1 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Get us time for Morning Combat Extra credit. 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: My name is Luke Thomas. I'm the host of this program. 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: This is where we go over all the all of them, 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: but some of the big and important fights that we 5 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: never get to on regular Morning Combat, which is hosted 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: with me and Brian Campbell Monday, Wednesday Friday eleven am 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: and the East. You know the drill. So we're gonna 8 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: get to five extra fights today that we did not 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: talk about on Morning Combat yesterday. Of course, first things first, 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: you can see the social graphic below like this video. 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 1: Subscribe to Morning Combat and if you want to give 12 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: us a follow, even though bcasonine on this podcast, give 13 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: him a follow on Twitter or Instagram, just the same. 14 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Now. I did something different over the 15 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: weekend to sort of get the pulse of what everyone 16 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: was thinking. I asked you guys to tell me on Twitter. 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 1: I put up the social graphic one more time. If 18 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: you don't mind here, my producer's putting all this together. 19 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: If you rent there at l Thomas News on Twitter. 20 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: So on Sunday I put a post on or a 21 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: tweet on Sunday saying, hey, what are some non main event, 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: non co main event fights of the weekend, not even 23 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: necessarily just UFC, although you know, you see, having a 24 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: pay review kind of changed things a free one for 25 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: us in North America, and I asked people to tell 26 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: me what they thought were the best or most intriguing. 27 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: I'm trying to follow along with that as best I can. 28 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: I didn't agree with all the choices that some of 29 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: you guys made, but I definitely try to tailor my 30 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: answers a little bit more towards what you guys were 31 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 1: looking for. Let's put at the graphic about what we're 32 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: going to talk about here today if we can. All right, 33 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: So there you have it. This is the entire UFC 34 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: two sixty seven fight card. The highlighted ones are the 35 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: ones I would like to look at just a little 36 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: bit more. Obviously, we never even got to Makachev versus Hooker. 37 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: We'll talk about on Calia versus Uzdamir. Those are two 38 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: from the main card. I did want to talk about 39 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: Albert Durayev taking it on Roman Coppolav. I thought that 40 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: was a very interesting fight. The Dos Santos Saint Deny 41 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 1: fight will talk about, but I didn't think the fight 42 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: itself was all that interesting. We'll talk about some of 43 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: the refereeing choices there. We get to that, and then 44 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: last but not least quietly quietly Laren Murphy putting together 45 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: a nice run the UFC, this time beating Makwan Amir Khanie. 46 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: We will have a little bit of honorable mention for 47 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: two more fights at the very very end. But with 48 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: that preamble out of the way, let's get things started. 49 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: First fight I want to talk about on Morning Combat 50 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: here extra credit Episode six will be Islam Makachev defeating 51 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: Dan Hooker. The results of this, of course two twenty 52 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: five of round one via Ko Komura from side Control. Okay, 53 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: what can we say about this? About kind of easy 54 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: for Makachev. I have great respect for Dan Hooker. I 55 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: find him to be quite the talent. I think he 56 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: will be a force in this division for some time 57 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: to come. I think he is hardly done getting great wins. 58 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: This is not so much an indictment really of Dan Hooker. 59 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,119 Speaker 1: Dan Hooker still as good as you thought he was, 60 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,399 Speaker 1: and probably we'll get even better over time. More it's 61 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: just a recognition about Islam Makachev. I mean, this was 62 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: not hard for him. I hate to say it but 63 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: that way, but it is kind of true. How did 64 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: he do it? I still go back and look at it. 65 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: He was throwing a right hook, kind of like a 66 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: jabby hook at the time. Well, I guess he was 67 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: from the right hand the stand I have to go 68 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: back and look exactly how it worked. But the point 69 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: being is he was throwing a punch as Hooker was throwing. 70 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: Hooker was trying to get lead outside foot position a 71 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: lot and sort of angle off of Makachev pretty consistently, 72 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: and so he was trying to maintain that sort of 73 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: outside kicking position as a way to stay out of 74 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: potential trouble, be low enough on the body where you 75 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: couldn't necessarily be caught, and some other stuff. But he didn't. 76 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: He didn't quite execute, I think up to his own standards. 77 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: As he was there was a Makachev was able to 78 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: reach down, grab it and then sort of dive into 79 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: the takedown all in once and get him down. You 80 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,559 Speaker 1: saw Hooker try and sort of scoot his way backwards 81 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: to the fence, but it didn't really matter, as Makachev 82 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: did a great job of laying him flat. Now, what 83 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: Makachev did. These guys are amazing. They're very good. He 84 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: and have even a lot of these smesh factory guys 85 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: are very good at about wrapping the collar or at 86 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: some way kind of immobilizing the head, neck and shoulders, 87 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: and there's a variety of ways they do that, and 88 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: then they try and leg wrestle their way into a 89 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: better position. You saw him try to move with that. 90 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: I think he had a hook around the back of 91 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: the head of hooker, a collar tie of sorts were 92 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: more than that. Almost I think he was like elbow deep. 93 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: In any case, he tried to move to mount and 94 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,119 Speaker 1: what you see Hooker do is I think the best 95 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: he could have done given the circumstances. And it's one 96 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: thing I really like in modern mma. One of his 97 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: legs got past the other one. He had a butterfly 98 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: hook in and the butterfly hook just had that in 99 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: step on the thigh. The reason I like that kind 100 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: of a setup is not that that one hook by 101 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: itself is especially dominant, especially if you're laying flat. I mean, 102 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: you have to understand something about butterfly guard. Butterfly guard 103 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: is I don't know if completely this way, but almost 104 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: completely this way is a sit up guard. You got 105 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: to you got to be sitting up to a strong 106 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: degree to make any of those things kind of work. 107 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: I mean, think about a basic you know, butterfly hook sweep. 108 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: It's it's you're sitting up. So the reason I like 109 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: it is because I think those are the kinds of 110 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: little details when someone's trying to pass and you put 111 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: that instep in with the butterfly hook, that will allow 112 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: you to elevate an opponent when it comes to that. Now, 113 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: it didn't come to that here. In fact, there are 114 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: some weaknesses with that position. But I think as a 115 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 1: general rule, I like it when we see something like that, 116 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: it's sort of an inserted butterfly hook, even if in 117 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: this particular case it didn't work out so well for him. 118 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: So from there what you see is basically Makachev, who 119 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: if this is the head of Dan Hooker, he was here, 120 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: he moves over to here. Now you have to understand 121 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: something about that position. Once you abandon the head and 122 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: you're going to isolate one of the arms, there's a 123 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: trickery to that position. You need to know how to 124 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: balance once you're off of the head and now onto 125 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: the arm. And if you go back and you look 126 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: at Makachev. He's got live toes the whole time. His 127 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: big toes are pressing into the canvas. He's doing that 128 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: to like push into Hooker to kind of flatten him 129 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: over as best that he can. And then you see 130 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: Hooker with like a deep, deep, deep underhook because you 131 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: can see Makachev trying to fish for it to get it. 132 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: He eventually does get it, of course, and he's able 133 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: to isolate from there. And then the bad part about 134 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: having that single butterfly and then being open on the 135 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: other side is that Makachev can just move right into 136 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: side control. There's nothing if you go back and look 137 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: at the footage, there's nothing that is physically stopping him. 138 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: You could maybe put a hand there, but like once 139 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: he lifts that leg that could potentially be elevated by 140 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: the butterfly hook, he just whips it around into side 141 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: game over. He's already in side control. So once you're 142 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: in side control, he has the arm isolated by the 143 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 1: way before moving to side control. He moves to side control, 144 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: and then of course he steps over the head and 145 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: finishes it. Now, I was on Twitter yesterday and I 146 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: saw some folks who Listen. I make it very clear 147 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: about this. I do have a fair amount of training 148 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: time in my life. In the last twenty years or so, 149 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: I've spent about half of that in gyms. But certainly 150 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: I don't pretend to be any kind of you know, 151 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: all knowing authority. Far from it. But I saw some 152 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: folks saying, oh, you can hear in Russian Habib yells 153 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: to Makachev to step over the head to finish the kamora. 154 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: And I saw people being like, Wow, what an adaptation 155 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: by a read by Habib. That's pretty impressive. Listen. Habib 156 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: is an impressive grappler, maybe the best we've seen for 157 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: MMA purposes. In some ways. Makachev, if he's behind him, 158 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: he's not too far behind him. They are extremely silented. 159 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: Don't misunderstand me. But you can look at that, and 160 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: you can look at who liked my initial post and 161 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: subsequent ones. There's a bunch of fighters who all agreed 162 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: with me in there. Stepping over the head is well known. 163 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: That is not in any way new, And I have 164 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: a thread from fights fifteen years ago where guys are 165 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: talking about stepping over the head. What I mean to 166 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: say is Habib was right. To highlight it, to shout 167 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: it out. He stepped over the head and it worked. 168 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, there's like literally nothing bad about that. 169 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: That's all textbook. But it's not an impromptu innovation. He 170 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: didn't just think of it on the fly, or it 171 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: was something he knows that nobody else knows. This is 172 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: the common way in which all camoras from that position 173 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: are taught. Stepping over the head prevents them from sitting 174 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: up and you getting rolled. It also allows you to 175 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 1: stamp down and then torque if you have to. Now, 176 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: there's a lot of ways that people will teach you 177 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: to finish kimoras that don't necessarily involve torking, but in 178 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: a modern grappling context, sometimes that can be all you 179 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: need to finish, and of course it was in this 180 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: particular case. Now, whether or not Makachev will get the 181 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: title shot, I don't know, But dude, the guy just 182 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: beat the Dan Hooker, and I'm not sure he broke 183 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: a sweat doing it. His grappling is phenomenal. In this 184 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: particular case, it was completely overwhelming. As I mentioned, I 185 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: hate to say this because I have such high esteem 186 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: and respect for Dan Hooker, but that was not hard 187 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: for Islam Makachev, and I said this on the postfight show, 188 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: I do wonder what might be more interesting if, in 189 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: fact he does get a title shot. Makachev versus Poorier, 190 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: or Makachev versus Charles Olivera, who would be somebody you 191 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: would want to see a ground battle between them? And again, 192 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: Makachev I think has much better striking than Habib on 193 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: the feet, but Olivera's striking is dramatically improved. So I 194 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: have you know, the fan, and me to the extent 195 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: I try to keep that alive at all. Would kind 196 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: of like to see Poorier get gold around his waist 197 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 1: before it's all said and done. But thinking about a 198 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: good matchup for Makachev next, I think Olivera would actually 199 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: be a better matchup for what I'm looking to see, 200 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: which would be in this case, you know some of 201 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: the limits of what or potential not limits, I suppose, 202 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: but some of the things you think that could potentially 203 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: trip Makachev up for somebody who is as good as 204 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: he is, it would you would want to see him 205 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: test it in that way, I suppose, But a phenomenal 206 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: win by him, all right, So we go to our 207 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: next about This one opened the main card Maga met 208 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: on KALIAV defeating Vulcan Ozdemir. He wins thirty twenty seven, 209 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: thirty twenty seven, and twenty nine twenty eight. I thought 210 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 1: that Uzdemir did a good job at first, but on KALAIAV. Dude, 211 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: he's twenty nine years old, Greco Roman background in terms 212 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: of wrestling, and his striking from a South of Paul 213 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: standpoint is just it's just so crisp. It's so crisp. 214 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: He dropped Uzdamir in the first with that sort of jab, 215 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: but he kind of took an angle with the jab, 216 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: so then he that left was right down the pipe 217 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: and he drilled them with it and dropped at Uzdamir rallied. 218 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: I thought Uzdemir did a much better job than's like, like, 219 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: what makes Uzdemir tricky opponent is that sometimes he has 220 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: these blitzes. He has really fast hands, he's quite accurate, 221 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: he can throw in volume, and so all of a 222 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: sudden you get hit with one shot and then he 223 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: just runs all over you. On Kaliah. His major achievement 224 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: in this bout was not that he wowed everyone necessarily 225 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: with this particular skill set or that although overall I 226 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: thought his boxing was quite exceptional, but rather he forced 227 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: that out of Uzdemir. Uzdemir, you could tell this was 228 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: not the Uzdemir of maybe a couple of years ago, 229 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: who was getting into trouble pretty consistently running into these 230 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: kinds of things, although also having success with that. But 231 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: you know, against better opposition, that kind of style will 232 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: cost you. He dialed it back a little bit, but 233 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: even in the first round he tried that flying knee 234 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: and whatever else? What did on Calai have do? He 235 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: clinched with himpressed them against the fence, beat him up 236 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: on the clinch breaks. By the way, on Calive might 237 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: have the best strikes on the clinch breaks I've ever seen. 238 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: He's so good at it. But he just made Uzdemir 239 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 1: more than thread the needle, right, What do I mean? 240 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: Uzdamir was trying to thread the needle between what are 241 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: some of the things I could keep that make me 242 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: successful that won't necessarily make me overly susceptible to some attacks, 243 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: and also what are some things I can do to 244 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: just be generally respondsible. I want to bring some of 245 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: my dynamism with some of more of my conventional safety 246 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: not first approaches, but not getting in trouble that is 247 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: that can and should be avoided. That's the that's the 248 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: balance he was trying to strike. And what on Calaia 249 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: did was, let's take away all of your spontaneity, all right, 250 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: let's take away all of your ability to just create 251 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 1: magic out of nowhere, your explosivity, and you saw that 252 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: predominantly with the jab. The boxing combinations were phenomenal. If 253 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: you look at some of the numbers on cali have 254 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: going thirty percent to the body and a forty five 255 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: percent of the attacks from Uzdamir, we're targeted to the legs. 256 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: So half of the strikes you landed were leg attacks. 257 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: But this is what I mean. It's like, dude, if 258 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: you're going to have the leg attacks and you're going 259 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: to go to the body, whatever you're going to do, 260 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 1: that's not head hunting. And again you don't necessarily want 261 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: to head hunt, obviously, but it has to have a 262 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: meaningful impact. Those leg kicks landed. I'm sure they hurt, 263 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: but to your memory or you can review the tape yourself, 264 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: do you recall the leg kicks meaningfully slowing or adjusting 265 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: or forcing on Kalaya to adjust what he was doing 266 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: to account for it. I don't see that on the tape, right, 267 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: so they land. I don't want to take that away 268 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: from him. I think that's actually the smart approach for 269 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna barrel down on you with a 270 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: jab heavy kind of approach. It's actually the right call. 271 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: But there has to be more to it than they 272 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 1: I threw a bunch. Shouldn't that count. He has to 273 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: be visibly slowed. I didn't see that. He has to 274 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: be visibly changing course because it's causing him problems. I 275 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: didn't see that, and so for me, that's sort of 276 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: what I come back to now. Overall, they threw a 277 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: similar amount of significant strikes one hundred and eight to 278 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and two, Uncle Leif to Uzdamir. But the 279 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: successful percentage of significant strikes sixty one to forty seven. 280 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: Do sixty one percent of your significant strikes finding the 281 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: mark is that's pretty good, that's really really good. That's 282 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: an extremely high number. So he went one for four 283 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: and takedowns, which is not too high, but he didn't 284 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: look for so so many of them. In terms of 285 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: control time fifty four seconds for on calive in the 286 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: second forty five in the first. Some of that will 287 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: be cage time just six seconds in the third. But 288 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: the real sort of store here is while Uzdemir had 289 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: a better second round than he did anyplace else, he 290 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: had a bad first round getting dropped, and then on 291 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: Calive picked up where he left off in the third, 292 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: literally doubling the overall significant strike output. But behind some 293 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: of that Chris boxing. So if you're looking for a 294 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: guy at light heavyweight and you're saying to yourself who 295 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: is on the come up that we should be paying 296 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: attention to a two hundred and five pounds mega mat 297 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: On Calive is that guy. The one blemish on his 298 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: record was something of a Hail Mary's submission from Paul Craig, 299 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: I think deep into the third round of their about 300 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: and since then he hasn't really looked back and again 301 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: dropping Uzdamir in this contest. I thought it was an 302 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: improved performance from Uzdemir, but as he transitions to a 303 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: more thoughtful way of fighting, less reliant on speed, explosivity, spontaneity, 304 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: that kind of thing, this was a tough opponent to 305 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: try that against, and and I don't think it worked 306 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: out necessarily so well for him, although there were some 307 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: things to take from that weren't also bad. So those 308 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: are the two fights on your main card. Now, I 309 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: know a lot of folks want to talk about the 310 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: Hebush Jenji Robo fight. Briefly, I'll consider that honorable mention. 311 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: I'll just say I didn't find that fight overly interesting, 312 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: but I will acknowledge that was an important win for Heboss, 313 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: especially coming off that Hadriguez fight. You know, not super 314 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: noteworthy one way or the other, but a decent to 315 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: good performance and an important win just the same. All Right, 316 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: So let's talk about this one. Albert Deraiev fighting Roman Koppolov. 317 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: I was expecting Koppolov to go and just get absolutely 318 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: beaten down, and to a point he did. To a 319 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: point he got his ass whooped. There was a lot 320 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: of that, actually, mostly in the second round, but it 321 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: was this was a weird fight. First of all, on 322 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: the feet, I thought Koppolov looked pretty good. Actually, he 323 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: looked calm for the most part. He was game even 324 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: when he was getting his ass kicked in the second 325 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: coming back out for the third. So he had good durability, 326 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: good composure. I thought his takedown defense for the most 327 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: part was excellent. The thing that really cost him was 328 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: he held on to the fence and so the referee 329 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: stopped the action. I believe it was Jason Herzog. I 330 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: have to go back and double check here. Who was it, Yeah, 331 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: it was Jason Herzog. And then started them back at 332 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: the point which he had just grabbed, although this time 333 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: without the grab. And if you notice, Kopolov's feet are 334 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: at that point together, and then Deriav takes him down, 335 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: moves him out, and basically demolishes him in a ten 336 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: eight round. Looked at the numbers here, thirty one significant 337 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: strikes landing for Deriv a total of one hundred and 338 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: seventy four strikes attempted Koppolov seven seven. In the second round. 339 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: He has credited Deariev with four minutes and twenty five seconds. 340 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: Why did I pick deria Derives I think out of 341 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: extreme coteur, but one of these guys who came off 342 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: the Contender Series. I think this is his first about 343 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: since the Contender Series. And sometimes you see guys in 344 00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: the Contender Series and you're like, yeah, you know what, 345 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: give him a like that's fine, he earned it. And 346 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: then there's guys like Derayah, who You're like, Okay, this 347 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: guy is one billion percent UFC ready, let's put him 348 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: in there already. But what I found interesting about this 349 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: about was Derayah won. He looked like he had his 350 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 1: left eye socket broken, because Kapolov was landing decent shots, 351 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: even if he was numerically kind of outstruck in all 352 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: three rounds except for the third. But the thing that 353 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: made me the reason I wanted to pick this fight 354 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: out was one other refs wouldn't have done that for Deriav. 355 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: I think Herzog made the right call, but I don't 356 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 1: think that's a call you're going to see all that consistently. 357 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: So what does that mean? Well, Kapolov was almost about 358 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: to step out of the takedown. What a bare minimum 359 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: had a good chance of probably stopping that effort, and 360 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: maybe he just liked the first round doesn't really get 361 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: taken down at all. In fact, the only takedown that 362 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: Deariah got in that whole fight was the one that 363 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: the referee assisted. Again, the referee made the right call. 364 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear to think that they didn't. 365 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 1: But Herzog is going to make some calls bold ones 366 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: at times, and other referees are not going to So 367 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: if no referee system there, does he ever get the takedown? 368 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: And if he doesn't get the takedown, does he win? Maybe? 369 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: Maybe he wins. He kind of won the first round 370 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 1: probably or at least debatable. He certainly landed more, and 371 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: then in the fifth round he failed on five of 372 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: those takedowns, Kopolov getting his own by the way at 373 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: the end there and then again numerically outlanding him. Here's 374 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: why I bring all of this up. It's like, dude, 375 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,479 Speaker 1: I thought Dara was going to go in there and 376 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: just bossom around. And to be clear, dearah, I want 377 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 1: to give him a big compliment just a second. He 378 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: has a phenomenal ground and pound. I think he is 379 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: ufc ready. I think he's going to beat good fighters. 380 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 1: But it definitely seems to me like distance, closing set, 381 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: using strikes as a way to facilitate your wrestling is 382 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: still in need of some work that this fight kind 383 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: of hit a spotlight on. So I still have a 384 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: high view of Derayav. I still think he will go far, 385 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: but this was a bit of there is some prospect 386 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 1: dialing back that needs to happen here. The one thing 387 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: for Derayev that I want to say, and I do 388 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: think it is somewhat common among these Smesh factory guys, 389 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 1: inasmuch as they are some commonalities across a wide region 390 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: of the earth. They look for mount and if they 391 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: get it, they hold it. Now, Kappolov didn't do a 392 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: great job at all once he was in mount of 393 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: trying to fight it now, of course, easier said than done. 394 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: A lot of mount escapes are taught in a way 395 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: where your hands do nothing to the other person's hands. 396 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: In fact, they are often about getting a forearm across 397 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: their hip line and then one on their knee. If 398 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: you do the jiu jitsu, that's fine, right, because you 399 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: can push on the hip, you can push on the knee. 400 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: You can you know, shrimp out and get you one 401 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: of your knees back and then you can go to full. Hey, 402 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: all's well, that ends well. But in mma, you got 403 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: a big ass guy from the Smesh factor on top 404 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: of you. You're gonna get You're gonna get a knuckle 405 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: into the ground. So what I mean to say is 406 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 1: these are not easy areas to get out of. But 407 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: there are different kinds of mount. The kind of mount 408 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: that Deariah had was look at. Go back and watch 409 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: the tape again. Don't take my word for anything. Here, 410 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: Dearah was sitting on top of the hips of Kappolov. 411 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: If someone is sitting on your hips, that's actually good 412 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: for you underneath. Now, again, being in mount is terrible. 413 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: But among the conditions in mount, where would you rather 414 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: have them right up under your armpits like this or 415 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: would you rather have access to pushing motions? And if 416 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: they're on your hips, that means when you buck your hips, 417 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: they're attached to them. It gives you the most amount 418 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: of push underneath, It gives you the most amount of 419 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: space you can create and the highest amount of elevation 420 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: you can possibly have if they're sitting far back on 421 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: your hips. So Kappolov didn't do a great job of 422 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: getting out of that. However, I just want to say 423 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: I love how some of these smash Factory guys, even 424 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: if they don't get to Mount A a lot of 425 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 1: them here to be active passers number one and number two. 426 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: They are constantly at least looking for the mount. You know, 427 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 1: you go back to the market chev fight. He was 428 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: looking for the mount. He got stopped, but he's always 429 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: trying to get here. These guys are in their own 430 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: kind of way, either threatening or in a bare minimum 431 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 1: reprioritizing the mount in a way that's kind of been 432 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: lost in modern mma. I really liked what I saw 433 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: from Deraya in that sense, let's get to the mount 434 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: and let's just fucking own this position. And again, maybe 435 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: he wanted to be in that one because he didn't 436 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: Thinkabolov was much of a threat and he had more 437 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: position to strike from there. Maybe he's more comfortable. There 438 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: could be a lot of reasons, but good things for 439 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: Kapolov and that I thought overall, his takedown defense was 440 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: really great. I thought his striking was very impressive. He 441 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: obviously the fence grabb really cost him. But for Deariav, 442 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: tough as hell, phenomenal ground and pound, great pursuit of 443 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: the fight. But there are definitely some defensive issues on 444 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: the feet to work on, and also distance, closing strikes, 445 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: setting up takedowns, kind of scenarios that are in need 446 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: of some work there to be clear. Moving down the 447 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 1: card here, just a little bit past the Deriav in 448 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: Kappolav fight, let's talk about the referee not intervening in 449 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,719 Speaker 1: the Elizi's Alesco do Santos Benoir Saint Denis fight. Now, 450 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: the referee in this particular case who was ultimately relieved 451 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: of his duties is vayachaslav kia Selev. Now, if you 452 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 1: watch any Russian mma, this gentleman you have seen before. 453 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 1: I don't pretend to be an expert in his overall 454 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: body of work, but I know folks who are, and 455 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: I have seen him in other places. He just has 456 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: a bloodthirsty appetite. To be honest with you, this is 457 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: not If you think this is his worst stoppage, boy, 458 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: do I have terrible news for you. They get much 459 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: worse than this, I would say, in general, but in 460 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: particular this time, what can we say about his refereeing? Well, 461 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,159 Speaker 1: Saint Denis was just constantly leaving his head for the 462 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: right hand of Dosantos. I mean, he just was getting 463 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: drilled over and over and over and over and over. 464 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,239 Speaker 1: I watched this fight. I missed it live actually so back, 465 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: and I watched it with no commentary because I want 466 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: to hear like, are they overreacting? Was there something to it? 467 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: And sure enough they were not overreacting. I had the 468 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: exact same reaction almost through the exact same times, because 469 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: then I watched it a second time with their commentary 470 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: so I could hear it, and I had at all 471 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: the punctuated moments the same response. There was a moment 472 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: there in that I guess it was the second round. 473 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, where by the way, he took ninety 474 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: four significant strikes in the second round ninety four where 475 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: you see him not just covering up but then excuse me, 476 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: but then turning off to the side, and once he 477 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: does that, turn to me that fight is over. You 478 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: are now turning away from your opposition and covering up, 479 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: and the referee just let it go for whatever reason. 480 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: I guess they thought he was still standing, so that counts. 481 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell that guy was looking at, 482 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: but yeah, that was really, really bad. And then there 483 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 1: was a point where he has a cut sant deny 484 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: that they had to get that probably should have had 485 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: a He got poked in the eye. Excuse me, he 486 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 1: got poked in the eye, tells the referee, I can't see, 487 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: and the referee doesn't call the doctor in to have 488 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 1: a look at it, just fucking sends him back out 489 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: there to go fight and dude credits to Santani. This 490 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: guy they said he was French Special Forces. I believe it. 491 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 1: Whift on five takedowns on the first, got one of 492 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: four in the thirscuse me, got one of four in 493 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: the first, and then one of five in the in 494 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: the second. But the point I want to make here 495 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: was this guy went out and fought his fucking heart 496 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: out on autopilot. I would love to talk to him 497 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: to see how much he remembers past the second round, 498 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: because he was visibly rocked a number of times. And 499 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: as I mentioned, I think it's actually the point at 500 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: which Cormier begins to scream at him, where he covers 501 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: up and then turns, and then you know, dos Santo's 502 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: is just fucking letting him go at that point. One 503 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: of the more egregious refing jobs you'll ever see. I 504 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: make this point a fair bit. Listen, there's all kinds 505 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: of ways to try and improve safety, to mitigate dangers. 506 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: Sometimes we are not in our rules establishment consistent across 507 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,239 Speaker 1: the board. Some rules that we allow for or some 508 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: tactics that we allow for can be quite dangerous. Other 509 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: ones we don't and there isn't necessarily a consistent line, 510 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: but the general argument is it's better to have some 511 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,479 Speaker 1: of these safety measures and others rather than having a 512 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: coherent system of safety overall. Some things we're just not 513 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: comfortable with. A lot of people are not comfortable with 514 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: ease to the head of a downed opponent, for example. Right. 515 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,239 Speaker 1: But the thing I try to tell folks is you 516 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: can have concerns about what pedes might be doing in sports. 517 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: I don't think it's altogether an unfair criticism, although the 518 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: data appears to suggest that there is not much in 519 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: the way of identifying that it makes a whole lot worse. Still, 520 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: one thing that I want to point out to folks 521 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: is as a present danger not so much for the UFC. 522 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: If you watch UFC performances by referees like this is 523 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: pretty rare. But what I would say is on the 524 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: come up on the regional scene, whether in your state 525 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: or for a national promotion that's reach lea base but 526 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: has that kind of level of attention on CFFC at LFA, 527 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: they might have access to referees somewhere in that chain 528 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: where you're just starting out or before the UFC where 529 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: you're gonna get this. I have not only have I 530 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 1: seen worse than this, I've actually called fights in the 531 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: amateur division that were worse than this. I had a 532 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: guy who was on all fours and another guy was 533 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: standing over him, punching him in the face. He wasn't 534 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: moving at all. The referee wouldn't stop it. And it 535 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: turns out the referee in this particular case was the 536 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: training partner of the guy getting beat. I mean, a 537 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: total conflict of interest, but the lack of regulatory oversight, 538 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: either for certain amateur systems in certain states or whatever 539 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: the case may be, allowed this to happen. So he 540 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:45,719 Speaker 1: was like, oh, I know, my boy, he can take this, 541 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: and the guy wind up getting taken a fucking epic beating. 542 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: I think that was the last time if I called 543 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:52,959 Speaker 1: a fight for that organization. I don't know if they 544 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: let me go because of that or maybe something else. 545 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: I don't know, but I was screaming at the guy 546 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: to stop the fight. Eventually they did so as a 547 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: warning to young fighters out there, as a heads up 548 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: for fans. I'm not here to defend this, but I 549 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: want to be clear when we think about dangers in MMA, 550 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: the not best referees. So the ones you don't see 551 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: in the UFC, they could be good in certain cases, 552 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: they could be great in certain cases. They're just not known. 553 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: But what I'm trying to point out is the level 554 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 1: of regulatory oversight and the training that referees get who 555 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: have not elevated themselves to the UFC level. Well, if 556 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 1: you've got complaints about Herb Dean, I have terrible news 557 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: for you. It gets a lot worse when you start 558 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: going down the rabbit hole. And this was a clear 559 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: example of somebody terribly out of his depth, and Santani 560 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: took you know you could this is We'll see what 561 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,199 Speaker 1: happens to him long term from this, But this is 562 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: how people get killed. This is how people get killed. 563 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 1: Everyone's worried about what guys are taking EPO and whatnot. 564 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: This is how people get killed. Uh Okay, and then 565 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: last but not least. I don't know if this was 566 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,719 Speaker 1: the most interesting fight for all of you, but it 567 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: was for me. Laron Murphy defeating Makwan Amir Kanyi in 568 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: just fourteen seconds of the second round. Makwan i'm er 569 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: Kani getting five of seven takedowns. I think in just 570 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: the first round if I'm not mis second five to six, 571 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: because he attempted the seventh and that was the one 572 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: that did him in. He looked good for the most part. Right, 573 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: the takedowns were authoritative. He stepped in, couldn't quite get 574 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: it off the initial entry, stepped around, got the trip, 575 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: pushed him against the fence. From there, I thought Murphy 576 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: did a mostly admirable job of not letting the situation. 577 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: He didn't let it get too much worse. He never 578 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: meaningfully improved his situation. I mean certain positions, you could say, 579 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: because he was flat on his back for a time 580 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: and he was able to sort of get to at 581 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: least a knee or a foot in certain cases, he 582 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: kept it moving. What I mean to say is he 583 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: couldn't extricate himself from the top control and pressure of 584 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: a guy like i'mir Kani. In that sense, he didn't 585 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: improve it, although there might be minor positional changes that 586 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: were better. Again, if if you're flat on your back 587 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: and you have to get to standing, you're not gonna 588 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 1: get there for the most part, in one motion. It's 589 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: going to be a series of small steps you take 590 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: to get there. So he might have had some of those. 591 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: You can go back and judge for yourself. But what 592 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: did he do in the second round. You can see 593 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: i'm yir Kanni faint a shot and the right leg 594 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: of Loroon Murphy, which I think was standing forward at 595 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: that time, he brings it back reacting to the faint. 596 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: I'merkanni goes ah. I like what I see him. He's 597 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: biting on my faints. Maybe he wanted to come up 598 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: top or whatever, but then he just shoots again. He 599 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,479 Speaker 1: doesn't he doesn't set it up with anything else, and 600 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: he wasn't super close, although he's probably close enough, but 601 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: it was Murphy pushing into him and he just eats 602 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: a well timed knee and that was all she wrote. Dude, 603 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: Loroen Murphy has a quietly impressive resume. I keep saying this. 604 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: He has the stoppage winnerver i'myir Kani. He beat Douglas 605 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: Silva Deondroge. He was a good fighter. He beat Hakkardohamos, 606 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: and he has the in his UFC debut, the split 607 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: draw with Zubaira to Googov who's also in this car, 608 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: who's a very good dynamic fighter. Dude, this guy is talented. 609 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,239 Speaker 1: He's talented now, and keep in mind there's a lot 610 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,959 Speaker 1: of like some strikers, he's faced some guys who are grapplers, 611 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But you get the idea. He's undefeated, 612 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: he's thirty years old. He just needs a chance to 613 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: get out there a little bit more. I was very 614 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: impressed by what I saw. Still plenty of work to 615 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: do in the grappling department. You should always know there's 616 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: a difference between guys who can defend takedowns or not 617 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: let positions get too bad on the whatever situation they're 618 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: in the fence of the ground, and then there are 619 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: the guys who can meaningfully extricate themselves. It appears that 620 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: second gear still needs some work, but he's on his way. 621 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: And obviously if you fuck around and shoot from way 622 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: outside or they were talking about some of the stance changes, 623 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: although I didn' quite understand from DC because if you 624 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: go back and you watch, he got taken down when 625 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: they were opposite stance that staggered stance, which I didn't 626 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: que understand what DC was talking about there. I mean, 627 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: I know what he meant. If you're here, you go 628 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: for the single. If you're here, you go in between 629 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: and go for the double, but that can be a 630 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: little bit harder depending on the distance they're usually managing. 631 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: But either here nor there not not relevant, Akwan. I'm 632 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: er Kannie got to take down in the first and whatnot. 633 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: Going back to Amir Khannie, you know that's three in 634 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: a row for him that he's lost. He came out 635 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: and won three in a row in his UFC campaign, 636 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: beating Mike Wilkinson, Masio Fullen, and Andy Ogle, none of 637 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: whom are in the UFC anymore. He lost to Arnold Allen. 638 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: No shame. Arnold Allen's awesome. He has wins over Jason 639 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: Knight and Chris fish Gold. I don't know if either 640 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: of those guys are in the UFC anymore. I know 641 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: a Knight is not. He has lost to Shane Burgos 642 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: VI a ko all right, Shane Burgos is a beast. 643 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: He has a winner for Danny Henry and then Barboza, 644 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: Comwayla Kirk and then Laren Murphy. He he lost. Like 645 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks were hoping he would 646 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: take that next step. It looks to me like he 647 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: hasn't done that yet and perhaps may not get a 648 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: chance to. Given some of the losing streak, although perhaps 649 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 1: he is relevant the UFC for overseas markets. We'll have 650 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: to see right. One more of these that I wanted 651 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: to highlight that I thought was worthy of praise. Oh, 652 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: the opening bout the tagir Uhlan Bakall versus Alan Naciamento 653 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: flagweight opener, just very quickly honorable mention on this one. 654 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: I thought Naciamento won this fight. He was taken down underneath. 655 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 1: The entire time Ulan Bakob was credited with four takedowns, 656 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: he only won via split. So it was you know, 657 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,959 Speaker 1: one of the judges saw it for Nasimo. But if 658 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: you haven't seen this, go back and watch. To me, 659 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: this is textbook better fighting. Underneath, Naciamento did one thing 660 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: that's really great. How do you guys know to lock 661 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: up a triangle right? You go one arm, one leg 662 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: excuse me, around the back of the neck, one underneath 663 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: the arm, and then they lock up behind it. Then 664 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: the arm comes in right. So it's not if both 665 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: arms are in no triangle, both arms are out no 666 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: triangle if one arm is in triangle. And by the way, 667 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: of course, you had he boss attempting a head scissors 668 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: against Gengi robo, which is a very It can work, 669 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: but it's pretty low percentage. But what I want to 670 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: point out here is, and this I had a guy 671 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: showed me this years ago. If you are very good 672 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: at wrestling with your legs, which is an acquired skill, 673 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 1: that just you have to try it in the match. 674 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: You have to work on it that kind of a thing. 675 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: What you can do is you can lock up like 676 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: halfway towards a triangle right where you lock up behind 677 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: them with your legs, but they might get a good posture, 678 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: so there's no real threat of a submission there. But 679 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 1: if you're somebody and you got one leg around your 680 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: you know, the back of your neck, and you got 681 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: one underneath, you need to be mindful of that. You 682 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: can't just you're not gonna get submitted just like this. 683 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: But you can't fuck around too much. He was constantly 684 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: tying these up constantly, so automatically you're in top position. 685 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: But if you come raining down with a punch, you're 686 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: gonna give him what he needs. You're gonna take away 687 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: your own ground and pound r because groundpound requires at 688 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: least some version of coming forward. You can't do it 689 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: just like this. Like you're bench pressing. It doesn't work 690 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: that way. Some level of coming over the top is required, 691 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: and you could bring someone down with a collar tie 692 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: off that or even just bringing your legs to you, 693 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: because they're pretty powerful to do that. If you want 694 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: to break someone's posture, one way to do that is 695 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: you can just bring your legs, usually from full guard, 696 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 1: but you can bring your knees to you and they'll 697 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: come down if you can break their hands open like that. 698 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 1: So it just automatically puts someone on the back foot. 699 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: Even though the submission's not really all that close, they 700 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,439 Speaker 1: can't get going necessarily. And he was doing this plus 701 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,720 Speaker 1: a whole lot more than that constantly, constantly. I really 702 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: thought that he won this contest from underneath. He had 703 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 1: two submission attempts that were pretty good, and I thought 704 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 1: the judges got it wrong in that one. So it's 705 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 1: still one of those lessons that you know, trying to 706 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,320 Speaker 1: win about from underneath an mma is by no means 707 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: the easiest thing to do. It can be done. Probably 708 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: an argument to be made that there's still a little 709 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: bit of room to go with that, but I was 710 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 1: impressed with Nascimento. I think that's a textbook case and 711 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: how to use wrestling with your legs from guard underneath 712 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: to if you can't fully control a position, kind of 713 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: take the sting out of it and put the other 714 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 1: guy on the back foot even though you're on your back. Okay, 715 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: that's it. That was it. What a great card, huh. 716 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 1: Phenomenal one of the best free cards if you're a 717 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,400 Speaker 1: North American or I should say an American because the 718 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: Canadians I think had to pay for it. But for 719 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: us folks here in listen sat us needos. Wow, what 720 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,960 Speaker 1: a phenomenal card. What was your favorite fight on the card? 721 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: What did you enjoy about all of the extra fights? 722 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: Leave a comment below, like the video hit subscribe, Tell 723 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: me what you like, tell me what you didn't and 724 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 1: what fight mattered the most to you, what technique mattered 725 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 1: the most to you? All Right, I would love to 726 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: hear it from you, and I will read the comments 727 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: on these, Okay, So I appreciate it. You guys, have 728 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: a great day. Thank you so much for waiting. I know. 729 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: By the way, one last note, we usually put these 730 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: out on Monday, but because we had the Canelo resume 731 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: review and the rooftop chat with Chuck Minton Hall. We 732 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 1: didn't have time for it, but it's here right now. 733 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: I appreciate your patience and until next time, enjoy the fights.