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Speaker 1: A lot on the Anticmploring podcast YouTube channel, dying to

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Speaker 1: get back to the United States in a lot lot

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Speaker 1: to talk to this man right now, the UFC's number

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Speaker 1: one welterweight contender, Will lal remember the name Muhammad. I

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Speaker 1: guess the rankings say you're number four in the world,

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Speaker 1: but uh, it's good to see you, brother. I mean candidly,

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Speaker 1: it's been a challenging seventy two hours or so for you,

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Speaker 1: for Team Muhammad, and I think even for people who

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Speaker 1: don't consider themselves to be your diehard fan, for a

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Speaker 1: lot of mixed Martial arts fans, they felt like you

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Speaker 1: should have been the backup. They feel like you should

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Speaker 1: be the number one contender. So we appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: man today, We really do. And I just want to

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Speaker 1: know how you're doing after what, at least on the surface,

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Speaker 1: looks like it has been a thing seventy two hours man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly has been a real challenging probably like last

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Speaker 2: four weeks, because you know, you're trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: what's going to happen, and it just didn't None of

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Speaker 2: it really made sense, none of it was really clicking

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Speaker 2: with how it all was going down, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we were we were trying to get the the backup role.

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Speaker 2: We were trying to get the Kobe fight, and it

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Speaker 2: was always oh, yeah, you and Kobe, this date, you

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Speaker 2: and Kobe for toeugh, you and Kobe made six and

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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, it was like Kobe wasn't responding.

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Speaker 2: So then we were like, all right, well let's try

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Speaker 2: So then you're looking at it like none of this

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Speaker 2: the movie Casino, where like you're you're you're you're riding

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Speaker 2: in the front seat and the monsters in the backseat.

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Speaker 3: You know you're about to get shot.

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Speaker 2: You know you're in a bad spot right now, something

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Speaker 2: bad is about to happen, and it like you're like, man,

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Speaker 2: what did I do? Like where did it come from?

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Speaker 2: But I'm just glad that people are starting noticing now.

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Speaker 2: I think people are realizing and like you said, even

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Speaker 2: if you're not a fan, you have you have to

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Speaker 3: I put in the stuff that I what I've.

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Speaker 2: Gone through, I've gone. I'm on an eight fight winning streak.

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Speaker 2: I'm literally I won twelve in my last thirteen fights.

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Speaker 2: And and it's it's not like I'm beating nobody's I'm

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Speaker 2: beating ranked guys. They have more ranked wins then the champion.

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Speaker 2: I had more ranked wins than the former champion that

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Speaker 2: And I had the fourth longest winning streaking history of

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Speaker 2: the well Trade division. And I'm not being mentioned in

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Speaker 2: the title contention. When Dana comes out, it says Kobe's

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Speaker 2: it's just like it was always the oh, we don't

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Speaker 2: everybody when his last win was Masvidal, Who's number if

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Speaker 2: we're talking about rankings, number twelve, if we're talking about wins,

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Speaker 2: He's lost two in a row, and he got knocked

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Speaker 2: if it was mad, what I'll get into to fight,

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Speaker 3: Why I would get skipped. And that's what I was.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was more nervous about any than anything.

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Speaker 2: But then that would also give me the Kobe fight,

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Speaker 2: which I always wanted anyway, and to me it makes

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Speaker 2: falling through on my end. We didn't ask for more money,

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Speaker 2: we didn't ask for a higher rank, a higher paycheck.

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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not a costa. I'm saying, let me

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Speaker 2: Let's see if Kobe and Masba's court case is canceled out,

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Speaker 2: because that's like the only other way it would make

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Speaker 3: Like Yo, you'll see doesn't want to look bad. They

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Speaker 2: To uh drop the charges on mas but all because

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Speaker 2: So it's like, what do you want if you want

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Speaker 2: And these young fighters that are coming up, It's like,

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Speaker 2: And even a fan base, I think I still have

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Speaker 2: There's not a lot of fights that I don't even

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean after my last fight, when I got the

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Speaker 3: It makes no sense for me to fight downward?

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Speaker 2: But then they gave me that fight and they forced

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Speaker 2: Let's do it in London on the same card as

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Speaker 3: Because it makes the most sense.

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Speaker 2: And if somebody does have to get pulled off the cart,

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Speaker 1: in all locations after the fact. But you hit on

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Speaker 1: and setting that all up. And again, anyone who's trying

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Speaker 1: as the number one contender, It's not a hard thing

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Speaker 1: that comes out later today. Right. Six wins for you

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Speaker 1: since the start of twenty twenty twenty twenty just two

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Speaker 1: for Kolbe Covington. You go back four years, you have

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Speaker 1: fact that most of the loudest ovations in Abu Dhabi

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Speaker 1: were reserved for you. On a massive pay per view.

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Speaker 1: You go out, knock the guy out, you win the

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Speaker 1: performance bonus and everything else I do want to read

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Speaker 1: a quote here from Booger Beard. I love the UFC,

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Speaker 1: but my opinion is that every time they allow someone

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Speaker 1: like Kobe to skip the line while more deserving fighters

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Speaker 1: which is competition. The goal should be bet to find

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Speaker 1: the best fighters, not the best talkers. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know there are a lot of frustrations with the fan base.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of them are rooted in Kolbe

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Speaker 1: Covington's inactivity. But you and kamzat Chimai have have both

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Speaker 1: come out and essentially alleged together that there have been

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Speaker 2: And then, like you said, the best talker, he's not

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Speaker 2: even a good talker. When he talks, he's he mumbles,

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Speaker 2: it's written down, it looks stupid.

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Speaker 3: He's not professional. It's not good.

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Speaker 2: And then even when he's into press conference, want because

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Speaker 3: Fans to say whatever they want. They they hate me,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that point in your career now where you're

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Speaker 3: He didn't take a lot of injuries during that fight.

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Speaker 3: Can you break that down for us a little bit?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Ushman very looked very tentative when he was

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Speaker 3: People don't know the mental hurdle.

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Speaker 1: Seems like people want to use all of that against you,

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Speaker 1: nature of some of Leon's comments about you as not

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Speaker 1: being a number one contender when your resume certainly suggests otherwise.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a joke because he was in the

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Speaker 2: same spot where I'm at. He was the guy that

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Speaker 2: was coming up, and we've seen him post quotes or

436
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Speaker 2: people post quotes where he was calling out Kobe, and

437
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Speaker 2: Kobe's like, who's this guy?

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Speaker 3: This guy's not nobody. This guy's nobody, and they're given

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Speaker 3: him the same type of treatment. And who did they

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Speaker 3: give him to build them up?

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Speaker 2: They gave him an ideas with a huge name to

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Speaker 2: try to build them up, to make it make sense

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Speaker 2: of why they would give him a title shot because

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Speaker 2: his only wins were coming off of RDA Serroni. All

445
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Speaker 2: these guys are fifty five ers. Even when they post

446
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Speaker 2: this on ESPN where they're posted notable wins for him,

447
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Speaker 2: it's RDA Donald Cerroni and ideas like, how is that

448
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Speaker 2: your notable wins if you're a welterweight champion when all

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Speaker 2: those guys are lightweights.

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Speaker 3: That's what's funny about it.

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Speaker 2: And then when people go back to that fight, nobody's

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Speaker 2: gonna read, but they're just gonna listen to the narrative.

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Speaker 2: It it was a ten nine round, it wasn't a

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Speaker 2: ten eight round, and it was four rounds left in

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Speaker 2: that fight, and like you said, it was taking the

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Speaker 2: fight on two weeks. Notice the first main event. There's

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Speaker 2: a million stuff that come with a main event, of

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Speaker 2: media cameras, all this other dumb stuff. And then before

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Speaker 2: that fight, it was fighting Diego Lima, who I took

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Speaker 2: like fifty calf kids or something stupid like that. So

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Speaker 2: I me center of the camp and working for Leon

462
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Speaker 2: was making sure that I'm able to walk and move

463
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Speaker 2: the way I want to move. And even still with that,

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Speaker 2: I still lost my coach and the lead up to

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Speaker 2: that fight as well, and they made us come down

466
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Speaker 2: to Vegas the week earlier to do the press conference

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Speaker 2: with the Easy Car, So I lost my training in

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Speaker 2: Chicago with my team. So I was in a Vegas

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Speaker 2: week early for no reason because you couldn't even go

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Speaker 2: to the press conference because my coach got COVID. So

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Speaker 2: it was just literally trying to do everything on our

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Speaker 2: own in Vegas. But you know, you could give excuses,

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Speaker 2: you can say this and that, but I don't even

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Speaker 2: need to give those excuses because there was literally one round.

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Speaker 3: It was one round, and it was on his end.

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Speaker 2: When we're seeing him now, how many files did he

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Speaker 2: get committed this tomorrow fight? A million of the arrests

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Speaker 2: who've given him warnings. Who what if they would have

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Speaker 2: changed it? What if her being would have said disqualification.

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Speaker 2: I warned you two times, then it would have been

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Speaker 2: all change. Your whole history would have been changed allbeit.

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Speaker 2: But it's on the rest discretion. He couldn't disqualify them.

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Speaker 2: He could have gave me the win, and for me,

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Speaker 2: being a man, I would have be like, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: get you the rematch because I'm a man, I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna take a win like that. When there was no

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Speaker 2: clear there was nothing done. The final ballot did at ring.

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Speaker 1: Tim Simpson's a great manager. He is Leon Edwards's manager,

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Speaker 1: and this is going to be an interesting navigation for him.

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Speaker 1: I guess Leon has said to Ariel that if he

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Speaker 1: has presented a contract for Colby Covington, he will not

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Speaker 1: sign it. And even though he does want to sort

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Speaker 1: of denigrate you to whatever degree, I do think if

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Speaker 1: he was presented with a contract to defend his title

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Speaker 1: against you, he would sign it because he will acknowledge

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Speaker 1: your body of work internally, and so will Tim, even

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Speaker 1: if they won't because honestly, below, when Leon talks about

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Speaker 1: other guys who are fighting and winning, who do you

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Speaker 1: think he's talking about, Bro, who do you think he's

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Speaker 1: talking about?

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Speaker 2: Literally exactly like who even if you can give it,

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Speaker 2: you're talking about Maxwell, You're talking about Kobe. Like, these

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Speaker 2: guys have malo win this. He's gonna have one win

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Speaker 2: in his last four fights. Kobe has one win in

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Speaker 2: his last four fights. So like, if you're Leon, if

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Speaker 2: you're you're a true champion, you want to fight the

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Speaker 2: next best guy up of coming. Like and people could

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Speaker 2: say whatever it is about money or whatever like that,

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Speaker 2: and it's like, to be a true contender, to be

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Speaker 2: a true champion, you got to fight the hardest contender.

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Speaker 3: And I'm way harder to fight than any of those

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Speaker 3: two guys. And I earned it.

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Speaker 2: I put some blood, sweat and tears in And uh,

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Speaker 2: it's not like I'm saying I deserved it.

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Speaker 3: I earned it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm or out of Like please God, please,

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Speaker 2: you know, please Dan to give me this oute of this.

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Speaker 2: This is this No, I'd be four top ten guys.

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Speaker 3: There's nobody in the visit and beat four top ten guys.

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Speaker 1: Bro, you and my twin brother are like family, and

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Speaker 1: yet it doesn't even matter. Your case is very easy

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Speaker 1: for me to lay out right, even if I didn't

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Speaker 1: like you, I would want to give you this platform today.

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Speaker 1: To what extent has this been therapeutic today? I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to suggest that this makes you even feel one

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Speaker 1: percent better, but tell me this makes you feel like

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Speaker 1: half a percentage point better that we've had this conversation.

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Speaker 2: Honestly it does, because again, it does make you feel

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Speaker 2: a little bit better. It's like you're it's like a

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Speaker 2: therapy session where I'm like letting you out. I appreciate

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Speaker 2: you honestly, to being on that postfight show, the fact

532
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Speaker 2: that you had my back end. You got guys like

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Speaker 2: Rashad Evans and Gilbrin Melendez with the most laughable responses.

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Speaker 2: It's so stupid that they're they're even trying to push it,

535
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Speaker 2: and it's funny because it really makes no sense.

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Speaker 3: And those guys are real fighters. And if you're a

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Speaker 3: real fighter, you know what type of work it takes

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Speaker 3: to put in.

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Speaker 2: You know what type of what kind of sessions we

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Speaker 2: put in, you know what kind of heart it takes

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Speaker 2: to get into the cage and.

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Speaker 3: To how hard it is to have a streak like

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Speaker 3: I have a streak.

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Speaker 2: And for them to say oh, you know, I'll give

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Speaker 2: it to an ideas or give it to Kobe Come.

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Speaker 2: I think Kobe Coming, it's like it's a joke and

547
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Speaker 2: it like makes you lose respect for those type of guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, nothing in life is guaranteed. We all know that,

549
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Speaker 1: but I do believe that if you can position yourself

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Speaker 1: to fight Kamara Usman and get sort of a soft

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Speaker 1: guarantee that if you beat the former champion all time,

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Speaker 1: great that you get a championship opportunity next right, Because

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Speaker 1: like Cheeto Vera has not been guaranteed a title fight

554
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Speaker 1: if he beats Corey Sandhagen this weekend, but he's won

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Speaker 1: four in a row. He puts everybody away. He could

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Speaker 1: have held out after knock it out Domina Cruz for

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Speaker 1: a championship opportunity and maybe it would have materialized. Has

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Speaker 1: the head to head win over Shan O'Malley, But he's

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Speaker 1: gonna go beat Corey Sanagen in his mind as an underdog,

560
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Speaker 1: by the way, not unlike you against Sean Brady, and

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Speaker 1: I know you're having to do this maybe once more.

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Speaker 1: But he understands then that he beats Corey Sanagen, then

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Speaker 1: he's gonna lay back in the cut, and I think

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Speaker 1: for you, if you beat Kamara Ousman and you can

565
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Speaker 1: get that fight, you know, maybe that'll finally be the one.

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Speaker 1: But uh, there's a lot of love for you out

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Speaker 1: there and certainly a lot of love for you here,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully you can U fucking lean into all that.

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Speaker 3: Man. Appreciate you guys, seriously, honestly, brother, love you guys.

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Speaker 1: Hey, love you too. And real quick, when I saw

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Speaker 1: you write the word uh b I t c H

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, I knew that. Uh. I knew that somebody

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Speaker 1: had really pissed you off because like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, I have my boys shout out the biggie.

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Speaker 2: He's like, bro, I would delete that tweet. He's like,

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Speaker 2: I was like just snapping on him. And then I

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Speaker 2: was like and then may yesdnn ma like shared it

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Speaker 2: and then like I'm having people to share it, and

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Speaker 2: like the second or third thought that came to my

580
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Speaker 2: head is like, man, I don't want my mom to

581
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Speaker 2: see it because I don't want like she already goes

582
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Speaker 2: to so much just to me fighting, but she's like

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Speaker 2: to see it. She knows that I'm hurting and she

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Speaker 2: doesn't want that to be you know, like I said,

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Speaker 2: just kids watching me. I don't want them to think

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Speaker 2: that that's the right way to do things.

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Speaker 1: It's now, right, Hey, have a good day. We appreciate you, Okay,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. Now Here he is Belah Muhammad with

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Speaker 1: us here live on the Anak and Florian podcast. A

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Speaker 1: few thoughts on the back end here, and I'm glad

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Speaker 1: because I wasn't going to ask him sort of about

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Speaker 1: the impact on the family. But Kenny, there have been

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Speaker 1: a lot of circumstances in your career as fighter and

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Speaker 1: as broadcaster where you have to deal with things similarly

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Speaker 1: to what he's dealing with right now. And he mentioned

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Speaker 1: his mother and the families go through this as well.

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Speaker 1: Obviously for me to a much lesser degree. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a professional athlete. But when I was demoted, right, it's

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Speaker 1: hard on my mom. It's hard on my whole family, right,

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Speaker 1: And whether it was performance based or not, right, it's

601
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Speaker 1: a really hard thing. And this is not a demotion,

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Speaker 1: but imagine how hard this is for Balau's girlfriend and

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Speaker 1: for his mom, right, And you know, to sort of

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Speaker 1: feel like maybe the promotion doesn't want you to be

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Speaker 1: the guy and they want you to fight Shavcott Rockmanov.

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Speaker 1: It's an emotional thing, and I know you can sort

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Speaker 1: of speak to it.

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Speaker 4: It's an emotional thing, and it's also something that affects

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Speaker 4: your livelihood, right, you know, that is a fight that

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Speaker 4: could absolutely change his life, and you know, we we'd

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Speaker 4: love to say and I do believe it to be true. Right,

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Speaker 4: These are the kind of this is the kind of

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Speaker 4: adversity that ultimately makes you stronger. But at the same time,

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Speaker 4: when you're talking about a business like mixed martial arts,

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Speaker 4: you get one opportunity, or maybe you don't get one

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Speaker 4: at all. Maybe not getting this opportunity leads to some

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Speaker 4: kind of crazy crap that happens, or he gets injured

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Speaker 4: God forbid, or whatever it is, and things can change quickly,

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Speaker 4: either for the positive for the negative. And in this sport,

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Speaker 4: as fighters, we have very little control. And again I

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Speaker 4: want to go back to what Bilall was saying, right

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Speaker 4: because obviously we had talked about this before, but I

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Speaker 4: think he makes a very compelling argument and gives a

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Speaker 4: backdrop to the kind of things that he experienced leading

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Speaker 4: up to that Leon Edwards fight originally, which I didn't

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Speaker 4: know about. And that stuff's real I don't think you know,

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Speaker 4: some fighters will make excuses. Those are all real things

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Speaker 4: that I think happened and can be very difficult to

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Speaker 4: overcome and deal with, especially coming off that last night.

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Speaker 4: Those are all things that you kind of forget about.

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Speaker 3: I certainly did.

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Speaker 4: So it's cool to hear Billaal give that backdrop and

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Speaker 4: make a stronger and even stronger argument for himself why

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Speaker 4: he should get that shot, and I understand why he's

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Speaker 4: so upset. I totally get that, and hopefully he gets

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Speaker 4: at least a great fight. And again, this is another

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Speaker 4: guy in blah who's pissed off, but at the same

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Speaker 4: time he's like, all right, I'll take another fight. I'll

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Speaker 4: fight at kamara Uzman. He's not afraid of anybody. Kamara

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Speaker 4: Uzman is a problem obviously, former champion. I think that

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Speaker 4: would be a fantastic fight and would be the I

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Speaker 4: don't know, the cherry on top of the icing to say, listen,

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Speaker 4: I'm here, I'm one of the best in the world.

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Speaker 3: Give me that, damn bill.

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Speaker 1: And it's not to say he wouldn't fight Shavcott Rokmanov. Right,

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Speaker 1: on a pay per view headlined by Leon Edwards Kobe

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Speaker 1: Covington and Muhammad could be the backup during that week.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he would have the appetite for that, right,

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Speaker 1: but to be able to beat Kamara Usman, right, because again,

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Speaker 1: so even though maybe historically blow Muhammad might even prefer

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Speaker 1: to have a win over kamar Usman then a win

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Speaker 1: over Leon Edwards, right. I mean, that's a huge, huge

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Speaker 1: scalp on a resume, but it doesn't come with the

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Speaker 1: belt right now in the ensuing payday, so we'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens. I do think that a Blow Muhammad Kamar

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Speaker 1: Usman fight makes a shit ton of sense, as they

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Speaker 1: say there in New England. So we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: But thanks everybody for joining us live here on the

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Speaker 1: anicanin Floor and Podcast YouTube channel. Our full episode complete

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Speaker 1: recap of UFC two to eighty six will be up

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Speaker 1: I believe it's six pm Eastern tonight live on the

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Speaker 1: DraftKings YouTube channel. We're joined by UFC Hall of Famer

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Speaker 1: for s Griffin and the coach Ray Longo as well,

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Speaker 1: and then later in the week also on the DraftKings

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, full preview and predictions for UFC Fight Night,

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Speaker 1: on ESPN. Thank y'all for joining us live, and thanks

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Speaker 1: to Blaw. Remember the name Muhammad. We'll talk to you

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