to the game, and I was actually early,
Speaker 6: but I thought I was late.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you did hindsight, you were early, I mean.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I guess. Then let me ask you guys
Speaker 6: this about Connor. What is your relative level of enthusiasm
Speaker 6: for this show versus UFC Freedom two fifty, Raymond Pete.
Speaker 11: I had. I was more enthusied for UFC two fifty.
Speaker 11: I think that there were better matchups that the matchups
Speaker 11: that I wanted to see I thought were real good matchups.
Speaker 11: And yeah, I don't I don't have the same excitement,
Speaker 11: but again that could change. I'm still, you know, not
Speaker 11: totally jet leg, but I think I just got back
Speaker 11: Saturday in my head.
Speaker 6: So right, Yeah, Kenny, you have seen Freedom two fifty
Speaker 6: had the two biggest stars right now, Eliotoportia and at
Speaker 6: and certainly the fight card was better and and there's
Speaker 6: no title fight this.
Speaker 7: Week, so yeah, I think I was more excited for
Speaker 7: that two fifty card, you know, the Freedom to fifty card,
Speaker 7: just because of the matchups. Obviously, championship belts online that
Speaker 7: always matters. However, I will say I'm probably more intrigued
Speaker 7: with this card just because of Connor I want to
Speaker 7: see what Connor comes back. He's got a great opponent
Speaker 7: in Max Holloway. What's Max Hollowey gonna look like at
Speaker 7: one seventy and so to me that's intriguing it. Of course,
Speaker 7: you know, having that history of calling Connor's first fight
Speaker 7: and knowing about him prior to coming to the UFC
Speaker 7: and hearing all the hype around him and seeing what
Speaker 7: he accomplished, I'm always gonna be excited for Connor McGregor fight.
Speaker 7: And I hope that you know, he's able to come
Speaker 7: back at least perform well even if he loses, that
Speaker 7: he comes back and performs well, because I think the sport,
Speaker 7: the sport doesn't need connormc gregor, but he certainly helps.
Speaker 6: It's just a crazy circumstance to call these two events,
Speaker 6: or have these two events back to back, right, because
Speaker 6: there won't be any event bigger than the one that
Speaker 6: we just did two weeks ago, and yet here we
Speaker 6: are with Connor fucking McGregor, yeah, this weekend. So I'm
Speaker 6: very excited. I'm very anxious. If you can't tell, Patty Pimlet,
Speaker 6: Ben was Antony in the co main event, Raymond, do
Speaker 6: you have any thoughts on that. Who do you think
Speaker 6: is the betting favorite than that one kid?
Speaker 11: I'm saying Patty Pimlet's the favorite.
Speaker 6: I thought so too. I was wrong. We were both wrong.
Speaker 11: Oh wow, what's what's the odds on that filt? Well?
Speaker 6: Sawtany's ripped off several in a row? I think four
Speaker 6: in a row. It's close, But you know, I mean
Speaker 6: Patty's like plus one thirty or something.
Speaker 11: Okay, I'm excited for that fight too. I think that's
Speaker 11: a great fight.
Speaker 3: You know that fight.
Speaker 11: I'm you know, the McGregor thing is Kenny used the
Speaker 11: word intriguing, yet it is intriguing, and I'll tell you
Speaker 11: he's definitely gonna bring eyeballs. He's got a loyal following still,
Speaker 11: but five years is a long time away from the game, man,
Speaker 11: it really is. So it's that, to me, is the
Speaker 11: whole thing Kenny can he perform after that type of layoff?
Speaker 7: And yeah, what was it a twenty seven minute sellout
Speaker 7: or something like that? The whole sold minutes. So he's
Speaker 7: still people want to see him fight.
Speaker 11: Like, yeah, you know, but that it's it's look, I
Speaker 11: think it's a hard task. I think it was always hard.
Speaker 11: I mean, Lennon took off two years against Tagl at
Speaker 11: that time, and they thought that was a big deal
Speaker 11: and he came back and obviously had a great fight.
Speaker 11: But five years is that's a long time?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: So a few other items on UFC three twenty nine,
Speaker 6: if I could, We got a few more minutes here
Speaker 6: with Raymond p Wendy. You leave for Las Vegas by
Speaker 6: the way, Wednesday, Wednesday? Yeah, and are you staying for
Speaker 6: the show?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 11: No, I'm in and out. I got things to do.
Speaker 6: What do you have to do? What do you have
Speaker 6: to do?
Speaker 11: I got some things coming up, but I don't know
Speaker 11: this could tell you? This is this is uh, it's
Speaker 11: my second guy in the Hall of Fame. I might
Speaker 11: just but there's a side. I mean, it's just just cool.
Speaker 2: It quits.
Speaker 6: You wanted to retire? Wow, we got some breaking news
Speaker 6: here hit John Anagast Raymond Longo why he will not
Speaker 6: be sticking around for UFC three twenty nine, and Longo
Speaker 6: hints at retirement.
Speaker 11: So I got I got some things to do back
Speaker 11: home that longer.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, So because I was gonna maybe offer
Speaker 6: up my two tickets in my hotel room. You could
Speaker 6: come hang out for the weekend, but it sounds like
Speaker 6: you're gonna be wheels up back to the East coast. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: all right, I want to ask you, no, I no,
Speaker 6: I mean no, I want to ask you real quickly
Speaker 6: about Gable Steveson. Uh yeah, I mean, I feel like
Speaker 6: when you have a stabilizing force in the corner like
Speaker 6: he does. You know, I don't necessarily worry about the
Speaker 6: jitters as much as I would, but my gosh, man,
Speaker 6: I mean he is. He has as much hype and
Speaker 6: pressure as any heavyweight prospect in the last ten years,
Speaker 6: for sure.
Speaker 11: Right, oh, without a doubt. It looks like he's so
Speaker 11: far handling it pretty fucking well. It looks like he
Speaker 11: loves to throw hands and with his wrestling, I mean,
Speaker 11: he's going to be a problem, a major, major problem.
Speaker 6: All Right, I'm gonna throw a few other fights your
Speaker 6: way and whatever you want to give your opinion on
Speaker 6: that would be absolutely fine. We have a rematch up
Speaker 6: bandam Way between Corey Sandhagen and Mario Bautista. We have
Speaker 6: Robert Whittaker at two to five against Nikita Krillov. What
Speaker 6: do you make of the Reaper at two hundred and
Speaker 6: five pounds.
Speaker 11: Uh mean, I'm pulling forda. I think Whittick is a great.
Speaker 6: Dude, man, great human being, has six children.
Speaker 11: I think he's a good dude. I think he shoots
Speaker 11: from the hippies, an honest guy. Look, he started out
Speaker 11: at one seventy, it was fantastic at eighty five. I mean,
Speaker 11: I hope he gets it done. I think it's a It.
Speaker 2: Should be a good fight for him.
Speaker 11: It should be a good fight for him.
Speaker 6: That's your way.
Speaker 2: Who's favorite?
Speaker 6: And Robert Whittaker? Whittaker's favored, albeit slightly. But I just
Speaker 6: am curious what sort of would be the progression if
Speaker 6: he were to beat Krilov. Whitaker's minus one fifty five
Speaker 6: right now on DraftKings sports Book kerl Lov plus one thirty.
Speaker 6: But what would be the progression because that division is ripe,
Speaker 6: Like if Alex Paeta stays at heavyweight, and I think
Speaker 6: most of the two oh five ors other than maybe
Speaker 6: the champ, would hope that he would.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Who's the next? Right Jamal Hills now at heavyweight right,
Speaker 6: I mean, could be a pretty expeditious rise for Whittaker
Speaker 6: if he can make a statement against Krilov, I don't.
Speaker 11: Yeah, sure he's got the yakoladz to do that, but I, uh,
Speaker 11: we'll see what happens. Well, I've been in one fight
Speaker 11: at a time. I wouldn't look past Krilla, but I
Speaker 11: think his uh speed of foot and handspeed and is
Speaker 11: dodging in and out should get.
Speaker 2: The job done.
Speaker 6: You know, all right? Before I let you go, it
Speaker 6: sounds like you got a couple of fighters that maybe
Speaker 6: are going to keep you around for a little bit longer.
Speaker 6: But do you think you'll still be actively cornering and
Speaker 6: coaching MMA athletes in five years time?
Speaker 11: Oh? I not as the main guy.
Speaker 6: It's so interesting because if we asked you that at
Speaker 6: times over the last eighteen months, you would have been like,
Speaker 6: I want to fucking do this till I die. And
Speaker 6: so there has been a little bit of a shift.
Speaker 11: Well I said, not as the main guy, but I
Speaker 11: don't know the look. It's all about feeling. Man, if
Speaker 11: the patient goes, I'm will walk away immediately, you know see.
Speaker 6: Because that's how I feel about the Anakin Floran podcast.
Speaker 6: I'll do the show into eternity, but I don't want
Speaker 6: to be the main guy. Anymore.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 11: Oh, if you're not the main guy, we're in trouble.
Speaker 6: Oh you're the main guy. If you're not the main
Speaker 6: guy in the corner, then this can be the longer
Speaker 6: the ray longo sh with John and Kenny and you
Speaker 6: can drive the boat.
Speaker 11: I told you last week when you said you prepared
Speaker 11: two and a half hours, I said, that's two and
Speaker 11: a half hours logan than I prepared.
Speaker 6: So hey, we love your buddy. I'll see a couple
Speaker 6: of days.
Speaker 11: All right, definitely let's hook up, though for sure.
Speaker 6: What do you want to do? I mean, what do
Speaker 6: you want to get dinner? I mean, ah, tomorrow, tomorrow.
Speaker 6: I'll be there tomorrow. Yeah, I have I have some
Speaker 6: obligations pretty much every day. But yeah, I mean maybe
Speaker 6: we can connect Wednesday.
Speaker 11: Can you say that on the air?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I'm not gonna. I could, but I'm
Speaker 6: not gonna.
Speaker 11: You think you think we're all in the same hotel.
Speaker 6: I'm a little bit further west. I think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: I think we are in the same hotel. Let's fucking go.
Speaker 6: If I had a table that wasn't from I Keia,
Speaker 6: I would hit it right. We gotta go, We gotta go.
Speaker 11: All right, guys, I see you in Vegas and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: They're staying at the Flamingo one zero.
Speaker 11: We'll come up with a safe word. John. If I
Speaker 11: start rambling, just scream it out and I'll just cut
Speaker 11: the speech.
Speaker 6: Oh I can't wait to cut the tension backstage.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I'm nervous.
Speaker 6: It'll be less nerve wracking in the afternoon, though. There's
Speaker 6: something about being in prime time that makes it a
Speaker 6: little bit more tense, you know. Anyway, all right, get
Speaker 6: a haircut before I assume. No, definitely, and I just
Speaker 6: got my he so I can see the total backage
Speaker 6: and them We'll let you go back to the tanning
Speaker 6: both take them off. No, I can't take them, all right,
Speaker 6: all right, see right, we love you.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 6: I wonder if Ray got any bad weather. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: have Cody tap into my Instagram a little bit to
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Speaker 6: not gonna do that until maybe the end of the
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Speaker 6: for it. Let's get to Yannie the Greek. It's time
Speaker 6: to make some predictions. We have eight of them UFC three, two, nine,
Speaker 6: McGregor the Holloway too. And you know, for the big
Speaker 6: numbered events we call on the best handicapper in the business,
Speaker 6: that is Yanni the Greek and Yannie. We don't really
Speaker 6: know what to make of this. Connor McGregor return, It's
Speaker 6: great to see you. So are you a Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 6: six ers fan?
Speaker 10: Wall was as a kid, even went to the eighty
Speaker 10: three parade. Cut school wow in the parade, yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: And they were all playing you know joke and saying
Speaker 10: that Bobby Jones's nephew. When I was on the subway
Speaker 10: getting there. My cousin is is the best time, great time.
Speaker 10: And then two years later Doctor J retired and they
Speaker 10: had another parade that was elementary school. I cut school
Speaker 10: and take the train down to Center City. Like the
Speaker 10: thought of that. Now, letting your kid do.
Speaker 6: That, right, No way. I'm telling you though, if you're
Speaker 6: listening and your team wins a championship, just go to
Speaker 6: the parade. It's it's a truly unique experience. All right.
Speaker 6: We have eight predictions that we are going to lay
Speaker 6: your way today, ladies and gentlemen. It is UFC three
Speaker 6: twenty nine McGregor versus Holloway two. Want to get a
Speaker 6: quick pick on this bandam way fight. Adrian yan Yez
Speaker 6: minus four to ten Cody Garbrandt plus three twenty Yanni,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure if there's any value on Cody no
Speaker 6: love or if you do like the big favorite yan Yez.
Speaker 6: He's minus four to ten despite cashing just once in
Speaker 6: his last five What do you make of the bandon
Speaker 6: weights on the prelim portion? Yanni?
Speaker 10: Yeah, And that's the problem. I mean, if I have
Speaker 10: to pick the winner, I'm gonna lean to the yan
Speaker 10: Yes side. He should win this fight. That's why he's
Speaker 10: a four to one favorite. But I don't think there's
Speaker 10: any betting value. He opened minus two fifty. If he
Speaker 10: got down at that number, he plays the good bet.
Speaker 10: Hopefully he goes out there and does his job for you.
Speaker 10: But I just don't see the advantages where he would
Speaker 10: be that big of a favor. I look at strength
Speaker 10: of schedule, six wins again cosponents that were nine and nine.
Speaker 10: It's his losses that are more impressive. Where with the
Speaker 10: Guarbrand strength of schedule he has a huge edge and
Speaker 10: in a fight that should remain standing. I just don't
Speaker 10: see the huge disadvantages. The chin will be a problem. Again,
Speaker 10: I'm not betting it, but it's dogger pass.
Speaker 6: Cody Garbrand defeated Shall Long back in March. There were
Speaker 6: growing strikes point deductions can flow relative to the past
Speaker 6: few years. Pretty quick turn for Cody, No love. He's
Speaker 6: plus three twenty right now, Kenny, what do you say?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's a good sign that he kind
Speaker 7: of wants to fight and stay active. I just haven't
Speaker 7: seen that fire or you know, let alone that emotional
Speaker 7: control that he was legendary for when he beat Dominic
Speaker 7: Cruz in one of the most impressive title fight performances
Speaker 7: that I've ever seen. Now, I think we're all long
Speaker 7: ways away from that Cody Garbrandt. And for that reason,
Speaker 7: I mean, you got to have jan Yez here. I
Speaker 7: think he's been the more consistent performer. I think he's
Speaker 7: gonna gonna be the guy that like tries to get
Speaker 7: a bigger name off of beating a big name in
Speaker 7: Cody Garbrandt, and I just see him having a little
Speaker 7: bit too much of an advantage heading into this one.
Speaker 6: So Janni, when people talk about Justin Gaegee beating iliot
Speaker 6: Topotia is one of the biggest upsets in UFC history,
Speaker 6: and they don't contextualize it by saying maybe one of
Speaker 6: the biggest championship upsets in UFC history. They lose guys
Speaker 6: like me and probably guys like you, Which brings me
Speaker 6: to Gable Steveson the Olympic gold medalist is minus twenty
Speaker 6: eight hundred. Elijah Ellison trying to cash at plus thirteen hundred,
Speaker 6: Now this would be maybe the biggest upset in UFC history.
Speaker 6: What do you make at Gable and is there any
Speaker 6: way to sort of attack the board if you do
Speaker 6: like that side, Well.
Speaker 10: Let's just forget the ex's and no's. Just just simply
Speaker 10: look at the betting line you touched on minus twenty
Speaker 10: eight hundred. The break even on minus twenty eight hundred
Speaker 10: is ninety six point five to five percent. So he
Speaker 10: has to win this fight one hundred percent of the
Speaker 10: time for you to have less than a three percent
Speaker 10: edge and implied win probability. So if even there's a
Speaker 10: one percent chance that he has a headache anything black Swan.
Speaker 10: I mean, the best traders in the world factoring five
Speaker 10: percent for black Swan events. So I mean you look
Speaker 10: at it as far as sports betting, maybe we factor
Speaker 10: in a one percent two percent for black Swan event.
Speaker 10: I see no edge. Again, He's going to go out
Speaker 10: there get the job done like he should, but from
Speaker 10: a betting perspective, there's no value at all. But there's
Speaker 10: not value in the dog either. And at plus thirteen hundred,
Speaker 10: he only has to win this fight seven percent at
Speaker 10: a time, and I still can't see him getting there
Speaker 10: because its pre UFC opponents. He has like one or
Speaker 10: two fights against guys with a winning record. He gets smashed.
Speaker 10: That's what happens. But again, no betting value on Stevenson
Speaker 10: at that part.
Speaker 6: Elijah Ellison Kenvil plus thirteen hundred. He can change his
Speaker 6: life here, right, I mean he was finished quickly in
Speaker 6: his UFC debut last September. Nickname is the snack Panther.
Speaker 6: We'll see what he has for Steveson this weekendflow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, amazing Nick, And seems like a really good guy,
Speaker 7: former military guy, former police officer as well. Seemed like,
Speaker 7: you know, he made this shift of fighting which really
Speaker 7: kind of saved his life, he said. And you know,
Speaker 7: I think he's he's obviously I think that Steveson has
Speaker 7: the athletic advantage, no question about that.
Speaker 8: But this guy is an athlete. He can crack, he
Speaker 8: can hurt you.
Speaker 7: So I think he's got to just look for that
Speaker 7: kind of you know, big mistake from Steveson, or just
Speaker 7: catch him as he comes in. But uh yeah, I
Speaker 7: mean Gable should win this, and should win this pretty quickly.
Speaker 7: I think Allison is Allison is a blue belt in
Speaker 7: Brazilian jitsu, so not gonna be a huge threat on
Speaker 7: the ground.
Speaker 8: I think his biggest threat is going to be on
Speaker 8: the feet.
Speaker 7: And I just think that Gable, Steve said, is going
Speaker 7: to be too much of a powerhouse with his Takedowns all.
Speaker 6: Right, featured prelim and light heavyweight Robert Whitaker minus won
Speaker 6: fifty five Nikita Krilla plus one thirty. So the former
Speaker 6: middleweight champ Whittaker going up to two h five began
Speaker 6: his UFC run. As we mentioned, as a welterweight, he
Speaker 6: hasn't fought since a five round split lost to Rhinier
Speaker 6: DeRidder in a main event last July. I thought he
Speaker 6: was highly competitive. I know RJ was sort of suggesting
Speaker 6: that maybe against that division's elite he no longer can compete,
Speaker 6: but uh, you know, I was encouraged by Whittaker's last outing.
Speaker 6: How do you see him here at two oh five
Speaker 6: in this debut against the Kida Krilov Yuani.
Speaker 10: Well, I think the odds makers got this one right.
Speaker 10: When the first book that went the market opened cry
Speaker 10: Off as the favorite. Within five minutes, Whittaker got the
Speaker 10: minus two hundred, and since then we've been seeing the
Speaker 10: cry Off money coming in and I completely agree with
Speaker 10: that number one. You touched on it moving up the
Speaker 10: light heavyweight. So we have some questions there on the
Speaker 10: Whittaker side. Tough to quantify what that's worth, but he's
Speaker 10: coming off back to back losses, so he's not coming
Speaker 10: in with momentum, and more importantly, zoom out a little
Speaker 10: further and he's three and four over his last seven
Speaker 10: flip side of that, cry Off, he's gonna have physical
Speaker 10: advantages three inches in four inches in reach, and he
Speaker 10: got that pressure off because he finally got that win
Speaker 10: after his return from that two year years off. You know,
Speaker 10: he got that w went three rounds and I don't
Speaker 10: see just any disadvantages in the data. I mean, Kenny's
Speaker 10: the x is and O's guy, but I just see
Speaker 10: in the striking he's two x greater in strike differential,
Speaker 10: and Whitaker spends most of his time, you know, eighty
Speaker 10: one percent has minute striking from a distance. In the grappling,
Speaker 10: I think, at least on paper, Cryloff has the advantages
Speaker 10: when five x the control time attempts four point eight
Speaker 10: takedowns per five minutes from a distance, so he can
Speaker 10: mix it up. Yeah, I know Winner's got that great
Speaker 10: takedown defense obviously, but I just think cry Off have
Speaker 10: plus money's a gift a worst case this is a
Speaker 10: coin flip, and you're getting me plus one thirty on
Speaker 10: a coin flip. I love the cry off side win
Speaker 10: or lose. I think it's a good bet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's well set up. In Kenny at UFC Freedom
Speaker 6: two fifty, we were talking about Seedle Ghan and Justin
Speaker 6: Gaetchee as the two fighters who had the experience in
Speaker 6: that weight class, and we saw what happened. I know
Speaker 6: that's just a recent, short sample size, but Krilov does
Speaker 6: have three inches in height, he has four inches in reach.
Speaker 6: He is the underdog. Though this weekend can flow, which
Speaker 6: side do you fall on?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I'll say that.
Speaker 7: You know, Whittaker has had the far more difficult level
Speaker 7: of competition, right two five isn't necessarily known as being
Speaker 7: the most skillful division. So I like the fact that
Speaker 7: Whittaker is coming in here and going against the guy
Speaker 7: in Koreelof who does have a lot.
Speaker 8: Of experience, but he does make a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 7: And you know, if you're talking about you know, the
Speaker 7: momentum and the danger factor, all those things come into play.
Speaker 7: But I just think the more skillful fighter is the
Speaker 7: one to watch out for. And while I do have
Speaker 7: my doubts about whether his power will carry over, I
Speaker 7: do think his speed is going to be a significant
Speaker 7: advantage because you know what it was at one hundred
Speaker 7: and seventy pounds, Like he was one of the faster
Speaker 7: guys that won seventy. I think he'll bring that speed
Speaker 7: that's going to surprise a lot of tool fivers there.
Speaker 7: He's a huge name in the division, So John, I
Speaker 7: agree with you what you said earlier. He could make
Speaker 7: a nice run for that belt the next year or
Speaker 7: so if he's successful.
Speaker 8: But I think this is a great.
Speaker 7: Matchup, all of these matchups, so all the way as
Speaker 7: we go down the card, I think the matchmakers did
Speaker 7: such an amazing job. It's really close. But I do
Speaker 7: like Whitaker here. I do think either he'll be he's
Speaker 7: gonna be able to catch kreel off or win by
Speaker 7: decision just by outpointing him and just being more successful
Speaker 7: all the way around.
Speaker 6: All right, now we get to the main card, Yours
Speaker 6: Live on Paramount Plus main card opener at lightweight Terrence
Speaker 6: McKinney minus one forty eight, King Green plus one twenty four.
Speaker 6: So McKinney has yet to receive an official bonus from
Speaker 6: the UFC despite eight round one finishes as a UFC fighter.
Speaker 6: But when you look at the schedule, Yannie, this is
Speaker 6: the biggest name he's ever fought, the Ageless King Green.
Speaker 6: What do you make of the lightweight main card opener?
Speaker 10: My men, Yeah, that the Ageless King Green's coming in
Speaker 10: with momentum, and I think that's why there's a little
Speaker 10: recency bias on the price. And we've seen money coming
Speaker 10: in on the Green side. Three nice wins, you know,
Speaker 10: but you zoom out a little bit further and six'
Speaker 10: five zero and one over his last twelve but at plus,
Speaker 10: money you, know that's. POSITIVE roi on the flip side with,
Speaker 10: McKinney like you, said zero decisions in his THIRTEEN ufc,
Speaker 10: fights you would usually expect him to regress towards the.
Speaker 10: Mean we're talking about a weight class which is fifty
Speaker 10: to fifty whether DECISIONS i. FINISHES i just don't see
Speaker 10: that happening in his. CAREER i don't think they're gonna
Speaker 10: have a big enough sample size for him to regress
Speaker 10: towards the. Mean this one's under one and a half
Speaker 10: minus three, sixty so the judges could take take this one.
Speaker 10: Off and that's where there's a little bit of randomness
Speaker 10: involved in that. Finish that that's what worries. Me about
Speaker 10: back in the McKinney, side even at this discounted, Price
Speaker 10: BUT i do think he's should be the favorite close
Speaker 10: to that. Price he's six and, two he's been profitable
Speaker 10: in this spot as a, favorite and he's got some
Speaker 10: upside in the ground, game like at least the as
Speaker 10: shows in the stand up very very comparable. Stats AND
Speaker 10: i do Give King green the strength of schedule advantage no,
Speaker 10: disrespect but most of that is due to the, losses
Speaker 10: like very very respectable, losses and you gain a ton
Speaker 10: of experience and knowledge from those. Losses it's not all,
Speaker 10: negative but that's what really brings the overall strength of schedule.
Speaker 10: Up SO i do think there's some recency bias again
Speaker 10: on The King green. SIDE i think it's a mckinnier pass.
Speaker 10: Situation But i'm not comfortable laying this, price, Like i'm just.
Speaker 10: NOT i think there's just too much randomness involved in
Speaker 10: the finishing of how this one goes. Down and, YEAH
Speaker 10: i Think i'm just gonna enjoy this from a spectator's standpoint.
Speaker 6: That's well set up as. Usual this will be the
Speaker 6: thirty FIRST ufc appearance for the Legendary King green schedule
Speaker 6: to join us here live on The Annakin Flooring podcast
Speaker 6: at the bottom of the. Hour he will be forty
Speaker 6: On september. Ninth and, YEAH i MEAN i lean far
Speaker 6: more in to the zel Huber win THAN i do
Speaker 6: The Jeremy Stevens. WIN i do like all The green
Speaker 6: activity of late, RIGHT i mean dating To march eighth
Speaker 6: of twenty twenty, five this will be his fifth Fight
Speaker 6: kenny in a span of sixteen, months WHICH i think
Speaker 6: is something that is. Encouraging but, Yeah age, cheats no.
Speaker 6: Man what do you Think King Green tarrence McKinney at fifty?
Speaker 6: Five who do you?
Speaker 7: LIKE i think it's going to be extremely volatile up
Speaker 7: until you, know round. TWO i think round, ONE i
Speaker 7: think there's a lot of chaos that can ensue. McKinney
Speaker 7: that's where he's most. Dangerous AND i think that his
Speaker 7: technique level kind of drops down significantly after round. One
Speaker 7: but boy does he have an offensive arsenal that.
Speaker 8: Is extremely dangerous and.
Speaker 7: Capable and as you, Know yannie was, saying you, know
Speaker 7: nine KOs nine. Subs this guy can get a ton
Speaker 7: on the feet and get it down on the. Ground
Speaker 7: But King green has an ability to make you fight his.
Speaker 8: Fight he's.
Speaker 7: Unorthodox he's, awkward he gets in your, face he stays,
Speaker 7: busy he loves to fight and kind of feeds off
Speaker 7: of that, energy right like similar to A Nate. Diaz
Speaker 7: AND i Like King green. HERE i think that a
Speaker 7: lot of people have been sleeping on. Him and, yes
Speaker 7: you know he's a little bit, older BUT i still
Speaker 7: think he's very. Capable if he survives round, ONE i
Speaker 7: give him a great chance of winning this. Fight so
Speaker 7: McKinney's very. DANGEROUS i could see him winning in round,
Speaker 7: one but Gimme King. Green kind of gotta love McKinney's
Speaker 7: approach to pro. FIGHTING i think that would probably be my.
Speaker 7: Approach you, know he's.
Speaker 6: Exciting Miss you KNOW i wouldn't have a six, pack you,
Speaker 6: know one round. Fighter, Hey, JOHNNY i want to share
Speaker 6: this from our esteem Producer cody merrow. CHAT gpt analysis
Speaker 6: says fighters Like Robert whitaker moving from one eighty five
Speaker 6: to two o five in THE ufc are twenty, eight
Speaker 6: twenty nine and one, overall but if you Remove Michelle
Speaker 6: padata And Anthony, smith they are, thirteen twenty one and.
Speaker 6: One i'm not a smart mathematical dude at, all but
Speaker 6: those numbers seem excuse, Me Alex, podata Not, Michelle SO
Speaker 6: i am not that, smart, right but that seems kind
Speaker 6: of something that might bolster a krill of. Arguments, No,
Speaker 6: like that's pretty. Telling the fighters have not fared particularly.
Speaker 6: Well and that's a move that a lot of fighters
Speaker 6: seemingly try to make at one.
Speaker 10: Point in, Time and it makes a lot of sense
Speaker 10: why it. Wouldn't, again you've been fighting that one weight
Speaker 10: class in your entire. Life that's what your normal size.
Speaker 10: Is so what you've been working out, at fighting, at
Speaker 10: competing at, everything and now you're adding on weight and
Speaker 10: doing something new at a later point in your career
Speaker 10: where everything gets more. Difficult you're fighting an uphill. BATTLE i,
Speaker 10: know like the trainers and that, camp that sign's going
Speaker 10: to turn to all the positives that you're going to
Speaker 10: get out of. It but from a handicapping, PERSPECTIVE i
Speaker 10: just see a lot of negatives in moving up in
Speaker 10: weight class against the natch bigger. Guy they should always
Speaker 10: have the, Edge, LIKE i don't see how one man
Speaker 10: moving up and fighting the bigger guy is going to
Speaker 10: give the smaller guy the advantage unless he's just that
Speaker 10: much faster and able to carry that power up and With,
Speaker 10: rogers don't see that being the case here With kryloff,
Speaker 10: AGAIN i think Winn girl will have success in this
Speaker 10: weight class because he's just that kind of. Fighter he's
Speaker 10: elite no matter what weight class he's. At BUT i
Speaker 10: think he may take a little bit a couple of,
Speaker 10: rounds if not a couple of fights for him to
Speaker 10: get comfortable. There AND i Think krylov has a good
Speaker 10: is in a good, spot you, know with decent momentum
Speaker 10: coming in off a.
Speaker 6: Window very, Interesting thank, You cody All. Right flyway. Division Lonnie.
Speaker 6: KAVANAUGH i like That royvalf called him. Loner Lonnie kavanaugh
Speaker 6: minus two twenty Five Brandon royval's plus one to eighty.
Speaker 6: Five royvoll seemed in fine fedal with us earlier. Today
Speaker 6: he had a big twenty twenty, four, right and then
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five not so much the losses To van And,
Speaker 6: cop but still one of the best in the. World
Speaker 6: and try to sort of stay that way Against Lonnie,
Speaker 6: kavanaugh guy That Kent flow has touted for a. While,
Speaker 6: yohanni what do you make of the fly? Guys?
Speaker 10: Here here's another spot WHERE i don't want to be
Speaker 10: sound you know be. Born but the bottom line is
Speaker 10: pick the. Winner It's. Kavanaugh but from a betting, PERSPECTIVE
Speaker 10: i just don't see all that much, value especially as
Speaker 10: this line continues to. Climb he opened minus one, seventy
Speaker 10: got the minus one, eighty got the minus one. Ninety
Speaker 10: now you're looking at minus two twenty five against obviously
Speaker 10: dangerous Roy. Val he's coming off back to back, losses
Speaker 10: but AS i always, say when in, doubt zoom, out
Speaker 10: we zoom. Out he's five and one prior to those
Speaker 10: losses and he's has a huge edge in strength of.
Speaker 10: Schedule that five to one run was against guys Like
Speaker 10: moreno In Ti. Era so again he's being discounted here
Speaker 10: because of that back to back losses coupled with the
Speaker 10: perfect Storm kavanall coming in off a win against a
Speaker 10: name Like moreno where he got a, bonus so you
Speaker 10: expect him to come in over. Value the market's doing
Speaker 10: exactly what it's supposed to, do and that's correct itself
Speaker 10: towards the side of The cavanol because he's going to
Speaker 10: attract the money like that's WHERE i expect a lot
Speaker 10: of the risks to come. In and if the last
Speaker 10: line continues to. Climb i'm going to be forced to
Speaker 10: Bet rayval only because at least on, PAPER i don't
Speaker 10: see disadvantages in the, striking better strike, differential higher knockdown,
Speaker 10: rate and we know how Dangerous rayval is on the.
Speaker 10: Ground he can give up minutes by being comfortable in
Speaker 10: his back and that'll lose, you you, know around here or.
Speaker 10: There but, again if they keep Betting kavanaugh, up they're
Speaker 10: going to force me to get through the window with Roy,
Speaker 10: val AND i just don't want to do it because
Speaker 10: AGAIN i have a gut, too and my gut tells
Speaker 10: Me kavanaugh gets the w BUT i. FILE i tryed
Speaker 10: not to follow my gut and follow the, math and
Speaker 10: it served me. Well so for, me it's a pass right.
Speaker 10: Now but get me up to plus two twenty to
Speaker 10: ten ring AND i get interested.
Speaker 6: In rayva makes a lot of. Sense kavanaugh ten and
Speaker 6: one can flow twenty seven years of, Age Great, britain
Speaker 6: top team out Of. London he's well and you've used
Speaker 6: the adjective special to describe him prior to your thoughts
Speaker 6: On kavanaugh Against royval this. Weekend, BROTHER i.
Speaker 7: Think he's a world class striker when he's putting it
Speaker 7: all together, offensively, DEFENSIVELY i think he's really. Sound maybe
Speaker 7: the weakest part of his game maybe defense a little.
Speaker 7: BIT i also, think you, know getting that loss out
Speaker 7: To Charles johnson is gonna suit him. Well it's like
Speaker 7: he knows what that's. Like and NOW i think we're
Speaker 7: seeing the Real kavanaugh out. There his performance Against, MORENO
Speaker 7: i think was. Phenomenal that is going to build some
Speaker 7: serious confidence as he goes in there and faces a
Speaker 7: very dangerous guy In.
Speaker 8: Royval AND i love What.
Speaker 7: Brandon was, saying not only as far as his breakdown
Speaker 7: of the, fight but what he's doing in training to
Speaker 7: become a better. Fighter royval is another one of those
Speaker 7: guys who can be really good at luring you into
Speaker 7: a very chaotic. FIGHT i think that's where he. THRIVES
Speaker 7: i Think kavanaugh has to be very careful with, that
Speaker 7: and being the less experienced, fighter he's gonna have to
Speaker 7: be really disciplined in this.
Speaker 8: ONE i think it's a dangerous fight for. Him BUT
Speaker 8: i like kevanaugh here as.
Speaker 7: Well you, KNOW i think, that, uh he's feeling comfortable
Speaker 7: in THE, ufc AND i think he's gonna build momentum
Speaker 7: off of his last fight or so.
Speaker 6: All, right that brings us to a featured bout in
Speaker 6: the bandamweight. Division that really piques my. Interest Cory sandagen
Speaker 6: minus one forty. Eight Mario bautista is plus one twenty.
Speaker 6: Four so it's a, Rematch, yanni of a twenty nineteen.
Speaker 6: Fight Mario, bautista as you guys, know is twenty five
Speaker 6: years old at the. Time he was making HIS ufc
Speaker 6: debut on short. Notice since that, loss which came by
Speaker 6: arm bar three and a half minutes into round, One
Speaker 6: bautista is eleven and two in THE. Ufc San haagan
Speaker 6: is eight and five in THE, ufc but twice he
Speaker 6: has fought for the. Title he has fought all of
Speaker 6: the best guys in the. Division but a huge opportunity For. Boutista,
Speaker 6: thankfully Sand haagen signed on the dotted. Line, yanni who
Speaker 6: do you like San haagan the favorite Or bautista the?
Speaker 10: Dog, well this is one of those fights where you're
Speaker 10: gonna get most the sharp. Betters they're going to line
Speaker 10: UP i think on The batista. Side consider, this you,
Speaker 10: know a coin. FLIP a lot of recreational betters will
Speaker 10: probably be on The sanagan, side and the trends support.
Speaker 10: THAT i, mean he won the first, fight but he
Speaker 10: was a big favorite minus five six hundred, favors so
Speaker 10: obviously a much different situation this time, around but still
Speaker 10: that trend holds. True the winner of the first tends
Speaker 10: to win the second six and a half close to
Speaker 10: seven out of ten, times and if they're favored in the,
Speaker 10: first then favored in the, second it's even higher than.
Speaker 10: That so obviously there are advantages regardless of what year
Speaker 10: it took, place we have a big enough sample size
Speaker 10: that you can't argue. It but with that, said what's the?
Speaker 10: Price and with San haagen you're looking now where break
Speaker 10: even about sixty? Percent AND i think that's fair because
Speaker 10: he's coming, off you, know two of three, losses but
Speaker 10: it's Against morob And, umar so obviously the stiffest of.
Speaker 10: Competition But batista's one of those guys that just continues
Speaker 10: to get disrespected in the betting market for whatever, reason
Speaker 10: because he lacks the, FINISHES i, think and he lacks
Speaker 10: that flashy person that you know attracts, FANS i, think
Speaker 10: and because of, that you, know you've constantly been able
Speaker 10: to get value on someone Like, bautista and he just
Speaker 10: continues to. Win he's won nine of his last ten,
Speaker 10: fights and he's you, know coming off of finish as,
Speaker 10: well and he's still getting plus. Money that's attracted to
Speaker 10: someone like. Me i'm forced to, debt WHETHER i like
Speaker 10: it or, not BECAUSE i on paper it appears to
Speaker 10: be a coin. Flip it really. Does and again the
Speaker 10: data is almost. Identical if you look at their grappling data,
Speaker 10: especially it's almost exactly the. Same the percentage of time
Speaker 10: they're in, control percentage time they get, control their takedown,
Speaker 10: defense the amount of they've in, faced the exact amount
Speaker 10: of takedowns in their, Career like their data on paper
Speaker 10: is as even as you're going to get to. Me
Speaker 10: that's a coin, flip and that forces me to bet the.
Speaker 10: Dog but it's a spot WHERE i Think corey does get,
Speaker 10: it get it, done but there's just no line value
Speaker 10: there And i'm gonna have to take the plus money
Speaker 10: put me On.
Speaker 6: Batista, Yeah, KENNY i am calling the, fight BUT i
Speaker 6: agree with a lot of. THAT i just don't see
Speaker 6: a world in Which sanhagen would be north of minus
Speaker 6: one fifty Against Mario bautista in twenty twenty. Six AND
Speaker 6: i know math is not always great a, mma BUT
Speaker 6: i even like the Way mario Fought umar better than
Speaker 6: the Way corey fought. HIM i don't. KNOW i just
Speaker 6: feel Like bautista's current form is really really, strong and uh,
Speaker 6: YEAH i Think janni brought up a lot of truths
Speaker 6: as far as the plus one twenty four or. So
Speaker 6: what do you make of this one At Banaway? Kenny
Speaker 6: very very interesting.
Speaker 7: FIGHT i think For, sanhagen he definitely has to go
Speaker 7: into this one believing he's facing a completely Different Mario.
Speaker 7: BAUTISTA i Think, bautista you, know is riding high on.
Speaker 7: CONFIDENCE i think he's dangerous with his. POWER i don't
Speaker 7: think he's the most sophisticated, striker so in that, REGARD
Speaker 7: i Think sanhagen can let his striking. Shine but Even
Speaker 7: mario has, said, like, hey, listen this fight is.
Speaker 8: Not going to take place on the. Feet i'm gonna
Speaker 8: look to take this guy down.
Speaker 7: Now the big question is can he employ the same
Speaker 7: kind of game plan with the same amount of success
Speaker 7: that A Morob dualashvili Or Umar Namaga metoff did BEFORE
Speaker 7: i have my. DOUBS i don't know if he has
Speaker 7: that same level of pressure or that same level of
Speaker 7: technical ability that those guys do with their. TAKEDOWNS i
Speaker 7: also don't think That mario is as sophisticated as striker
Speaker 7: as An AMaGA, metoff BUT i think his mental, strength
Speaker 7: his physical, strength his, conditioning his pressure can be. Similar
Speaker 7: it's up To sanhagen and how he's going to, fight
Speaker 7: because sometimes we See sanagan go up against these guys
Speaker 7: that put a lot of, pressure especially with their grappling
Speaker 7: in he doesn't let his striking, shine he doesn't throw enough,
Speaker 7: volume and because of, that you, know he loses some close.
Speaker 7: Decision So sanhagen's got to let it. Fly he's got
Speaker 7: to fight with, confidence get off to a good, start
Speaker 7: AND i think if he does, That sanhagen should. Win
Speaker 7: i'm leaning the way Of, sanhagen BUT i do Think
Speaker 7: bautista is going to be dangerous out.
Speaker 6: There fascinating. Matchup can't wait to see the Rematch sanhagen
Speaker 6: And bautista under the lights this weekend At Team. Arena
Speaker 6: and that brings us to the comin. Event we've spent
Speaker 6: some time on this. Today in the lightweight, Division Ben
Speaker 6: wasson ius one forty, Two Patty piblet is plus one
Speaker 6: twenty So piblet thirty one years of, age coming off
Speaker 6: the loss To, gaichee and now he draws the hard
Speaker 6: Nosed ben Was anthony who has ripped off for a Row.
Speaker 6: Yanni who do you?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 10: Man that the sharp betters out there cost me a
Speaker 10: wager On patty the Batty AND i even have A
Speaker 10: PATTY t. SHIRT i had it ready to, Go, JOHN
Speaker 10: i was gonna wear it and. All but they just
Speaker 10: extracted all the. VALUE i, mean you KNOW bsd opens
Speaker 10: minus two, hundred you're able to get plus one fifty
Speaker 10: five On. Patty then you're able to get plus one
Speaker 10: twenty five On, patty won thirty five on. FORTY i
Speaker 10: mean he just kept. Dropping now it's down the plus
Speaker 10: one twenty and again they extracted the. Value and how
Speaker 10: he's going to bounce back off The gaichee loss is
Speaker 10: still a. Question, now you do expect his confidence to
Speaker 10: be at an all time high because of The taporia To,
Speaker 10: kaigi meaning seeing How taporia turned, OUT i think Gives
Speaker 10: pimblet some, confidence like, HEY i stood, it like kg
Speaker 10: is who he, is Like taporio was arguably the most feared,
Speaker 10: man most avoided, man and you know we sold gaigy
Speaker 10: finish on and if anything For, patty that's got to
Speaker 10: be a positive mental, WISE i can't quantify, it but
Speaker 10: it's got to be a. Positive AND i thought this
Speaker 10: was closer to a coin flip than either fight or
Speaker 10: being a two to one. Favor SO i was, Like,
Speaker 10: Yeah patty plus, Money i'm all over. It but the problem,
Speaker 10: is again they extracted too much of the. Value and
Speaker 10: even though on paper he's the more technical guy as
Speaker 10: far as breaking goes with the highest strike, DIFFERENTIAL bsd
Speaker 10: still has that power edge and we Know patty's chin
Speaker 10: is has been tested and appears to be, granted but
Speaker 10: he still has that power advantage when you see that
Speaker 10: five to one knockdown, ratio and that's hard to. Overlook,
Speaker 10: again and in the, grappling it's hard to see who's
Speaker 10: going to have the. ADVANTAGE i think bsd's going to
Speaker 10: have more control time possibly and he's got the more
Speaker 10: impressive takedown, ratio BUT i Think patty's more the sub
Speaker 10: threat and going to do more damage if he's on.
Speaker 10: Top so it's a tough one to. CALL i do
Speaker 10: think it's closer to a coin flip than either one
Speaker 10: being a two to one. Favorite gun in the. Head
Speaker 10: i'm taking the plus money every, time BUT i do
Speaker 10: think the value has been. Extracted and you know now
Speaker 10: it's at that range WHERE i can't fall better for
Speaker 10: taking The Saint denise. Side get. ME i NEED i
Speaker 10: need like close to that plus one forty, range And
Speaker 10: i'm On Patty. Pimblet Maybe i'll get, there but prices
Speaker 10: everything to, me and IF i can't get, IT i
Speaker 10: have no problem. Passing my goal is always to place good,
Speaker 10: bets even IF i. Lose i'm comfortable IF i KNOW
Speaker 10: i place the good. BET i don't like to place
Speaker 10: bad bets and feel Like i'm. Guessing and in this,
Speaker 10: point that's how it would.
Speaker 6: Feel at this. Price you mean like me On mexico last,
Speaker 6: night just looking for looking for. Action, yeah so it's, interesting,
Speaker 6: Right Ben Wiles Antoni kenny hasn't lost With Nicholas ott
Speaker 6: as his chief. Corner he's ripped off four in a,
Speaker 6: row and oftentimes are fat fighter. Meetings it's just all
Speaker 6: about the coaching and the strategy and the. Commitment and,
Speaker 6: uh you, KNOW i do Think Patty piblet's the better.
Speaker 6: Athlete what do you make of the co main, Event.
Speaker 7: JOHN i GET i got to give you kudos for
Speaker 7: picking these fights here that you had a break, down
Speaker 7: because with each, fight as we, go you, know closer
Speaker 7: to the main, EVENT i get less and less. Confidence
Speaker 7: Uh so it's tough. Man, listen both of these. Guys
Speaker 7: we've seen these guys in fights many times where they've
Speaker 7: been on the verge of getting knocked, out getting their back,
Speaker 7: taken and then also coming back and you, know uh
Speaker 7: winning a fight where where they were, losing you. Know
Speaker 7: so it's like there's so much chaos with both of these.
Speaker 7: Fighters SO i wouldn't touch this fight with a ten foot.
Speaker 7: Poll BUT i hate With yanni here in regards to
Speaker 7: kind of leaning towards the underdog. Here so the underdog Being.
Speaker 7: Pimblet i'm gonna Pick pimblet in this, one but there's
Speaker 7: a lot that can go. Down is it gonna be
Speaker 7: the wrestling Of Ben Wasson denis that kind of gets
Speaker 7: it done here with his. CONTROL i think it's gonna
Speaker 7: be difficult to submit someone Like. PIMBLET i think if
Speaker 7: someone gets the, submission perhaps It's. PATTY i Think patty
Speaker 7: is certainly gonna be the faster. Guy but both guys
Speaker 7: aren't necessarily. Technicians when it comes to striking on the.
Speaker 7: Feet not to say they're not, Dangerous they're just not
Speaker 7: the most technical, guys and because of, THAT i see
Speaker 7: a whole lot of mistakes in both of their. Games
Speaker 7: they are, dangerous they are exciting as hell as a.
Speaker 7: Result SO i just see a tremendous amount of volatility
Speaker 7: in this. ONE i think it's gonna be a really fun.
Speaker 7: Fight who wins THIS i don't, know But i'm leaning
Speaker 7: the way Of patty.
Speaker 6: Pimblet All, right you're welterweight main events AT ufc three twenty,
Speaker 6: Nine Max holloway Versus connor. McGregor right, Now Max holloway
Speaker 6: modus two twenty five or oh, Yannie connor McGregor comes
Speaker 6: back plus one eighty. Five So holloway humbled a little
Speaker 6: bit By Charles olivera back In march AT ufc three twenty,
Speaker 6: six now fighting at welterweight and welcoming back the biggest
Speaker 6: star in the sports, History connor, McGregor competing for the
Speaker 6: first time Since july, tenth twenty twenty. One on that
Speaker 6: fateful night he unceremoniously snapped his. Leg hasn't fought since
Speaker 6: we Saw Max Halloway north of minus three hundred now
Speaker 6: settling or SHOULD i say? Moving but minus two to twenty? Five,
Speaker 6: yanni what's say you about the main? Event?
Speaker 10: Wow right? Now this is for me a real easy
Speaker 10: type of matchup from a betting perspective Because i'm on
Speaker 10: a value Better like the REASON i and my seat
Speaker 10: is Because i'm able to uncover inefficiencies in the betting.
Speaker 10: Market nothing, else Like i'm not the exit to THE os,
Speaker 10: Guy i'm not The nime, historian nothing like. That BUT
Speaker 10: i win long. Term that's the bottom line and not to.
Speaker 10: Tell but that's Why i've been able to win six
Speaker 10: out of seven season on in the line and one
Speaker 10: losing your document it's in twenty twenty IN mma BECAUSE
Speaker 10: i only look to. BET i look at it from
Speaker 10: a from a market perspective and nothing. Else so for this,
Speaker 10: fight the bottom line is the only WAY i could
Speaker 10: look to bet it is It's Max holloway or. Pass
Speaker 10: the market's made this easy for, me and let me
Speaker 10: explain it from my perspective, quickly and For, kenny this
Speaker 10: is like. Bitcoin if you're if you're constantly buying at
Speaker 10: the high and selling it the, low what's gonna happen
Speaker 10: to you you're gonna lose. Money, well there's no way
Speaker 10: you're gonna beat the. Market if you're constantly buying the
Speaker 10: top and selling the, bottom you're gonna lose. Money, well
Speaker 10: sports betting is the exact, Same and in this, situation
Speaker 10: that's WHAT i would be doing IF i was betting
Speaker 10: on the econom McGregor's. Side because this line opened up
Speaker 10: on a wild goo with max and minus six hundred.
Speaker 10: Favorite he sat around minus fifth fifty for a, while
Speaker 10: sat around minus for forty for a, while sat around
Speaker 10: minus four hundred for a. While then he went On
Speaker 10: Aaril hawane On june. Fourteenth By june sixteenth he was
Speaker 10: down to a minus two to seventy. Favorite so within
Speaker 10: a couple of days he went from an implied win
Speaker 10: probability of eighty eighty two percent down to seventy seventy three.
Speaker 10: Percent that's a double digit change in implied win probability
Speaker 10: off of a couple of. Interviews that's the power Of
Speaker 10: conor McGregor on the mic and promoting a fight and
Speaker 10: more importantly himself his. Side and there's a lot of
Speaker 10: betters in the space who haven't Seen. Connor they only
Speaker 10: heard Of Connor they only know of the legend Of,
Speaker 10: connor and when they see this version of, him they
Speaker 10: can't wait to betterment plus. Money so you got him
Speaker 10: at plus plus fifty plus three seventy plus three fifty
Speaker 10: plus three, hundreds all those prices that have been available
Speaker 10: for the last four. Weeks you did a great. Job
Speaker 10: you placed a phenomenal, bet And connor's got a good
Speaker 10: well he could go out there and Finish max Why.
Speaker 10: Cheney but where it stands right now minus two twenty
Speaker 10: Five holloway's break even now sixty nine. Percent he went
Speaker 10: from eighty six percent to sixty nine. Percent that's a
Speaker 10: seventeen percent change in implied whim. Probability it only forces
Speaker 10: me in one. SIDE i can only For x's ands.
Speaker 10: ASIDE i can only Bet max or leave it. Alone
Speaker 10: and WHAT i think is gonna happen is you're gonna
Speaker 10: get even More connor. Money as fight week is here
Speaker 10: and he starts talking even, more and the, interviews he's
Speaker 10: a master of. It he even makes me want to
Speaker 10: go bet. Him and this line's gonna drop probably even,
Speaker 10: more and sharp betters are gonna scoop in there and
Speaker 10: bet The max, side thinking we have the value and
Speaker 10: got a good bet down And connor may make us
Speaker 10: all look foolish by going out there and Knocking max,
Speaker 10: out BUT i just can't bet that side older coming
Speaker 10: off an, injury inactive the weight, class and WHEN i
Speaker 10: look At mac fourteen fights against four fights in the
Speaker 10: same period of time in the last few, years It's
Speaker 10: holloway or. Passing they're they're forcing me On holloway to even,
Speaker 10: bet like forget, Pick they're gonna make me bet it.
Speaker 10: Right they're in a two, favorite and at that POINT
Speaker 10: i got to get to the.
Speaker 6: Window, yeah it's so. Interesting we acknowledged the betting line
Speaker 6: probably three weeks ago and just felt, like there's no
Speaker 6: way that plus three p thirty On connor is going
Speaker 6: to stick her out. RIGHT i didn't necessarily think about
Speaker 6: him cracking a mic and that leading to some of the.
Speaker 6: Movement But ken Flow Max holloway minus two twenty Five
Speaker 6: connor McGregor plus one eighty five what he.
Speaker 7: Say, gosh what a, fight so, intriguing so. INTERESTING i
Speaker 7: think For, connor you, know there's so much that can
Speaker 7: change in five. Years, guys both for the positive and
Speaker 7: for the. Negative someone can build themselves into a completely different,
Speaker 7: person a completely different fighter in five.
Speaker 8: Years, however that's five years away from. Competing what the
Speaker 8: what is that going to look?
Speaker 7: Like AND i think there's all so questions on The
Speaker 7: holloway side when you look at the fact that you
Speaker 7: know he's been dropped three times in three, fights you,
Speaker 7: know all different weight classes as, Well how is that
Speaker 7: going to hold up at one SEVENTY i imagine both
Speaker 7: these guys will probably walk into the cage in and
Speaker 7: around one hundred and eighty five pounds or so two
Speaker 7: to one five in that. Range but how your body
Speaker 7: can withstand punishment and what kind of force you can
Speaker 7: create at that weight is going to be very interesting
Speaker 7: for both. MEN i think that For holloway it could be, that,
Speaker 7: hey you, know those weight cuts were tough on, him
Speaker 7: and now his chin is going to be that much more.
Speaker 7: POWERFUL i don't, Know so there's a lot of question
Speaker 7: marks for both. Guys from What i've seen the very
Speaker 7: little footage Of connor, McGregor i've seen two significant, things
Speaker 7: and these were two vulnerabilities in his. Game one his
Speaker 7: lead leg putting so much weight on that lead. Leg
Speaker 7: he used to put so much damn weight on that lead.
Speaker 7: Leg because he was trying to load up and land that.
Speaker 7: Backhand and the other thing is he'd throw it and
Speaker 7: he'd put himself off balance and then keep that kind
Speaker 7: of lead hand down, low which he would get countered
Speaker 7: with or get hit.
Speaker 8: With SO i think he's not doing that as. Much
Speaker 8: from What i've.
Speaker 7: Seen he has a much more balanced stance where he's
Speaker 7: not having a lean forward, bias which means he can
Speaker 7: block leg. Kicks that's gonna be significant for that lead.
Speaker 7: Leg the other thing Is i'm seeing a guy who's
Speaker 7: holding his hands up a little bit more and not
Speaker 7: trying to force, knockouts leaning, forward throwing himself off balance
Speaker 7: with those big. Overhands SO i think that's a good.
Speaker 7: Sign and he kind of keeps reference to the fact
Speaker 7: that he's not trying to show so. Much he doesn't
Speaker 7: want to show those. CHANGES i think that's. GOOD i
Speaker 7: think at his, core he is a martial artist through and.
Speaker 7: Through martial artists like to, improve they like to, evolve
Speaker 7: and they like to look at themselves very honestly so
Speaker 7: they can change moving.
Speaker 8: FORWARD i think we'll see. That con mc.
Speaker 7: Gregor i'm gonna lean the Of connor McGregor BECAUSE i
Speaker 7: Think connor can win this, fight AND i do think
Speaker 7: he can potentially Stop Max holloway within fifteen. Minutes the problem,
Speaker 7: is after fifteen, MINUTES i See Max, holloway even if
Speaker 7: he lost those first three, rounds he can come back
Speaker 7: and Stop connor McGregor within ten. Minutes his, volume his,
Speaker 7: pressure and when he sees a. Weakness there's not many
Speaker 7: better fighters Than Max holloway who will see that weakness
Speaker 7: and poke at it and keep exploiting that until he
Speaker 7: gets the. Finish max is one of the toughest, mentally,
Speaker 7: physically spiritually fighters That i've ever, seen AND i think
Speaker 7: it's gonna be an amazing fight while it. Lasts if
Speaker 7: it goes a, DISTANCE i Think halloway. Wins if it,
Speaker 7: DOESN'T i See connor McGregor getting the.
Speaker 8: Win But i'm going the way Of. CONNOR i like
Speaker 8: him in this underdog.
Speaker 7: SPOT i would have liked to, have you, know you,
Speaker 7: know the numbers when it was a little earlier on
Speaker 7: in the, game but, hey that's where we're. At i'm
Speaker 7: gonna Go, connor how about?
Speaker 6: It Ken flow's official prediction Com all, right we have
Speaker 6: the Legendary King green coming up in about two. Minutes but,
Speaker 6: first you guys have three thousand dollars to. Spend you
Speaker 6: F c three twenty, nine McGregor. V, Holloway act, Two
Speaker 6: johanny The. Greek it's been an now standing twenty twenty
Speaker 6: six for. You Your mike is. Hot how are you
Speaker 6: spending your three?
Speaker 10: Dimes, yeah gonna gonna stick to uh finding the best
Speaker 10: value for us real. Quickly three small value, bets all
Speaker 10: for two point Fifty cody third and at plus two
Speaker 10: fifteen bottom line short notice fight For Alessandro. Costa this
Speaker 10: is third fight in twenty twenty six and we're only In.
Speaker 10: JULY i like third and coming off a. Win, YEAH
Speaker 10: i just don't see that the disadvantages they should be
Speaker 10: this big of. Adult and Then Zach reese, ALSO i
Speaker 10: think the quin flip fight gun in the. HEAD i
Speaker 10: think he, filed probably gets knocked, down BUT i don't
Speaker 10: think he should be a plus one twenty dog in this.
Speaker 10: Spot huge strength of schedule. Advantage and WHEN i see
Speaker 10: him out With, reese he's four one oh one in
Speaker 10: his last six And i'm getting plus. Money he's got
Speaker 10: a three inch reach advantage in this. Spot, AGAIN i
Speaker 10: think he's live and and the final dog was the
Speaker 10: tist that to plus one twenty one twenty four for
Speaker 10: two fifty as. Well, again this one's a lot closer
Speaker 10: to coin. Flip we talked about it going to waste more.
Speaker 10: TIME i Know King green's about to come, on and
Speaker 10: now the two big. Bets i'm going to start off
Speaker 10: With Wang kong Over Tracy. Cortes now kan Open cortes
Speaker 10: over the minus one seventy, Favorite and within thirty Minutes
Speaker 10: kng was minus one fifty. Five that's how much Money
Speaker 10: cong attracted as a. Dog, well now she's right about
Speaker 10: a coin flip at minus one, fifteen AND i still
Speaker 10: think there's more than enough value there again four and.
Speaker 10: One since her road that THE ufc, win you're getting
Speaker 10: that name recognition and fans Of. Cortes that is why
Speaker 10: you charge the premium at the betting wind, though and
Speaker 10: that gives Me Wang kong at a huge. Discount and
Speaker 10: this is exactly the type of opponent that's going to
Speaker 10: Give cortes problems with that. Striking SO i Like. Kng
Speaker 10: i'm going to put eleven fifty to win one thousand
Speaker 10: on her eleven. Hundred i'm not even gonna Waste parley.
Speaker 10: Money i'm gonna put the holy eleven hundred on Pry,
Speaker 10: off so win fourteen. THIRTY i just think there's that
Speaker 10: much value you give me plus one thirty one point.
Speaker 10: FLIP i have to do. IT i win or, lose
Speaker 10: and not gonna waste time on the. Reasoning BUT i
Speaker 10: THINK i have the physical advantages and uh again Fading,
Speaker 10: whittaker WHICH i don't think you have to rush to
Speaker 10: get to the. WINDOW i think this line will probably
Speaker 10: climb in favor Of, whittaker even With sharps on Cry,
Speaker 10: off because Again whitticker always gonna get that money at the,
Speaker 10: Window so no. Rush if you agree with, me all.
Speaker 6: RIGHT i will recap those on the back end of the.
Speaker 6: Show But ken flow three thousand dollars go, ahead my.
Speaker 7: Minute i'll keep it, Quick, Ellison i'm gonna sprinkle just fifty.
Speaker 6: Bucks see when the sun.
Speaker 7: Happens let's see what, Happens, Yan, yeah is one thousand,
Speaker 7: Dollars King King green For fitty kevanaf five hundred, Bucks
Speaker 7: sandhagen gets five hundred And connor McGregor gets five hundred as.
Speaker 6: Well let's. Go let's all, man this is going to
Speaker 6: be exciting for, me all, Right yanni The greek best
Speaker 6: in the. Business on ig At yanni The greek, underscore my,
Speaker 6: man outstanding work. Today thanks for the. Ot we will
Speaker 6: talk to you in a couple of, weeks my.
Speaker 10: Man thanks for having. Me best of luck all this.
Speaker 10: Weekend whether you follow or pages do some, Damage thank.
Speaker 6: You amazing job By yanni The greek getting us prime
Speaker 6: FOR ufc three twenty. Nine all, right our final act, today,
Speaker 6: last but not, least what an absolute mixed martial arts.
Speaker 6: Legend King green thirty four professional, wins thirty appearances in
Speaker 6: THE ufc and kicking off the main card AT ufc
Speaker 6: three twenty nine Against terence. McKinney it's good to see a.
Speaker 6: Brother how we. Doing can you hear me? Here you
Speaker 6: can't hear? Me all, Right, Cody maybe you can take
Speaker 6: The king in the. BACK i could hear him loud and, clear,
Speaker 6: Yes but very interesting to see you guys spread around that.
Speaker 6: ACTION i can't my fifty bucks On ellison. Like that's
Speaker 6: a big number, though, right you can really change some,
Speaker 6: lives you, Know.
Speaker 13: But.
Speaker 6: So King green made HIS ufc Debut february, second twenty
Speaker 6: thirteen AT ufc one fifty six Against Jacob volkman and
Speaker 6: if you remember, right a lot of people wanted him
Speaker 6: to just shut that dude up so. Badly you got me.
Speaker 4: King, yeah there we.
Speaker 6: Go thank, you. BROTHER i was just talking about YOUR
Speaker 6: ufc debut Against Jacob volkman AT ufc one fifty six
Speaker 6: and like everybody wanted you to like beat, him and uh,
Speaker 6: yeah got the job, done got the bonus and everything.
Speaker 6: Else you, Know, pard thanks so much as.
Speaker 2: Honor thank you.
Speaker 6: Man, well we appreciate your. TIME i know it's. Fight
Speaker 6: we won't keep you, long but it's been an INCREDIBLE
Speaker 6: ufc career for, you and an incredible twenty twenty. Six
Speaker 6: and you, know WHEN i think back to some of
Speaker 6: our early fighter meetings and you talked about your Kids
Speaker 6: jeremiah And isabelle And jacob and wanting to get them,
Speaker 6: houses and you, know look at you, now, MAN i,
Speaker 6: mean look at what you have. Accomplished and WHEN i
Speaker 6: see the way the fans respond to, you it's got
Speaker 6: to feel pretty good that you, know you've sort of you,
Speaker 6: know extracted so much benefit from a career that you've
Speaker 6: devoted so much.
Speaker 5: To.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah danna, said this thing wasn't a. CAREER i
Speaker 2: created a career out of this. Thing you, know we're
Speaker 2: going on year. FOURTEEN i think it, is and so that's.
Speaker 5: AMAZING i started out to get my kids homes down
Speaker 5: got seven. Homes So i've worked my ass, off. Though,
Speaker 5: Bro i've worked my ass for every.
Speaker 6: DOLLAR i got no, Doubt AND i THINK i speak
Speaker 6: for the fan base WHEN i suggest that you should
Speaker 6: have been bonus For Zel, hooper you should have been
Speaker 6: bonus For Jeremy. STEVENS i know you take the finished,
Speaker 6: bonus But, BRO i mean they changed the bonuses to
Speaker 6: one HUNDRED, k and then you do to those two
Speaker 6: guys what you. Did it's just crazy that. THERE i
Speaker 6: GUESS i don't know competition on those, nights But, BRO
Speaker 6: i don't know what, happened you, Know, bro you, know but.
Speaker 5: Hey that's not what's. Important what's important to me is
Speaker 5: proven That i'm one of the greatest fighters to ever do.
Speaker 2: It you.
Speaker 5: Know, yeah there's guys Like Kenny florianos came in and
Speaker 5: has some timeless fights and done some great.
Speaker 2: Work you. KNOW i just want to be remembered for my. Work,
Speaker 2: also you certainly.
Speaker 6: Will.
Speaker 8: Man you know you've stayed so.
Speaker 7: Busy, man what kind of training routine do you do
Speaker 7: in order to keep this level of consistency over the
Speaker 7: course of the. Year it's like you're fighting every few. Months, Man,
Speaker 7: MAN i.
Speaker 2: Think this is the fourth fight in like six seven.
Speaker 13: Months you, know it's nuts and be getting almost.
Speaker 5: Forty like no one's doing it at this, Rate, kenny you,
Speaker 5: Know and So i'm just absolutely. PSYCHED i, Said i'm just.
Speaker 5: CRAZY i don't know What i'm, doing But i'm just doing. It.
Speaker 7: Dude well, Listen terrence McKinney is a crazy fighter. Himself you,
Speaker 7: know comes out hot in round. One is that a
Speaker 7: concern for?
Speaker 8: You and what do you have cooking up for?
Speaker 5: Him we got to see all that fight night on
Speaker 5: while would cook. Up i'm just taking it one day
Speaker 5: at a. TIME i know he's a, Firecracker he's a wild.
Speaker 5: Card you don't know what you're gonna. Get you don't
Speaker 5: know what you, expect but you know you better expect
Speaker 5: something right away because he's coming across that cage and
Speaker 5: he's gonna let you.
Speaker 2: Know it's gonna be really. Interesting i'm a real like.
Speaker 5: Mental guy when it comes to this, Stuff Like i'm
Speaker 5: reading everything and the TRAPS i need to set and
Speaker 5: everything's gonna be in. Play it's gonna be really.
Speaker 6: Interesting King green competing this weekend at you HAVE c
Speaker 6: three twenty nine joining us live here on The Anakin Florian.
Speaker 6: Podcast so you will be forty On september, ninth, Right
Speaker 6: but you're like a different forty than me turning, forty,
Speaker 6: Right like What i'm forty eight, now, Right but LIKE
Speaker 6: i turned, FORTY i was, like, fuck, Man like this
Speaker 6: is just, terrible you, Know but like look at, you you,
Speaker 6: know it's like you're you're still beaten the best fighters
Speaker 6: in the. World you're still fighting like a Prime King,
Speaker 6: green you. Know so how do you feel as a human,
Speaker 6: being as a, man as a father approaching a birthday,
Speaker 6: that for a lot of men is a horrible.
Speaker 2: MAN i feel, BLESSED i feel.
Speaker 13: CHOSEN i feel this is my, time this is my
Speaker 13: time to give.
Speaker 5: Back and it took me so long for people for
Speaker 5: me to get here where people are actually paying attention to,
Speaker 5: Me and SO i wish it.
Speaker 2: Would have been WHEN i was twenty.
Speaker 5: SEVEN i wish it would have been WHEN i was
Speaker 5: a threaty, three you, know AND i was coming on
Speaker 5: these winds, streaks and but now people are look atting me.
Speaker 2: Now So i'm just taking advantage of the.
Speaker 6: Situation so is there anything for you in the fight
Speaker 6: game that you would like to accomplish other than continuing
Speaker 6: to chase financial freedom and to set up the life
Speaker 6: that you want in your fifties and your sixties and, Beyond,
Speaker 6: like is there a? Name is there a? Title? Like
Speaker 6: what ARE i? Mean THE bmf belt could come your, way,
Speaker 6: certainly maybe sooner than the, undisputed but who, Knows, like
Speaker 6: what what is there left to? Accomplish when you've beaten
Speaker 6: thirty four men in mixed martial?
Speaker 2: Arts you, know it's always been about the dollar. Mode,
Speaker 2: yeah for me, personally like it's little. Things back to
Speaker 2: what we're saying about the.
Speaker 5: BONUSES i wanted to be one of those scots that considered, like,
Speaker 5: hey he's the bonus. Guy and like you, said if
Speaker 5: ALD i got the last, two Now i'm up there
Speaker 5: With justin gat you who's the. Leader i'm kind of around, Those,
Speaker 5: Uh i'm around the, best and SO i can show
Speaker 5: hey WHEN i, leave that guy was a.
Speaker 2: Bonuser you, know he.
Speaker 5: Was an exciting fighter and something to watch out. For
Speaker 5: and so that's the REASON i even brought up the.
Speaker 5: Bonuses it's just, like that's only ACCOLADE i can get
Speaker 5: now THAT i really.
Speaker 2: Want you. Know the other thing is to be A f.
Speaker 5: Title you, know IF i had the honor to go
Speaker 5: fight for, that that would be lost on my lista's
Speaker 5: be a N f, shot you. KNOW i want to
Speaker 5: show people that we're fighting Is i'm still trying to
Speaker 5: keep it alive where real fighting is real.
Speaker 2: FIGHTING i feel like some of the newer fighters are.
Speaker 13: Watering down the brand and they're bringing out this other
Speaker 13: stuff That i'm, like.
Speaker 2: Ah that's not exactly.
Speaker 5: Fighting it's, fighting but it's not exactly what we, do you,
Speaker 5: Know and so keeping something alive that's traditional like rock
Speaker 5: and roll when it first, started then it started becoming
Speaker 5: all this other, Stuff like, Yeah i'm trying to keep
Speaker 5: it exactly what it's supposed to, be a. Fight like
Speaker 5: meate this brought it to, me was, Like, bro when
Speaker 5: you're looking into the, internet you want to see a.
Speaker 5: Fight you don't want to see two guys just hugging each.
Speaker 5: Other that's a wrestling match or a jiu jitsu. Match
Speaker 5: you want to see a.
Speaker 6: Fight, well AND i just hope the paycheck devetails with
Speaker 6: the fact that when they Have codder McGregor back for
Speaker 6: the first time in five years and they want to
Speaker 6: kick off that main. Card whose number are they calling? Yours?
Speaker 6: Right they're calling your. Name and if you take it
Speaker 6: all the way back to Like march of twenty twenty,
Speaker 6: five the hoofy, Fight, bro you got like five fights
Speaker 6: in like sixteen seventeen. MONTHS i don't know that Anybody
Speaker 6: Kevin holland included Has you've been the most active guy
Speaker 6: in any division and doing it at fifty.
Speaker 5: Five so, hey the biggest pink with all the biggest
Speaker 5: shark the Older i'm the oldest guy around and then
Speaker 5: doing it the. Most you, know it's like it's unheard.
Speaker 5: Of but you guys are really in the. Trenches you
Speaker 5: guys are really on the in the. War so you
Speaker 5: guys can get it. More you guys, understand but the
Speaker 5: average fan doesn't get. It like What i'm doing right
Speaker 5: now is unheard.
Speaker 6: Of, well congrats on all your. Success we'll see in
Speaker 6: the fighter meetings in a couple of. Days my man
Speaker 6: AND i really think that if you if you Beat,
Speaker 6: terrence you call for THAT bmf. BELT i think it's
Speaker 6: not too far.
Speaker 2: Off SO i got one work. THERE i got one, work,
Speaker 2: Dare i'll close out the show with.
Speaker 13: This so we're Fighting, terrence And i'm, hurt AND i
Speaker 13: hear somebody SAY i don't have to Fight.
Speaker 5: Terrence they're, like you should be going somewhere towards THE bnf,
Speaker 5: title fighting something, else you, know and why are you
Speaker 5: taking this?
Speaker 13: Fight Chilse sonning and his buddy was asking, me AND
Speaker 13: i didn't want to tell them.
Speaker 5: THAT i finally told Them i'm Fighting terrence Because terrence
Speaker 5: AND i are supposed to be.
Speaker 13: FRIENDS i was just hanging out With terrence like a
Speaker 13: week or so before we got.
Speaker 5: Offered the, fight And i'm talking to him, like, Bro
Speaker 5: i'm LIKE i just got on this three win, streak
Speaker 5: and all of a, SUDDEN i See terrence is calling me.
Speaker 5: Out i'm, like what the homies trying to fight? Me
Speaker 5: And i'm And i'm raised by Like nate this and
Speaker 5: that's my big.
Speaker 13: Cousin nate did.
Speaker 5: So nay did first thing when we should getting. Cool
Speaker 5: he was, like, listen we don't fight the. Homies you,
Speaker 5: know fight everybody, else don't fight the. Homies so WHEN
Speaker 5: i shook hands with, him we agree we're not fighting each.
Speaker 13: Other AND i can't Fight, gilbert you, know and certain
Speaker 13: guys that we cannot.
Speaker 5: Fight is were, homies you, Know and so now these
Speaker 5: guys they got a whole nother mentality Where i'm, like,
Speaker 5: like why.
Speaker 2: Do you want to fight?
Speaker 13: Me there's so many people to, Fight why do you
Speaker 13: want to fight?
Speaker 5: Me and it's like they see That i'm getting some new,
Speaker 5: fans Some New norder, rioting and they want to shut
Speaker 5: my light.
Speaker 2: Down and it's LIKE i thought you was a. FRIEND
Speaker 2: i thought she was a.
Speaker 13: Homie so Like i'm talking to, him, like, so why
Speaker 13: you want to fight?
Speaker 5: Me is it? That Like i'm not getting that that
Speaker 5: shine and you want to take my. Shine WHAT i
Speaker 5: want to Tell terrence is, this whoever loses this, fight
Speaker 5: they're gonna say he was. Washed IF i beat, him there,
Speaker 5: said oh you.
Speaker 2: Beat a wash.
Speaker 5: Guy he's been beat, before he's been. Lost and if
Speaker 5: he beats me and they, say oh he's, old he's,
Speaker 5: Washed like he does.
Speaker 2: Nothing for me to take this.
Speaker 5: Fight but WHEN i was explaining To, Terrence i'm, like
Speaker 5: we were, homies, Bro like there's so many other people
Speaker 5: in this.
Speaker 13: Thing we can, fight LIKE O milder weigh somebody. Else
Speaker 13: go build your, way you.
Speaker 2: Know So terrence, like, COOL i get, it, Bro i'm.
Speaker 13: Not gonna fight.
Speaker 2: You so, like, okay, Cool we're not gonna fight each.
Speaker 2: Other we're hanging.
Speaker 13: Out i'm, like, bro come train with. ME i went
Speaker 13: over TO i drove To la to go pick him.
Speaker 2: UP i brought my, CAR i brought some.
Speaker 5: Clothes i'm, like, Man i'm gonna take care of. Y'all got, you,
Speaker 5: bro you, know come tray M i'm gonna show you.
Speaker 5: Something and WHAT i want to show him was the
Speaker 5: THINGS i, saw the holes in this. Game i'm, LIKE
Speaker 5: i don't know if you know exactly what fighting is
Speaker 5: or if you're just. Fighting there's a difference between the.
Speaker 5: Two you, know Everything i'm, Doing i'm strategically thought about
Speaker 5: it before it actually.
Speaker 13: Happened or WAS i just out there. SWINGING i just
Speaker 13: hit a guy and it just, worked you.
Speaker 2: Know So i'm trying to teach him. Something All. Right
Speaker 2: we leave and a week.
Speaker 10: Later he texted me.
Speaker 5: Again he's, like they're offering me the, fight and he's
Speaker 5: trying to show me his manager and. Stuff and it
Speaker 5: looks like, like, oh they've been trying to hype this
Speaker 5: shit up for. Weeks you know they've been working at,
Speaker 5: this trying to get, me and So i've always told
Speaker 5: him we don't fight the. Homies NOW i felt like impressing.
Speaker 5: ME i felt like you like you Think i'm a,
Speaker 5: bitch you know WHAT i. MEAN i felt like you
Speaker 5: Think i'm an easy, fight or you think this is a,
Speaker 5: game OR i don't know what you think this shit.
Speaker 5: Is but NOW i just didn't answer him no more after,
Speaker 5: that no, More, no we're taking the. FIGHT i didn't
Speaker 5: even tell me much to stick the, fight, like, no,
Speaker 5: know we're gonna sprap because now you play with me
Speaker 5: and you think this is something. Else it's, like, bro
Speaker 5: the so many other people you could have did this,
Speaker 5: with but now you stare with.
Speaker 2: Me let's go, fight you, work we can.
Speaker 6: Get it cracking in the empire's Own King, green get
Speaker 6: me all sorts of fired up for this. Weekend that's, crazy,
Speaker 6: right because, yes in terms of straight contention and the
Speaker 6: bodies that you put on, paper, right, yes this. FIGHT
Speaker 6: i GUESS i probably should have asked the. Question but,
Speaker 6: yeah it doesn't make sense because you're maybe a win
Speaker 6: away from THE bmf and he's probably nowhere close to.
Speaker 6: It but, wow interesting backdrop to this one and uh
Speaker 6: yeah that's uh so now we gotta.
Speaker 13: Fight we're, friends we gotta go. Fight it's personal, now SO,
Speaker 13: ok let's.
Speaker 5: Go, Bro like you think this is someone that, Like
Speaker 5: i'm gonna show you, this, this this dance right here
Speaker 5: is a little different anybody you're gonna dance with Before
Speaker 5: i'm gonna knock The west.
Speaker 6: OUT i can't wait to see. Him we appreciate this,
Speaker 6: time the absolute, Legend King green with us on The
Speaker 6: Anakin Flooring. Podcast, bro we'll see in forty eight, hours
Speaker 6: my man safe. Travels appreciate, it, Sincerely. Boma there he
Speaker 6: is About King green closing the show FOR ufc three twenty. Nine,
Speaker 6: yeah some backstabbing stuff. THERE a little bit from interesting
Speaker 6: From terence. McKinney And terence McKinney has eight round one
Speaker 6: finishes in THE ufc and actually has never received a,
Speaker 6: bonus WHICH i think is pretty. Interesting but it's been
Speaker 6: crazy right to think back to some of those early
Speaker 6: fighter meetings With King, green and he's, like you, KNOW
Speaker 6: i want to Get jeremiah house And isabella house And
Speaker 6: jacob a, house and he has seven, houses so that's.
Speaker 8: Awesome SO i want to finish with.
Speaker 6: This so when you post something On, instagram you never
Speaker 6: necessarily know what people are going to respond. To and
Speaker 6: SO i posted An instagram video of my. Voiceover and
Speaker 6: this was my. Voiceover and we'll pull the sound up
Speaker 6: a little bit on this as it. Goes but this
Speaker 6: was my voiceover For King green And terence. McKinney and
Speaker 6: so this is a voiceover that eventually will Be and
Speaker 6: if you watch on, YouTube you see me just going,
Speaker 6: crazy arms flailing LIKE i look like a complete. Lunatic
Speaker 6: IF i was trying to attract the opposite, SEX i
Speaker 6: certainly would not share this. VIDEO i teach to build upon,
Speaker 6: finish but by adding another rapid stuffage win to his
Speaker 6: already considerable highlight. Reel so this is MORE i think
Speaker 6: gods with educational and cool for people to see how
Speaker 6: we do. This this will then be repurposed in the
Speaker 6: arena and ON, tv and it will be it'll have
Speaker 6: music behind. It and so a lot of people were,
Speaker 6: saying you, know, OH i thought he did that, live
Speaker 6: or so we do a lot of things, live LIKE
Speaker 6: i can tell You Mike goldberg would put like The
Speaker 6: billboards on, tape LIKE ufc three twenty nine is brought
Speaker 6: to you, by and WHEN i, STARTED i asked if
Speaker 6: we could do that, Live SO i. TRY i would
Speaker 6: like to do as much as possible, live but we
Speaker 6: do thirteen of these features for the. Fight in terms
Speaker 6: of voice preservation on the, NIGHT i can't be doing
Speaker 6: all this stuff, live, right BUT i do try to
Speaker 6: do this in one. Take you, KNOW i think this
Speaker 6: was take, four BUT i try to give them one clean.
Speaker 6: Take but it just gives you a little insight into the.
Speaker 6: Process and WHAT i would say to young broadcasters, is you, know,
Speaker 6: yeah LIKE i got some ticks and maybe could control
Speaker 6: my body a little bit, better but, like, yeah like
Speaker 6: you can't fake passion and energy and that voice over
Speaker 6: in my mother's kitchen has to translate to twenty two
Speaker 6: thousand people in an. Arena so, YEAH i thought we
Speaker 6: might have the time to peel back that video for you.
Speaker 6: Today so there is hope you hope you enjoyed a.
Speaker 12: Lot.
Speaker 6: Man we got to get on out of. Here thanks
Speaker 6: To King, green of, course thanks To brandon Roy vall
Speaker 6: And Ray longo and R J. Clifford our producer Is Cody.
Speaker 6: Merrow also special thank you To Nate bronson repping all
Speaker 6: the smoke and he will be In Las vegas with,
Speaker 6: us so we're very excited about. That potentially some manic
Speaker 6: employment podcast content we shall, see but we'll be back
Speaker 6: with you On monday and we will see what the
Speaker 6: return holds for the biggest superstar in mixed martial arts,
Speaker 6: History connor McGregor Against Max. Holloway can't. Wait we'll see
Speaker 6: yall On Paramount plus this weekend with Africam, Flum john
Speaker 6: and thank y'all for. Watching subscribe to The Anaki floor
Speaker 6: And podcast YouTube channel if you'd be so, kind and
Speaker 6: we will see you all live FOR ufc three twenty.
Speaker 6: Nine have a great, data better evening until next. WEEK
Speaker 6: yo later