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Speaker 1: Fight week upon US Morning Combat UFC two point fifty four.

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Speaker 1: It's the Lightweight Summit. So you know your boy CD

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Speaker 1: Brian Campbell gotta go to the experts for your UFC

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Speaker 1: two fifty four expert picks. Let me bring him in

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Speaker 1: right now in this MK extra little bonus action here,

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Speaker 1: South Florida's finest you know him, always sweet, never sour,

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Speaker 1: the Tower of Ayahuasca Power, former UFC light Heavyweight Champion

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Speaker 1: and Hall of Famer Sugar. Rashad Evans my mainest bro Ham.

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Speaker 1: How is it down there at South Florida these days?

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Speaker 2: Man? Oh man, it's steady out here. Man, it's been

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Speaker 2: going pretty good. Just enjoy life and I miss you, man,

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Speaker 2: I miss you. Good to be part of the Morning

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Speaker 2: Combat crew.

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Speaker 3: Man. Good to be back.

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Speaker 1: We are part of this MK extended universe. We used

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Speaker 1: to we used to dance around a couple times a

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Speaker 1: week on the CBS Sports State of Combat. But everything's

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Speaker 1: evolving here. Great to still have you in the family,

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Speaker 1: of course, Rashad. Can I get a pulse check here

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Speaker 1: on a one to tent of excitement in a twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty where you got to give Uncle Dana credit. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's all killer, no filler as far as UFC main

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Speaker 1: events this year. But when when I say words like

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Speaker 1: Kabib dermalga Metov versus Justin Gaechee for the full title

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Speaker 1: at one five to five, what is your body telling you?

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Speaker 3: My body's telling me a lot of things. BC.

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Speaker 2: I'm overly excited, but listen, I'm not gonna let myself

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Speaker 2: get too excited because we still have to step into

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Speaker 2: the Yatagan. There's still a few tests that we need

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Speaker 2: to pass, and you can't get too excited because if

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Speaker 2: anything this pandemic has taught us is that never get

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Speaker 2: too comfortable with anything. So I'm going to hold back

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Speaker 2: the full excitement, but I'm kind of raging underneath. I'm

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Speaker 1: If anything of the Habib versus Tony ferguson Soap Opera

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Speaker 1: has told us is don't expect a man event fight

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Speaker 1: until it actually happens. That's why we have that expensive

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Speaker 1: insurance policy called Michael Chandler, who will be in the

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Speaker 1: building on Saturday just in case. Thank you for tuning in,

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Speaker 1: of course to this. Please like the video, subscribe to

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Speaker 1: Morning Combat is blown up. It cannot be. It's so

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Speaker 1: big Rashad and so explosive, this this movement, this show,

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Speaker 1: it can't be confined to the banana hammock of normal podcasts.

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Speaker 1: We had to take this thing to YouTube and just

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Speaker 1: let it, you know, right, just go, just let it

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Speaker 1: get out there. So thank you folks for joining. But

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Speaker 1: this is expert picks. We want to get underneath the

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Speaker 1: betting odds, the storylines, find out who's gonna win and why. Then,

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Speaker 1: like I mentioned, no better guy to pick the brain

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Speaker 1: of than a man who's still out there training right

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Speaker 1: over forty is still out there with the apps, working

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Speaker 1: and training because you never know, Rashad, when that phone's

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Speaker 1: gonna ring, you do you do know that?

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Speaker 3: Right? I do know that.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: I've been getting ready.

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Speaker 2: Man got Greg Hardy right now just in camping, helping

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Speaker 2: him sharpen his tools.

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Speaker 3: Man, I'm feeling kind of sharp myself.

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Speaker 2: So listen, if I get a call BC, you don't

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Speaker 3: I just might just jump in that joint.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I broke bread with mister Koker and I said, you

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Speaker 1: know this is me the fan talking bro get my

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Speaker 1: cheat up in the bullpen. Okay, I'm ready, I'm ready, Anyway,

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Speaker 1: enough of that crap. Let's get into it. Habib Gaichee

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Speaker 1: this weekend, our friends at william Hill, the odds makers

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Speaker 1: Rishad right off the top, Habig Normalka mettof a minus

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Speaker 1: Justin Gagee, fresh off that demolition of Tony Ferguson, a

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Speaker 1: plus two sixty underdog, coming in. When you look at

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Speaker 1: the death of Habib's father, separate from Justin coming and

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's definitely gonna be You know, the

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Speaker 2: Showed that in his last fight, because not only was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, I love this matchup in so many ways.

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Speaker 1: So if we're gonna stick with that theory that Justin

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Speaker 2: that's what Trevor's been able to do. But more more

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Speaker 3: Everybody I spar I challenge him.

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Speaker 2: I say, listen, I'll give you one hundred bucks, two

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Speaker 2: hundred bucks, whatever you want if you can drop me

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Speaker 2: to the body. And that's not so more or less,

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, it's a challenge. And the

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Speaker 2: You know, it's really hard to say, just because of

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Speaker 1: And he's also got, as we laid out, a fantastic

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Speaker 3: That over shot.

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Speaker 1: But Habib did make constant mentions to what makes just

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Speaker 2: When you talk about strategy, there is in the game.

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Speaker 2: So it's gonna come down to Justin Geigee being able

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Speaker 2: those moments of where he feels very excited to fight,

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Speaker 2: and we've seen him do it.

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Speaker 3: We've seen him get very excited.

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Speaker 2: He starts, you know, ten toes down and brawling and

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering, Rashad, I'm wondering because you know, no one's again,

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Speaker 1: no one's really had to make Habib fight, like really fight, right,

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Speaker 1: although can we shot out Leason Tbell? Please? The judges

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Speaker 1: missed it that night, all right, he was he had

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Speaker 1: Didn't take it to the ground. Whatever, No one's dragged

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 1: Is it possible? How do you do that? Do you

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Speaker 1: you Manda man toe to toe? It's just in the

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: And I think it's going to be possible. I think

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Speaker 2: it's going to be mandatory for Habib to jump through

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Speaker 2: Habibi's gonna have to jump through the gate of going

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Speaker 2: here's why. In order for Habib to even have any

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Speaker 2: He has to be able to let Justin Gaichie know

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Speaker 2: I don't care how glorious shape you are in, you

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Speaker 1: I want to get your reaction to how both have

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Speaker 1: Are you answering honest? Are you just spitting out words?

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Speaker 1: Are you trying to plan seeds? I don't know. Habib

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Speaker 1: And then you know Justin's flipside. He said, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: Like Nah, I think he's definitely gonna kick his leg

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Speaker 3: And here's the thing that I think that Justin.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm wondering if this I think the best

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Speaker 1: Maybe this fight ends up looking like the great UFC

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Speaker 1: So expert pick time, you're the expert. Rashad Abib minus

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Speaker 1: What are we doing here? In Abu Dhabia two five

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Speaker 3: All right, this is a tough one.

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Speaker 2: You know, it can definitely go either way for me

432
00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,520
Speaker 2: the way I see it, you know, with their imposing games.

433
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,080
Speaker 3: Uh. But but for me, the thing with this fight is.

434
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, you know, the washing repeat c

435
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,760
Speaker 2: like of Habib. Can he keep him down and more

436
00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,960
Speaker 2: or less be able to eliminate getting loose when he

437
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,200
Speaker 2: gets up in the scrambled position and not get caught

438
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,159
Speaker 2: with an off center power shot that Justin gai Chi

439
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,560
Speaker 2: hits all too well. And I think that for the

440
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,120
Speaker 2: most part, in order for Habib to get the fight

441
00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 2: where he wants to, he's gonna have to cross through

442
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,679
Speaker 2: the fire, and that Justin gae Chee. Fire Across is

443
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,880
Speaker 2: absolute hell. And that's where I think that Justin Gaigie gets.

444
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:37,360
Speaker 3: A win in this fight.

445
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,199
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be an upset and I think that, uh,

446
00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,480
Speaker 2: Justin Getchee is going to catch him with maybe something

447
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 2: like a not not so much of an upper cut,

448
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,120
Speaker 2: but something something like a left hook or something that's

449
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 2: That's that's what I'm feeling like He's gonna catch him

450
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:59,760
Speaker 2: with something like that. Justin is is in a mindset.

451
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:00,439
Speaker 3: Right now that I have.

452
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 2: It's rare to see him in a mindset like he

453
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,639
Speaker 2: has right now. He's just super ultra focused, and I

454
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:09,640
Speaker 2: think he's gonna do it.

455
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,160
Speaker 1: Wow. There was a great American fighter who went said,

456
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you skip to my lou. Okay, all right,

457
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 1: all right, let's see if Justin can do that. On Saturday, Rashad,

458
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,919
Speaker 1: we also have a hell of a comaine event here. Wow,

459
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 1: middleweight division, probably a number one contenders fight here to

460
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,679
Speaker 1: see who has next for middleweight champion Israel Ata Sonia

461
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 1: win Former champ Robert Whittaker squares off with the Red

462
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:38,120
Speaker 1: Hot but coming off an injury layoff Jared Cannoneer. Let's

463
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,920
Speaker 1: update Williams Hill. William Hill's line here plus one hundred

464
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:47,040
Speaker 1: underdog for Robert Whittaker, minus one twenty favorite for Cannoneer.

465
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 1: Now we're shot. I don't want to discount Cannoneer's chances

466
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 1: at all, and I certainly want to hear your breakdown here.

467
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,680
Speaker 1: I was a little bit surprised though Whittaker had bounced back.

468
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 1: He outpointed Darren Till in his comeback fight, looked very technical,

469
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 1: seemed to shake off all the cobwebs of is your

470
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 1: mind still in it? Can your body still take this grind?

471
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 1: All that stuff. That sort of slowed down what I

472
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,120
Speaker 1: thought was gonna be a lengthy title run for Robert Whittaker. Obviously,

473
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,119
Speaker 1: now you got at Asania's rocket ship flying up right

474
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: through the middle of that. You think this line is

475
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 1: right to start things off here.

476
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 3: This is a close fight.

477
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 2: But you know, uh, you know, Robert Whittaker is you know,

478
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 2: he's shown his last fight that he does still have it,

479
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 2: and he showed that, you know, with the right focus

480
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 2: and with his heart behind it, he still can be

481
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 2: a showstopper and he still has some amazing fights to

482
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 2: show us. You know, But but he's got a very

483
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 2: tough fight in Cannoneer. You know, Cannoneir is not a

484
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 2: darn tee in the fact that the physicality of it all,

485
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 2: and I think that's some some some aspects that may

486
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:50,639
Speaker 2: be given the Betters, uh or or the Bookers, you know,

487
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 2: a little bit paused when they're when they're making this line.

488
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 2: Is the fact that you know, we got a physical

489
00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 2: The physicality of Cannoneer is unlike unlike anybody that Robert

490
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 2: Wickers has met, apart from Joel Romero. So I think

491
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 2: that this is going to be a lot tougher fight

492
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 2: for him in that respect. And those shots that he

493
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 2: was hitting on Robert Whitaker, He's going to have to

494
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 2: add a little bit more to it.

495
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 3: And the question is does he really have it at

496
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 3: this point in his career.

497
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 1: Will this fight be more of a technical affair like

498
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: we saw against Till or will this fight be like

499
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: most of Bobby Knuckle's biggest fights. He see welcomes entering

500
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 1: into a war. He's a classy warrior, meaning there's so

501
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:32,919
Speaker 1: much skill. I think he's among you know, some of

502
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: the most well rounded elite fighters that the UFC has

503
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: today and he can take punishment. He went ten rounds

504
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 1: with that piece of iron and steel known as Joel

505
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 1: Romero and kept standing even though, let's be honest, for

506
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: shot the rematch. At the very least, it was Joel's night.

507
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 3: Come on, come on, Oh yeah, definitely.

508
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: I know he misses Wade all the time. He didn't

509
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 1: really sell out against Israelis signing, but you get it. Okay, Anyway,

510
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: what do you think this is? I mean, this has

511
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: all the makings in some ways to be a brawl.

512
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,640
Speaker 1: But I thought the same thing about Whittaker till what's

513
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: this like gonna look like?

514
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be largely fought on the feet,

515
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 2: and I think it's gonna be a lot of power strikes.

516
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 2: But I think it's gonna be Robert Whittaker trying to

517
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 2: stay you know, off the line, trying to stay slick

518
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 2: and trying to stay quick with his motions. But I

519
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 2: think that power of Cannoneer is gonna definitely, you know,

520
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 2: take charge at some point. You know one thing about

521
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 2: cannon Ear. You know he's a guy coming from heavyweight

522
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 2: all the way down. He's worked his way through his

523
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 2: career to get the middleweight and now. You see him

524
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 2: right now, and he's he's.

525
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 3: He's like a sculpted art.

526
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 2: You know, his body is tracking, and more importantly than

527
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 2: his body's tracking, his mentals track, and his spiritualities tracking.

528
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 3: All these things are aligning.

529
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 2: You know, when you have all these things and synergy

530
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 2: working together, you really become an unstoppable unit in yourself.

531
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 2: And that's what I see with cannoneir. You know, he's

532
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 2: just really ultra focused, but more or less has a

533
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 2: belief in himself that comes from more than just fighting.

534
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 2: And that's what that's to me, is going to be

535
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: an obstacle in it's out that win, pass and overcome.

536
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it comes from the damn crystals. He's not one

537
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: of those crystals in the uh in the banana sack, right.

538
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 3: I mean, I love the crystal. Power is something else.

539
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 3: He's tapping into it. He's tapping into the metaphysics of everything.

540
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 2: You know, he's trying to He's trying to tap into

541
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 2: that uh, that subtle energy that that exists in a universe.

542
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: And did he look a toe or something last month

543
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: and get a third eye?

544
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 3: What happened here? I might have to get him on

545
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 3: lick of the toad crew. You know. Uh, but but

546
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 3: he's definitely on the level.

547
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 2: You know, he's he takes his fighting and and it's

548
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 2: just not a fight to him, you know, And as

549
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 2: an athlete, as a fighter, when when fighting is not

550
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 2: just about a fight, it's about the spiritual process and

551
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 2: along the way, so much can be gained in that

552
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 2: aspect because it's not just a fight, it's it's a

553
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 2: it's a moment of your life where you get a

554
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: chance to grow so that the fight holds so much

555
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 2: more weight in a different regard and the focus is

556
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 2: a lot different, and you see that in Janek Jered cannoneer.

557
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: Quickly on Whitaker before we get to the pick here.

558
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: It seems like this is the fight, like I mentioned,

559
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: that can get him back to the title level, and

560
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: obviously a rematch with him and out of signy, given

561
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: that they're both stars in that oceanic region, it seems inevitable.

562
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: It'd be a great fight. I'd love to see it.

563
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: Is there anything Whittaker should change, meaning it seems like

564
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: the issues he's had was more sustain injury, you know, overworked,

565
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: grinded the the you know, he was burnt out and

566
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: then he got caught against out assignia. Have you seen

567
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 1: anything through this journey that's concerning or is it just

568
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 1: as simple as get healthy?

569
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 3: Now?

570
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 2: You know, I seen him hit the reset button. You know,

571
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 2: he hit the mental reset button, and he had it started.

572
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 2: He started to take some you know, account of how

573
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 2: he was feeling and really started to, you know, to

574
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 2: battle that demon inside that happens to so many successful

575
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 2: athletes out there a certain amount of time. You know,

576
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: you just start being a worst enemy. And he's facing himself,

577
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 2: and he's facing himself to the point where he's speaking

578
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 2: about it. And when an athlete starts speaking about the

579
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 2: troubles that come on a mental athlete aspect of competing,

580
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,959
Speaker 2: that's when you know a fighter is where an athlete

581
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,479
Speaker 2: is changing and turning the corner.

582
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:11,959
Speaker 3: And that's what I've seeing Robert Whittaker.

583
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 2: He's turning the corner. And I don't know if that

584
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 2: equates to a win in this fight, but more or less,

585
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 2: it equates to him being able to understand where his

586
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 2: fight is coming from going into the fight.

587
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

588
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 1: Indeed, all right, it's pick time plus one hundred underdog

589
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,719
Speaker 1: is Whittaker cannoneer minus one twenty.

590
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 2: What you got, man.

591
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 3: I was all sold on Robert Whittaker, I really was.

592
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 2: And then I started to watch more Cannoneer and just

593
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 2: the power that Cannoneer has, the overall physicality, his his

594
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 2: punch selection, just everything that Cannon here has been doing

595
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 2: since he's been in the middleweight division has shown to

596
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: me that, you know, Robert Whittaker is in for.

597
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 3: One on Saturday, and I got to go. Cannon are

598
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 3: with this one?

599
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: Oh, by stoppage.

600
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: It could, but I think this is gonna is gonna

601
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: go to the judges. But I got Cannon there all right.

602
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: Interesting heavyweight fight real quick on this main card, Alexander

603
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: Volkov coming in as a minus one sixty favorite against

604
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: Walt Harris plus one thirty five underdog. Let's be honest.

605
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: Harris seemed all set up for a big storyline, that

606
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: big fight with over him during the quarantine. There was

607
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 1: the story of losing his daughter. There was all that

608
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: good feeling, there was the idea that a big win there,

609
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: maybe he's a dark horse heavyweight title contender. And then

610
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: he kind of screwed up and fell and over him

611
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: sent him to the dark depths. Plus one thirty five

612
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: coming in against a guy in Volkoff who look no

613
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: one ever looks good again straight up right. I mean,

614
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: you know, Bulkeevs seemed to win every second of that

615
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: of that punch, that one punch knockout loss of course

616
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: to Derek Lewis, So odds are close in this one.

617
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: You lean in any specific way, I'm.

618
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 2: Gonna lean with Walt Harris. And I say that because

619
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: Walt Harris has that rustling and that grinding ability. And

620
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 2: I think that when you you're a tall guy like Volkoff,

621
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 2: it's gonna hard. It's gonna be hard to keep a

622
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: guy that has the ability to throw punches that make

623
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 2: you cover up, but then at the same time the

624
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: ability to take you down by shooting underneath and making

625
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 2: you pay, like Walt Harris. So I think that that's

626
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 2: gonna be Walt harris strategy. Touch up top, go underneath.

627
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 2: If not, he doesn't.

628
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 3: You know, with the tall guy.

629
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 2: Volcoff, you can you can put him on a horn

630
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 2: to dilimma the whole fight, go high low high low

631
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 2: high low.

632
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 3: He can't.

633
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 2: He can't win that exam, you know what I'm saying.

634
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 2: So if Walt Harris does that, then then he can

635
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: definitely get Volcoff out of here.

636
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 3: But Volkoff is.

637
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: It is a very tough and tricky fighter because he's

638
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: a very long fighter who knows how to fight long.

639
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: You know, there's not a lot of long fighters who

640
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,959
Speaker 2: know how to fight long and keep guys long and

641
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: make them pay as they're coming into their zone, and

642
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 2: Volkoff has that.

643
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 3: So not for nothing.

644
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 2: Walt Harris is going to have his work cut out

645
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: trying to cross a bearrier to implement his shots and

646
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: take down. But at the same time, I think he's

647
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: definitely capable of doing it. I like Walt Harris in

648
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Speaker 2: his fight.

649
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: Volkoff looking to bounce back from being out wrestled by

650
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: Curtis Blades in his last fight. Rashad, you look, you're

651
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Speaker 1: a big fan here of this riser at middleweight Philip Haws,

652
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: who made a big splash for himself in the Dana

653
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Speaker 1: White Tuesday Night Contender series. He's a minus two eighty

654
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: favorite here against Jacob Malcoun. What should we be looking

655
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: at him this one?

656
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: Phil Hall has been a guy who's been in a

657
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: game for a long time, you know, for a long time,

658
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 2: back training with John Jones and Jackson's came over. I

659
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 2: was training in New York City with under Henzo, Gracie

660
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: and Jersey, and he's been one of those guys who's

661
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 2: who's traveled as a journeyman in wild and now he's

662
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Speaker 2: here in South Florida. But now he's figuring it out

663
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: and you see him, you know, figuring it out and

664
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Speaker 2: not battling himself anymore. You know, there was a few

665
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 2: years where he was just kind of battling do I

666
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 2: want to do this or do I not want to

667
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 2: do this? And he has all the physical acumen to

668
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: do this, but it was just a matter of him

669
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Speaker 2: deciding if this is really what he wanted to do.

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Speaker 2: And now you see that he's made that choice, and

671
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 2: you know, he's been looking phenomenal and he's excited to

672
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 2: be there and seize the opportunity. So there's a lot

673
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 2: that this Phil Phil Hawes can show a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the most athletic and most dynamic athletes

675
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 2: I ever trained with. You know, I never trained with

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Speaker 2: someone as explosive as Phil in my life.

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Speaker 3: You know, So.

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Speaker 2: He's he's he's definitely got a lot of tools, and

679
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: I look to see him start to really start to

680
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: show people in this fight that you know, he's somebody

681
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: that that people shoed to taking notice of.

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Speaker 1: Opening up this pay per view main card is Malcolm

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Speaker 1: ed and Caliev and yan Ion Jhon. I never can

684
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Speaker 1: get it right. I'm sorry, is it Ion? What the

685
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: hell is it? Kute Laba the Maniac where they fought

686
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: already controversial knockout from Anklijev. We've tried to book this

687
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,479
Speaker 1: almost to be been tony levels. We're finally gonna get it.

688
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: I think plus two twenty underdog Cute Laba, minus two

689
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: seventy for ank Elijev. Who you liking in this one shot?

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Speaker 2: As much as I love kut Lava and I love

691
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,239
Speaker 2: the energy that he brings in all the craziness, I

692
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Speaker 2: just think that technically speaking, Uncle Live has just.

693
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Speaker 3: At a different level. It is what it is.

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00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes guys are just better than you. But

695
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 2: that's what we've seen last time that they thought.

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00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. It's been a while because

697
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 3: this fight's were.

698
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 2: Trying to book for a while, But from what I've

699
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 2: seen of Uncle Live, you know, he's just you know,

700
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 2: too technically sound, and he fights very smart, very strong,

701
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: physical guy. The only way he can get in trouble

702
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 2: in his fight and is for him to get caught

703
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 2: up in what Kutulaba wants to do, the whole brawl

704
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 2: and wild style, and caught him the emotional part of

705
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 2: the fight. Uncle Lived is a Russian, so they're very

706
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: divorced from emotion. So if he is tapped into his

707
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 2: Russian side, then he should be fine and just be

708
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: even killed this whole fight and go out there and

709
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 2: get to finish.

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Speaker 1: He's not just Russian, he's also in a hurry rishat.

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00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: But you look at this prelimp card. Where where should

712
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: we put our money? Anybody on this prelim card jumping

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00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: out at you that you want to take a flyer on.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, when we got on the prelim card,

715
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Speaker 3: what do you have here?

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Speaker 1: Because our guy, some people would say, smiling Sam Alvey

717
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: hasn't been smiling lately, Rashad because he's lost four in

718
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: a row. He's a plus three hundred underdog against da Ajong,

719
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: who I feel like is might send him not just

720
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: a hell but maybe out of a job here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that that cut. Sam elviy Is is facing

722
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 2: a tough one I mean, but but you know what,

723
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 2: Sam is still around.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, you know, Rashad, I just

725
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: don't want Sam one day to be bouncing the grandkids

726
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: on the leg and go, hey, guys, you know I

727
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: once beat UFC Hall of Fame with sugar, Rashad evans right,

728
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: not on my not on the care household.

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00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 3: You didn't snory cars either.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know, but you know what

731
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 2: I'm excited for though, there's a little bit of gold

732
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 2: in this heywave match up between Stephan Strew and to

733
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 2: to Asa butchered his last name, but you know.

734
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Speaker 1: What I'm talkingsa tie it to a vosi praps in

735
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: a shoe and eats it something like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but but but tire toi Vasa. These guys are

737
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 3: both on.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's always fun to watch and especially being

739
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 2: able to fight where he's you know, gets this kind

740
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 2: of attention. And he's going against a guy and Stephan

741
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 2: true who who's kind of rewritten himself after going back home,

742
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 2: you know, and and uh, you know, trying to make

743
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 2: a march to that to that belt. So it's gonna

744
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 2: be interesting to see this fight, this match up and

745
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: see where both of these fighters are right now and

746
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 2: what they both need to achieve in order to keep

747
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: their you know, heavyweight career in the right trajectory.

748
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the kind of slop I'm here for. That's

749
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Speaker 1: your prelim main event there on ESPN. Streuvea minus one

750
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: twenty five favorite. He hasn't retired in a while. I

751
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: wonder if Touyvasa can send him back there as a

752
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: plus one oh five underdog.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Good, interesting to see. Also, Casey Kenny back, that's let

755
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: me bang. Want somebody come in here and let me

756
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: bang with him, bringing bringing back to life the great

757
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: Julian Lane comment from tough right right. Yeah yeah, let

758
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: me bang bro, Please be bang bro bro, Just let

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00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: me bang, all right, Sugar rashot Evans, we are fired

760
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: up for Saturday. Thank you for sharing your insight. We

761
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: can follow you on the social media's at Sugar rashad Evans.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: What should we be looking out for? You're gonna be

764
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: on the ESPN telecast anytime soon. You got a comedy

765
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: set coming up at the Carolines. What's going on? What's

766
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: in your future?

767
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 3: Uh? Halloween weekend, I'll be back in Vegas.

768
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 2: Doing the UFC show, and I'll actually be corning Greg

769
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 2: Hardy that night too for the fight nice he's got.

770
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 2: He's got a big one too against Maurice Green. So

771
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: we've been last few months just buffing out the iron,

772
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 2: you know, and making sure that he's on point and

773
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 2: firing at all cylinders.

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00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 3: He looking good.

775
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: Is this the first time you've cornered somebody in the UFC.

776
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 2: Foot No, I've cornered a few people, but I mean

777
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 2: this is I was gonna say, I I when he

778
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 2: when he fought uh, when he fought John Jones.

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00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: Oh, I really I didn't know that. How did I

780
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: not know that? That was a little bit like W

781
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: W F Revene style right there? He almost caught.

782
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 3: Him, he almost.

783
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: Damn. I was going to try to compare your coaching

784
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: record to that of the great coach Litory Gonzales, who.

785
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 3: All right.

786
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: There it is, sugar, Rashad. Thank you so much. Morning

787
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: in combat, all day, every day, almost every day. In

788
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Speaker 1: your face.

789
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Speaker 3: Hole.

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00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: That's how we do it here. Enjoy the fights this weekend, Rashad,

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00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: You got any two words maybe for the people out there, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we out