1 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: Oh, there'll be no Jake Paul here today, Ladies and gentlemen. 2 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: How exciting does that sound? Yes, welcome to MK Morning 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: Combat Extra Credit. This is the podcast within the podcast 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: that I do to make sure we get to all 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 1: of the MM action that we sometimes miss on the 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: regular MK. My name is Luke Thomas. Of course I 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: am one half of the hosting duo from Regular Morning 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: Combat with Brian Campbell. But yeah, we got a lot 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: to get to today. So today we're gonna get to 10 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: UFC Fight Night Lewis versus Ducas, UFC Vegas forty five, 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: UFC and ESPN plus fifty seven UFC Fight Night one, 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: nine and nine. These are all the exact same event 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: as you can see below on the screen. Give us 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: a follow on various social media channels. If you're watching 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: this on YouTube, thumbs up on the video, hit subscribe. 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: If you're listening on a podcast, whatever platform that may be, 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: please leave us a nice review. As I mentioned, we 18 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: will not be talking about Jake Paul here today. In fact, 19 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: don't even want to say that name anymore. Let's talk 20 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: about some of the top MMA fighters in the world. 21 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: So here's the card for Saturday. This is from top 22 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: to bottom. As you can see, we're going to focus 23 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: in on the five that have been highlighted. We'll go 24 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: Balal Mohammed versus Stephen Thompson. We'll go Amandlaimos taking on 25 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: Angela Hill, Ricky Simone versus half Al Sunso the main 26 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: card opener Cups wants to take it on Darren Elkins, 27 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: and then all the way down on the prelim card, 28 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: we'll go with Raquel Pennington versus Macy Chiasen. I'll do 29 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: a couple of very quick honorable mentions for some of 30 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: the other ones on this card. Yeah, all right, Well, 31 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: with that in mind, let's begin. All right, First up 32 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: your well, your co name. The first fight I want 33 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: to talk about balal Mohammed defeats Stephen Thompson. I mean, 34 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: listen to these scores thirty twenty five, thirty twenty six 35 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: and then thirty twenty six. Let me see the uh 36 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: if I can, let me see the fight metric numbers 37 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: for this. That is, this was easily the performance of 38 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: his career. Now, let me say something about all of 39 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: these fights that I haven't quite said yet. That I've 40 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: said this before many times, but it's worth really going back. 41 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: You're gonna see this in some of the fights that 42 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: I picked, you might like, you might have liked other 43 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: fights on the card. For example, I'm imagining some of 44 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 1: you are probably a little bit disappointed we're not getting 45 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: to the Charles Jordaine fight. Jordains a fight here on 46 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: this Today's podcast, episode eleven of the MG extra credit, 47 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: I'll talk about a little bit honorable mention. But one 48 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: thing I wanted to show not in all five of 49 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: the fights that I picked, but in some of them 50 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: it's obvious, but it just it's worth saying one more time. 51 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: I cannot overstate how much you have to consider what 52 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: a role defence plays in mixed martial arts, not merely 53 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: as a place to push someone up against for a takedown, 54 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: as a place to potentially be avoided. Right, So that 55 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: will affect the way people circle or defend takedowns in striking. 56 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,679 Speaker 1: Once they get behind the black line, which i'll show 57 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: you here in just a second, and then the fence line, 58 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: their behavior changes because now their options are limited. They 59 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: can't have the same kind of mobility. Now they become 60 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: significantly different fighters. They become significantly different fights. There's almost 61 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: two fights in some of these MMA fights like this, 62 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: there's the fight that takes place closer to the center 63 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: of the cage, and then there's the fight that takes 64 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: place along or close to the fence line, and they're 65 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: just dramatically different. Now, this fight probably not the very 66 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: best example, considering in the third round, for example, that 67 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: Balah Muhammad was able to score a takedown an open 68 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: space and actually seal the fight itself. But if you 69 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: look at the numbers, I mean, these are the worst 70 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: numbers maybe for Wonder Boy ever, they're terrible. He landed 71 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: only nineteen of thirty two significant strikes. Is that the 72 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: lowest for Wonder Boy ever in a fight. Let's see, 73 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: he landed nineteen in this fight, nineteen in the Gilbert 74 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: Burns fight, so identical. But think about this. He landed 75 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy one in the fight with Jeff Neil, 76 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: he landed a one hundred and thirty eight in the 77 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: fight with Vicente Luke, forty seven in the fight with 78 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: Pettis would till thirty and that fight was terrible. That 79 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: was of course over five rounds, so maybe that's about 80 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: the same actually, but you get the idea really really 81 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: low volume here. I'm looking at some of my notes. 82 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: I normally don't make notes. I'm going to start for 83 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: this podcast now if I can. You know what was 84 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: amazing to me was a couple things won the ability 85 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: for bel I mean, this is a great win by Bolomahammed. 86 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: So let's state that out right, balal Mohammed looked really 87 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: good here. Obviously he didn't finish wonder boy. There are 88 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: some criticisms if you wanted to make them. Some No 89 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: fighter is perfect. The choke was never all that close 90 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: in the first round, and the ground of pound was 91 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: good but not great. But the overall ground of pound 92 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: effort with the takedowns and how he managed the fight 93 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,919 Speaker 1: was exceptional, truly exceptional. This was the best performance of 94 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: Balmahammed's career against the very toughest test. I'd argue that 95 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: he has had to this point, and he looked fantastic, 96 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: just totally in command. I have candidly maybe slept on 97 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: him a little bit, and this was a bit of 98 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: a wake up call for me. Now, what did I 99 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: notice from Mohammad that I thought was so good? I 100 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: thought the level changing was quick and he could cover 101 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: distance with it, right, I mean, yes, sometimes he set 102 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: it up with strikes. Sometimes it was in close range 103 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: sometimes and sometimes he would get under the punches of 104 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: Wonder Boy then chase him along the fence line. But 105 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: a lot of times he's having to cover a fair 106 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: amount of distance and he did it. And here's what 107 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: was so interesting about him. This is not true every time, 108 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: but if you look at the takedowns, and by the way, 109 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: I think he had an incredible takedown run against Wonder Boy, 110 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: seven takedowns of nine seventy seven percent extremely high by 111 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: Baala Mohammed. Did you notice how many involved picking Wonder 112 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,359 Speaker 1: Boy off of his feet and taking him to an 113 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: empty plane. Right, So let's talk about that for just 114 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: a second. Picking him up his obviies, right, lifting him 115 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: off of his feet, and then taking him to an 116 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: empty plane, meaning taking him to a space behind the 117 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: line of his back. Right, if you were going from 118 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder, the line that his back occupies, what's 119 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: behind him, what is their open space? Call it an 120 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: open plane because it's usually a little bit more involved. 121 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: We were talking about tripping and throwing a judo on 122 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,239 Speaker 1: what foot patterns people are on. But you get the idea, 123 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: there's negative an open space behind him. A lot of 124 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: them involved picking him up and then turning him, either 125 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: to turn his hips over or to just move him 126 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: into a space where there's negative space behind him. And 127 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: that was mostly how he got it done. Like contrast that, 128 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: for example, with trips. Contrast that with say, single leg 129 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: while you're running the pipe. Contrast that with you know, 130 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: there was I think one double leg scoop a little 131 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: bit later because it fit into a larger part of 132 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 1: his game where he would go for these leg rides 133 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: below Maham, but particularly on that left side, a little 134 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: Hamzat Chimayav style. But in general it was a lot 135 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: of lifting Wonder Boy off of his feet. I'd have 136 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: to go back and look at the tape, but I 137 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: think bloh Mohammad, who specializes in you know, high crotch 138 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: lifts and other kinds of takedowns where you're lifting someone 139 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: off of their feet, it came in handy here. That 140 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: appeared to be a real weakness of Thompson. He had 141 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: decent defense if he could down block properly with space 142 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: behind him, or if you know, the takedown didn't really 143 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: involve elevation, but that elevation and the turning of it. 144 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it, that's how a 145 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: sweep works in mixed martial arts or jiu jitsu. Right, 146 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,559 Speaker 1: if I want to sweep someone, I have to lift 147 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,239 Speaker 1: them off of their base. I have to block aside 148 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: and then turn them to that open space if necessary. 149 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: You would see under hooks and there were times where 150 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: he would grab out the feet so that you would 151 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: tell that Thompson couldn't post so he could complete the 152 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: hips turning over. Really good work from Balmahammed. I love 153 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: the use of the lifting, of the takedowns. I love 154 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: the use of the negative space behind him. Even got 155 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: the back for a little bit in that first round. 156 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: Couldn't do much with it, but he did get it. 157 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: There was a kimora attempt in the second. I didn't 158 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: mind the Kimora attempt because if you're Bolhomahammed, and why not. 159 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: But you knew it wasn't really gonna go anywhere. He 160 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: would have to have have been like very very long 161 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: and lanky to get that takedown or to get that 162 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: kamora from half guard. I can do it depending on 163 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: the size of my opponent. But I'm very tall, I 164 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: have long arms, so that is the thing that's possible. 165 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: He was the shorter and the and the less rangier 166 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: of the two, so that's gonna be hard to do. 167 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: Then he moved aside, which is better. It's still gonna 168 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: be hard unless you can step over the head, which 169 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: you really couldn't have done there very well. It just 170 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say he was stalling, but it wasn't 171 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: a path to anywhere. But it kept certainly wonder Boy 172 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: on the back foot metaphorically speaking, and was a nice 173 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: way to control around and then win it. And then 174 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: the third you know, he was able to turn the 175 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: corner on the takedowns enough to sort of spin wonder 176 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: Boy in a completed circle. It's just good work. It's 177 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: good wrestling. It's a good read on what kind of 178 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: takedowns had to get done. Grounded powe was good again, 179 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: not great, but good threats. Firs submission weren't really there. 180 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: But did you know, start imagining he starts mixing in those, 181 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: you know, and not just having overwhelming control, which is 182 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: pretty good a he'll have to work less and be 183 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: it will make all the other parts of his game 184 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: even that much more dangerous. Solid stuff there from balal Mohammed, 185 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 1: he should be very proud of himself, and then I'm 186 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: sure that he is. It's good work by him if 187 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: we go to the next fight. Amanda Limos. I'm told, 188 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: by the way, depending on your accent in Portuguese or 189 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: Brazilian Portuguese, it's Limos or Limosh. It doesn't necessarily have 190 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 1: to be Limosh. But I don't speak Portuguese, so I 191 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: can't tell what people tell me. Amanda Lamos taking on 192 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: Angela Hill. Now I scored this fight for Hill, but 193 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: I recognize that a scorecard for Lamos twenty nine to 194 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: twenty eight is acceptable. First round of course, where she 195 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 1: drops Angela Hill, and then in the third round maybe 196 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: as well. Second round. I don't see how it's possible 197 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: to give her that round, and then on top of it, 198 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: one of the judges had a thirty twenty seven. I mean, 199 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 1: this is a comically off the mark scorecard. But okay, 200 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: neither here nor there. Good front kick from Lamos in 201 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: the first round it drops angel Hill. But Angela Hill man, 202 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: she has great cardio, she is durable, she had good composure. 203 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: In fact, I would argue that while she lost that 204 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: round after she got dropped, she won the rest of 205 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: that round, not enough to win the whole thing, but 206 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: to show great composure, to show overall mm ability, to 207 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: show a veteran experience, and to show you know, the 208 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: kind of skills. Obviously she's put together as an offensive fighter, 209 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: so that was nice to see. She did do some 210 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: decent work countering Hill in the second, but there was 211 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 1: a lot of really gritty clinch work from Angela Hill. 212 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,839 Speaker 1: Angela Hill was forcing clinching in space and then along 213 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: the fence line. Was getting hit a little bit too, 214 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: but I thought was doing the majority of the best 215 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: work creating space, landing the knees, turning Lamos at times, 216 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: landing shots over the top of the clinch on the 217 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: clinch breaks. A lot of really good work from her there. 218 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: You know, she was the one in the second round 219 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 1: that was she was dictating what kind of fight this 220 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: was going to be. Lamos didn't necessarily take a round off, 221 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: but she definitely didn't put her stamp on that round 222 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 1: like she did in the first, and you know, arguably 223 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: somewhat the third as well. It was much less missing. 224 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: So to me, I thought Hill had really kind of 225 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: regrouped after getting dropped. She didn' get hit with the 226 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: kick again in the third, but it didn't have noally 227 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: the same effect. Hill hit a nice trip from the 228 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: back in the third. Did you guys notice that she 229 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: got behind her then kicked out the leg, But as 230 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: they were going, Lemos kept wrestling and then turned into her, 231 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: So you could see I've seen Hill doing some work 232 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: on Instagram with some various coaches that I follow in 233 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: the MMA and grappling space, and she has really come 234 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: a long way. You could see. That was just great 235 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 1: reaction wrestling from Leamo's To get taken down on your 236 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: feet like that and then the instant your body touches 237 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: the ground, you are absolutely in motion, fighting for your 238 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: life for that position. She did that not just once 239 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: but twice, but in that particular sense. So it was 240 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: good to see Hill have this attack where she could 241 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: pull from behind, kick out the leg, and then Lamos 242 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: almost sits into her lap a little bit. I think 243 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: she was trying to go for the back, but she 244 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: turned into her and so then the scramble got, you know, 245 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: restarted again. There was almost a moment where I think 246 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: in the third Angela Hill hits a double and then 247 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: again Limos kind of uses her leg to kick her through. 248 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 1: So what you can say from angel Hill is she 249 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: clearly has improved takedowns in terms of what she can 250 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: identify and what attack she could go for. But maybe 251 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: you could also argue, while Limos was surprising with her, 252 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: you know, situational wrestling a little bit more work in 253 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: ceiling the takedown once you get to the bottom, controlling it, 254 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: affirming it, making sure that it counts so that you 255 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: aren't subject to some of these looser kind of situational 256 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: wrestling positions, right. I mean, part of it is that 257 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: Lemos had just great tactical reads, and then part of 258 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: it was the position was maybe a little bit loose, 259 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: which allowed her to get away with some of the stuff. 260 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: If you're stuck to them, like white on rice, even 261 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: if they want to scramble proactively, you might be able 262 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: to cut it off before they can happen. But again, 263 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: it was good to see some of that growth. And 264 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: then in the third you know, I can see how 265 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: some might think that Lamos did slightly more damaging strikes. 266 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: I have to look at their numbers to see what 267 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: they were overall in terms of numerically where they were 268 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: on this band, there were right near each other, fifty 269 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: strikes to Amandalimos forty eight to Angela Hill that right 270 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: on top of each other, Hill landing one of seven 271 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: takedowns in that third. Yeah, I mean they're right there 272 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: with it. Amand Alimos eighteen, Angela Hill seventeen. Yeah, Yeah, 273 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, there was just no other way 274 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: to do it. The one issue that I think Angela 275 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: Hill keeps running into is her cardio is good, her 276 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: reads are good, her overall growth has been phenomenal. To see. 277 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: She doesn't have like a an ace in the hole, 278 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: like an uppercut kind of punch that not only lands 279 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 1: a lot but drops opposition, or you know, some kind 280 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: of giga kick or you know, I mean this almost 281 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: sounds like pro wrestling with a specially move, with a 282 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: special move. I don't mean it to be that, but 283 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: I just mean to say, when she makes a fair 284 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: amount of contact with her peers in this case, numerically 285 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: almost identical, and yet it just looks like Limos lands 286 00:13:58,320 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: with a little bit more authority. And of course you 287 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: could say, well, Limos just might have the greater punching 288 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: power the two. In fact, Limos identifies herself as a 289 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: striker first fine, but it just seems to be a 290 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: bit of a consistent theme in Hill's career that not 291 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: necessarily like a listen to a lot of times she's 292 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: off balance or on the move or whatever. There was 293 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: a couple there. There was a right hand she landed 294 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: on Lamos, neither the first of the second that wobbled 295 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: her a little bit and certainly knocked her off balance. 296 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like she can't crack, but it 297 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: may be some alterations to the way she's striking or 298 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: something else that can give her just a little bit 299 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: more authority on them so that she doesn't have to 300 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: do as much work. Again, easier said than done. I 301 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: am not her coach. I'm not in a position to 302 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: sort of fix these things. But it just looks to 303 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: me like if you see something over and over and 304 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: over again where someone can land and it does damage, 305 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: but maybe the opponent can kind of weather it and 306 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: match it and exceed it. In certain cases, there might 307 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: be a call to sort of say, what are some 308 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: other weapons we can have that had a little bit 309 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: more of a lights out kind of property to them. Again, 310 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: significantly easier said than done, because Hill's got a lot 311 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: of other great things. She has a game that's still building, 312 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: which means they're still some upside. She's fast, she's in shape, 313 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: she's physically I think it's pretty strong for the weight class, 314 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: and can strike well, like puts good combinations together, Like 315 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: there's a lot she does really, really well. But sting 316 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: opponents consistently is not necessarily one of them. And so 317 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: it may have cost her here just a little bit. 318 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: Although I grant that one scorecard. I mean, you know, 319 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: she had no chance of winning the fight as long 320 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: as that judge was there. Okay, So next on the line, 321 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: we go down to a fight I wanted to put 322 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: on here because I thought it was very interesting, Ricky 323 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: Simone taking on hafe El Sunsel. One of the problems 324 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: in this fight was a Sunsau just not nearly active enough. 325 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: Let me pull up his numbers here as well, But 326 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: I was like, dude, you got to do a lot 327 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: more than you're doing. And of course he's coming off 328 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: of that terrible loss to a Sonsau, to Cody Garbrand, 329 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: and then before that's Santagan, then before that Maris, So 330 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: this is his fourth loss in a row. That might 331 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: be it for him here, and I think at age 332 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: thirty eight or thirty nine, whatever he is. But Ricky Simone, 333 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: I will tell you what blew me away here. By 334 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: the way, a sun Sow's number seven of twenty five 335 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: strikes he landed in the course of a round or 336 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: round two. Excuse me, the official time was two fourteen 337 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: of the second, not hardly any offense from a Sunsour. 338 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: And you can say Simone is partly responsible for that, 339 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: for what he was doing, which is true, no doubt 340 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: about it. But that's still a way too little, way 341 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: too little. It's gonna be a hard fight to win 342 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: if you can only get off seven punches in a 343 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: round and a half or seven strikes anyway, some of 344 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: those are just lay kicks too. So what can we 345 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: say about overall the the fight between Simone and a Sunsow. 346 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: Aside from a Sunsow not doing enough, Simone has a 347 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: phenomenal jab. The job appears to be key to everything 348 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: he does, certainly in this fight. Now he does a 349 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: lot of different things. He had good takedowns, and he 350 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: mixes in and other phases of the game as an 351 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: overall development. But what I mean to say is his 352 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: jab is very interesting. He double jabbed into a level 353 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: change for a takedown. Once he double jabbed into a 354 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: to elicit a punch from a sun soot, which he 355 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: then slipped and then drove a body shot to The 356 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: jabbing and the slipping both worked together. But here's what 357 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: I will say, the boxing game of Ricky Simone really 358 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: caught my attention. In this game, I always knew he 359 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: had great cardio. Not the biggest fan of his haircut, 360 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: but you know, we'll say nice things about him here today. 361 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: I always knew he had great cardio. You knew he 362 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: had great resiliency. You knew he had great wrestling. What 363 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: else is there? If you want to climb the ranks 364 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 1: of bandsweight, you gotta have. I mean, those things are great, 365 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: but I mean I think even he would tell you 366 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: gotta have a lot more than that to climb the 367 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: ranks of vansomweight. This is the first time I really 368 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: saw some great stuff from Rickey Simone. And and I 369 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: say he didn't do it before. I'm saying I saw 370 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: just great boxing. As I mentioned the jab to close 371 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: the distance, the jab, he was blinding as sunsal with 372 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: it a few times as he was trying to set 373 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: up other punches and then you combo that with the slipping, 374 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: because by the way he would slip to the outside, 375 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 1: sometimes he would slip to the inside to change angles 376 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: with it. So he's jabbing, jabbing getting a response before 377 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: I slipped over here, and now I'm gonna slip this way, 378 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna use this side to punch to your 379 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: near side. Right. So then he catches him that way. 380 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 1: And actually the way he closed the whole thing was 381 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: I think he caught a sunshow completely off guard. He 382 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: jabs twice, then leans, then throws, and you see that 383 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: the throw is off of a slip from Simone. It 384 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: lands on a sun sow and a sunsow gets kind 385 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: of off balanced with it a little bit. No, actually, 386 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: you know what, hold on, let me check my notes here. Yes, 387 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: So he slips it right, and then as he's coming up, 388 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: Simone slips the punch, throws, it lands as you see 389 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: a sort of scrambling kind of assnsao pops up. He 390 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: gets hit on the half beat from Simone. So Simone 391 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: is now slipping throwing. Opponent moves jabbing again to off 392 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: balance him right in between his steps, right there, right 393 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: in between his steps, and then he goes to load 394 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 1: the right hook. I think he was expecting an essen 395 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: sal to be below him and kind of in motion 396 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: brings it a little bit higher across himself. Why do 397 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: I bring all this up? Because the jab is being 398 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: used to close distance, The jab is being used to 399 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 1: blind an opponent. The jab is being used to listen 400 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,719 Speaker 1: response a response, excuse me? So he could slip and 401 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: then from that slip, which, by the way, slipping punches 402 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: is hard to do. It's not like an automatic skill. 403 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,880 Speaker 1: It's actually have to have really good timing and reflexes. 404 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,479 Speaker 1: It's it's not easy. So he slips it different sides, slips, 405 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,880 Speaker 1: it creates offense, moves his opponent over, cuts off his timing, 406 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: and then doubles him up on that right side. That 407 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 1: is that's just solid work man, that's just just really 408 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: really really well. I think the jab was to the 409 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: left over the right hook behind it. But you'll put 410 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: in combinations and punches together. He hits them on the 411 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: right side. You see us and saw fall over and 412 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: that's all she wrote. Dude, that's you know that such 413 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: good boxing man he was. He was moving in v's 414 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: off of jabs sometimes single shots right, so he's coming 415 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 1: in at an angle and then leaving at a different 416 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: one and makes them totally free from any kind of 417 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: response from sunsile. Dude, that was solid. Now, how much 418 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: of that was based on the wrestling and how much 419 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: of that is based on the overall game, Like, how 420 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: would he do in a pure boxing match? I don't know, 421 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 1: but we don't have to worry about that. He's not 422 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 1: in one. But just from this, just from the jab work, 423 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: go back and watch the jab of Ricky Simone. How 424 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: much it enables him to get in arranged to do things, 425 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: how much he's able to use it, plus is slipping 426 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: to off balance and then land on his opponent and 427 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: then his own timing behind that to disrupt and then 428 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: close the show. Dude, that's good work. I'm gonna I'm 429 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: gonna use a series of different jabs for different kinds 430 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: of needs to get inside. I'm going to bait a punch, 431 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get off of it, I'm gonna land, you're 432 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 1: gonna move, I'm gonna cut you off while you move, 433 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: and then land the finishing shot as you're off balance 434 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: and scrambling. Dude. That's yeah, that's good work. That's really 435 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 1: good work from Ricky Simone amazing Cub Swanson defeating Darren Elkins. 436 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: The official time on this is TKO. They give him 437 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: a spinning wheel kicking punches. I don't even care about that, 438 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: but two twelve of the very first round, good work 439 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: from him. Cub Swanson, he had hands low. You could 440 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 1: tell right from the bell he's anticipating pressure and he's 441 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: using this kind of jagged side to side motion to 442 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: land and create openings on Elkins. He knew that Elkins 443 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: was gonna be bearing down on him, probably a lot 444 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: in straight lines, so what he had to do was 445 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: find a way to intercept that pressure and then exit 446 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 1: as needed. And that's what you saw. He was by 447 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: the way slipping and countering himself because he could see 448 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: the punches coming, so he's getting inside and bringing a 449 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: right hand over the top of it, or he's slipping 450 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 1: to the outside and stepping with his left, and costly 451 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: was catching Elkins moving in. The final one was set 452 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: up where he goes he was standing orthodox, then kind 453 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: of goes square and you see him doing these jagged 454 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: left to right steps. It is when he steps back 455 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 1: from the left he actually sees a punch from and 456 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 1: a step forward from Elkins. He then steps on that 457 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: left I should say, well, actually kind of happens. He's 458 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: kind of going side to side as Elkins pressures, he 459 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: moves left. That allows him to slip and it loads 460 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: the left foot for him to just drive a left 461 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: hand straight up the middle that catches Elkins clean. Not 462 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: quite the right distance. He was actually a little too close, 463 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 1: but still it was plenty plenty hard, and in fact, 464 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: he doesn't just slip, step and throw. He then brings 465 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: the right hook behind it, and when he brings the 466 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: right hook behind it, it lands with a ton of authority. 467 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: In fact, he threw like a left right left. The 468 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 1: final left hand didn't NOI land but that left straight 469 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 1: right hook, boy, that landed with absolutely all the authority 470 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 1: that it needed. And it's interesting. He had a perfectly 471 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: timed outside step into south Paul and then he finishes 472 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: it off in orthodox right, so understand what I'm saying. 473 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,959 Speaker 1: He was orthodox mostly. Then he kind of goes square 474 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: to do his side to side motion as he's anticipating pressure. 475 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: He gets the punch, he gets the slip, leans back 476 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 1: on his left leg, drives with a step to his 477 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 1: right as he throws the punch, so as he is 478 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: stepping throwing lands on his right. Now his right leg 479 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: is forward right. And this is why they actually the 480 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: third punch was a little bit too close because he's 481 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: not just switching stances. He's stepping forward while switching stances, 482 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 1: going side to side. I'm level, I anticipate pressure, I 483 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: lean left, I step right now, my right foot is forward. 484 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: That means I am south Paul while I land the 485 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: left hand. So I'm landing my strongest punch in my 486 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: strongest stance. Then he steps forward with his left now 487 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: he's an orthodox stance, and then uses that step from 488 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: right to left to throw that right hook behind and 489 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: crash into Elkins. And when he throws the left hand again, 490 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: it's a little bit too close. But you get the idea, 491 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: to dude, the jagged timing the left right, the stepping forward, 492 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: the changing of the stances, the slipping to create offense. 493 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: Do I really like these guys in mma who slip 494 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: to create offense? It's hard to do. But the ones 495 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: who just cover up like this with their hands in 496 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: front of their face, sometimes you need to do that. 497 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 1: Sometimes that's the only thing you can do. Again, one 498 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: thing is not necessarily wrong or something like that. But 499 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of people rely on that kind 500 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: of offense, right, rely on that defense, I should say, 501 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: lean on it way too much where they don't have 502 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: any other kind of defense. If I can slip and 503 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: you're throwing, now I've got a window where you're wide open, 504 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: and two you're still close to me. Right, I'm blinded 505 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: with my hands in front of my face, and you 506 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: might hit an exit. If I slip, I catch you 507 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: at a vulnerable moment, and even if I miss the 508 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 1: second one behind it might catch because you're still close 509 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,959 Speaker 1: to me. It's just a much mixing. Slipping in if 510 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: you can do it, I think is a better way 511 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: to catch opponents who are getting better and better about 512 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: their timing in MMA. Harder to do but reaps more rewards. 513 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: So that was really great to see from Cub Swanson 514 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: and a very tough loss for Darren Elkins. Last, but 515 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: not least, it should go not without being noticed. For 516 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: Keul Pennington defeating Macy Chiassen. This happened at obvious submission 517 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: gillotine choke almost like a ten finger front choke three 518 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: oh seven of the second round. What was interesting about 519 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: this fight was actually how it was contested at range. 520 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: What you saw from Pennington was some stand switching, which 521 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: you didn't work all that great. What she was trying 522 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: to do was blitz her way off of some of 523 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: those foot fants into range. She would kind of be 524 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: far away and then almost fred Flintstone her way into 525 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 1: those kinds of positions, trying to land her right over 526 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,159 Speaker 1: the top win. She did it again, There's more to 527 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: it than that. That's not the only thing she did. 528 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: But while she did get a takedown, she asked and 529 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: at the end of the first and Pennington was starting 530 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: to get timed on some of those blitzes and even 531 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: some of the jabs that she was throwing, you saw 532 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 1: Jason kind of slipping and throwing her own at the 533 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: same time. What ended up making the difference for Pennington 534 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: because by the way, you know at one p forty 535 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 1: five she didn't look that big. I mean, remember this 536 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: is a featherweight fight, not a bansamweight fight. But what 537 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,959 Speaker 1: ultimately got the difference for her was you see her 538 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: try to It's interesting she's having this back and forth 539 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: with Chiayson. They're close to the fence line, but they're 540 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: still on the good side, so to speak, of the 541 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: black line that's about, you know, a little bit of 542 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: space from the actual cage itself. That's the warning track, 543 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: is what we call it. What's interesting is you actually 544 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: see exchanging a little bit. But then I would argue 545 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: two things happened that worked to Raquel Pennington's benefit. One 546 00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: was the bodykick response that Sheason throw. She kind of 547 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: throws it and then brings it back slowly, and in 548 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: that time she's now behind the black lines as she 549 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: resets her feet, so she's closer to the cage, and 550 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: she does it where she's not very quick about it 551 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: and doesn't exit very quick. And then you'll see, as 552 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: a consequence a consequent excuse me, Raquel Pennington kind of 553 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: jagged step her way inside. Well that what is that 554 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: going to do? That's going to force Chason to exit? 555 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: But she kept exiting to her own right side, the 556 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: left side of Pennington. What does this mean? This means 557 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: as she's exiting, two things have gone right for Pennington. 558 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: Remember we had that kick that Chasen threw and then 559 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: she kind of brought it back slowly, and she's closer 560 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: to the fence, so one both of them are closer 561 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: to the fence. Two. By virtue of that strike she threw, 562 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: she now has a slow escape route. So she's trying 563 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,199 Speaker 1: to escape Pennington, who is in the proper stance this 564 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 1: time left hand forward in Orthodox just intersects with her. 565 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,479 Speaker 1: Remember the time Justin Gaetchee was standing in one stance 566 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: and Edson Barboza tries to circle away. So all that 567 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 1: ends up happening is that Stepe did this to DC too. 568 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 1: He just switches stances so that he can be on 569 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,439 Speaker 1: he can close the door into whatever direction Barboza was 570 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: exiting towards. She does that, but she's only able to 571 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: do that because she could cheat the steps because of 572 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: the kick that was thrown and some of the general 573 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: positioning that she took on. So by virtue of being 574 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: backed up and then having a slow exit and the 575 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: proper stance from Pennington, she closed her off from there. 576 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: And then once they got closed off, they clinched and 577 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: that's where she found the guillotine choke thereafter. But I'm 578 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: just trying to point out it was cage tactics that 579 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: got her to a place where she was able to 580 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: do better offense cut off an escaping opponent and then 581 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: ultimately use some of her you know, veterans savvying, some 582 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: of her great submission skills to get it done. But 583 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: let mean just talk about I mean, just think about 584 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: what I just brought up. Blahamahammad versus wonder Boy. Fence 585 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: played an integral role Amando Lamos versus angela Hill less 586 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: of one, but certainly one. Ricky Simone versus haf Al 587 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: Sunsau I met men all the things he did. Part 588 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: of it is he was backed up against the fence, 589 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: and he was not as nimble in some of the 590 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: ways in which he could move us on sa and 591 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 1: he got caught again. Great timing as well from Rigus 592 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: some moment, but you get the idea of the fence 593 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: played a role there as well. Cup Swans versus Darren 594 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: Elkins less so, but then Raquel Pennington versus Macy Chiefs 595 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: have played a huge role. I realized that the fence 596 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: is going to play a role no matter what, because 597 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: it is an enclosing space and people always seem to 598 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: push out right you push into your opponent, It just 599 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: naturally has a consequence of ultimately finding its way along 600 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: the fence line. Like the fact that they end up 601 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: there is not coincidental. But I just want to talk 602 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: about not that they rather, I want to reinforce the 603 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: idea not merely that they end up there by coincidence, 604 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: but that the fence plays dramatic and differing roles in 605 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: elite mma outcomes, whether it assists wrestlers, whether it assists strikers, 606 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: whether it assists him in an X kind of striking 607 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: scenario or why kind of grappling scenario, or for opponents 608 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: trying to escape along the fence line, and to what 609 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: extent stance plays a role. It features prominently in how 610 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: outcomes are decided in mixed martial arts. I think that's 611 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: the point I'm trying to get across. It's been true 612 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: for a while. It was very true on this card, 613 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: and it's probably the most true in that macy Cs 614 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,479 Speaker 1: and Raquel Pennings and fight very quickly at two honorable mentions. 615 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: If I can the Charles Jordana fight against Andre Yule, 616 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: great work from him, thirty twenty seven, excuse me, thirty 617 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: twenty six, thirty twenty seven, then twenty nine to twenty seven, 618 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,479 Speaker 1: you could make a case that maybe you will won 619 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: the first I don't think that's true, but you know 620 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: it got worse for him. I'll put this way as 621 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: it went along, and we talked about that a regular MK. 622 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: Good stuff from him, justin Tafa becoming the first person 623 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: to misweight at heavyweight in the UFC, but he just 624 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,479 Speaker 1: destroys Harry Huntsucker inside of a minute. Gerald Miershardt now 625 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: has I think most finished is he have most No, 626 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: obviously that will go to most finishes in the middleweight 627 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: division via sub nice work by him as well. Dantel 628 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: May's doing some pelvis pumping in his fight with Josh 629 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: Breeze and then Jordan Levitt getting a inverted triangle over 630 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: just a Matt Sales not really paying attention. He scoops 631 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: the legs and recovers them for position and then lets 632 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: one of them go and then kind of moves his 633 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: head into the space and then it just gets wrapped up. 634 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: I didn't know what that was all about. I mean, 635 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: I think he just wasn't thinking right. So you get 636 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: the idea, but that's it. That is, Oh, you're you 637 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: a bonus Winners five the night Lamos and Hill performance 638 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: went to Cub Swanson and then Melissa Gatto Mossa Goto 639 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: getting a win over sajar a U Banks with a 640 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: body shot in the in the third round of their contest. 641 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: So all the way, good work. What was your favorite 642 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: five of the card? What did you notice what stood 643 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 1: out to you? Thumbs up on the video, hit subscribe. 644 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: That's it for me here today. Kids. You can see 645 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: on the lower graphic there. 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