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Speaker 1: Brian Campbell. This this Morning Combat. Can you smell that?

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Speaker 1: Get a little artsy in here. It must be Friday

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Speaker 1: that BBC with the BDE. But I ain't royalty despite

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion

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Speaker 1: sliding in for Luke Thomas this week. Rashad evenge Sugar,

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Speaker 1: my man. I don't say this lightly. Always a pleasure, sir.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 2: What is hey? Great intro?

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Speaker 3: But I was missing the uh the the ayahuasca of tower.

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Speaker 1: You're right, I dropped it was planned. I dropped the

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Speaker 1: me up. But uh Luke Thomas on vacation, we wish

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Speaker 1: him well. He needed Rashad. You saw the dark circles underneath,

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Speaker 1: the family will enjoy a good one. Uh Rashad. You

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, hopefully we can get that deal

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can see the difference and is getting Vera's

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Speaker 4: I don't feel ignore. I have an entire country in

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Speaker 4: They I'm happy with with where I am. You know,

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Speaker 4: So like, if I start putting entry, you're like, oh,

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Speaker 4: is not That's why I put it simple, fuck you, Chruse.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna kick your ass. You're not my friend, and

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Speaker 4: I hope I fuck you up. Of course I hope

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Speaker 4: I fuck you up. I'm not hoping you win. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: it really like and even if no one gives a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's simple for shot. Fuck it. I don't like you, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I love that cole blood of mindset. But that's listen,

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Speaker 3: that's what you're up against. As you're dominant cruise. You

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Speaker 1: Care, no question about it. Look, you gotta shout out

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Speaker 1: had an interesting conversation with Shaq about what MMA did

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Speaker 4: I was bringing a lot of problems to the house.

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Speaker 5: I was like fine to go into Yale, like breaking

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Speaker 4: But you know, if you give me a graffiti, I

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Speaker 4: Let's see what happened. So if they were like this

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Speaker 1: Love him, love him or shot.

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Speaker 2: I love what he's saying now there because because it's

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Speaker 3: You know, there used to be a shirt back in

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Speaker 1: I love it. I mean, you know, he's MK approved.

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Speaker 4: John declined to five me on August thirteen because he

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Speaker 4: I don't I'm the type of guy that I don't

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Speaker 4: wait for my lady. I can wait for my I'm

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Speaker 4: He literally called me out that Wednesday morning, saying like

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Speaker 4: That day, UF called me and called him August thirteen,

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Speaker 4: I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready to go now October.

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Speaker 4: I want to maybe fight another time. I'm like, I

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Speaker 4: probably fight out of shape. That's not my problem, Like,

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Speaker 1: I could do this all day for shouting this guy's great.

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Speaker 1: But let's let's break down that decision. Like I get

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Speaker 1: about it in this term. In these terms, he's fighting

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Speaker 1: Dom Cruz, big fight in some ways the biggest of

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Speaker 1: is this the right move for all? Like? Is that

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Speaker 6: Made the improvements mentally speaking, you know, to to gain,

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Speaker 3: And did he pull out what he needed to pull

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Speaker 2: Hell out of it.

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00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 1: A lot of talk about pulling out, but I heard

432
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 1: everything said shot. You know. The thing though, for Vera,

433
00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,760
Speaker 1: if he beats Dom he's that much closer, and if

434
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 1: Mally wins the damn title, Vera probably gets the first

435
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,679
Speaker 1: title shot because of that built in backstory. But I

436
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 1: don't I wouldn't think it's fair either. But at the

437
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 1: same time, dude, I like that. You said that, Luke,

438
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,640
Speaker 1: and I said, I don't get sugar, Shawn Omalley. I've now,

439
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,880
Speaker 1: at forty four hours officially too old to get him, Rashad,

440
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 1: but I know the others. They love him, so you

441
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 1: know he's doing something right where all the commercial side

442
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,120
Speaker 1: of it is justified. I mean, he is a rising

443
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 1: fricking star, so that's typically how business is done in

444
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 1: these parts, all right, But the job out hand here

445
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 1: is Vera versus dom Cruise. So Rashad, when I look

446
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,120
Speaker 1: at this matchup, I get the betting odds. I get

447
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 1: that Dom Cruse of course has a shot here. I

448
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,919
Speaker 1: mean this, you know he's on a great run. But

449
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 1: Rashad like he's gonna have to be, as he said,

450
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,920
Speaker 1: violent and offensive to match Vera in certain avenues to

451
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 1: come over the top and win this fight. He's not

452
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 1: known for that firepower, He's known for that willingness when needed.

453
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 1: He's known to take You'll take big punishment if he

454
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: has to. He never made a freaking excuse about that

455
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 1: Cody Garbrent fight, and I look back and I know

456
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,879
Speaker 1: he was injured in that one. But Rashad, does he

457
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 1: have the game to back up that spirit and saying yeah,

458
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 1: you know, Saturday is a great day to die all

459
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 1: that stuff. Does he actually have the game to do

460
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: that on Saturday?

461
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 3: He can if he chooses his spots to fight, And

462
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 3: by that I mean if he doesn't try to go

463
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 3: toe to toe and try to go strength for strength

464
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:23,919
Speaker 3: with vere then he should do well. And if he

465
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 3: can fight in spots as in like he gets off

466
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 3: to an angle, he lands a shot and then he

467
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 3: goes to a clench and he kind of frustrates Vera

468
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,360
Speaker 3: in a sequence of events much like that where he's

469
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,360
Speaker 3: punching to get a clenched position, just really to kind

470
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,919
Speaker 3: of gunk up the position, but more importantly make it

471
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 3: so that Vera can't get anything clean off. After a

472
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 3: couple of rounds of that, that will definitely frustrate Vera,

473
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 3: and then Cruz then move out to the outside and

474
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 3: then pick them apart. But I feel like if he

475
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 3: goes in there and he tries to go toe to

476
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 3: toe and try to go strength for strength. He's gonna

477
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 3: get found with something straight down the middle and something

478
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 3: hard from Vera.

479
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna get sent into broadcasting full time, There's

480
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,959
Speaker 1: no question. So it's got to be a mixture. It's

481
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: got to be a hybrid. Now when it comes to

482
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,400
Speaker 1: this footwork style, which you know, naturally he's slowed down

483
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 1: a bit, but I still look at that Casey Kenny

484
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: when and I'm like, hell, yeah, Dom is Vera someone

485
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 1: that could be suspect to that style. You know, does

486
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: he does he sit down too much on his shots?

487
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: Is he too plotting? Or do you not see you know,

488
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 1: Vera having a problem with that Dom Cruise figure eight

489
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: footwork setup he's got.

490
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna have a problem with it.

491
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 3: And just because of the way you've see him address

492
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 3: the leg kicks when he's fought Sugar Sean Omeley, you know,

493
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 3: he goes to the leg cakes and he's somebody who

494
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 3: can systematically use this strong reach to effectively start taking

495
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 3: somebody out out of that far distance. So I think

496
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 3: that Don Cruz has to use a combination of darting

497
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 3: looking like he's darting in but also on the lateral

498
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 3: side is.

499
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 2: Going to be very beneficial for him.

500
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 3: But I mean, if if Vera gets to the point

501
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 3: where he gets too plaudy in there and not kind

502
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 3: of freeze dominic Cruz at all with his hands, then

503
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 3: Dominic Cruz is gonna be able to skate all around him.

504
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: Is there any opening avenue or potential here for dom

505
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: Cruz to surprise us a bit and rely on offensive wrestling.

506
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 2: You know what? I feel like that would be a

507
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 2: great thing for him to do.

508
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 3: But even if, like not even landing a takedown, like

509
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes we harp on the fact that

510
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 3: they have to landa takedown, even if he just has

511
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 3: a wrestling pressure, as if like after he throws a punch,

512
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 3: his next position is in a grappling position, or he's

513
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,919
Speaker 3: making Vera think he's going to a grappling position and

514
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 3: then he returns back up to strikes. That kind of medicine,

515
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 3: that kind of mixing up could do something good for

516
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 3: Dominic Cruz. Even if he's able to clinch him against

517
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 3: the prior against a wall, you know that six feet

518
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 3: and kind of turn it into a wall and brawl

519
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 3: type thing. I think that kind of takedown will serve

520
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 3: him better versus trying to shoot underneath and score like

521
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 3: a real takedown.

522
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can I can see that. I can get that.

523
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: You know, look at this and try to build that

524
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: path for Dom. You know it's possible, it's there, But

525
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,479
Speaker 1: it comes down to me, is it likely? You know,

526
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: it's hard to you know, in general, statistically, it's hard

527
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: to lean on the elder statesman when you have one

528
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: of these crossroads ish type matchups, which is this is

529
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: kind of that although Vera's been around for a while,

530
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: you know, and Vera's the rising stock with a little

531
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: bit more thunder behind him, maybe a little bit more

532
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: ways to win this fight. You could argue, I can't

533
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 1: get Dom over that hill, Rashad. Can you what am

534
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 1: I missing? Because if he pulls this off, it's certainly

535
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: because of his title wins not gonna be in that category.

536
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: But in terms of feel good right like Jose Aldo

537
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: stopping Jeremy Stevens, like, it'll feel damn damn good? Can

538
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: he get over that mountain? Rashod? Can't he pull this? Upset?

539
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 3: Well, there's what other factor that you did not mention

540
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 3: that I feel can definitely play in a favor of

541
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 3: Domina Cruz, and that's bitting Vera on the ego game,

542
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 3: getting him to fight a fight, because when you fight

543
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 3: a fight versus just having a technical approach, you find

544
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 3: yourself fighting emotionally. As an effect, if Dominica Cruz hits

545
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 3: him in the face and instead of taking a calculated

546
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 3: shot back, he then just throws a punch out of emotion,

547
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 3: thus leave himself open to whatever domin Cruz could have

548
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 3: set him up with. So if Dominic can get in

549
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 3: the fight on an emotional level, his chances of winning

550
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 3: his fighter, pulling an upset or pulling Vera out of

551
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 3: his game, it increases pretty much. But if Vera just

552
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 3: stays methodical, stays patient, I don't see why he doesn't

553
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 3: get dom up out of there, you know, because he's

554
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 3: just such a big fight, big fighter, and I feel

555
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 3: like him having the confidence in his game and really

556
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 3: understanding his fighting style now is a huge problem for

557
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 3: Domina Cruz.

558
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: That's an interesting way of how you sort of put

559
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 1: that together, A shot and something I didn't think of.

560
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: You know, dom could be a dirty dog if he

561
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: needs to, and I don't mean dirty cheating. I mean,

562
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: just like I'll do anything to win. I don't look

563
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: at somebody like Marlon Vera under any category of saying,

564
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: you know, mentally weak or not strong. But is he

565
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 1: too strong mentally? Can he be lured into one of

566
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: these emotional type situations that you just described. That's interesting.

567
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: That would that would probably have to be part of

568
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: it as well for dom to put this together. But

569
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: I love this fight. It's a five rounder, so it

570
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: could be fun and it could be a nice contrast

571
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: in styles for a good mount of it. But it

572
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: could be fun in those championship rounds. Yeah, yeah, that look,

573
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: we're ready for a good one here with Shad. Where

574
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: does the winner go in your eyes? Is it too

575
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: early to tell based on who wins the other matchups?

576
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 2: I feel like it's too early to tell.

577
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 3: But I mean with an impressive win, you know, I

578
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 3: think Cheetah moves right in position, you know, to be

579
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 3: talked about as a title contender. I mean, like, you know,

580
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 3: with both of these popular names and the fact that

581
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 3: Donald Dominic Cruz you know, could be in his last

582
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 3: last hurrah, you want to definitely get him a shot

583
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 3: or the winner of the shot a chance that you

584
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 3: don't fight for the title because these guys got big

585
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 3: names and they're both you know, if they can get

586
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 3: past each other, it says a lot about where they

587
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 3: and doing a division.

588
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt this this high stakes here. San Diego.

589
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: We're shot. I've I've only been to San Diego for

590
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: like four hours once. But you know they say if

591
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: you visit there once, you'll want you'll spend the rest

592
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: of your life wondering why you haven't moved there. Would

593
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: you have you found that to be true in your travels?

594
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 3: No, I have it. I like San Diego, but it's

595
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 3: just not it's not my company.

596
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: Man. You are standing firm by South Florida right now,

597
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: we're shot.

598
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 3: I mean South Florida is a spin. I mean it's hot,

599
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 3: it's muggy, but you know, is this all right?

600
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 2: All right?

601
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,719
Speaker 1: Are you big? Ron De Santis guy. We're not supposed

602
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: to go deep into politics here, but you know, some

603
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: people say, you know, twenty twenty four, we're shot. All right?

604
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: I know it's your guy, right, I mean.

605
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 2: I love this Santas. He's good for our state.

606
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: All right, all right, it's the it's the last outlaw

607
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: refuge used to be Alaska. Now it is Florida. All

608
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: we're shot on the San Diego card. I could hit

609
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: you with the BC super Sloppy special guarantee and tell

610
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: you need the train. Land where is going to be

611
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: worth watching against David and probably sloppy and wild? You know,

612
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: you know, Rashad that I got feelings in this Cynthia

613
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: Calvio Nina Nuna's fight. Both need to win. Both in

614
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: a rough spot. And by the way, Nina did tell

615
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: the media she did not follow Amanda to the new gym.

616
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: She's gonna stay at ATT until she retires. So shout

617
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: out for there any of these fights, rashod up and

618
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: down at all, have your care level hair because this

619
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: is not a great card. I'm not here to be

620
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: smirch it though. Enjoy yourself. Buckle up, watch what you're

621
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: gonna watch for? What the hell are you gonna watch for? Rashad?

622
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 3: I got interested in the land where the fight? You know,

623
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 3: I feel like I really like this land where dude,

624
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 3: I mean, I love first of all, I love the

625
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 3: way he talked. Whenever he talk I'm just like, does

626
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 3: he really sound like that? But his whole approach to

627
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: fighting is one that just kind of it excites me

628
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 3: as well too. But Onama, you know, he's got that

629
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 3: crous training, you know, and I'm really big believer in

630
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 3: guys training with James Krause.

631
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: I mean, you see these guys fight differently.

632
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 3: It reminds me of the old Jackson's team, you know,

633
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 3: like you see a group of guys who fight at

634
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 3: another level and they believe in the training that they have,

635
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 3: and all they have to do is look over and

636
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 3: seeing a coach and a coach can you know, cand

637
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 3: just convey a whole message with just a look and

638
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 3: a feel. And those guys over there a James Crowds,

639
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 3: Jim Glory is just they're on another level. So this

640
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 3: fight is gonna be absolutely fireworks.

641
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: You know.

642
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: That's what Mike Perry used to say about coach Littori.

643
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: He just needed to see that and he would be okay,

644
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: And you know I respect that, you know, stand by

645
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: my woman now I know that song Rashad also Devin

646
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: Clark's back. We got Gerald Meershard against Bruno Silva, Angela

647
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Speaker 1: hillsback against Lupy Godina, So a few fights to keep

648
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Speaker 1: your interest watch out for.

649
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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's gonna be a good fight. That's gonna

650
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Speaker 2: be a good fight.

651
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Speaker 1: Topic number two goes down tonight on Showtime, the only

652
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Speaker 1: place you can buy it. In fact, I mean, why

653
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Speaker 1: wouldn't you try it for free for thirty days right

654
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Speaker 1: now Showtime? Dot commish is me talking here, BC okay,

655
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: pound in the Sand. If you don't like it, I

656
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: guarantee you will. Rashad a s Felcher two eight four

657
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: going down, and it's going down with a welterweight man

658
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: event this evening as minus one sixty favorite, Nieman Gracie

659
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: looks to bounce back from a string of alternating wins

660
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: and losses at the elite level when taking on a

661
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: rising not only in weight but also momentum here Gouchi

662
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: yama Uchi, a plus one sixty underdog as things stand

663
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Speaker 1: now on the Caesars Book nine pm Eastern is your

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Speaker 1: main card this evening on Showtime. Rashad, you look at

665
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: Neiman graci I mean, he's a threat to this division

666
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: and title, but it has been for a while, his

667
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: strikings coming around. But have we seen the best of

668
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: him already? Is there's still time for another chapter in

669
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: this guy's run.

670
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm kind of a fandom name, and I

671
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 3: feel as if like he's gotten so much better and

672
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 3: gotten so much better in the areas that I thought

673
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 3: that he would not be getting better in with him

674
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Speaker 3: with that, I mean is striking, you know, I felt

675
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 3: when I first seen him striking, I was like, I

676
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 3: don't know if he's gonna be able to put it

677
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 3: together to be even a place of pudd his jiu

678
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 3: jitsu and where it can be opposed to anybody.

679
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: But he has pulled it together pretty well.

680
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 3: He looks at me getting a lot more comfortable on

681
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 3: his feet, and that's what he really needs, being able

682
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 3: to get comfortable on his feet and understand the fact

683
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 3: that if he gets comfortable on his feet, being so

684
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 3: good on the ground, it offers him a chance to

685
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 3: take more chances on his feet. It offered him the

686
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 3: more chance to be more dangerous on the feet because

687
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 3: he's not he can be not afraid to load up

688
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 3: on big power for shots because if it goes to

689
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 3: the ground, that's cool. So it puts his opponents in

690
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 3: a weird situation where the damns if they're do and

691
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 3: damned if they're dumb. But he's got I mean, but

692
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 3: Yamaguchi on the other end is nasty on his feet

693
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 3: like Mayaota Machita Layola machita used to be, and that

694
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 3: in and out karate style. Plus he has that jiu jitsu.

695
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a tall lorder.

696
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Speaker 2: For for Nima.

697
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yamauchi moving up in way trying to make a

698
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: run in this Waltwey division. This is a huge opportunity

699
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: in terms of name value. Yamuci has five and one

700
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: sense going the distance in a loss to Michael Chandler,

701
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: lost to Dann Morep, but but he's put together some

702
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 1: nice winter. This is certainly a big opportunity back to Gracie,

703
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: though quickly it's like it's not that he's not willing

704
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: to strike, Like he basically bit down on the mouthguard

705
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: against Logan Storley and was like, I'm gonna live or

706
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: die with this style this moment right here, and it's like,

707
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: I don't always know if that's the best move though

708
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: overshot certainly that's well rounded striking game has to be

709
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: there to always leave open the threat of the of

710
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: the takedown or if somebody shuts you down, you got

711
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: to be able to handle it. But I don't know

712
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Speaker 1: if his striking can ever get there, is really what

713
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I don't want to see him live

714
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: or die on the feet, you know what I'm saying.

715
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Speaker 1: I want to see him going out trying trying to

716
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: hook that leg.

717
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 2: No, I understand that.

718
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 3: And that's the thing about it, Like when I see

719
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 3: a guy like that, I'm like, like, I wish that

720
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 3: the coach would teach him, just like I always understood

721
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 3: if I if I threw one punch, like if I

722
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 3: threw an overhand right, it puts me in position to

723
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 3: always fall into a takedown or a left hook. It

724
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 3: always puts me in a position to then put my

725
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 3: head to the outside and then be in positioned to

726
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 3: get a takedown. So I feel like, does he has

727
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 3: those does he have those combinations where he feels comfortable

728
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 3: throwing a punch but then from that punch, understanding his

729
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 3: transitional takedown is going to be right there. And sometimes

730
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 3: you look at him throw a punch and you're like,

731
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 3: I don't know if he has that or understands that.

732
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting, But Gracey's got a big chance to get

733
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: right back in the mix here if he can make

734
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: this happen in the Cole Main event. This is interesting.

735
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: Valentine Moldowski, the former interim heavyweight title holder there from

736
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: Tim Fador, looking to bounce back from that lost to

737
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: Ryan Vader when he and welcomes Big Steve Moory unbeaten

738
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: has really looking for Shad. Do you have history with

739
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: Big Steve at Hard Knocks?

740
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Big Steve is my training partner for a long time.

741
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 3: You know, he's a huge, huge guy, of course, the

742
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 3: tall Steve, but he's he's gotten more comfortable with with

743
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 3: just being comfortable in the striking. You know, back in

744
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 3: the day, that was one of his biggest holes, the

745
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 3: fact that he would kind of just be afraid to

746
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 3: almost get hit. But training alongside Tyrone Spun and Big

747
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 3: Baby Big Baby mill At a boxer, he's gotten more

748
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 3: comfortable with taking shots, but more importantly, how to give

749
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 3: those shots and the timing and range and how to

750
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 3: fight as a tall fighter. So it's gonna be exciting

751
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 3: to see if he can bring those tools into this

752
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: fight because he's very good on the ground. So if

753
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 3: he can have the skill set being comfortable with the

754
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 3: striking to then compliment his groundwork, he's gonna have a

755
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 3: good fight.

756
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a big step up in class Moldovsky.

757
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: This is you know, the subtitle level. But right there,

758
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: I mean we just saw Moldovsky, you know, go on

759
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: that run whin that interim strap, we know how tough

760
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 1: he is. If Moldovsky makes this a wrestling only fight,

761
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: can't Big Steve hang on this level?

762
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can if he makes it, And if he

763
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 3: does make it a wrestle and only fight, that would

764
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 3: play in the huge flavor of Steve Maray, who is

765
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 3: who's surprisingly strong and with that long leverage puts that

766
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 3: strength in a different different way, you know, because when

767
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 3: you have a guy who's strong, but then they're along

768
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 3: with it, it's a different kind of way of exhibiting

769
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 3: their strength. So I think if if he needs to,

770
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 3: you know, gump things up, then grapple would be the

771
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 3: way to do. But I mean Moldowsky has to be

772
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 3: able to be on the outside and really try to

773
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 3: take advantage of, you know, the inexperience, but just that

774
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 3: not believing in himself sometimes because even though Steve Maurray

775
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 3: has gotten better with the striking, there's still that like

776
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 3: that not belief that his striking is able to compete

777
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:47,919
Speaker 3: on the highest level.

778
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, indeed, man, he would really make his name

779
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: Steve Malory with a win here for Moldovski probably, you know,

780
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: you can almost get a title shot off this. Basically

781
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: he's staying at that level on this fight. Something to

782
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: watch out here for former Bellator Women's Flyway champion Alima La.

783
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: McFarland's scheduled to take on Bruna Ellen. They're still going

784
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: to fight, but McFarland missweit and kind of missed it badly.

785
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: She's supposed to be a one hundred and twenty five

786
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: pound bowl. Obviously you get the one pound forgiveness in

787
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: a non title situation, but she came in at one

788
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine pounds. It'll go forward as a

789
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: catchweight rashad considering Alima Lay lost her title in a

790
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: competitive fight to Velasquez, but then came back with that

791
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: surprising loss to Justin Kish where it just didn't seem

792
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: like she had a spark in her how you know,

793
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: nervous are you for her to see her coming to

794
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: misweight like this?

795
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 2: You know, I'm pretty nervous.

796
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 3: You know, you never know what it's truly going on

797
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 3: when the fight and missweight and they misweight that bad

798
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 3: you know, from a woman fighter, it's hard to say,

799
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 3: you know, is it because she sees on her mensas

800
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 3: and it kind of adds more water and it makes

801
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 3: it harder for the cut weight.

802
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 2: Who knows or that.

803
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 3: Just the fact that she's just not coming into this

804
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 3: fight as focused and didn't have a good training camp

805
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 3: where she put diet first and systematically got her weight

806
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 3: down an incremental way where she's able to be on weight.

807
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of things that could be you know,

808
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 3: looked at in a situation, but it doesn't bold well.

809
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 2: For her being the fact that she's been struggling lately competing.

810
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I'd like to see her bounce back here.

811
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: It seems like there's a lot going against her at

812
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: the moment, and it you know, she was just right

813
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 1: there and now she's not. So things happen. Sometimes people

814
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: go in cold streaks. But I mean, I love Almahlay

815
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: is great, the energy, I love the crowds. I love

816
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: when they go back to Hawaii and the crowds go

817
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: sick for her. So you know, she still got it

818
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: in here. Let's see if she can put things together

819
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: despite that challenges. Austin Vanderford it's not Luke for shot.

820
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 1: Excuse me coming back here against a well mulleted Aaron Jeffrey.

821
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: But this is the first time we're seeing mister van

822
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: Zandt since you know, I don't want to say disastrous,

823
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: but dude, he went in there for the title against

824
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: gayguard Musasi and it seemed like it was over before

825
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: it began. Rashad. Yeah, we can sit here all day

826
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: and question whether the eyeball tattoo on his throat, you know,

827
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: what was the great idea in the long term when

828
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: it's yeah, I look, you know who am I right?

829
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? But how how much do

830
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: you look at this as must win and must look

831
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: great for him?

832
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 3: You know, I think I think he needs to win,

833
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 3: but I don't think it's like a must must win,

834
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 3: you know.

835
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 2: I feel like he needs to win.

836
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 3: I feel like it's a very important fight and it's

837
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 3: really going to say the direction of where he goes

838
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 3: after this. But I feel like, you know, he does

839
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 3: have another one in there if he doesn't win this one.

840
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 3: You know, really it's just getting a matter of just like,

841
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 3: you know, what kind of fight he goes out there

842
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,439
Speaker 3: and has. Is it one where he's just out there

843
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 3: looking as if like, all right, he put in the work,

844
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 3: or is the one where it looks like, man, what

845
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 3: has this guy even doing in the cage?

846
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 2: Yeah?

847
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: Indeed, indeed, I would say the undercard here, which is

848
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: you can see it on YouTube on the Belait or

849
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: MMA channel as well on Pluto TV this evening. Uh,

850
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: pat Downey gonna make that debut reshot a lot of

851
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: people talking about this guy. We don't know if he's

852
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: gonna be able to transition from the wrestling and be

853
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: an instant stud for them, but he's gonna make his

854
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: debut against Keys Nelson and at the very least for Shad,

855
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: they got something going with like Danny Sabatello under the

856
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: Bellator banner who but you know can fight, But boy,

857
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,479
Speaker 1: can he sell himself. Pat Downey seems like he wants

858
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: to be w W champion and the way he presents

859
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: himself for Shad, this is I think this is appointment

860
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: viewing tonight. I gotta find out what he's made of.

861
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: What do you know about that about Pat Downey?

862
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know much about him, man, but

863
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 3: it's gonna be exciting to see what he can do

864
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 3: and especially if he understands the whole game when it

865
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 3: comes to marketing yourself.

866
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 2: That that's that's everything these days.

867
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 3: If you can really find a way to mark yourself

868
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 3: and really get to these kids and and and hype

869
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 3: yourself up on a level on my gosh, start, you know,

870
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 3: the sky's the limit.

871
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 2: But having that wrestling background too as well, I.

872
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 3: Mean that that takes you so long, you know, so

873
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 3: far as will because it makes up for a lot

874
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 3: of other areas where you can, you know, take time

875
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 3: to develop your skill set your hands and other things

876
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 3: like jiu jitsu and things like that.

877
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: And you know, Luke, heate's when we talk about pro

878
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: wrestling and try to link any of it to m'm

879
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: may but when you come in there with the with

880
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: like the attitude like I'm gonna be a pro wrestling villain,

881
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: I'm the bad boy of college wrestling and now I'm

882
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: gonna you know, like people are gonna care, they will

883
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: Okay that people like bullshit. Okay, I love a lot

884
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: of bullshit. Put it, spread it on my toast for shot,

885
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: all right. It helps me get through the day. That's

886
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: Beltar two eighty four. This evening main card, nine pm

887
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 1: Eastern only on showtime. We're shot also Saturday. It may

888
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: not be getting a ton of love, but here topic three.

889
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: The PFL Playoffs will continue with PFL eight Cardiff Wales

890
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: for shot. Now you know from being a part of

891
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: the show that I'm half French, Canadian, half Lithuanian for shot, okay,

892
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: but I've also been welcomed into the into the community

893
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 1: with the Welshman. Okay, I'm Whales by not by birthright

894
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: but by choice. Here you know that's my UK home

895
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: when I make it one day, Cardiff Wales the home

896
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: of what could be a pivot about here for Roy

897
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: McDonald and the final four of the playoffs beginning at

898
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: welterweight only. This opponent change kind of changes the narrative

899
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. So if you missed it

900
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: for PFL eight on Saturday, originally Rory McDonald in the

901
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: main event against Magomed Umlatov. If I'm butchering that, I'm sorry.

902
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: Umalatov Luke says this guy was gonna steamroll him. Potentially,

903
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: we're talking about Roy McDonald. What's left at thirty three?

904
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: You know all this stuff. Now we're shot. Visa issues

905
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: for both Umalotov and also Matteya Scheffel. They're both off

906
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: the card. Delano Taylor gonna step in the main event

907
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: and take on Roy McDonald. He has a nine to

908
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: two record, He's coming off the loss to Magomed Magomed Karamov.

909
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 1: Rashot I'm not expecting you and I to break down

910
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: at length what Delano Taylor's name is going to mean

911
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: to the x's and o's to this fight. But it

912
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: feels like there's an opening here for Rory to It's

913
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: like he's at such a Teeter Totter place coming off

914
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: that loss where it'll look great if he goes out

915
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: there and loses here and gets kicked out of the playoffs,

916
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: we may be talking about should he walk away? Is

917
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: he still the same guy? Yet? He could really tell

918
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: us to all shut the f up by making a

919
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: run with this tournament and winning it. Now. Umatalov is

920
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,720
Speaker 1: off like Rory's got a shot here now.

921
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 3: I mean the stage is set for him to really

922
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 3: go in there and to walk away with a million dollars.

923
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 3: To be honest, I mean, yeah, he couldn't ask for

924
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 3: a better situation. I mean, listen, granted, he still has

925
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 3: a tough fight ahead of him, because anytime you're going

926
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 3: against somebody's short notice and they have a huge opportunity,

927
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 3: you are their super Bowl, You're everything that they've you know,

928
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 3: ever dreamed of of having a big opportunity moment.

929
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 2: So you have to go in there and meet him

930
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 2: at that level. But this is a huge layup.

931
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 3: This is a huge like weight lift that have to

932
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 3: be off the shoulders of Rory McDonald, and this should

933
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 3: honestly inspire him. This should be like kind of put

934
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 3: some new air in those tires and be like, you

935
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 3: know what I need to sprint to this finish.

936
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, this could completely change the game. We'll see.

937
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: You can also get surprised by a new guy coming

938
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: in the other half of that bracket, the guy who

939
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: just beat Roy McDonald. That's Sadabu Sai. He'll be taking

940
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: on Carlos Leal in the other semi final. Caesar Sportsbook

941
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: has this basically minus one ten to both, so it's

942
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: basically a pick them right now. If it ends up

943
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: being Si versus Roy McDonald in a rematch, well there

944
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: you go. There's your championship. We'll see who comes out

945
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: of there. The heavyweight side, though lost Mattea Cheffel. He

946
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: had given hen and Ferrera his first loss and looked

947
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: like he was coming on. They already lost Bruno Capaloza,

948
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 1: who was injured. But Juan Adams, you may remember him

949
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: from his time in the UFC. Didn't he fight Greg Hardy? Right?

950
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 2: Yep? Yep? He did.

951
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: Wan Adams is five and one since getting cut by

952
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: the UFC in twenty twenty. He's now taken on Dennis

953
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: Goit seven one semi final Ante Delija versus the afore

954
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: mentioned hen In Ferreira Ferederra Ferrera for yeah, I'll stop

955
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: in the other semi final, he'll be hen and Ferrera

956
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,919
Speaker 1: is big. That is that big dude. Man. He's coming

957
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: off a loss, but we're shot. He's a minus one

958
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: twenty five favorite. So look, this heavyweight practice like not

959
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: a lot of sex to it right now, but maybe

960
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: one Adams consecutive sex it up a little overshot, you know,

961
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he'll yeah, yeah, I mean, I

962
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: mean I could.

963
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 2: See it that big, that that big heavyweight though.

964
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 3: I mean at six' eight, just seeing him throwing a

965
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 3: kick as it's like, oh my gosh, yeah, it's it's

966
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 3: it's the most amazing freakish thing you ever see.

967
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: But I mean he just flips too. He does like

968
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 1: running way.

969
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he's got to be like touching the

970
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 3: ceiling when he doesn't flip.

971
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: Huh yeah. And you know, he got out wrestled in

972
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: that fight by shuffle, And I don't want to say

973
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: he got exposed because we kind of we kind of knew, like,

974
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't a perfect fighter, but he can

975
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: do those highlight reel crazy athletic knockout, like almost almost

976
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: Johnny Walker, like, not as theatrical, but for a heavyweight.

977
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: You're just like, holy crap, you know it's wid Yeah.

978
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 2: That's a big body right there too. Oh my gosh.

979
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: So that's Saturday Night PFL eight. See what Rory's got

980
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: left for us? The Red King if they still call

981
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,919
Speaker 1: him that, I don't know. Topic number four Just one

982
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: boxing match to take note of this week. Rashad Tayo

983
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 1: Fimo Lopez back. We talked at length on Wednesday show

984
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: about the storylines. We played a bunch of video from

985
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: my interview him with him on Morning Combat that you

986
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: can check out right now on YouTube. He's a monster favorite.

987
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: Caesar's has him as minus twenty five hundred. I've seen

988
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: a high as minus three thousand. But there's a lot

989
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: of interest though in what this is gonna look like,

990
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: what he's gonna look like, really, what he's gonna sound like.

991
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: In the post fight interview. He makes his junior welcherweight

992
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: debut here against Pedro Kappa, who has one loss in

993
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: one draw under his run. But the thirty year old

994
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: from Mexico has never fought outside of Mexico. He's a banger,

995
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: he throws a lot of punches, he comes forward, he's tough.

996
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: But he's looked at Rashad as sort of the sacrificial

997
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: lamb here as long as Tayo Femo has fully recovered

998
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: in every facet from the loss to George Cambosis nine

999
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: months ago from the scan, I don't wanna call a scandal,

1000
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: but the weird headlines that followed, you know, Tao Femo, conspiracy,

1001
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Drama follows this guy Rashad. We know

1002
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: how great he is. Two years ago against Lomachenko showed

1003
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: us what do you think about him? Now? Just putting

1004
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: lightweight behind, moving up and wait and trying to, you know,

1005
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,399
Speaker 1: get his good name back here. Nine months later.

1006
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 3: Well, I think he did the right thing starting off,

1007
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 3: you know, taking time away. I feel like taking the

1008
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 3: time away to just kind of rebuild himself is something.

1009
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 2: That a lot of fighters don't do enough of.

1010
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 3: Sometimes when we have a situation where we feel like

1011
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 3: we're at a rock bottom, we feel we need to

1012
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 3: go back out and prove ourselves. But the fact that

1013
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 3: he's kind of taking a time to just lick his

1014
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 3: wounds a little bit and just kind of heal his body,

1015
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 3: but even go up and wait and challenge himself shows

1016
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 3: that he's kind of got his mindset and he's found

1017
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 3: a new horse to chase, or just new mindset or

1018
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 3: a new why behind it. Because when you're the champion

1019
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 3: and you have that fall down, you have that disappointment,

1020
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 3: you gotta find a new way to kind of Okay,

1021
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,280
Speaker 3: now what I'm gonna chase it? Because you can't chase

1022
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 3: would you chase me for because you've already achieved it.

1023
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: I mean, whether you love him or hate him or

1024
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,879
Speaker 1: hate his responses to some questions and categories, I still

1025
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: don't get with the whole conspiracy thing, but I respect him.

1026
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: He's only twenty five, for shot, and he knows how

1027
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,320
Speaker 1: to navigate drama in his life. For better or for worse?

1028
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: I mean, would you talked about him taking time off, dude.

1029
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,439
Speaker 1: He went through that loss to gambosis. Now we find

1030
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: out he had the tear in his esophagus. He also

1031
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: was going through a divorce while his now ex wife

1032
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: was pregnant with his first son, who was born days

1033
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: before the fight. Meanwhile, he didn't have enough money left

1034
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: after this fight got postponed so many times to pay

1035
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: trainer Joey Gamash, and he was now right or die

1036
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: with his dad. And then they went through the controversy

1037
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: of not only the loss, people saying, you know, there's

1038
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: too much shit in his life. They need he needs

1039
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: to get his dad away from him. They're doubling down.

1040
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: They're right or die. They're in this together. Now, he's

1041
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: not necessarily giving you the answers to your questions that

1042
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: make you say, I guaranteed this kid's back. But whether

1043
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: that's for better or worse for Shot, I do look

1044
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: at him as somebody who's Tayo Femo, wiser than his age,

1045
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: like he this is the life he lives, you know, again,

1046
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: for better or worse, A lot of stress, a lot

1047
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: of stuff going on all the time. He can shut

1048
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: up a lot of it by going out and doing

1049
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,879
Speaker 1: what you expect him to do. Be smarter this time,

1050
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: be a little bit more poised, but knock Pedro Campa out.

1051
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: I mean, winning does have a way of kind of

1052
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 1: massaging and getting rid of all those whispers and the criticism.

1053
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely does, I mean, you know, and with

1054
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 3: the win it can definitely you know, shut out his

1055
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 3: own doubt as well too. I mean, because whenever that happens,

1056
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 3: you have, you know, everybody saying this about you, and

1057
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,760
Speaker 3: you'd you're defending yourself wealth.

1058
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 2: And right, a little bit, it does find home.

1059
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 3: But the fact that he's staying with his basis, staying

1060
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 3: with his dad and really you know, making sure that

1061
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 3: he's pushing through whatever is being said about him and

1062
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 3: putting his life in order. You know, it's the hardest

1063
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 3: thing to be able to put your life in a

1064
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 3: way that that it's not interfering what you bring to

1065
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 3: the ring. And yeah, you know the fact that he's

1066
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 3: able to still perform at a high level even having

1067
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 3: all to put out all those fires outside other ring,

1068
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 3: it is huge and it shows the fact that if

1069
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 3: he can.

1070
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 2: Just kind of organize it a little bit.

1071
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 3: He can perform that much better inside the ring if

1072
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 3: he gets his outside matters taken care of.

1073
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: And let's also not forget that before even fighting Cambosa's

1074
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: that fight changed networks. There was the purse bid. He

1075
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 1: was kind of blamed by his promoter for being greedy

1076
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: and going and make it happen. Like there was a

1077
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: lot of shit going on. Yet there was also a

1078
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: lot of shit going on when his dad accosted with

1079
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: Lomachenko that time backstage and was like, my son's gonna

1080
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: fight you and kick your ass. And then suddenly we're like,

1081
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: did his dad just talk him into a fight that

1082
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: he's not even ready for? And then he went out

1083
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: there and beat Lomachenko. So like, I don't I don't

1084
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: know as we stand right now, I don't know if

1085
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: Tayo Fin was gonna ever put it back together and

1086
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: live up to his potential. But he's all in, is

1087
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: my point. I'm finding that out no matter if he's

1088
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: going through, you know, a period of bliss outside the

1089
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: ring or it's hell. I mean, looking back, if that

1090
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: whole injury thing was real as they say it was

1091
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: in the doctor report, like he fought his balls off

1092
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: just to not get knocked down in that fight. Like

1093
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: he came back and made the split decision, you know,

1094
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 1: like I thought he lost straight up, but like he did.

1095
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: If if he starts winning from here on out, we'll

1096
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: look back on that performance and say he faced everything

1097
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 1: that he needed to to find out what he's really

1098
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: made of just by surviving that fight. No one wants

1099
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 1: to really give him that credit now because some of

1100
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 1: his other answers make him seem crazy for shot that.

1101
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: That's real talk right there, right. Nobody wants to give

1102
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: him that credit. But he bit down that night, you

1103
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: know what I mean, You find out what you're made of.

1104
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: It could break you or it could make you.

1105
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 3: You know, we'll see, yeah, absolutely, I mean that's that's

1106
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 3: what it's all about. Like as a fighter, you seem

1107
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 3: to grow up overnight when you're in those situations when

1108
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 3: you're just like, you know what, you have to pull

1109
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 3: on another guy and see if the other guy comes out,

1110
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 3: Because it's very easy when you're get in some open

1111
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 3: there and you're getting hammered to be like, you know what,

1112
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 3: I'm gonna fold it in for this night, but I'm

1113
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 3: gonna bite down and make this guy feel me. And

1114
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 3: it just starts at just finding those little victories along

1115
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 3: the way and then starting to build the momentum.

1116
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,720
Speaker 2: But yeah, I totally agree.

1117
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 3: But there's another fight on this There's another fight in

1118
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 3: his car that I'm really interested.

1119
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say a couple of fighters for watching.

1120
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: Is you know Xander Zaiaz is a hot young prospect.

1121
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: He's coming out in the co main event against Elias

1122
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: as Spottist. But are you were you gonna bring up

1123
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 1: Duke Reagan.

1124
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 2: No, I was gonna bring up Xanders Aias out here

1125
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 2: in South Florida.

1126
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 3: I got a chance to watch his kid a couple

1127
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 3: of years ago when he was just you know, a

1128
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 3: pupp and he was just like you know, sparn like

1129
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 3: some some amazing, you know, amazing rounds with some high

1130
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 3: level boxers, and I'm just like, who is this kid?

1131
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 3: And he was like all Xanders Ayas And he's just

1132
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 3: continued to kind of grow in the rankings. And you know,

1133
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 3: now he's growing, he's growing up, and he still hasn't

1134
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 3: even hit his man strength yet. So when he gets

1135
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 3: his man strength, oh my gosh, that's gonna be.

1136
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: A Yeah, I'm finding more and more people in boxing

1137
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: that are in the know. But then the guys that

1138
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: behind them that are really in the know, you talk

1139
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,320
Speaker 1: to them and they bring up his name a lot

1140
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: only nineteen years old from San Juan, Puerto Rico. You know,

1141
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: there's a gap in the moment in the boxing hierarchy

1142
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: of like that big Puerto Rican star, like you know,

1143
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: like the Trinidad the Codo, Like we thought that would

1144
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: be Felix Verdejo and it wasn't. There's an opening a

1145
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 1: lot of people saying he could be the one. He's

1146
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: got experience for that youth man nineteen, But we're gonna

1147
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: find out. Also, I was gonna mention Duke Reagan with

1148
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 1: that Olympic experience as well on that undercard check it out.

1149
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: Topic five are quick hitters, Rashad. I'm gonna freestyle here.

1150
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: My first quick hitter is there's been a trio of

1151
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: BC approved all female undercard fights in the future coming

1152
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:48,319
Speaker 1: up that seemed to be really awesome either, Like you know,

1153
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: Sean Shelby and mcmaynard are watching this show every week

1154
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 1: and they and they're starting to let me brainwash the

1155
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: way they think. But they're booking my style, So Rashad,

1156
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read each of the three to you. You

1157
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: tell me like, yeah, you're nay, like you're feeling when

1158
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: I'm feeling. You know what I'm saying. Here we go

1159
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,280
Speaker 1: October first, this might be the BC super Bowl. Cheyennev

1160
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: Listmus versus Tabitha Ricci. Yeah, you're gonna give me a Yeah,

1161
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 1: you're gonna get You're in. You're in on that, okay. Uh.

1162
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: Number two Tracy Cortes versus Amanda he Boss December third.

1163
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that. I like that heat Boss is

1164
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 2: a beast.

1165
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: That's a big fight for Cortes. You know that'd be

1166
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: that'd be the breakthrough win to really go beyond being

1167
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: brian O'teka's girl. You know what I'm saying, Like, that's

1168
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: a that's a making moment there. And the third is

1169
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: November twelfth at MSG. This is bound to get a

1170
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: lot of attention on it. Aaron Blanchfield versus Molly McCann

1171
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: for shot, that's great matchmaking, No, it is.

1172
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 2: It is.

1173
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 3: I think that one right there is gonna be a huge, one,

1174
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,760
Speaker 3: huge one with Molly McCann.

1175
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 2: I love the way she fights, man, she got such

1176
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 2: a pretty style.

1177
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: She might have to fight off for back in this one, Rashad,

1178
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: So this will be interesting. Yeah, yeah, uh Rachelle will

1179
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: keep with the quick hitters. We want to get your take.

1180
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,320
Speaker 1: Bo Nickel, of course, who the pen say all American,

1181
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: three time national champion product who won his Dana White

1182
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: Contender Series about last week but wasn't offered the full contract.

1183
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 1: We'll make another appearance. This is what he said at

1184
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: the post fight presser. It's all good. I'm just excited.

1185
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: I'm always grateful for the opportunity to compete. So getting

1186
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: out there unscathed another dub. I'll get to fight soon,

1187
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: all good. And I've said a few times already. But

1188
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 1: the goal is not to be a UFC fighter. I'm

1189
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: here to be a UFC champion and the number one

1190
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: pound four pound in the world, uh Rashad. I think

1191
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: he answered this and you know, carried himself very well.

1192
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: Whether you believe that you should just give him the

1193
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: full contract now or whether we're doing reality TV here

1194
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,439
Speaker 1: to get more viewers on the next episode. Either way,

1195
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: like I'm getting that itch, like is this guy, like

1196
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: is this Peako level super special? Stop everything? Like he

1197
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,240
Speaker 1: could be next? Is this that level I know Pico

1198
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 1: didn't quite get there yet, but there's still time. Are

1199
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: you feeling what I'm feeling here?

1200
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 2: I'm definitely feeling it.

1201
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 3: You know. I love the way bo Nickel, the way

1202
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 3: he approaches the fight. I love what he does once

1203
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 3: he's in a cage, because here's the thing about it.

1204
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 3: Once he gets a guy on the ground, he doesn't

1205
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 3: waste too much time withholding him down and just kind

1206
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 3: of just kind of suffocating him. He goes right into

1207
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 3: the position to start grinding and pounding right away. And

1208
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 3: that just shows an overall confidence that he has in

1209
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 3: his wrestling because when the guy starts coming up and

1210
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,240
Speaker 3: then not coming up in his control, he can still

1211
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 3: find control out of anywhere.

1212
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 2: So it just kind of shows his overall confidence.

1213
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 3: But I feel like, you know, I'm still waiting to

1214
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 3: see what he can do more.

1215
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 2: With his hands.

1216
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 3: He seems very comfortable striking thus far, but it's at

1217
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:44,959
Speaker 3: a certain level.

1218
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: What does he do at the next Yeah, indeed, I mean,

1219
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: so many questions still the answer. I mean, maybe this

1220
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: is probably the smartest way marketing TV wise. Maybe the

1221
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:54,840
Speaker 1: UFC has well here.

1222
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 2: Here, WBC here, Here's what I don't get there Here's

1223
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 2: what I don't get. It's like, I mean, I love

1224
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 2: the approach.

1225
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 3: I love the approach and gave the fans a chance

1226
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 3: to get a taste of this bow Nicol and just

1227
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:05,760
Speaker 3: the prospect.

1228
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 2: That he is.

1229
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 3: But it's like we knew what he was before we

1230
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,479
Speaker 3: brought him on the show, right, you know what I'm saying.

1231
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,919
Speaker 1: So I was like, I mean, that's the reality TV

1232
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: part of it. Like, I don't think there's a question

1233
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: that him and his team had talked to UFC before

1234
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: that fight. They knew what was going on. They knew,

1235
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: come on, they knew, Yeah, they knew. Rashad here's a

1236
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: October fifteenth main event. I think this is set, not

1237
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: rumored middleweight UFC Jared Cannonier versus Sean Strickland, both needing

1238
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: a comeback win to sort of re enter this title picture. Damn,

1239
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: I love this fight.

1240
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 2: You Oh my gosh.

1241
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 3: I love this fight because it's one that's gonna bring

1242
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 3: out the best in Sean Strickland. And the best in

1243
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 3: Sewan Strickland is that guy who's out there just rubbing

1244
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 3: people the wrong way. But some reason when he starts

1245
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 3: rubbing people the wrong way is ignorant. As he sounds.

1246
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's very interesting.

1247
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 3: It makes you want to you know, if you're on

1248
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 3: the other side of your Janet Jared Kannoneer, Janet Karaneer,

1249
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 3: and you need that extra motivation just coming off of

1250
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 3: fight what izzy where you left out of the cage

1251
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 3: feeling as if like you didn't fight.

1252
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I know he's going to

1253
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 2: go out there and.

1254
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 3: I know having somebody like Sean Strickland is going to

1255
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 3: be able to bring out that extra shit talking.

1256
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I think it's gonna be a good player.

1257
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if you hate Sean Strickland because he's you know,

1258
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: polarizing purposely, you just saw him get knocked out by Padeta,

1259
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: you must look at this and go, oh, we get

1260
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 1: a chance to see him to get knocked out again.

1261
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: But obviously the real breakdown is You're right, this probably

1262
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: will bring out the best of him because he's gonna

1263
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: have to He's gonna have to be everything he wasn't,

1264
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: you know, calculated and careful and obviously I think he's

1265
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: got the game to do it. And we'll, you know,

1266
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: we'll see what that loss to Adisania did for Cannoneer.

1267
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,479
Speaker 1: You know, I did see that that UFC backstage video.

1268
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: You know he looked devastated, meaning Jared Cannoneer sitting down

1269
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: in locker room on the stool as you would expect,

1270
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: but sort of just thinking like, you know, I just

1271
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: had five rounds to go for broke and I couldn't

1272
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: quite find that opening. Is that going to spur him

1273
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: to you know, another level and one more run or

1274
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: does that even subconsciously start to snuff out the fire?

1275
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: You don't know at this age, So it's it's theater

1276
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: to watch out for shot.

1277
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 3: Everyone's different, Yeah, And you know, there's nothing more frustrating

1278
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 3: if you're Janet Jared Kennaneer and you've had a fight

1279
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 3: where you've just pretty much watched your opponent just smooth,

1280
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,439
Speaker 3: just you know, cruise to a victory and you've were

1281
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 3: in the fight, but you just never actually thought I've

1282
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 3: been there, And it's the worst feeling. So the next

1283
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 3: fight you go in there, you go in there almost

1284
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 3: a little too aggressive to try to prove a point.

1285
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,320
Speaker 3: So it's going to be interesting to see how does

1286
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Speaker 3: Jarrett manage out those feelings.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, This next one's a report. I believe it

1288
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: was MMA Mania that threw it out there. We don't

1289
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: have any confirmations internally or everything. We're just looking at

1290
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: this matchup in the works. Under this report for Belatore

1291
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: for November is Petricky Pitbull defending that you bent the

1292
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: featherweight title for Belatore MMA against I'm sorry that that's

1293
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: the Yeah, that's the father Way against the rising usman

1294
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: Normaga metof Rashad. This is about as good as it gets. Uh,

1295
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: sign me up right now? Please?

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01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, gosh yo, this this fight is amazing. I mean,

1297
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 2: I absolutely love the way Uspan fights. He is like

1298
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 2: the most perfect fighter.

1299
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 3: He kind of reminds me of the beat a bit

1300
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 3: back in the day as he got that was a

1301
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 3: beat feeld. But I mean it's just does the smooth

1302
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 3: just the look on his face, just the the just

1303
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 3: how smooth and just relaxed he is is just U

1304
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 3: is a truth to treat to watch.

1305
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: Do you look back on patri uh Patricio's Wow, I'm

1306
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: just talking like a like a reject out here, Rashad

1307
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 1: Patricio his his win over aj McKee in the rematch,

1308
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: which wasn't overly exciting. Do you look at that as

1309
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: like strategic gutty got it done, or do you look

1310
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: at it kind of disappointed that we didn't get the

1311
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: answers to that fight that we necessarily needed.

1312
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 3: No, I felt like, you know, he went in there

1313
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 3: and got it done. I mean, the hardest thing in

1314
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 3: the world to do is going there and face somebody

1315
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 3: who who embarrassed you the first time out. You know,

1316
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 3: so you're facing yourself on levels that you were not

1317
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 3: facing yourself the first time a round.

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01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:21,920
Speaker 2: So the fact that he went in there and made it,

1319
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 2: you know, and made.

1320
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 3: His wrongs right, it shows that he has the ability

1321
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 3: to dissect themselves and look at himself on an introspect

1322
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 3: level and grow from his losses. So it was for

1323
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 3: me it showed more than I thought that he still

1324
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 3: had in a tank. No, no disrespect to him, but

1325
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 3: I still didn't. I didn't think that he had that

1326
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 3: love love like I'm gonna show you left in his career,

1327
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 3: you know.

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01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I'm gonna be really honest. The only

1329
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: Bellator fight that would get me more excited than this

1330
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 1: is probably a j mcke versus Lusmann and Macka Mettal

1331
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: for the title, which is very much down the road

1332
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 1: and play here. So, uh, you know, let's let's not

1333
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 1: take the bet well off Patricio just yet. You know,

1334
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: Let's see what's gonna happen. This is gonna be God,

1335
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a great fight. Can't wait. Also, we

1336
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 1: talked about it on Wednesday, the idea that Chris Cyborg

1337
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: was gonna make this pro boxing debut. Now we have

1338
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: the info. It's September twenty fifth, the main event of

1339
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: an FMS show, which stands for Fight Music Show. I

1340
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: believe this is in Brazil. The opponent is Simone Silva,

1341
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: who isn't gonna you know, blow you away here. But

1342
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: the whole idea of Cyborg, I guess testing the boxing waters.

1343
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: I know she had said she wanted to box Katie Taylor,

1344
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: the ondisputed lightweight champion. You care it all, Rashod could

1345
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 1: is you know, is this just a go ahead, Cyborg,

1346
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 1: your legend, do what you want? Or is there something.

1347
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 3: Here not that there really is nothing there for me,

1348
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 3: I mean no level of interest. I feel as if, like,

1349
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 3: you know, I love Cyborg, but I mean that her

1350
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 3: best days of being that imposed figure, the one who's

1351
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 3: just like gonna captivate she would just her physical dominance.

1352
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 3: I feel it's over, you know, I feel like she's

1353
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 3: still gonna be able to get some fan to, you know,

1354
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 3: care based on a nostalgia and just the fact that

1355
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 3: she's a legend in the sport.

1356
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 2: But as far as being a competitor, nah.

1357
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, I'm with you on that.

1358
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 1: I'm I can't get too excited. I mean, Kayla Harrison

1359
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: and is is going crazy in response to this report,

1360
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: trying to get trying to remind Cyborg that she's supposed

1361
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,440
Speaker 1: to be fighting in a PFL pay per view about

1362
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: next year against her, and you know, off I saw

1363
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: tweets from the PFL brass. I don't know. I mean,

1364
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: you know, don't have to get Scott Coker invol or

1365
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: is this under the assumption that Cyborg is going to

1366
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: be a free agent. I don't know. She said she

1367
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: would have Scott Coker co promote her boxing events moving forward,

1368
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: so probably not. There seems to be some red tape there. Rashad,

1369
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: do you have any confidence level that we get Cyborg

1370
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: versus Kayla next year on a PFL pay per view?

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01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 2: I mean, it does not sound like it's gonna happen.

1372
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 3: I mean the fact that you know, sideg is already

1373
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 3: trying to start to expand horizons and box and do

1374
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 3: other things to kind of take away from what she

1375
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 3: should be doing in MMA. I don't think it shows

1376
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 3: that you know she's going to fight somebody like Kayla,

1377
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 3: because it's a it's a different animal. And when you're cyborg,

1378
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 3: you know, despite the fact that you've been a monster

1379
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 3: your whole career, you recognizing that there's another monster in

1380
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 3: the room and looking at Kayla Harrison where she's just

1381
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 3: dismantling her competition. I wouldn't be excited to fight that

1382
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 3: if I was cyborg. So yeah, go go, go box,

1383
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 3: go box.

1384
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1385
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1386
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: Maybe she's being really smart here or maybe just maybe

1387
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: it's just about raising her dollar value. Maybe that's part

1388
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: of it too, which is not a bad move. All right,

1389
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: Rashad new segment alert. Here's how we're going to close

1390
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: today's show. It's very simple. The title of this new

1391
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 1: segment we're debuting it right now is yes, No, or

1392
01:04:55,560 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: gt FO. There's three doors to pick for Rashad. I

1393
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 1: have ten provocative statements I've prepared. You have not read

1394
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: these in advance. You will respond with either yes you agree,

1395
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 1: no you disagree, or get the fuck out of here. BC,

1396
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: I'm not answering this for whatever reason. You know, it's ridiculous,

1397
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: it's whatever, you know, Just get the fuck out of

1398
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: here and explain your answer. Here we go, rashod number

1399
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: one al Jamaine Sterling is the most underrated elite fighter

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01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 1: in the UFC today.

1401
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 2: Yes, who?

1402
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: Why?

1403
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 2: Why is he the most underrated?

1404
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:40,840
Speaker 1: Explain your answer?

1405
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 2: Well, I will.

1406
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 3: Say he's the most underrated because even despite the fact

1407
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 3: that he's champion, I feel as if like people still

1408
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 3: don't give him the love that he needs to have as.

1409
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 2: Being a champion.

1410
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 3: I mean, he did beat up Young, but I feel

1411
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 3: even if people like, yeah, he's still not that guy.

1412
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: If he defends the title here TJ. Dillashaw cannot wait

1413
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: for this fight, like it would be in an injustice

1414
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:08,439
Speaker 1: to put him in what the top five or six

1415
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 1: pound for pound?

1416
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 3: Right, Absolutely, I mean if he beats TJ. Dillashaw, then

1417
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:14,760
Speaker 3: he answers a lot of questions. He b Peter Yan

1418
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,240
Speaker 3: and then tv Jila Saw so it's not no, yeah,

1419
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 3: but I still feel like he's not getting the respect

1420
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 3: that you have need that he would get.

1421
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:25,400
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I think that you know,

1422
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: you almost get more pound for pound points when you're

1423
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 1: getting wins like this. And let's see what he does

1424
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: against Dilshaw against this level of competition. I mean, if

1425
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 1: you're at bantamweight, the deepest division today maybe arguably ever,

1426
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: considering it just passed out lightweight, which before that was

1427
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:45,240
Speaker 1: on such a hot run, and you're gonna have to

1428
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 1: fight X champions. Guys will be champion next every single

1429
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: time out. I mean, it's it's great. This division is

1430
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 1: great theater. So let's see if Aljro can keep climbing

1431
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 1: number two on Yes no or GTF overshot. Look, it

1432
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: may not be a popular opinion, but future Governor BJ

1433
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 1: Penn was actually right when he told GSP only a

1434
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: bitch taps to strikes.

1435
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:23,919
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh get the fuck out here, because hey,

1436
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 3: I mean, look, to be in a position to have

1437
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 3: the tap is a damn thing. And to make the

1438
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 3: decision that I'm going to go out, Oh my gosh,

1439
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 3: it's it's tough, man, It's tough.

1440
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: Tough, it's tough. It's easy for us keyboard warriors to

1441
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 1: say these things. We're shot. Yeah, I can't even get through,

1442
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 1: like getting off the toilet sometimes without tweaking my back.

1443
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 1: You know, it's great, all right, provocative statement number three

1444
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: here we go. Although he did not win, Gilbert Burns

1445
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:51,920
Speaker 1: did at least expose Hamsat Jemaiah as being both human

1446
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 1: and beatable for the right opponent.

1447
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 2: Yes, damn straight, yes.

1448
01:07:59,240 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 1: Speak it.

1449
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 2: What do you I mean?

1450
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: You see what.

1451
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 3: I'm saying is a fighter who is very tough, but

1452
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 3: he's one of those fighters who's like a bully. And

1453
01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 3: when you fight a bully and you give him a

1454
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 3: little bit back and they start, they start bleeding, and

1455
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 3: they start having those little knocks, and you start the

1456
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:19,640
Speaker 3: fight not going the way that they think it's gonna go.

1457
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 3: The posture changes up. And you've seen Shamaiah posture change up.

1458
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 3: He kind of was from that bully, that main dog,

1459
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 3: I'm gonna walk you down, walk through anything, to all

1460
01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:32,759
Speaker 3: of a sudden like I'm not. I'm proud of myself

1461
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 3: now that I'm able to take one of your shots.

1462
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:37,519
Speaker 3: And that's a different that's a different animal than when

1463
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 3: he walked into the cage. So if you stay strong

1464
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 3: in that initial onslaught and able to stay there and

1465
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 3: stay you know, take a shot and still be there.

1466
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,880
Speaker 2: And land one on him, then yeah, you definitely can

1467
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 2: change his fight.

1468
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 3: That's why I'm not counting Nate Diaz out of this fight,

1469
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 3: because he's one of those guys. He's one of those

1470
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,640
Speaker 3: dogs who can definitely take a lift. But if he

1471
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:02,759
Speaker 3: catches you one time, he can take advantage.

1472
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:04,639
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's like, do I believe in the spirit

1473
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: of what you just said? Yeah, I believe it more

1474
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 1: than I don't. But obviously there's there's gray areas. It's like,

1475
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: you still have to be a sick bastard yourself to

1476
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: stand in there and do what Gilbert did, you know

1477
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, you've got to be an elite

1478
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:21,200
Speaker 1: of the elites, no question about it. This guy's hams

1479
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 1: out is coming on. And I don't know did hams

1480
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 1: out look at that moment. As I can't fight for

1481
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 1: the title yet, I might as well just go out

1482
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 1: there and have fun and entertain. I don't know how

1483
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 1: much he you know, threw himself into the battle just thinking, Hey,

1484
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 1: maybe maybe people will love me for this, you know.

1485
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,760
Speaker 3: But you know what though, rather that's him trying to

1486
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 3: say I'm gonna give the fans a great fight they

1487
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 3: want to see. But for me, I've seen him being

1488
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 3: there to be hit with with not too many complicated,

1489
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 3: you know shots that that Gibb was throwing.

1490
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 2: He was just throwing an overhand. You know, he wasn't.

1491
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 3: Putting any you know, anything hidden behind it. It was

1492
01:09:57,479 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 3: just you know, straight, oh yeah, I'm gonna throw the overhand.

1493
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,679
Speaker 3: And he had a hammer, and that hammer was getting

1494
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:05,799
Speaker 3: through and and you've seen the way that that hammer

1495
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 3: was affecting you know, Shamia like it just kind of

1496
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 3: changes posture a bit.

1497
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: Indeed, indeed, all right, provocative statement number four, Even though

1498
01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:18,679
Speaker 1: Dom Cruise did him dirty by going public, Keith Peterson

1499
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:21,679
Speaker 1: actually does smell like cigarettes and divorced women. I'm sorry,

1500
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: it's the truth, GFO.

1501
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:30,799
Speaker 2: I can't, I can't. I can't answer that question, man question.

1502
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure what time did he ever ref one of

1503
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:34,160
Speaker 1: your fights? By the way, just for the.

1504
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:36,160
Speaker 2: Record, no, he never has.

1505
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: He never has, Okay, because you know you could have

1506
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: been in a compromising spot with him over you you

1507
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:44,440
Speaker 1: may have had firsthand knowledge of this. But well, GGFO,

1508
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,479
Speaker 1: and move on. Here we go. Number five. When Dana

1509
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:51,680
Speaker 1: White told GQ yesterday that Habib normalga Medov cannot be

1510
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 1: the goat because he quote retired too early. He was

1511
01:10:55,600 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 1: kind of right, I must say, No, you know what.

1512
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 2: I don't know see because he here, here's where, here's

1513
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 2: what I'm Here's what I'm at. I mean, if.

1514
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 3: When it comes when it comes to being the greatest

1515
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 3: fight ever, you know what.

1516
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 2: Because it's it's kind of complicated because that's my boy.

1517
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 2: But I see where Dann White's coming from.

1518
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,679
Speaker 3: And I say that because the even though he had

1519
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 3: some very tough guys that he fought.

1520
01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:35,680
Speaker 2: Well I mean should he fought the best of the

1521
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 2: best of the time. He fought justin Gage, he fought Dusted,

1522
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:42,639
Speaker 2: he fought Connor. Yeah, he fought Connor. So I mean.

1523
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:45,080
Speaker 1: Barbosa fought I mean, like you know, I mean he

1524
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 1: tried to fight Tony right, like five times, right, I

1525
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:54,679
Speaker 1: mean he tried. It's hugh. I mean this is also

1526
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,559
Speaker 1: by the way Dana trying to continue to plant these

1527
01:11:57,600 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 1: seeds to like get him to fight GSP or something

1528
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 1: like yeah.

1529
01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1530
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:05,519
Speaker 3: But I think that when it comes of him fighting

1531
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:07,640
Speaker 3: the best in his time, he did that. And I

1532
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 3: think also what makes him the greatest is the fact

1533
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 3: that you know what made Muhammad ad Lead the greatest

1534
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 3: fighter of all time was the fact that he was

1535
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,720
Speaker 3: the actual best boxer, but it was who he was

1536
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 3: as a person and the impact that he made.

1537
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 2: As a person and how far the impact went.

1538
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 3: And now you look at Habib right now, you know

1539
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 3: his impact of what he's doing right now for just

1540
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,840
Speaker 3: you know, his community and you know, his fighters is

1541
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 3: just another impact than the way he lives his life too.

1542
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:38,719
Speaker 3: So I think he might be the greatest.

1543
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 1: You have to add the respect at least. Okay, we're

1544
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:44,799
Speaker 1: not seeing the second half of his prime. We're missing

1545
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 1: out on certain fights. But like this is a promise

1546
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:50,599
Speaker 1: to the legacy of his late father to essentially take

1547
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,559
Speaker 1: over the family business and put you know, in the

1548
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 1: Normaga medoffs as trainers and brilliant thinkers. Like this is

1549
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:02,759
Speaker 1: really what this is all about. And he's gone. He dropped.

1550
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: You know, look, he put a lot of money aside,

1551
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:07,519
Speaker 1: and it's now like, okay, I will coach all the

1552
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 1: guys that my dad, you know, spawned, And damn is

1553
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: a good son right there, you know what I mean?

1554
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:15,720
Speaker 1: Like damn, yeah, one percent.

1555
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:18,479
Speaker 3: And you know what he kept the sport truly about

1556
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 3: what it was about for him. He didn't allow the

1557
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:25,759
Speaker 3: sports to materialize into something that was uncomfortable for himself.

1558
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,759
Speaker 3: And that was a true testament to the reason why

1559
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:31,679
Speaker 3: he stopped fighting, you know, when his mom didn't wantim

1560
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:33,800
Speaker 3: to fight in after his father passed away, you know,

1561
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 3: because fighting for him at that point is totally different now.

1562
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 3: So the fact that he honored himself all the way

1563
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 3: through it, to me, it speaks volumes because I know

1564
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:46,759
Speaker 3: as a fighter how hard it is to compete against

1565
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 3: yourself in that aspect, to not go out there and

1566
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 3: have that other fight, to really not to not give

1567
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 3: into the egoic part of being the fighter and being

1568
01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 3: the man, you know what I'm saying.

1569
01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 1: And he was one, you know, maybe one cap strike

1570
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:05,400
Speaker 1: away from peril against Justin Gaetchee. But his response was

1571
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:08,559
Speaker 1: to finish the fight like that rashot like that right,

1572
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 1: just like, oh wait, now is the time that I

1573
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 1: will finish you. Okay, it's done, you know it's over there,

1574
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:17,880
Speaker 1: you go. Uh. Provocative statement number six to be to

1575
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: be truly honest, there actually is such a thing as

1576
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: groupies in the UFC.

1577
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there there is there is such thing as

1578
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 2: a groupies.

1579
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:32,320
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, just just you know, very aggressive super

1580
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: fans that just love the sport that much.

1581
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 3: Yes, I listen, especially now, especially now, like like back

1582
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 3: in my day, it was a totally different set kind

1583
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:42,480
Speaker 3: of situation.

1584
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1585
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 3: You have to find some some ones that kind of

1586
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 3: you know, you know, loved it from watching, you know,

1587
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:50,760
Speaker 3: watching with their husband type thing.

1588
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 2: But now they just like they're all you know, yeah.

1589
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: They shout out to Luke Rockold's DMS. For sure, here

1590
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 1: we go. I mean, we all we all can dream

1591
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:01,599
Speaker 1: right number seven.

1592
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 4: Uh.

1593
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: The most impressive victory of John Jones's career was actually

1594
01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:07,320
Speaker 1: the Liota Macheitta fight.

1595
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:10,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say so.

1596
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:15,679
Speaker 3: I mean the way he left Macheita was absolutely cold blooded,

1597
01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:19,719
Speaker 3: just like the fact that it almost looked like Machita

1598
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 3: had a chance, Like it looked like Macheita faded him

1599
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 3: for a little bit, but then in the next round

1600
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 3: the way he had Machita just dropped him like a

1601
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:28,679
Speaker 3: sack of potatoes.

1602
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,480
Speaker 2: In the way he fell, it was cold blooded.

1603
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:34,440
Speaker 1: Dude, like this is this will sound like either hyperbole

1604
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: or it will sound like I'm soft or something, But

1605
01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:38,600
Speaker 1: that was one of those moments when he when he

1606
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 1: dropped macheta and then the eyes like rolled back in

1607
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:43,559
Speaker 1: his head after he fell and the camera zoomed in

1608
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:46,720
Speaker 1: where I was just like, do I really want to

1609
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 1: be a part of this moving forward? Like that was

1610
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: pretty net Like that was gnarly right there. That was

1611
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:54,559
Speaker 1: like some you know action movie, like you know, somebody

1612
01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: took a spike up the crotch. You know, it's like

1613
01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:59,400
Speaker 1: the ending of mark for death or something. But damn

1614
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:00,959
Speaker 1: shot was bad ass.

1615
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 2: You know what.

1616
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 3: I felt kind of bad because like I never want

1617
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 3: to see nobody get knocked out. But I mean I

1618
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 3: was kind of like a little bit like yes because

1619
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 3: of the way but Cheetah left me messed up like that.

1620
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1621
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's a real competitor and that shot that

1622
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 3: she's got me so with John Jones got him like that,

1623
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 3: I was.

1624
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 1: Like, now we're at that at that point of that fight,

1625
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: Jones versus Machido, were you and Jones still teammates and

1626
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: like brothers at that point?

1627
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 2: No, No, we weren't. We weren't.

1628
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 3: Uh we weren't even know we weren't.

1629
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: All right, all right, you guys are back though, all right.

1630
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:40,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, here we go.

1631
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 1: Number eight. Uh, there's a number somewhere between five and

1632
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:48,960
Speaker 1: six figures that actually could get Rashad Evans to agree

1633
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:50,120
Speaker 1: to a BKFC match.

1634
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 2: Oh how much? You know what? Now you know what?

1635
01:16:55,960 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 3: You're like?

1636
01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: Wait? Wait how much exactly? I could?

1637
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's enough to make you think about it.

1638
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 3: But BC, look, man, I mean, I've been to a

1639
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:07,080
Speaker 3: couple of those shows, and you know what, man, I

1640
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:11,400
Speaker 3: just I've been joined. I'm enjoying the way that I'm

1641
01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:14,960
Speaker 3: looking right now. I'm feeling good. I'm like, I think

1642
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 3: about that, and it's great to have pad the bank

1643
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 3: account with that, But then you look at how much

1644
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 3: you gotta pay for taxes, you gotta look how we

1645
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 3: gotta pay for your coaches, and.

1646
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:26,280
Speaker 2: Then you just realize it's not really that much money.

1647
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: So there's probably a price for the million dollar man,

1648
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: but it's gotta be really high. Okay, he got really high,

1649
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:40,760
Speaker 1: all right? Number nine. Although his Wikipedia page hasn't listened

1650
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: as five foot eight, Joe Rogan is probably closer to

1651
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:52,839
Speaker 1: five foot three in person. Good fuck, try to scrug

1652
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 1: get that Ephis pitch just sneak one in for a strike,

1653
01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: but you were shot. Hit that thing out of there,

1654
01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:01,640
Speaker 1: all right? And number ten. Shot yes, no or GTFO

1655
01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 1: be honest. Part of you is wondering now that he

1656
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 1: doesn't have a job whether Habiba's interest in signing sam

1657
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 1: Alvi for Rashad Evans rematch under the Eagle FC banner.

1658
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:19,839
Speaker 1: Well I'm not back shot yes.

1659
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:26,200
Speaker 4: GTFO Man, listen, listen, Let that fight happen.

1660
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:28,600
Speaker 2: Man. The reason why you know what, they thought he

1661
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 2: was Canelo. That's why he wanted to fight a good meet.

1662
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 2: They thought he was Canelo.

1663
01:18:32,439 --> 01:18:32,679
Speaker 4: Man.

1664
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. I mean that's what people forget. You

1665
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 1: got screwed on those cars.

1666
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you know man, Sam Man, you're a

1667
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:43,599
Speaker 2: good sport.

1668
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 1: Rashot, thank you for playing our new game. I can't

1669
01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 1: wait to use that on Luke. I can't wait. We'll

1670
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,880
Speaker 1: see all right, Rashad. This will be a fun weekend

1671
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:54,680
Speaker 1: of fights. As we mentioned, a reminder that Bellator is

1672
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 1: this evening nine pm Eastern on Showtime, and you can

1673
01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:01,640
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01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:04,120
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01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:07,519
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1676
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:12,000
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1677
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:14,400
Speaker 1: or your money back. Okay, how much you pay was free?

1678
01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 1: So why don't you try that shit? Right there? Al Rashad,

1679
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: what's next? You're gonna be on the ESPN desk. I

1680
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 1: like the gray on gray suit. You know, Combo was

1681
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: working for you.

1682
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you very much. What's next?

1683
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be out next week and Kamorrow oo'sman getting

1684
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 3: ready to fight Leon Edwards. So big weekend for my brother,

1685
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:34,560
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna be there. I mean it's already a

1686
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 3: big weekend for Muhammad Usman.

1687
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:38,719
Speaker 1: So now, oh dude, I was going to ask you

1688
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: tell me about Muhammed Usman, like, do you know him well?

1689
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:41,639
Speaker 1: Like he's a tank?

1690
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:44,639
Speaker 2: Oh, I know him really well. You know he's he's

1691
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:45,599
Speaker 2: a he's a beast man.

1692
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 3: And you know, the best thing I like about Muhammad

1693
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 3: is the fact that he's a great athlete. And he

1694
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 3: chased the football dream for a while and he started

1695
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 3: training alongside Tomorrow, but then he branched off and started

1696
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:00,600
Speaker 3: developing his own training regimen with his own pace and

1697
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 3: kind of starting to do his own thing, which is

1698
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 3: good because he has his work also with his brother.

1699
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 3: He still trains to KAMARAO Kamara still show him the ropes,

1700
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:12,559
Speaker 3: but he's developing himself outside of that Kamorrow experience, so

1701
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 3: he's kind of growing in his own way. So he's

1702
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:19,120
Speaker 3: got the mindset for it, and he's got the training,

1703
01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 3: so he's gonna see if does is everything else gonna

1704
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:22,839
Speaker 3: keep lining.

1705
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 2: Up for him.

1706
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 1: Well, heavyweight is the division that's least, you know leaning

1707
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 1: on wrestling skills, if you will, you know, you see

1708
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: a lot of hanging and banging. Does you know does

1709
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 1: he have the Ustmann family reputation as a wrestler.

1710
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 3: He does, Like his wrestling is what he you know,

1711
01:20:39,080 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 3: was anchoring himself around when he first started getting into

1712
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 3: the sport. Like when I first said, oh, you ever

1713
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:45,640
Speaker 3: do any mma before, he said, well, I used to

1714
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:49,200
Speaker 3: wrestle and we were wrestling around. He knows what he's doing,

1715
01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 3: but it's just a matter of getting him feeling comfortable

1716
01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:53,599
Speaker 3: enough to do it in a fight. And I feel

1717
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:56,720
Speaker 3: like that's where that transition that he needs to go.

1718
01:20:56,800 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 3: He was over there working with you know, Curtis Blade

1719
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:03,519
Speaker 3: and other good heavyweights over at altitude, but sometimes going

1720
01:21:03,520 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 3: with in a room like that with guys at such

1721
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 3: a high level, it makes you kind of shell up

1722
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,559
Speaker 3: in your style because you're not as good and you

1723
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:13,839
Speaker 3: can't get them down, so it doesn't make you develop.

1724
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,479
Speaker 3: So hopefully he can now start to develop it now

1725
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:18,680
Speaker 3: that he's out of that camp doing his own thing.

1726
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, the brother is both winning the Ultimate Fighter. But

1727
01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:25,520
Speaker 1: you know, if we're talking about the best brother combinations

1728
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: in tough history, rashot at, Lance Evans is still for me,

1729
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:32,240
Speaker 1: you know, the best Okay, the best.

1730
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 3: Speaking of Lance Evans, I got Lance Evans Junior that

1731
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:40,840
Speaker 3: I've been working on, and he's he's twenty.

1732
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:43,599
Speaker 2: One years old. Yeah, yeah, so he's gonna be making

1733
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:46,320
Speaker 2: his MMA debut. Is your month?

1734
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 1: Is your brother nostalgic at all about about his MMA time?

1735
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:52,080
Speaker 2: No?

1736
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 3: Not really, you know, he never he just never can

1737
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 3: get himself in a condition that he wanted to be,

1738
01:21:58,439 --> 01:21:58,880
Speaker 3: So he's.

1739
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,439
Speaker 2: Not really too proud of it. Yeah, but his son,

1740
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 2: his son, and his son is gonna be something to

1741
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 2: watch man. He's a beast.

1742
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 1: Okay, all right. The Evans family reloading. Okay, okay, watch

1743
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,479
Speaker 1: out the Normaga Medo, the team Evans coming on there.

1744
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: We've got that, uh got that you know that Buffalo

1745
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: Niagara Falls area backbone. You know it's c's. I've been

1746
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:21,679
Speaker 1: to Rochester. That's all factory town villages over there. Okay, Rashot,

1747
01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: that's that's dirt to those folks. You know what I mean?

1748
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 2: You know, you know us up busy, ye.

1749
01:22:27,080 --> 01:22:28,519
Speaker 1: Like, at the end of the day, you and John

1750
01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:30,960
Speaker 1: Jones aren't from that far apart, right in terms.

1751
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:33,920
Speaker 3: Of where you were born. Yeah. Yeah, I'm in section

1752
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:35,320
Speaker 3: six and he's in section five.

1753
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 2: So there you go.

1754
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:38,640
Speaker 1: There it is right there, Rashad. Great chat with you,

1755
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:41,160
Speaker 1: because we should throw up the socials here where people

1756
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:44,160
Speaker 1: can follow your work. Catch you on ESPN there in

1757
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 1: the studio at Sugar Rashot Evans on both Luke's gonna

1758
01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 1: be off next week. We'll have a cavalcade of fantastic

1759
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 1: guests for you to check out as well. Thank you,

1760
01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 1: folks for tuning into Morning Combat this week. We're shot.

1761
01:22:56,920 --> 01:23:00,360
Speaker 1: Anything else, any message to leave with the people here, you.

1762
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 3: Know what, BC No, I want to thank you and

1763
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:04,559
Speaker 3: thank you more to combat, but I only got one

1764
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:05,960
Speaker 3: more thing to say, and that

1765
01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:06,960
Speaker 2: Is we out