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Speaker 1: But here you are because UFC two seventy nine is

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Speaker 1: seventy nine reactions. We'll get to your results. We'll get

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Speaker 1: We have a lot to get to. A lot happened,

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Speaker 1: are back as always. If you are new to Morning Combat,

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone who checked out the Nate Diaz resume review,

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Speaker 1: among other projects that we have so I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: I got my green drink, I got my ag one.

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Speaker 1: Let's do this, all right? Your results are as follows.

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Speaker 1: UFC two seventy nine took place at the T Mobile Arena,

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Speaker 1: of course, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Your main event, Nate Diaz.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's unbelievable, is he not. He wins and

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Speaker 1: defeats Tony Ferguson via guillotine choke two point fifty two

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Speaker 1: of round four. Heading into round four, I was I

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Speaker 1: was at the time of the stoppage, at the time

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Speaker 1: twenty eight Ferguson. I thought Nate was pretty clearly winning

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Speaker 1: the fifth. Now the caveat to that is that, at

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Speaker 1: least as far as Twitter is concerned, and I don't

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Speaker 1: I had it twenty nine twenty eight Ferguson. I don't

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Speaker 1: don't think that's there could have been. But the point

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make is it was pretty close rounds,

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Speaker 1: pretty close rounds all together. There's so much to get

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Speaker 1: and then we'll kind of work backwards. Tony Ferguson shot

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Speaker 1: on Nate Diaz the first time he did. In round four.

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Speaker 1: He gets submitted with a guillotine choke. Boy, this is

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Speaker 1: a pattern. Don't fucking shoot on Nate Diaz. Let's go

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Speaker 1: through this right. Kurt Pellegrino or tries for the takedown

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Speaker 1: any way shying away from the kinds of things that UFC,

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Speaker 1: There's no really such thing as free agency in the

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Speaker 1: But this week, buddy, they were ear to ear cheshire cats,

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Speaker 1: A remarkable turn of events, a historic for many different reasons,

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Speaker 1: But dude, he just persevered. And sometimes, man, you just

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Speaker 1: What did we see from Nate Diaz? It was about

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Speaker 1: what you would have expected. It was a little bit

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Speaker 1: like all the fights that he's had in a lot

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Speaker 1: And Tony was doing a good job of clinch breaking right.

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Speaker 1: here to me was gonna be with Tony. These guys

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Speaker 1: what we got here, all right? Yeah, Nate doing a

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go Diaz Ferguson here, right, Diaz Ferguson round

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Speaker 1: one twenty two to nineteen, Round two twenty eight to twenty.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. But I thought Diaz, excuse me, I thought

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Speaker 1: Tony Ferguson just twenty eight, just twenty eight. I certainly

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Speaker 1: You got to make contact with him, but if you're

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Speaker 1: could be more advantageous. Again, hindsight being twenty twenty, you

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Speaker 1: Nate showed that veteran durability again, good patience, unusual traps.

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Speaker 1: Just by the time he got to take on Tony,

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Speaker 1: Diaz won that in like total Diaz fashion, getting his

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Speaker 1: He's been doing that for fifteen fucking years, man, and

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Speaker 1: Tony Ferguson's been in big fucking fights, he's been in

428
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Speaker 1: big venues against big name opponents. He's done it, and

429
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: Nate still got him. It's incredible. It's incredible. This night

430
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,120
Speaker 1: could not have gone better. I mean, I suppose Nate

431
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: could have gone there and did what he did to

432
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 1: go me where it was just you know, one sided

433
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 1: ass kicking. But I mean, in general, the poetic nature

434
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: of the victory and how it's so representative of this

435
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 1: entire journey he's been on, and how it looked like

436
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: their journey he's been on. Like, Nate didn't have to

437
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: change a whole lot to win in this circumstance. He

438
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: had to be very good, he had to be very tough,

439
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 1: but he didn't have to do anything radically new. He

440
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 1: did the same thing he's been doing to these guys

441
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 1: since two thousand and seven. That's what he did tonight.

442
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: It's just insane, man, it's just insane. And I have

443
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 1: to tell you, as a guy who's been covering the

444
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 1: sport for a fairly long time, I remember his UFC debut.

445
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 1: I remember what the Ultimate Fighter season five. I remember

446
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: exactly where I was. I was at my friend's apartment

447
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: in Greenwich Village in New York City. He had it

448
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: was I did a lot of drinking there. I remember

449
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,719
Speaker 1: it vividly watching it. I had a show on, like

450
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: some bullshit podcast on blog talk radio, and if you

451
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 1: guys even remember that where you have to call in

452
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 1: from your phone and like host your show from your phone.

453
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: I was trying whatever I could at that point to

454
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Speaker 1: get ahead, and I remember covering that live. Dude, I

455
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: did that. I remember this distinctly. He's been doing the

456
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: same shit, more polished, difficult versions of it as the

457
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, as his career has escalated, escalated, excuse me,

458
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: but not anything radically new. It was very, very much

459
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: a Nate Daz performance. It was a Nate Daz night.

460
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 1: It was a Nate Daz event. And he walks out

461
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,919
Speaker 1: of here into a place that is going to be

462
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Speaker 1: reserved for the biggest names in combat sports. His next fight,

463
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 1: wherever the hell that is is going to be huge, huge, huge,

464
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 1: And if it's in boxing, and if it's against Jake Paul,

465
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: he is gonna get My man's gonna have a lot

466
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: of money, a good forum, you know, making fifteen thousand

467
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: dollars to fight RDA to going from that to potentially

468
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: fighting a guy who got famous off YouTube, who is

469
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: you know, trying hard at boxing but not technically a

470
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: pro but has not really shown any pro level proficiency.

471
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: Pretty remarkable journey. So would you like to see more

472
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: from Tony? I think he has earned the right, certainly

473
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Speaker 1: to keep going. I did not get like, you know,

474
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Speaker 1: I didn't get the sense someone was asking me this week, like,

475
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Speaker 1: do you think Tony could put together a run in

476
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Speaker 1: this way class? No, like a title run. No, he's

477
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: thirty eight years old. I just don't see that as

478
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Speaker 1: a reasonable assumption at this point. One never knows certainly,

479
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't. I would bet against it. Nevertheless, though,

480
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: does he have enough lifelift in him to beat potentially

481
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: good fighters or be an interesting contest that folks like

482
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: you want to see where he could do well? Yes,

483
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: I do think that is certainly a possibility. Mm hmm.

484
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: I think that's very much in play. There was enough

485
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: there to look at there again, especially with a late,

486
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: late minute change of opponent, first time working with a

487
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: new camp, coming off of a devastating knockout loss, like,

488
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: there was a lot of ways that could have gone

489
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: much worse for him, candidly right, and the fact that

490
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 1: he looked as good as he did all things considered,

491
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: I think gives us enough reason to say, Hey, if

492
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Speaker 1: Tony wants to keep going, this is not one of

493
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: these situations where you feel like, really uncomfortable with the

494
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: amount of damage he keeps taking, we feel really uncomfortable

495
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: with their inability to throw back. I didn't really get

496
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: that sense. I do think he's not the same guy

497
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: since the Gaatechee fight. Certainly, I don't even know if

498
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the same sense the Chandler fight, but

499
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 1: good enough to still be in irrelevant contests that fans

500
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Speaker 1: want to pay money to see and that he could

501
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: potentially be enriched by. Yes, sure, I do think you

502
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: could do that. What a night. That is very crazy,

503
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: very crazy, holy smokes. And again that third round him

504
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: and his brother Nick, what they just do crazy ass shit.

505
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: By the way, Tony briefly laid down NFL saw that

506
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: in that third round when Nate was doing his antics,

507
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: Tony got in on the action as well. Pretty remarkable.

508
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the comin here for just

509
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: a second again. If you have questions, put him on Twitter.

510
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: I will get to him. Here's how it goes. Remember

511
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: this was not a walterweight fight, per se. It was

512
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: a catchway about of one hundred and eighty pounds. Hamza

513
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: Chimayev defeats Kevin Holland via dars choke at two thirteen

514
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: of round number one. Jesus Christ, dude, he got run over.

515
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: I give Kevin Holland all the credit in the world

516
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: for accepting this contest. I give him all the credit

517
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: in the world for trying his best. He did what

518
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 1: he could. It was a terrible matchup, he had acknowledged

519
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: to the media yesterday. It's a terrible matchup. But it'll

520
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 1: be fun, is what he said. I don't know how

521
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: much fun he had. Hamza Himayev comes out there and

522
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: he just you know, he has a fire in his belly,

523
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: the likes of which you may not see very often.

524
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: You know, I see fighters get excited and like woo.

525
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 1: His wu is different. You know, his expression of rage

526
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,239
Speaker 1: feels much more I don't know what the word is.

527
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 1: Get too close to you're gonna get burned. His shot

528
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: and level change is like fucking lightning, like lightning, like lightning.

529
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: He makes that look a lot easier than it is.

530
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: I mean, fearless first of all. But then the speed

531
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: with which he can get his level low and then

532
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: get in on his opponent's hips and legs is just remarkable.

533
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 1: And Kevin Holland did his goddamn best to avoid it

534
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: granby rolling as much as he could, and then Hamsot

535
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: matching it by re rolling on top, bringing his hips

536
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: up the back end and then getting it on top

537
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: was just like shockingly amazing. Credits are Kevin Holland for

538
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: even putting up that much resistance, but for then Hamzat

539
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: to match it without missing a beat. You're like, Okay,

540
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: this is gonna go bad. Finally locks up the dars

541
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 1: choke and you know it doesn't get it, and he didn't.

542
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: Like he did the right thing right, which was loosen

543
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: it a little bit, create motion, and then use that

544
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: controlled motion to then reapply it wherever that may be.

545
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: And he did that he did that quite well, finally

546
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: gets the dars choke and then puts him out took.

547
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: I think, I don't know how many attempts. Let's see,

548
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: let's see what the stats on that are. I think

549
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: there was like three or four attempts there. I don't

550
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: know if they have sub attempts too. They credited him

551
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: with two submission attemps. It felt like it was a

552
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: little bit more than that. But you get the idea. Wow,

553
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: I think so. Do you guys know what the term

554
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: punked is not? Not? The Urban dictionary colloquial sense colloquial

555
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: fight metric has a term called punked where if you

556
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: lose in a fight and you don't even throw, I

557
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: think it's either throw or land a single punch, and

558
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: then you lose. It's called getting punked because it's what happened.

559
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: To see him punk I don't think he landed a

560
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: single punch, and his loss to Mickey gall it looks

561
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: like in that sense Holland got punked. He didn't throw

562
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: a single significant strike, didn't have any takedowns, didn't have

563
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: any sub attempts or reversals or control time, nothing. His

564
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: stat line is zero across the board. Holy shit, Wow,

565
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen that before. Hamzad, for

566
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: his point, got in two significant strikes or attempted to

567
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: landed one. Has is credited with two of five take

568
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: down attempts. I guess because of how many times you

569
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: could see Holland either stuff it or Granby roll out

570
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: of it to create a scramble, and then the two

571
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: sub attempts, and then he is credited with one minute

572
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: and fifty six seconds of control time. Understand something. Hamzat

573
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: is credited with one minute and fifty six seconds of

574
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: control time in a fight that went two minutes and

575
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds. I mean, my man basically had control time

576
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: for the duration of the bout, and he blanked the

577
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: stat sheet of Kevin Holland. So let's go back here

578
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: and review for just a second. Ready for this significant

579
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: strikes absorbed in his UFC debut against John Phillips. One,

580
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: significant strikes absorbed in his second fight against rise or

581
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: Reiz McKee. Zero against Gerald Meershart zero the Leach zero.

582
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: Of course, Gilbert Burns put it on him for a

583
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: little bit. Kevin Holland zero. My man has had one, two, three,

584
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: four five fights. He's had five a total six, but

585
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: of those six, he's had had five UFC fights where

586
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: he has absorbed a whopping total of one significant strike one.

587
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: I know that there was a lot of chatter pre

588
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: fight today, after yesterday's way ends even before that, like

589
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: starting fights with Paula Costa. Like clearly, Hamsa Chamayav does

590
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: have some issues about managing and regulating his emotions and

591
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: how he interacts with them. I don't know what the

592
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: full story is with the weight cutting anymore than you do.

593
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: Certainly at this point he says he could have kept going.

594
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: I have seen situations. A buddy of mine was not

595
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: allowed to fight one time for Bellator because he had

596
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: an elevated heart rate that they didn't want to cut weight.

597
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: He said he felt fine, he could have easily done

598
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: it and had done it previously. But so there could

599
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: have been that he could have had some elevated heart

600
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: rate that they found. You can't cut wait anymore, so

601
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: we had to stop. Who knows. We know he can

602
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: make walter weight, he has done it a number of times.

603
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: His last fight was at walter weight. He made it

604
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: no problem. But I'll say this to Hamza Chamayev, there

605
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: was you know, he definitely turned into like a bit

606
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: of a villain for the fans this week, and there

607
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: are some larger issues again about how he can manage

608
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: his affairs more, I think prudently. But if you were thinking,

609
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: and I was kind of contemplating it, if you were

610
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: thinking that, like, oh, he is going to just sort

611
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: of descend into madness. He will fight so undisciplined because

612
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: he has such an inability to regulate everything, that he

613
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: will get himself into trouble boy. Today is a reminder

614
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: that that is probably not in play. Hamzat Chimaiev is

615
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: a fucking steam roller, and I realized that this week

616
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: was not his best showcase of professionalism. Quite fair, very

617
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: fair he is. I don't see anyway he doesn't get

618
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: a weight class belt at some point, I would be

619
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem logical that he wouldn't get one, whether

620
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: it's against Kamaru, whether it's against Leon Edwards, whether it's

621
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: against somebody else. Don't know how long he'll keep it,

622
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: Don't know how that's going to go. That guy's going

623
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: to wear a UFC belt and probably within short order now.

624
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: Kevin Holland took this final last minute notice. He had

625
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: a completely blanked stat sheet. So I don't know how

626
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: much there's to say about this fight. You got the

627
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: Hamzat experience. The question is what is next. We know

628
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: that Kamara was going to fight Leon right away. Winner

629
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: of that you could say, gets Chamaiev. I will tell

630
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: you what I would like to see. It's been discussed before,

631
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: but now I think it's very relevant, especially if he

632
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: wants to stay busy show of hands. Who's interested in

633
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: a Hamsat Chamaiah versus Colby Covington fight. You can count

634
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: me in on that. Would love to see Chamayev tested.

635
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: Here's the problem with a fight like this one. I'm

636
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: glad the UFC was able to pull a rabbit out

637
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: of their hat and that the fighters were as accommodating

638
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: as they were, but you didn't really get tested here,

639
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: Hamza Chamaiv. He didn't get tested. And there is at

640
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: least something to be said about the Gilbert Burns fight,

641
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: where Burns was very good about stuffing takedowns. Many he's

642
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: stuff in that fight, Old Burns. Chamaia ended up getting

643
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: two of three takedowns, but not a whole lot of

644
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: control time all together, being that what it was. But

645
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: you know he had to make him work for it.

646
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: He was able to delay them and stuff them, and

647
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: he just couldn't get it. Even if he got to

648
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: take down, he couldn't do a whole lot with it.

649
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: And then what you saw was that by the third round,

650
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: Chamaya started to slow down a little bit. Like dude,

651
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: in the first round, Chamaya might be unbeatable at least

652
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 1: by any of the current guys at welterweight. Like who's

653
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: going to beat that guy in the first round? Of course,

654
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: he could, you know, run face first into someone's knee

655
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: and anything could happen. I get that, But like, who's

656
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: going to go out there and just put it on

657
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: him in the first round. Nobody, No one's going to

658
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: do that, right. The question is what does he look

659
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: like in the third, maybe the fourth or the fifth.

660
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: But you have to have the skills and the readiness

661
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: to weather any kind of storm and then begin to

662
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: reapply it late. Colby Coventin, you would imagine, would be

663
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: a good candidate to have that theory that idea tested.

664
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: He's got phenomenal cardio, he can wrestle his ass off.

665
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: Obviously he would make it a big fight. There's some

666
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: question about like, hey, where does Colby actually rank in

667
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: terms of beating relevant competition, And to the point of

668
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: Jim I have of course, you could give him a

669
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: title shot now, I don't think it would be any

670
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: kind of crime. Or you know, the winner of Edwards

671
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: and Kamaru there for their trilogy fight. You could just

672
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 1: give Hamzat a title fight now. But I really believe

673
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: that if he beats Colby then there's just no question

674
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: about it, right Or conversely, if Colby wins, then you

675
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: know he's right back in the thick of things. You know. Now,

676
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: of course Colby is probably gonna want no part of

677
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: this fight. I can understand that, but I'm just telling

678
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 1: you where my head is at. I think that would

679
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: be far in a way, the best fight to who

680
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: else on the rankings makes sense At one seventy you

681
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 1: could say one eighty five, fine, But at one seventy,

682
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: here's the top fighters Kamar Usman and obviously Leon. Then

683
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: it's Colby, then it's Hamzat, then it's Gilbert, then it's

684
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: bull All, then it's Jeff Neil, then it's WonderBoy. That's

685
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: the only fight that makes sense. It's the only fight

686
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: that makes sense. You could have done Gilbert Burns. If

687
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: they hadn't already fought, they already fought. That's the only

688
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: fight that makes sense. Book it, Book them, Dano, That's

689
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 1: the one you want, for sure. I want to see

690
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: Hamzad tested a little bit, and it looks like only

691
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: the most senior, only the most advanced fighters in that

692
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: division even have a chance at one eighty five. Maybe

693
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: a different ballgame. I'd be curious to see how he

694
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: did against would do against a Derek brunson of a Tory,

695
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: a Cannoneer, a Whitaker. I'd be curious to see how

696
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: that goes. Don't really know. I suspect he'd win some

697
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: of those. He might win all of them. Who's to say.

698
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 1: But if you were ready to bury if you wanted

699
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: to bury Hamsad as a guy you don't care about, fine,

700
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Like who you like, dislike

701
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: who you dislike, I don't care. But if you are

702
00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: ready to bury him as a threat, oh, you might

703
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: want to put the shovel away or start using that

704
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: shovel to dig someone else's grave. Hamza Chimayav is about

705
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: to fuck everyone up. That the intensity with which he

706
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: competes the overwhelming force of nature that he offers is

707
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: basically unlike anything I've ever seen. Basically. I remember when

708
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: bj Penn first came to the UFC and he knocked

709
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: out Dean Thomas, and that was the thing, and then

710
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: we would immediately would walk out and like that'd be amazing,

711
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: but like he couldn't sustain it, right, Jens Pulver obviously

712
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: had something to say about that, at least early on.

713
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: Maybe Colby does too. But if Colby can't do it,

714
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: we shall see. You guys know, I'm high on Cheff

715
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: Cott Rockmanoff. Maybe he's the guy eventually to do it

716
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: at some point, right, we'll have to baby Sean Brady.

717
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: Maybe Sean Brady is that guy. But someone has to

718
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: wather what he offers in that first round. Like who's

719
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: the best first round fighter in the UFC. It's hams

720
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: Oat chamayev It's hams out Chamaya by a million miles.

721
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: I don't care how many first round savages somebody else has.

722
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: No one is that untouchable in the way that he is.

723
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: No one is that untouchable. So it's gonna take something.

724
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: It's gonna take an extraordinary effort and an extraordinary fighter

725
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: to pull that away from him. Truly. I'm gonna remind

726
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: you one more time. If you've got a question about

727
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: this fight, put it on Twitter and we'll get to it.

728
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: I can't believe that stat sheet. That is fucking insane.

729
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: He blanked Kevin Holland, Wow, straight up blanked him. That

730
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 1: is crazy, all right. Also on this card, how about

731
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: d Rod taking on Daniel Rodriguez at one eight defeating

732
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: Liji Xing Liang split decision twenty nine, twenty eight for

733
00:38:55,560 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: two of them for Rodriguez, eight for the Leech. This

734
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: fight was close, could have gone either way. I don't

735
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: really mind that d Rod win. The thing that was

736
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: weird was none of the judges' scorecards were unanimous in

737
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: one for any round, so obviously two are going to

738
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: pick any one round. But there was no round where

739
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 1: all three picked one guy. So I thought for sure

740
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: d Rod won the third. I thought Leech won the first,

741
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: although some people thought d Rod won the first and

742
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: so that the second ends up becoming the swing round.

743
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: I guess that speaks to the fact that it was

744
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 1: pretty close. Again, people bitching about how this fight wasn't

745
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: all that exciting. What the fuck y'all want. Every second

746
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: of that fight was bonus time. Every second of it

747
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,760
Speaker 1: was bonus time. That fight shouldn't have even even happened.

748
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: The fact that it did, You were lucky, you got it.

749
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: You're welcome, and to what you should be saying, or

750
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: thank you, rather to them, they should be saying, you're welcome.

751
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: I thought Rodriguez's jab was pretty good. I thought the

752
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,479
Speaker 1: leach the problem was they were both kind of really

753
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: far away, and they were both trying to like counter

754
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: each one as they missed, but only with like single strikes,

755
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: not really combinations, and so it just kind of created

756
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: a sort of a minimally interesting fight by itself. I mean,

757
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit there and say the fight was amazing,

758
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: but the fact that it happened at all is the

759
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: only thing that is the irrelevant consideration. Look at some

760
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: of these numbers, Yeah, not super high. Daniel Rodriguez landing

761
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: eighty nine significant strikes to the leeches seventy eight. Round one,

762
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 1: the Leach had twenty seven to two d Rod's twenty.

763
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: Round two, it flipped twenty four for the Leach twenty

764
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: thirty four for Rodriguez, and then in round three twenty

765
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: seven for the Leach, thirty four for Rodriguez. Again, I thought,

766
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: and by the way, the Leech is credited with a

767
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: takedown in round two, although he had only two seconds

768
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: of control time, so hardly any value. Both guys mixed

769
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: it up really well. The Leach thirty two percent of

770
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: the head, twenty nine percent of the body, thirty eight

771
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: percent of the leg. I thought his leg kicks were

772
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: one of his more dynamic weapons. For Rodriguez against sixty

773
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: one percent of the head, sixty one percent to the head,

774
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: that's right for targeting. The jab was a big part

775
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: of it, obviously. Nineteen percent of the body, nineteen percent

776
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: of the leg. Not a super memorable fight. But let

777
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: me just say one thing about the Leech. Of all

778
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: the six guys who had to rearrange their fight, like

779
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: all of them had to give up something and engage

780
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: in a difficult scenario. So all six in that sense,

781
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: like you can be mad at Hamzat for other stuff,

782
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: but at least in that sense, like all six had

783
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: to do something unusual. The Leech was the only one

784
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: who had to give up weight by virtue of this

785
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: and position on the card, so he was supposed to

786
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: be in the comine. He gets bumped to feature and

787
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: he was supposed to have Tony Ferguson, who waited at

788
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: the welterweight limit, and instead he gets a guy who

789
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: not d Rod's fault because he was he was fighting

790
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: someone else and that was just the catch weight. But

791
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: the Leech had to give up. It was the only

792
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: one of the six who had to give up weight

793
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: to an opponent by virtue of the switch. He's the

794
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: only one. And then to get booed, and it was great,

795
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: the crowd was booing both of them, but to get

796
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: booed for that, I was like, you gotta be fucking

797
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: kidding me with this. I mean, utterly disrespectful, utterly you know,

798
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: just just absolute peasant behavior, you know, booing guys who

799
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: aren't even supposed to be there, engaging in a very

800
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: difficult contest that they're utterly unprepared for basically, and they're

801
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: giving you their best. I'm sure they were, and then

802
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 1: you're fucking I mean, that crowd is not my favorite tonight,

803
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: I will be very clear about that. But where do

804
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: they go from here? Well, the Leech was ranked fourteenth

805
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: before tonight's fight. I mean, obviously they haven't updated him yet.

806
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: Deep Ride might find himself out of the top fifteen.

807
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: I don't think the Leach takes a huge hit here

808
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: because again you could make the case that he won

809
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: and he didn't look bad and by the way, his

810
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: opponent looked much bigger than him, you know, you could

811
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: tell there was a weight difference, you could tell. So

812
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: I don't think the Leach takes a huge hit from there,

813
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: but obviously so it's not a great outcome for him.

814
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: The whole week everything got fucked for him, being unable

815
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: to have his you know moment at the press conference,

816
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: switching up opponents, then losing by the way, now is

817
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: a consequence of that, he loses his win bonus, right

818
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: you would imagine UFC would have hopefully taken care of

819
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: him so that that offsets any potential loss. But he

820
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: doesn't get his full perse now. I mean, the whole

821
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: thing is fucked, Like, the whole thing is fucked. So

822
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: I really feel bad for him. Nice win by Daniel Rodriguezo,

823
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: I think is really coming into his own He looked

824
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: pretty good. The job was his best weapon by far,

825
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: but not an overwhelming display. But again, what could you

826
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 1: really expect as a consequence, right, So there you have

827
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: it all. Right, let's talk about this very quickly if

828
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:56,479
Speaker 1: we can at catchwaight of one A al Donna taking

829
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: on Macy Chassen with an first ever UFC upkick liver

830
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: shot Ko never seen that before. Unbelievable first round. Al

831
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: Donna is boxing her up, Macy shoots in the process

832
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 1: nearly gets armbard Where you see that al Donna is

833
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: able to advance and then capture the arm with the

834
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: shin across the back of the neck and then turn

835
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: her over the far side. Leg is supposed to come

836
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: over the face as a consequence when you do that,

837
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: so they can't sit up. That's what for folks are wondering,

838
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: like why one leg, because sometimes you'll see them take

839
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: the leg and they'll put it on their neck or

840
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,959
Speaker 1: put it there behind their head or away from their face.

841
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: The leg is over the face to keep them from

842
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: sitting up. That's the entire purpose of it, right. You

843
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: also want to bring your heels to your rear end.

844
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: Everything needs to be tight. But the whole point is

845
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: that so they can't sit up. She like she was

846
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: kind of delayed on it, so she ended up having

847
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: like a go go plata almost at least to hold

848
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: her in place, and then a couple of flare out

849
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: positions to maintain top. But like al Donna looked amazing

850
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: in round one. There's also a question about whether Macy tapped.

851
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter in the end because she lost, but there

852
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: looked like there may have been a tapple on the

853
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: way and transition of one of those arm bars. She

854
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: was able to fully execute it eventually. Anyway. Round two,

855
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: different story. Macy gets the takedown and basically works from

856
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: top position the entire time. Now, there was a couple

857
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: of moments where al Donna's trying to escape and not

858
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: give up her back and was doing a good job

859
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: of blocking a lot of the ground and pound, but

860
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: a clear round for Macy. So then they go to

861
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: round three. Macy, I thought got back on top. I

862
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: believe that's correct. She got the takedown again. And then

863
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: I want you to pay attention to something about what

864
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: al Donna did. Al Donna did not have her hips

865
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: on the ground right. In jiu jitsu, a lot of things,

866
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: A lot of times, what you want to have is

867
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: you want to have, you want to be you always

868
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: want to ever lay flat on your back if you're

869
00:45:58,480 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: going to be on your back, you actually want to

870
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: so you can put as little surface tension with your

871
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: back on the ground as possible, which will enable you

872
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: to spin more easily. That's one thing that you can do.

873
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: But the other part is you want to get your

874
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: hips engaged. And if you notice, al Donna had her

875
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: hips way off the ground, so it's not an upkick

876
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: like that. Because her hips were off the ground, she

877
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: could bring her leg back and it was the heel

878
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: driving into like an almost like an axe kick off

879
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: of your shoulders. But the reason why that could land,

880
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: the only real reason why that could land with the

881
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: authority that it is because her hips were up off

882
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: the ground and she could get the angle and the

883
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: space to a karate chop it essentially with her feet. Dude,

884
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: that's just being putting yourself in a position to do

885
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: damage and then executing. Is that a scalable, high probability

886
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: technique you can use all the time. Probably not, probably not.

887
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: But if you put yourself in a position to do

888
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: image and damage occurs, you know, it's proof of concept

889
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: about why you're in these positions. If you're flat on

890
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: your back like that, you can't do it. She was engaged,

891
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: using the full length of her body and putting it

892
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: in mechanically advantageous positions to get the most out of it.

893
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: Do what more do you want from her? What more

894
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: do you want from her? She had great boxing, She

895
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: had good resiliency. In the second round, she had great

896
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: top control and nearly had that arm bar well again

897
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: and arguably maybe even got the tap. And then the

898
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: third had an unusual almost like axe kick off of

899
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: her back, the first person in UFC to ever do

900
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: something like that. What a remarkable, remarkable win for al Donna,

901
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:48,399
Speaker 1: who now, by the way, sits in the rankings in

902
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: the women's bantamweight division. Right so she is sitting where

903
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: she currently ranked four. The ones in front of her

904
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,919
Speaker 1: home Vieira and Pena. You might get the title shot

905
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: next off this. I don't know if she will, but

906
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 1: again she had She also looked smaller than Macy. She

907
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: had to take this fight at one hundred and forty

908
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 1: pounds because Macy couldn't make weight for whatever reason, so

909
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: she accommodated it, bumped up five pounds and whethered a

910
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: difficult opponent, whether it a very difficult second round, and

911
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:20,479
Speaker 1: came out there and put her away with a liver

912
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: shot off of her back, always looking for strikes, always

913
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 1: looking for opportunities to score, and putting herself in position

914
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: to do that. You gotta love it, You gotta love it.

915
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: What is what is there to not like about? That?

916
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: Just insane? And then, last, but not least, on that

917
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: main card, Johnny Walker getting the weird naked choke victory

918
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,760
Speaker 1: by the way, three submissions on the main card interesting

919
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: only one decision, four thirty seven of round number one.

920
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: He got the back of Kute Lava and basically had

921
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: neutralized him for the most of the fight. I thought

922
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: kutay Laba fought a much more reasonable approach, but he

923
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: lacking that ferocity a little bit. Walker ends up on

924
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: the back, has to fight for the real naked choke

925
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: for a while. It took a while for him to

926
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: get it, but eventually he got it, locked it up

927
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,240
Speaker 1: and then he gets the uh, he gets the wind.

928
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: So to neutralize an opponent like that, to come off

929
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: of aer he's been in a really bad spot in

930
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 1: his career doesn't really tell you a whole lot about

931
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: the striking. Doesn't tell you a whole lot about some

932
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: of the other issues that could still be plaguing him,

933
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: but it's nice to get in the win column. He

934
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: gets in the wind column via stoppage. It was exciting

935
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: and he did it in a very couldn't like he

936
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: he coordinated the process. That's what you want out of him?

937
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: That that you're that that's everything you're looking for? Is

938
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: that so doesn't tell you the full totality of everything

939
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: you need to know, but a really nice performance from him.

940
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot to get to for extra credit. Man,

941
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: the Erosa fight, the Almeta fight, the Chris Barnett fight,

942
00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: how about that fight? Unbelievable even even Yeah, probablybably those

943
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: three and maybe some other ones, some interesting ones. All right,

944
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: let's see what some of your questions here are for

945
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: the show. As a reminder, hit that subscribe button. Let's

946
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: do this all right, as I get it? Oops, hang on,

947
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: as I get a drink of my ag one hose.

948
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: All right, If the UFC books anything other than Shamia

949
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: versus Covington to headline the next ABC card, would you

950
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: consider it promotional malpractice? Yes? But I mean remember they

951
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: can't make these guys take the fights. They're independent contractors.

952
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: They do have at least some legal leverage. But that's

953
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: the fight to make. I understand why short notice fights

954
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: get hyped, but they often disappoint Felder versus RDA. Leech

955
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: has an awkward style and him and d Rod had

956
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: zero prep. Yeah. I don't know if this is fair,

957
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: but this person writes, but I got annoyed at Nate

958
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: playing possum, trying to land cheap shots when his opponents

959
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: Tony and Leon dropped their hands trying to play along. Yeah,

960
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: it's just you. I don't get annoyed. Someone says, I

961
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: would have thought Tony would have gone unconscious before he

962
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: tapped to a choke. Nah, but when you beat your beat,

963
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he didn't want to go out in

964
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,439
Speaker 1: front of his kid or something. Who the hell knows,

965
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: Who the hell knows? How close would you say Nate

966
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: looked to his best tonight. I thought he looked like

967
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: he had all the same strengths and weaknesses as he

968
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: usually does, except he didn't get cut, which seems insane.

969
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: I think relative inactivity has kept him from aging out

970
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: like Tony. Yes, I agree with all of that. We

971
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: went over this. He won in very Diaz like fashion.

972
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:57,439
Speaker 1: He performed in very Diaz like fashion, but he kept

973
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 1: himself in the fight, didn't get too beat up, presence

974
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: of mind to go for the choke skill to finish

975
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: it off. That's Daz, That's vintage Daz right there. Let's

976
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: talk about Tony. Five losses in a row, three by stoppage.

977
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: He has changed weight teams, and at thirty eight years old,

978
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: none of this has worked for him. Do you think

979
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: that's it for the legend again one more time? I

980
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: don't think that's necessarily it for him. I do think

981
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: that any kind of impression you might have about him

982
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: being able to go for the title should be significantly

983
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: Your expectation should be managed. That is what I would say.

984
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,439
Speaker 1: Do you think Tony had too much respect for Nate

985
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: he didn't want to win? No, I don't see that

986
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: at all. What do you think of Tony at one seventy?

987
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: He seemed uncomfortable, unable to apply his signature pressure. I

988
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: don't know if that has anything to do with one

989
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: seventy as much as it does like damage and a

990
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: difficult game plan where you have to constantly be on that.

991
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:54,479
Speaker 1: Like he likes to run into guys, he couldn't really

992
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: do that all that well. With Nate, I do think

993
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: he better be better one fifty five yes with the

994
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 1: bad weightcut miss Does the UFC give Hamsaud a pass

995
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: or make him fight at middleweight? I don't like if

996
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: the uf I don't is the Does the UFC punish

997
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: their fighters anymore? It's a serious question, like, like, for example,

998
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: I asked this question on Twitter, like when was the

999
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: last time they actually punished a guy? They stripped John

1000
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: Jones of his title? Not too long ago? Was that

1001
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen or so something like that, and they cut,

1002
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,800
Speaker 1: for example, Luis Pegna recently when he had the domestic

1003
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,919
Speaker 1: violence incident. But like, I'm not telling you even talking

1004
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: about like cutting a guy, like they just got rid

1005
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: of him. Who have they kept on the roster and

1006
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: also punished. I can't remember the last time that happened.

1007
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying that they should, like you're asking

1008
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: about it. I'm just I'm just asking, like when does

1009
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 1: it happen? And you can't even count the fines for

1010
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: missing weight because that comes from the Commission, not UFC.

1011
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: So does the UFC even punish their fighters anymore? I

1012
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: don't think that they do. I don't think they're going

1013
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: to do jack fucking shit to Hamsad. Now, they might

1014
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 1: make him do certain jump through certain hoops to take

1015
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: a welterweight fight or something like that, just to make

1016
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: sure his weight's on point or something. But short of that,

1017
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: nothing is Lee Xing Liang still a good fight for

1018
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: Ferguson now? Yeah, probably, I think it might be. I

1019
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: don't think it's a terrible fight. I feel like Nate

1020
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:25,479
Speaker 1: gets slept by Jake. He looked slow and sloppy. Uh

1021
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: he could, but I would. I think this idea that

1022
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: Jake Paul is a wrecking machine needs to be dialed

1023
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: back a little bit. With the egregious weight loss, Would

1024
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: it make commercial sense to force Hamsat to move to

1025
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: one eighty five? They might try that. They might try that.

1026
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: We'll see who is the best matchup technically for Chamaieva

1027
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: one seventy, Kolby or Kumaru, maybe Schofcott. We'll see. And

1028
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: the other guys that we had mentioned. Did Tony's friendliness

1029
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: towards Nate hurt him? Maybe because Nate, excuse me, Tony

1030
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 1: in previous fights was not like very playful, like you know,

1031
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: I'm your friend, like I think has at times resisted

1032
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: touching gloves and stuff like that, like a real, like

1033
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:15,959
Speaker 1: in your face attitude. He seemed to be a little

1034
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: bit calmer this time, which by the way, makes him

1035
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: a more centered human being. But I don't know if

1036
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: that like you need a little bit of that meanness

1037
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 1: to win? Is that missing? Yeah? That might that might be.

1038
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 1: Someone says, I'm glad they didn't put Poartier in there.

1039
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: Both guys looked old. I think Partier would have ko

1040
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 1: Diaz probably he's fresher. Probably. Next person says, Diaz look great,

1041
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: but Ferguson beat Ferguson everywhere. I thought, yet another fight

1042
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: where ferg ends up looking like what he used to

1043
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: make people look like, and Diaz's face looked clean. This

1044
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: person writes, I don't want Ferguson down the same path

1045
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: as bj Penn. This has to end, right. I get

1046
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,439
Speaker 1: your point about the five losses in a row. That's bad.

1047
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 1: It's bad. I still think I don't have quite the

1048
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: same feeling that it's like the train has completely departed

1049
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: the tracks. I realize that it's close. I don't know.

1050
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit uncomfortable being like time to call

1051
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: it a day. But maybeeah, yeah, that's where I'm at.

1052
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 1: Does Tony at one seventy make the perfect opponent for

1053
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 1: McGregor's comeback, certainly makes it a good one. Yes, And

1054
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:27,399
Speaker 1: by the way, Tony can win that fight too, I think,

1055
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 1: depending on how Connor looks. But yeah, I like that fight.

1056
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: Guess on pay per view numbers hard to say, probably

1057
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: between five hundred thousand and seven to fifty something like that.

1058
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 1: With now two non titled pay per views in the

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00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: books this year, do you think UFC will try to

1060
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: make even more with the difficulties this event had? Probably yes.

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00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 1: Do you think Nate could have subbed Hamzat if he

1062
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 1: would have taken him down? Probably not. Humsat's very good

1063
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 1: about body locks. And then Matt returns like, for example,

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00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: why didn't Don Young Kim get supped? Now, Don Hung

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00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: Kim was in Diez's guard at various points, but like

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00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: Rory McDonald's same thing, it's because they spent the majority

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00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: of the time attacking Diaz from behind, not facing him

1068
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: head on. Humstat's very good at that, very good at that. Boy,

1069
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: You guys are either like Diaz looked great or and

1070
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: this person writes, Diaz and Tony both looked extremely old.

1071
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: And they are lucky they were matched up together because

1072
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: both would get smashed by any young up and comers. Uh,

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00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: that's part of the fight game. I'm not sure what

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00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: that's supposed to mean. Doesn't Tony have a good job?

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00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: He used it a little bit. I swear Tony showed

1076
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: good boxing against Justin and Chandler. Yeah, but Nate's a

1077
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: little bit different. Thoughts on Johnny Walker being kicked out

1078
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: of the venue. I didn't hear about that. Any chance

1079
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: Hamza gets a title shot at middleweight, not right away,

1080
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: not right away. No. Thoughts on Walker and his team

1081
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: getting removed from the stadium after his fight. I don't

1082
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: fucking know. I don't know what happens next for the Leech.

1083
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: They should do him a solid man, They should pay

1084
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: him a lot extra, and he deserves a big fight

1085
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: on a big card. He got the He got the

1086
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: rawss deal of anyone and still performed. I thought quite ably.

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00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: Judges didn't do him any favors. I think he's owed

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00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know it's bad when Nate is

1089
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: looking fresh with no cuts and you're bleeding like the

1090
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 1: Trevy Fountain sad to say. I think Tony should retire

1091
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: or make big money fighting YouTubers Nick and Nate were

1092
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: the same. If Nick and Nate were the same age

1093
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 1: based on skills and personality, who would be the bigger star?

1094
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: I mean Nick wull Nate. It seems to be better

1095
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:03,959
Speaker 1: at like facilitating it. Nate plays the game a little

1096
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: bit more so, maybe Nate. What are the chances for

1097
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: Jake to get out of Silver's fight and box Nate instead? Zero?

1098
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: He has a contract well never zero, but it would

1099
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,919
Speaker 1: take an act of God basically to get some force

1100
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: majeure like that. Do you think this is the ultimate

1101
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: karma for Nate? He invested so much into the UFC

1102
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: and finally got some kind of retribution. Your thoughts as

1103
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 1: a longtime fan, Yeah, I kind of addressed at the

1104
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: top of the show. You know, he said he had

1105
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: a love hate relationship with UFC. It's not all hate,

1106
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot of hate, but it's not

1107
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: all hate. There's a lot of love there too. But

1108
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 1: I just think that, like, dude, man, you know what,

1109
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: let me just say something about this, and this is

1110
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: true for my career too. A lot of people's career

1111
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: sounds very glamorous and like aspirational to say things like

1112
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:00,080
Speaker 1: I'm going to bet on myself to win, right, The

1113
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:04,959
Speaker 1: reality is, man, that's a lonely road, that's a difficult road,

1114
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: and that's a road that is not supposed to work.

1115
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: Like why do you bet on yourself? You bet on

1116
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: yourself because other people don't. Someone else, somebody powerful, some

1117
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: organization didn't bet on you. You know, they did the opposite.

1118
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: So you decided to take matters into your own hands

1119
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: and go and bet on yourself. And maybe you had

1120
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: a good case to do it, maybe you didn't. But

1121
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: I want to be very clear about this. Most people

1122
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: who actually do bet on themselves end up losing in

1123
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: the end. They actually don't accomplish the things that they wanted,

1124
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: not because maybe they were wrong for betting themselves, but

1125
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: because just you know, achieving any kind of success is difficult.

1126
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: And when when you're really when you have your own

1127
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: vision for yourself and you're the one who is required

1128
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: to see it brought to life, to manifest it, it's

1129
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:57,959
Speaker 1: very difficult. It's very difficult. And for Nate to bet

1130
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 1: on himself and believe in it and then to have

1131
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: a night like tonight after all the turmoil, folks, you

1132
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: just may never see anything like this again, you know,

1133
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: I know it's like it's all cliche and the grind

1134
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: culture is always like better than yourself. Listen, I did

1135
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: it too, and I'm glad I did it, you know,

1136
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: and I have much My career is much smaller and

1137
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 1: insignificant relative to what Nate is doing. But just to

1138
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 1: be candid with the audience here, like I did it,

1139
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: but it's fucking hard. It's really hard here. I am,

1140
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: you know, two in the morning, and I know there's

1141
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 1: European people watching who are not giving a shit, But

1142
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: like forty three years old, two in the morning, up

1143
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: here talking to you guys on YouTube, trying to foster something,

1144
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: trying to build a community, trying to grow the YouTube channel,

1145
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: constantly swinging the acts, constantly doing everything I can to

1146
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: get ahead. My daughter was crying today because I could

1147
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: hardly spend any time with her because I was busy working.

1148
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: You know, Like, these are not things I say for sympathy.

1149
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: These are just things I say because I want you

1150
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: to take a little bit of a moment to reflect

1151
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: on the fact that like, dude, you know, this is

1152
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 1: the fucking squid games man, and this, you know, Nate

1153
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 1: getting out is it just doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen.

1154
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,919
Speaker 1: People who bet on themselves more often than not fall

1155
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: flat on their face. It's not it sounds great. It

1156
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: sounds you know, oof, you know what a what a

1157
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 1: go getter. It's it's a really lonely difficult path to walk,

1158
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: and he walked it and he ended up here. I

1159
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: hope he makes stupid money after this. So it says

1160
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: your hair looks amazing, beer needs a bit of trimming. Yes,

1161
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 1: it's true. I appreciate it, all right? Is that it?

1162
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: So we go for about an hour? Yeah, we did

1163
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: for about an hour. All right. Let us call that

1164
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: a day, and what a day. It has been unbelievable.

1165
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: Let's see. I there's anything else here. I don't know

1166
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: anything about the Johnny Walker things, so I guess i'd

1167
01:02:56,040 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: look into that later. Yeah. Anyway, thank you guys so

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01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: much for watching. I greatly appreciate it. Thumbs up on

1169
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: the video, hit subscribe. I gotta catch a bird tomorrow

1170
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: to get out of here, because I have to go

1171
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: to the Jake Paul Anderson Silver Press Conference in LA

1172
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: which will be Monday. We will have an MK. We

1173
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 1: will have an RSD that we're doing with someone there,

1174
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: which would be a lot of fun. And I hope

1175
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: you enjoyed this. What a crazy night, what a crazy week,

1176
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: What a very unusual turn of events. But thank you

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01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: for joining me. Catch us on MK on Monday, and

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01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: I appreciate you tuning in. Until next time, bitches, stay Frosty.