1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: All right, Ti everybody, It is the twentieth of November 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and this is the Morning Combat UFC 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: Vegas forty three post fight show. My name is Luke Thomas. 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: I am one half of your hosting duo for Morning Combat, 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: and I'll be with you today for about twenty maybe 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: thirty minutes. We usually go for an hour on the 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: pay per views. 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UFC 26 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: Fight Night Vieira Versus Tate, UFC Fight Night Vegas forty three, 27 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: UFC Fight Night, whatever you wanna call it, whatever number 28 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: it is, that event is now in the books, of course. 29 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: It took place at the Apex Facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. 30 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: The headlining bout was a women's bantamweight contest between Kaitlyn 31 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: Vieira and Misha Tate. The results of that contest are 32 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: as follows. Let's see a unanimous decision win for Kaitlyn Vieira. 33 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: She wins forty eight forty seven, forty eight forty seven 34 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: in forty nine forty six. A couple of notes about this. 35 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: I don't often do it. Sometimes I do it, or 36 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: sometimes I don't watch with the commentary on for the 37 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: first time, but then I'll watch it like on subsequent viewings, 38 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 1: the commentary I'll hear. This time. I listened to the 39 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,959 Speaker 1: commentary live as the event went on and I noticed 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: there was a lot of consternation about Daniel Cormier well 41 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: One suggesting that Kaitlyn Vieira could and should do more. 42 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: Perhaps I think that is less controversial, but I think 43 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: he was actually let me back up a step. The 44 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: read I have on what people were saying on Twitter 45 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: is that people were a little bit upset that he 46 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: was suggesting the bout was being a little bit more 47 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: competitive than it was. It's probably a fair criticism, you know, 48 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: whether these things are intentional bias or not, I think 49 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 1: is a very almost unknowable thing to a degree. I 50 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: don't really think that he was favoring Tate for some 51 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: kind of petty grievance or because he likes her more 52 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: or something. But that doesn't mean he wasn't necessarily overly 53 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 1: estimating how well she was doing. In fact, if you 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: looked at her face, and again, you want to be 55 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: real careful about stuff like this, but if there are 56 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: other factors that also tell you somebody lost, and then 57 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: on top of it, you can see a pretty clear 58 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: disparity in visible damage between the two, right, you can 59 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: usually side with the person who has less visible damage 60 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: as the one who did better. Kaitlyn Vieira. I certainly 61 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: looked she had been in a fist fight. I suppose 62 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: certainly a longer one. But Misha Tate's face was a mess. 63 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: She got busted up real bad. Her nose was busted up, 64 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: it was bleeding everywhere, and Kitlyn Vieira was throwing from 65 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: the first to the fifth a bit of a steady 66 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: jab and it almost just like turned the entire face 67 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: of Misha Tate red. And her left cheek looked to 68 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: be swollen. Maybe she has a fracture on her cheek bone. 69 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: It's hard to say. One thing that also deserves to 70 00:03:58,560 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: be noted before we look at any of the ex 71 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: and o's and the results of everything you see here, Dude, 72 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: Misha Taita is tough as shit. Man. That's a tough fighter, folks. 73 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you go back and look at her fight 74 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: with Kat Singhano, and Kat was like really a force 75 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: to be reckoned with in that division, and Misha Tate 76 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: absolutely absorbed every possible punch, strike, kick, knee that Kat 77 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: had to offer and withstood the overwhelming majority of it. 78 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: I mean, the ref had to kind of save her, 79 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: but she was you know, she didn't quit out there 80 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: for sure other fights, certainly she's had to be patient 81 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: even though there wasn't necessarily a lot of damage like 82 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: the Holly Home fight. In this fight, she had to 83 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: be both patient and she had to wear a lot 84 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: of damage to get to where she ultimately ended up. 85 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: But dude, Misha Taita is fucking tough. That's a tough lady, folks. Wow, 86 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: she really you know. It's one thing to say like 87 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: it's hard to rock her right, like her chin is good. 88 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: It's another to be like, once someone begins to dump 89 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: that level of punishment on you, especially if it might 90 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: interfere with your vision or something else, broken nose, hard 91 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: to breathe, whatever it may be. She just doesn't lose composure. 92 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: You know, she didn't necessarily get to overcome the things 93 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: that were holding her back by the end of the 94 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: round or the end of the fight, but she never 95 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: it never felt like the punishment really deterred her out 96 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: of what she was capable of. It also seems like 97 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: the punishment is almost like an afterthought, like she's willing 98 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: to just to just absorb it all in the course 99 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: of you know, uh, you know, you're just gonna that 100 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: that amount of damage is just utterly ordinary, totally necessary. 101 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk about this fight here a 102 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 1: little bit. How did it go? Again, to the point 103 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: that people were raising about some of Cormier's commentary and 104 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: the objections therein. Did I feel like the commentary sided 105 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: with Misha more than normal? Yeah, maybe maybe a little bit. Again, 106 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: I don't think any sort of nefarious plot or anything, 107 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: but they definitely were focusing on that. It could be 108 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: because that's where their minds were. It could be because 109 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: that's a lot of what the UFC for the English 110 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: speaking audiences, well anyway, it's a lot of what the 111 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: UFC marketing around this fight was, like, Hey, Misha Tate 112 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: two point zero and she's back, and of course she 113 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: had the Renault fight since her return, but this was, 114 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: you know, really fighting another top contender. Mary and Renaud 115 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: literally retired at the end of the about Misha tatening 116 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: was planned all along, like we kind of knew the 117 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: whole story there, but or maybe it wasn't the Tate 118 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: fighting with some fight. But Marion Renaul is now retired. 119 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: You know, Kaitlyn Vieira is not that Kaitlyn Vieira has 120 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: tremendous grappling This was her most high profile about to date, 121 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: especially given the card was smaller. But it was a 122 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: main event against a former champion. There was certainly a 123 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: lot of high profile that had gone to that. So 124 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: how did the fight play out? There was hardly any grappling. 125 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: Misha Tate was credited with one takedown. I'm not sure 126 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 1: what round it was. Was at the third. Let's see 127 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: what round did she get the takedown? And it was 128 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: in the Oh, no, this is the fifth. Was it 129 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: the fifth where she was able to get her nearly 130 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: get her back? I can't quite remember at the top 131 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: of my head, but she got one out of five takedowns. 132 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: She whipped in the third. Oh, they haven't finished updating 133 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: their stats. That's why I'm looking at the wrong one. 134 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: Excuse me, now I have it. Sorry, there we go. 135 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: The takedown came in the fourth, that's right when she 136 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: nearly got the back in the process. But even Kitlyn 137 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: Vieira was still able to post a hand back to 138 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: the fence and stand eventually, so the takedown counted. But 139 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: you know, obviously related to the Colby and usban controversy 140 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: from UFC two sixty eight, but the real story of 141 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: the fight is that Here's what happened at first. As 142 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: long as Misha Tate was outside I should say, at 143 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,679 Speaker 1: the end of the strikes coming from Kitlyn Vieira, typically 144 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: from far away, the fight wasn't competitive even at all. 145 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: There was a point eventually towards the end of the 146 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: first and certainly into the second. But what you saw 147 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: was Misha Tate get inside of boxing range. Because happened 148 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: in the first two sort of three rounds was that 149 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Vieira was again doing a really good job of 150 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: being the longer fighter and the striking exchanges, so that 151 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: was really beneficial for her, a great job. As I mentioned, 152 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: DC had noted a good uppercut left hook, I think 153 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: it was right hook, maybe combo right no left, excuse 154 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: me kind of things. She was orthodox, So there was 155 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: a couple of sort of noteworthy things she was doing 156 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: along the way, but the real store was again by 157 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: the second round. What you noticed was that Tate was 158 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: able to like lower level, lower level punch to the 159 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: body overhand right, and then she got into punching rains 160 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: and once the range was roughly equivalent for them where 161 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: they were both able to land standing in front of 162 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: each other, maybe you know, one had a slightly better 163 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: reach or our opportunity given the distance between them, but 164 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: they were both inside what they called mid range boxing range. 165 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: The fight was pretty even there on the feet. Kaitlyn 166 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: Vera was doing overall better in the totality of the round, 167 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: but in those little moments kitlyn Vera had her she 168 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: had some problems. Why because both Tate and Viera kind 169 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: of keep their head a bit on a up and 170 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: down and so there might be some leaning, there's a 171 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: little bit of slipping, but it's largely blocking or just 172 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 1: absorbing what's coming their way. And what you saw was 173 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: that once Tate got into the boxing mid range, there 174 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: was just a lot of that going back and forth 175 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 1: where there wasn't a hugely noticeable difference between them. But 176 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: the key adjustment looked like to me was that Via 177 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: recognized that she couldn't just maintain this pocket presence with Tate. 178 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: She was giving her essentially what she was looking for, 179 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: and so she might throw a counter strike kitling Via 180 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: as Tate comes in, but after the counter striker or 181 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: the counter combo, then she was exiting. It was strike 182 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: and move or just get out of the way. Sometimes 183 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: to begin with so that there wasn't this, Oh, now 184 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,719 Speaker 1: you've just changed the terms of how we're striking. I'll 185 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: just fight on your terms now. It was here she 186 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: comes in, pop pop, exit, and then once she did 187 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: that take, couldn't really get a whole lot going behind it. 188 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: Now she did sometimes land making and closing the distance. 189 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: Even up into the fourth and fifth rounds, you did 190 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: actually see a little bit of that. She was able 191 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,439 Speaker 1: to have some success with that throughout the course of 192 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,199 Speaker 1: the rounds. I mean, listening to these numbers, let me 193 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 1: refresher one more time to get the most accurate. But 194 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: this is what they've got right now from fight Metric, 195 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: they've got, you know, pretty close. Misha Tate landing technically 196 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: more one hundred and twenty two of two hundred and 197 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: seventy six significant strikes attempted three hundred and two in total, 198 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: and for Kaitlyn Vieira one hundred and thirteen of two 199 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three strikes three hundred and thirteen attempted 200 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: in total. By the way, now that they accounted the 201 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: fifth round, Tate was one for six on takedowns, not 202 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: one for five, So that'll put her tike on hundred 203 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: percent a successful percentage at sixteen percent. She was awarded 204 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,599 Speaker 1: overall through the totality of five rounds, two minutes and 205 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: fifty two seconds of control time, but that would include 206 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: any time on a superior grappling position on the floor 207 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: and then pressing her to the fence for a to 208 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: kind of extend a period of time as well. So 209 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: you get the idea. Let's look at the targeting here 210 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 1: will usually tell you a lot. Kitlyn Vieira, Yeah, this 211 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: is definitely the story of the fight. Kitlyn Vieira. Eighty 212 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: four percent of her strikes were targeted to the head, 213 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: just twelve percent of the body, just three percent of 214 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: the leg. Kitlyn Vieira did not want to get taken down, 215 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: and Andre Penanius out of Nova Una unyao in her 216 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,719 Speaker 1: ear between rounds, telling her do not go for takedowns. 217 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 1: Fuck that, like, whatever you do, do not do that. 218 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: And you saw that she was largely, for the most part, 219 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: pretty compliant in carrying out that message. A couple of 220 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,719 Speaker 1: I think maybe surely attempted one. I think, yeah, she 221 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: attempted one, so one takedown attempt notwithstanding she was listening 222 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: pretty well. Tate. This also makes a lot of sense 223 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 1: leg kicks eight percent. She was either too far away 224 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: to throw a leg kick, she'd and want to throw them. 225 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 1: She did have one linear attack rabb damelo though the 226 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 1: front kick the toe is right to the chin. That 227 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: was nice for me to take either in the first 228 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: or second round. You get because the linear taxs were 229 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: there to be had, especially in the kickboxing range for 230 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: someone like Tate who was sitting on far on the outside. 231 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: But you know, Kaitlyn Vieira's head was right there, right 232 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: in the center line. But this was the story targeting 233 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: for me. Should Tate forty two percent to the head, 234 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: to the extent she could find that she was looking 235 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: for a forty nine percent to the body. She was 236 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: using a lowered level. There's a couple of things she 237 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: was doing with her stance. I'd love to talk to 238 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: he about it, because I didn't quite understand she started 239 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: out like this. Now, high hands can be distracting at 240 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: certain ways when you do this, but I'm not entirely 241 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: certain what she was looking for. She eventually let that 242 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: go and had her hands in a more natural position. 243 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: But then she had a really lower level, which that 244 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: to me made all the sense in the world. Because 245 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: the parts of the fight where she had the most 246 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: success from what I could tell on initial viewing, and 247 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: I'll have to go back and you know, double check 248 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: to really get a better sense of things. But upon 249 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 1: initial viewing, it looked to me like it was a 250 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: lowered level, some kind of feint. I want to come 251 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: back to that body, strike overhand to close the distance, 252 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: and then it would usually be from whatever from there. 253 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: But she was forced to reset a lot towards the 254 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,079 Speaker 1: end of that fight or middle toward middle end of 255 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: that fight, as Viera realized, if I just stand here 256 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: in exchange, we're just it's you know, it's just your 257 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: coin flipping at that point, let's stop doing that. So 258 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: we counter and then exit. And once she did that, 259 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 1: you had these constant reset moments. And so if there's 260 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: a constant reset moment, Tate had to go back to 261 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: the body to bring the hands down to then come 262 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: over the top or at least, you know, faint a 263 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: level change or whatever she was going to do. So 264 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: the numbers tell the story of what they were looking for. 265 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: The numbers told the story of what obviously you saw 266 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: being successful there. The question you have to ask yourself 267 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: with a fight like this is. You know, I'll come 268 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: back to that. I want I was gonna ask about 269 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: the Amanda new Nest factor. I want to come back 270 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: to that in just a second. Let me say this first. Actually, 271 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: volume actually went up over the course of the fight. 272 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Vieira fourteen strikes she landed in the first, thirteen 273 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: for Mischa Tate. By the end of the fifth, thirty 274 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: landed for Kitlyn Vieira, thirty three for Meschatate. So they 275 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: got a lot more comfortable with the fight and the 276 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: ranges therein twenty nine strikes for Kaitlyn Viea in the second, 277 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: just twenty and then twenty in the third and fourth. 278 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: It bumped it up to thirty for Misha Tate thirteen, 279 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty four, thirty one, thirty three. Her numbers 280 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: went up literally over every round, but it just seemed 281 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: to me like the jab of Kitlyn Vieira was having 282 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: a huge effect. She seemed to be the more powerful 283 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: puncher of the two. Aldough Tate whipped her head around 284 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: a couple of times, but in general just more consistent. 285 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: It felt like with bread and butter kind of strikes. 286 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: Better positioning for the most part, and just doing more 287 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: effective work to the other person. Like always again, the 288 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: ability of Kitlyn Vieira to make this distance closing parallel 289 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: situation a constant challenge that Tate had to overcome all 290 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: the time in these fights, Like she could never just 291 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: find it and stay there. Uh, you know, as the round, 292 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: as the as the fight war on it, it was 293 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: critical to ultimately the damage that you saw there. Now, 294 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: the fainting was something I noticed from Tate first at 295 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: the first two rounds. I didn't see hardly any fainting 296 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: from me, Shoa Tate. And now I don't just mean 297 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: in the striking department. I mean even with the wrestling 298 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: there was I guess some of the level changes were there, 299 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: But what I noticed was there wasn't a lot of 300 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: fainting for me, should Tate now was the fight war on? 301 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: Actually there got to be more in the first part 302 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: of the fight. I didn't see a ton of fainting, 303 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: either level changing or like foot fainting or shoulder fainting 304 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: or hit fainting, any of those kinds of fants. And 305 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: again you might be asking, like what's the point of that, dude, 306 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: Like if you put your opponent in a position where 307 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: they have to think about what you're doing with the faint. 308 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: That opens up everything you can build behind it. You know, 309 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: to me, in general, your better fighters are gonna be 310 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: the ones that are better fainters and more active fainters. Again, 311 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: there's gonna be exceptions here or there, but that tends 312 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: to be the bit of the rule. I noticed that 313 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: a lot of her feints were very exaggerated fans like, 314 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: you know, where you're whipping her head and shoulders way over, 315 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: and you know, there's times where she was doing it 316 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: it almost looked like she was faking kind of like 317 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: an overhanded like or a level change and then trying 318 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: to twist back into it the other way. But Kaitlyn 319 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: Vieira was long gone by then, Like the faints didn't 320 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: have a ton of success. What had the most amount 321 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: of success was changing the levels, going low and then 322 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: coming over the top. That had that was a consistently 323 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: pretty successful thing for her. But in the end there 324 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: just wasn't enough meaningful volume from her in that way. 325 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: And so Kaitlyn Vieira, I think through having by the 326 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: way noticeable speed difference between the two so she could 327 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: let her hands go. I think in greater rapid succession 328 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: and more nimbly. She seemed like she was just just 329 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: a little bit quicker, kind of everywhere, and Tate was 330 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: kind of behind the eight ball basically for most to 331 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: the fight. As a consequence, you know, it ended up 332 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: being accumulatively quite a damaging fight. But it wasn't like 333 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: each round was some kind of terrible beating for Tate. 334 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: Most of the rounds were pretty competitive. Most of the 335 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: rounds for them were pretty close. I think I had tweeted, 336 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: not that I agreed exactly that Tate had done enough 337 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: to win when the fight was over, but some of 338 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: the rounds were close, and some of the judging tonight, 339 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: man like when they doing a round is like, you know, 340 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: it's hard to tell exactly who won, or you could 341 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: understand why one person saw it one way and a 342 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: different person saw it a different way. You just never 343 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: know what these judges sometimes. So it was good to 344 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: see that there was one forty nine to forty six 345 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,199 Speaker 1: for Vieira. I think that's a defensible scorecard. You can 346 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: have a forty nine to forty six is not decided 347 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: at the end, right the judges, all three of them 348 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 1: are required to turn in the score for each round 349 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: at the end of each round, so the rounds over, 350 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 1: they're writ ten nine for whoever, and then they handed 351 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: to the scorekeeper and it's done. They don't get to 352 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: go back and change it. It's locked in. That's there. 353 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: So when you see a forty nine forty six, people 354 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: want to say, oh, that doesn't show what Misha Tate 355 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: may have done, which is entirely fair to bring up, 356 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: but it doesn't. Necessarily that score is not designed to 357 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: do that. The score is just designed to say who 358 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: won each round, even if each round was at times 359 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 1: quite close, some of the offense a little bit ambiguous. 360 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: There's a lot of times you heard the commentary team 361 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: talk about it where they were just trade like each 362 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: one would land a pretty heavy shot. It's just that 363 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: is when I saying Vieira would land those, and then 364 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: also the busier work in between them, like Tate had 365 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 1: punctuated moments of offense right, sometimes big ones like the 366 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: front kick up the middle, but it was Vieira had 367 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: basically basically just as many of those, plus all of 368 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: this other work on top of it, and that ended 369 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 1: up making all of the difference. A nice takedown attempt 370 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: from Tate and getting it in the fourth round and 371 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: then finding her way to the back, trying to take 372 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: the back like she did Holly Holme. But Kitlyn Viera's 373 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: takedown defence just and her and her positional awareness just 374 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: too much. The fence was an ally for her in 375 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: that particular scenario, and she was able to stand and 376 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: create separation. So certainly a spirited effort there to get 377 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: the fight to the floor. But you know, Vieira is 378 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: taking on defence is phenomenal generally, was sturdy in this one, 379 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: and you saw, like you know, even though the takedown counted, obviously, 380 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: given some of the controversy around the way FI metric 381 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: evaluates those, to what end did it matter in this 382 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: particular case, really not at all. It didn't give her 383 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: much of an edge but for a moment her put 384 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: you know, viaa on the back foot. I suppose a 385 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: little bit during the course of that fight, but that 386 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: didn't exchange anyway, but not enough to really do a 387 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: whole hell of a lot. So Kitlyn Viera, let me 388 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: pull up the rankings, if I may. Let's look at 389 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: these here, all right, So Kitlyn Vira today, now this 390 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: result will not factor in yet to this rankings. These ranking, 391 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: excuse me, but this ranking. But at bantamweight, Kitlyn Vieira 392 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: is currently sitting at seven. Misha Tate was at eight, 393 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: So technically, you know, it's hard to know exactly how 394 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: many spots if at all, Via moves, she might move 395 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: one or two. Kuditskaya has a win over Vieia, although 396 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: it was somewhat controversial, and Kunitskaya is sitting at six, 397 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: so it's hard to know if Vieira is really going 398 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: to move all that much. But I think it does 399 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 1: sort of point out that, you know, you beat a 400 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: name like Misha Tate, that can only be good for 401 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: your career. We'll see what ends up happening. There. Two 402 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: things more and I think to consider about this contest. First, 403 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 1: you know, did you see a fighter in there tonight 404 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,160 Speaker 1: that could beat Amanda Nunez In many ways, that's it's 405 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: not really a fair question to ask for starters. This 406 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 1: wasn't like a title eliminator. We're obviously looking for fresh 407 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: contenders all the time, but this wasn't a title eliminator. 408 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: I think even if people even if Kaitlyn Via had 409 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: gone on there and just blown the doors off of 410 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,959 Speaker 1: Misha Tate. I think people would have rightly asked, hey, 411 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: you probably need one, maybe even two more before you're 412 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 1: ready for a title shot with Amanda, Right, seems only fair. 413 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: The other part is this fight wasn't the kind of 414 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: challenge that told you where Kaitlyn Vieira could be dangerous 415 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: against Amanda Nunas. Right. What I mean to say is, 416 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: you know, if Kitlyn Vieira and her team are smart, 417 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 1: and they are, they're probably not planning on doing a 418 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 1: whole lot of striking with Amanda Nunas if that opportunity 419 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: ever arises. Some is inevitable, some is important, and I 420 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: think Kaitlyn Viverea showed she has abilities in that way. 421 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: But if she was to fight Amanda Nunas, my hunch 422 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: is that she's going to be looking for the takedown 423 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: pretty overwhelmingly because she's got a great ground game. She 424 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: has a good wrestling game. I think you saw some 425 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: some of that spots this fight. You didn't get to 426 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 1: see really the bigger strengths in the overall arsenal that 427 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Vieira has in terms of her striking itself. Again, 428 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: I thought some of it looked pretty good. The jab 429 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: looked pretty good, the nimbleness of her combination work, her 430 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: hand speed looked good, footwork was moving to a degree, 431 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: but the defense was not especially great. And you have 432 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: to imagine a precise, thoughtful striker who sets traps and 433 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: the way that Amanda Nonez does would have probably a 434 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: great degree of success on the feet opposite a striker 435 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: that way, even if you know she might get touched 436 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: up a few times along the way. So you know, 437 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: when I asked, did you see a fighter there who 438 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: could beat Amanda Nunez, not tonight. But that doesn't really 439 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: mean we can affirmatively conclude Kaitlyn Vieira will never get 440 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: an opportunity, never will deserve one, and never will weiin 441 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: an Even if she does, that would be that would 442 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: be very much unfair, and I'm not making that claim 443 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: even if you can grant like tonight wasn't like the 444 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 1: best showcase for that. The other part is like where 445 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: Misha Tate goes from here, because I thought she looked 446 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: a little bit rusty early in her return fight, but 447 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: ultimately looked pretty great in this fight. It's interesting, right, 448 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 1: she actually looked better to me as a striker than 449 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 1: she did in her initial UFC run the problem she 450 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: might be up against. And by the way, we don't 451 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: know if that was like the full demonstration of what 452 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: she has. Even if you look better than you did 453 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: four years ago, which even with the time off, that 454 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: shouldn't be like completely surprising. Even with that time off, 455 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: it looked to me like the game had caught up 456 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: in a dramatic way. I don't think Tait was ever 457 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: like the bleeding edge of the very best strikers that 458 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: Bantawaite had to offer, but she had some utility there. 459 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: She could do some decent work with it when she 460 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: needed to. It was not her greatest strength but hardly 461 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: some kind of super limiting weakness. And then in many 462 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: ways that really hasn't changed except she's gotten better, clearly, 463 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: like the choices she was making as the fight went 464 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: on got much smarter even as vi Era was making adjustments. 465 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: The issue for me was that I'm not gonna say 466 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: is it too late, but rather you just have to 467 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: ask how much of what she demonstrated tonight was still 468 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: just part of a work in progress towards a much 469 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 1: more complete ultimate goal. Or is that even with all 470 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 1: those improvements and you cannot take those away from her. 471 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: Is it the case with all those improvements, that that's 472 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: going to be enough given the modern state of the 473 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 1: women's bandsweight division, And we're gonna wrestle with those questions 474 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: for some time. But I do think you can probably 475 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: could you conclude this affirmatively? Maybe not this. I don't 476 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: think you conclude that. I would say you should never. 477 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: You should definitely not deny the improvements that Tait showed. 478 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 1: I thought they were meaningful and important and will probably matter, 479 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: if not for winning tonight, in the future. For sure. 480 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,959 Speaker 1: I do think that, But I don't think it's necessarily 481 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: altogether unfair to question if there's just too much of 482 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: a distance to overcome at this point, given the improved 483 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: state of the division. Could be the case like who's 484 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: ahead of her in line Holly Holm, Germaine, random eating 485 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,399 Speaker 1: an Al Donna, Juliana Pena, Aspin, lad Yani Kunitskaya. Now 486 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,880 Speaker 1: you might be saying Tate's competitive with a lot of them. 487 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: I'd agree, And again, two fights back after four years, 488 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: how representative is that? It could be fully representative, It 489 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: could be, you know, not so I would say after 490 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: three four fights, though, at the given that Tate as 491 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: a senior level fighter, right, Like was she thirty four 492 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 1: roughly years of age, previous champion, Like she's done, she's dude. 493 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: She fought in fucking hook and shoot. I mean hook 494 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 1: and shoot was like the original. This isn't quite right, 495 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: but for women's mma it was almost like the original Invicta. 496 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 1: It wasn't not not in that way, but like the 497 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: people giving the people who were taking care of women's 498 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: mma before people were taking care of it, hook and 499 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 1: shoot be should take fought and fucking hook and shoot. 500 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: You know. So she's a senior level fighter, she is 501 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: pretty advanced. Whatever progress she might make at thirty four 502 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: is gonna be minimal. But the big caveat there is 503 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: she had so much time off that there actually is 504 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: opportunity for real growth. In other words, if she had 505 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: never taken time off and you saw wherever she was 506 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: at this point, any kind of improvement in terms of 507 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: overall skill set is going to be quite difficult. Right. 508 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: The way I try to explain it is, if you've 509 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: never lifted weights, you can actually make enormous gains and 510 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: strength over time. But if you're a senior level lifter, 511 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 1: you're gonna be pretty close to your genetic peak. Good 512 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 1: programming and better training methods and diet and sleep and 513 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: everything else that can get you obviously further than anything 514 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 1: else absent anabolic steroids like but you know that sort 515 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: of naturally speaking, it can get you as far as 516 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: you can go, but it's gonna be really hard to 517 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: make progress. If you've been lifting weights for twenty years, 518 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: if you've been lifting weights for twenty minutes, man, give 519 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: it time. You can make an enormous amount of gains. 520 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: So what I'm trying to point out is from an 521 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: age standpoint and an overall experience standpoint, Misha Tate is 522 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,360 Speaker 1: a senior level fighter, but she had four years off, 523 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: and so you wonder how much could be gained given 524 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: that large gap. But a nice win for Kitlyn Vieira, 525 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: certainly the biggest to date. This makes her record. Let's 526 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: talk about that for just a second and we'll move 527 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: on to the Comaine. It brings Kitlyn two twelve and two, 528 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: and her losses are to al Donna, which she got 529 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: knocked out in the first okay, fair enough, and then Kunitskaya, 530 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: which was a little a little dicey in terms of 531 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: Vieira had a lot of good positions, but just didn't 532 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: do a lot with them. So I want to say controversial, 533 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: but not like the best demonstration of her overall ability. 534 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: But her wins tate U Banks, Zangano McMahon, Ashley Evans 535 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: Smith and then Kelly Fasholtz. That was all the way 536 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen. But you know, you meat, Sarah McMahon, 537 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: previous title challenger and Olympic silver medallist kat Zingano, you know, 538 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: a pioneering legend and the title challenger as well. Sajar 539 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: Ubank's one of the better names in this division certainly, 540 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: and then now me should take former champion and obviously 541 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: bigger name in her the promotional side of things too. 542 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: So solid win by her, solid win by her. Still 543 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: some work to do on some of her numbers. She 544 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:31,360 Speaker 1: still takes way too much damage. But okay, let's talk 545 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: about the co main event, so it brings us there. 546 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: Sean Brady defeats Michael kisa Via twenty nine, eight nine, 547 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: twenty nine, twenty eight. Your judges, Eric Cologne, Doug Crosby, 548 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: and Junicirokmijo pretty good judges. Dick Crosby is a little 549 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: bit of a loose cannon sometimes, but in general this 550 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: is this was good judging here. Okay, this was a 551 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: hell of a fight. First of all, easily Sean Brady's 552 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: biggest win by far. He remained undefeated. If you guys 553 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: watch Morning Combat at all, maybe you're new here, you 554 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: don't know this you watch Morning Combat at all. I've 555 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: been seeing Sean Brady's praises for as long as the 556 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: show's been in existence. But this was a tough one 557 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: for him, and I wasn't sure he got it either. 558 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: So what happened in the fight? First round? Rough start 559 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: for Sean Brady. He gets poked in the eye twice. Now, 560 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: I like Michael Kiyosa a lot. In no way do 561 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: I think they were intentional, and he was able to 562 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: keep his hand closed throughout subsequent portions of the fight 563 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: to avoid any other issue. Like clearly he wasn't trying 564 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: to rake Sean Brady's eyes. He just you know, it 565 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: happens in a fight. Nevertheless, I will say, in the 566 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: interest of being consistent, I really really really really don't 567 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: like it when fighters get two free ipokes on a 568 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: guy and you know it just goes Listen, Folks have 569 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: been asking, like, what the rule is on this it 570 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: sounds goofy, and every time I bring it up, folks like, oh, 571 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: would never work, only if you just a imagine it 572 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: to be the case, guys, I'm not making a joke here. 573 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: Pride used the yellow and then the red card system before, 574 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: and they could I forget exactly how it worked, but 575 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: if they flashed you a red, you lost a point 576 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: in the middle around. But they wouldn't necessarily break it 577 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: up or whatever. You know. Sometimes they would but like 578 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: you know, and then it would also be like a 579 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: monetary fine. But they would give you a yellow sometimes 580 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: as like a warning, and there was also I think 581 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: a smaller monetary fine associated with that, because folks are asking, like, 582 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: what's a way you could give a stern warning without 583 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: necessarily taking a point? First of all, I think on 584 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: the second of those man, you could take a point 585 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: for me personally, I like Michael a lot. Again, it 586 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered because the outcome was what it was. 587 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: But I just I don't feel like it should be 588 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: the case where you can just have two free ipokes 589 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: on a guy and it counts. That was one problem. 590 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: The other problem was Michael guess it ended up I 591 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: was totally wrong in the previous about this, I thought 592 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: that Sean Brady was gonna be dealing on the feed. 593 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: I guess it looked the best Michael Guess has ever 594 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: looked on the feet for crying out loud, which talk 595 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: about in a second. And one of the punches broke 596 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: Sean Brady's nose in the first round such that he 597 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: had blood pouring out of that thing. And and what 598 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: you ended up seeing was, you know, Sean Brady had 599 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: a little bit of trouble seeing and there was a 600 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: you know, the blood was acting as a bit of 601 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: a lubricant in certain grapping situations. But the reason Sean 602 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: Brady won this fight is because his level changes were great, 603 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: his war pressure was great, and his takedowns were overwhelming. 604 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: And then once he got the takedown, dude, his back 605 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: control was outstanding. Ladies and gentlemen, let me explain this 606 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: as simply as I can when you there are several 607 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: different skills in jiu jitsu. One of them is finding 608 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: the back and there's a million different ways to do it, 609 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 1: and people who are good at it have in fact 610 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: a million different ways, a few different go tos, maybe 611 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: some arm drags, baron Bolo's back in the day or whatever. 612 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways you can find it. But 613 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: there is people who get to the back. There's that's 614 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: a certain skill. Keeping the back is a related but 615 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: in many ways different skill. So understand, like once like 616 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: you can do a drill where it's like, okay, start 617 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: having the person's back, go get them off your back, dude. 618 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: There are people who are gonna be very good at that. 619 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: There are gonna be people who are gonna be like, 620 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: not so great and necessarily finding the back, but might 621 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 1: be much better at holding it there. They're related skills, 622 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: but they're not the same, dude. Sean Brady's ability to 623 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: maintain back control is superb. It is superb. You hardly 624 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: ever see the uki his opponent create a lot of 625 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: space with chest to back. You rarely ever see them 626 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: rotate off an angle. You rarely ever see them go 627 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 1: through motion and then use that motion to create some 628 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: kind of barrier upon which they can use to create 629 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: asymmetry in the forms of control. He's good about keeping 630 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 1: in steps out from easy grabbing right. I mean, everything 631 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: is just real textbook. He's heavy on there. He knows 632 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: when to post an elbow to roll through. He knows 633 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: which under hooks he has to have at which times, 634 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: because you'll notice at the end of the fight he 635 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: was actually going no under hooks. Sometimes he had body triangle, 636 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: sometimes not, and then using two hands to try and 637 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: wrestle as opposed to keeping one under hook and then 638 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: you know, punching here and then trying to wrap the 639 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: hand or whatever. He would just let it go. Dude, 640 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: you can't do that against a guy like Michael Kiessa, 641 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: who is a very good grappler himself, unless you have 642 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: outstanding back control. So just think about what you saw there. 643 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: You saw a guy routinely find the back and then 644 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: you saw a guy once he got it against them. Guy, Dude, 645 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 1: Michael Kiessa is fucking good and Michael Kissa couldn't get 646 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: him off of him. You know that guy knows what 647 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 1: he is doing when it comes to back control. A 648 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: very very impressive performancy. He was awarded Sean Brady of 649 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: the course of fifteen minutes, seven minutes and forty five seconds, 650 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: so over half of that fight he was awarded with 651 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: control time. He got one of one takedown Michael Kissa did. 652 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: Sean Brady got five of eight. I'm pretty impressed by that. Actually, 653 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: here's what I thought was gonna happen. I thought that 654 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:16,439 Speaker 1: it would be. I thought Kisa would be a little 655 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: bit more physically dominant on the ground, and he looked 656 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 1: the bigger of the two. How that guy ever made lightweight? 657 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: It's comical, like Sean Brady is like a fucking jacked 658 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: one seventier and Michael Kiossa towered over him. I was like, 659 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: holy fucking shit. I thought Kiso was gonna be a 660 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 1: bit more of a bully on the ground, or at 661 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:43,399 Speaker 1: least be a little bit more aggressive about seeking out 662 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: the offensive side of those positions, and that didn't prove 663 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 1: to be the case. Brady was much better, frankly, everywhere 664 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: as it related to the ground. I knew he'd be 665 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: good once they got there. I wasn't sure how the 666 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,480 Speaker 1: wrestling was gonna go. Well, there's your answer. So that 667 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:03,439 Speaker 1: was impressive. However, on the feet, the funny part about 668 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: it all was that it was Kiessa who was causing 669 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: real problems for Sean Brady. Now, I don't know Sean 670 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 1: was saying that because his nose was broken, he couldn't 671 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: strike the way he wanted to, like he was probably 672 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: a lot more hesitant. As a consequence, when you're hesitant, 673 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,879 Speaker 1: you can get hit more. The other part was once 674 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 1: he got hit, he kind of just froze, and so 675 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: subsequent like if you put shots together, a lot of 676 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 1: them landed. He kept getting hit with the double jumping 677 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: switch knee. So kiss. So while losing now two in 678 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: a row, and losing to a guy who you know 679 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 1: might be something closer to the future of this division 680 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: than the present, nevertheless, showed to me some new wrinkles. 681 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: If you look at Michael Guess' game prior to this fight, 682 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:48,720 Speaker 1: both landed and absorbed significant strikes or strikes absorbed permitted, 683 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: strikes landed permituted. Both of his numbers are under two. 684 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: I don't know of any other ranked fighter I've ever 685 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 1: seen that has numbers like that. We're both strikes absorbed 686 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 1: and strikes landed are under two, like one seven or so, 687 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 1: so something like that for both. Let me pull it 688 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: up here, tell you exactly what it is. Yeah, one 689 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: eight seven strikes landed permitted. That's funny, right, drive by 690 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,279 Speaker 1: and then strikes and store permitt at one point seven 691 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,719 Speaker 1: to two. So an interesting result there, But that that 692 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,440 Speaker 1: really is the story of the fight was that Brady 693 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 1: you could maybe argue got I'm not gonna say got 694 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,759 Speaker 1: away with one, but at certain times in the back 695 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 1: he was honey for submissions, but wasn't necessarily getting all 696 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: that close with them and was still awarded you know, 697 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: the round most of the judges scorecards. I would imagine 698 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: that he won the first and second and then lost 699 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,399 Speaker 1: the third. What are the numbers on the striking habit? Yeah? Yeah, 700 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,319 Speaker 1: the third round, I'm imagining that Kisa won that one. 701 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 1: Trumbrady landed only three strikes in that round. He did 702 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,439 Speaker 1: get awarded two takedowns and had three minutes and twenty 703 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: one seconds of control. But Kisa landed. That was his 704 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 1: best round by far. Kisa. That's the only round Kiesa 705 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 1: ever had double digits in terms of significant strikes. Landed 706 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,400 Speaker 1: third round seventeen of twenty five. If you look at targeting, 707 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: Michael Kisa sixty five percent of the head, thirty five 708 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: percent of the body, zero to the leg for Sean 709 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,200 Speaker 1: Brady forty four percent of the head, eleven to the body, 710 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 1: forty four percent of the legs. He was much more 711 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,720 Speaker 1: willing to engage in the lake kicking battle, especially a distance, 712 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 1: and that's not no big surprise. The tape shows that's 713 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 1: exactly what he likes to do. But I have to 714 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: say for Sean Brady going forward in this division, Clearly 715 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 1: we know he can wrestle. Clearly we know he's got 716 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,719 Speaker 1: phenomenal grappling. Not a lot of ground and pound submission 717 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: attempts were consistent, but never close back control phenomenal, like 718 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,960 Speaker 1: truly excellent back control and on the ground, you know, 719 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: if the nose busted him up, and that's the issue 720 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,399 Speaker 1: and he needed the experience of this fight, That's one 721 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,800 Speaker 1: thing I'd like to see. I'd like to see a 722 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,560 Speaker 1: little bit more nimbleness on the feet as opposed to 723 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: what he was showing, and then sort of defensive bearing 724 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,359 Speaker 1: when he needs it. Seems to me like as good 725 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 1: as Sean Brady is, and he is excellent, there's just 726 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 1: a lot more development that's possible with what he has 727 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,880 Speaker 1: already shown and frankly, what he might need that's in 728 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,000 Speaker 1: front of him. So huge win for Sean Brady, a 729 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,800 Speaker 1: bit of a tough loss for Michael Kissa, But I 730 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,120 Speaker 1: don't like, I'm not really downgrade, like if you want 731 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: to use this performance to downgrade Kisa's title chances. I 732 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,000 Speaker 1: think that's fair. You lose against Sean Brady and against 733 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 1: Vicente Luke, you're gonna get sent back to the in 734 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,840 Speaker 1: the further in the top ten, maybe even outside of it. 735 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,160 Speaker 1: In fact, I think the rankings for this one are 736 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,399 Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit weird. Right, So they've got 737 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: at welterweight. Brady was at fourteen, Kisa was at six. 738 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,800 Speaker 1: So Sean Brady's gonna take a huge jump probably in 739 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,439 Speaker 1: the rankings. I'm not saying he's gonna take the six spot, 740 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,759 Speaker 1: but he's he might jump a lot. You know, he's 741 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 1: gonna be in the deep end. You know, you want 742 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: to be in the deep end with these guys, man, 743 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,160 Speaker 1: you gotta be real careful. So to me, there are 744 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,600 Speaker 1: some clear improvements that are gonna be necessary, but the 745 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 1: strengths that he already has, like the real ones, those 746 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,279 Speaker 1: are those are you top ten ready for sure? For sure? 747 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: For sure? So in many ways, a strong showing in 748 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,280 Speaker 1: many ways of showing that there's still some green parts 749 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,960 Speaker 1: to his game, or relatively green anyway. And then for Kisa, definitely, 750 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,440 Speaker 1: I don't have a lower opinion of his ability in 751 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,000 Speaker 1: many ways higher, but as it pertains to title aspirations, 752 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: I do think we have to dial those back a 753 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,120 Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah all right, how long have I gone? For? 754 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 1: About forty minutes, Way longer than I should for a 755 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,840 Speaker 1: card like this, So what happened to the rest of 756 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,640 Speaker 1: the card? You're gonna have to tune into MK or 757 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,920 Speaker 1: MK Extra credit on Monday, the two different podcasts we 758 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,799 Speaker 1: put out, obviously more to combats the more important one 759 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: extra credits for all the fights that we don't get 760 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 1: to on regular MK. Yeah all right, so thumbs up 761 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,640 Speaker 1: on the video hit subscribe. I'll be back for another 762 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: one of these after the Terrence Crawford and Sean Porter 763 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,560 Speaker 1: fight a little bit later tonight. I appreciate you all watching, 764 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,840 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and until next time, enjoy the fights.