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Speaker 1: It is the eleventh of April twenty twenty, and it

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Speaker 1: is time for episode nineteen of Morning Combat Extra Credit.

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Speaker 1: This is the podcast within the podcast. Hello everyone, my

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Speaker 1: name is Luke Thomas. I am merely the one half

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Speaker 1: of your hosting duo for normal Morning Combat. On that

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Speaker 1: show we cover MMA and boxing, so we have to

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Speaker 1: leave some of the MMA fights off to the side,

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Speaker 1: or even some of the boxing fights off to the

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Speaker 2: So this is.

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Speaker 1: Where we get to some of the stuff that didn't

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Speaker 1: make the regular big show today. This should be no

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Speaker 1: surprise to anyone who has been paying attention at all

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Speaker 1: to anything. I don't need to tell you what, of course,

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Speaker 1: is going to be the fight. Oh I should say

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Speaker 1: the card rather that we examine the most UFC two

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Speaker 1: seventy three is where it's going to be. So thumbs

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Speaker 1: it all right, So for today, five fights as usual.

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Speaker 1: Two fights we'll talk about very very quickly. For honorable mention,

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Speaker 1: let's take a look at that list today. All right,

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Speaker 1: here we go UFC two to seventy three fight card.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about Dern versus Torres, mark O Madsen or

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Speaker 1: just Mark Madson taking on Vince Pachell. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: Ian Gary versus Darien Weeks. I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: Raquel Pennington and Aspin lad and I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about Mike Malott and Mickey Gaul. Will give some honorable

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Speaker 1: mention to Anthony Hernandez and Julio Arse.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let's begin.

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Speaker 1: So Mackenzie Dern defeats Tsha Torres for fight number one

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Speaker 1: via split decision twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: When I first watched live, I thought that that was

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say clear, but I had a fairly

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Speaker 1: now I'm not as sure about it, but it didn't

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Speaker 1: seem commanding in Dern's favor either or or Torres. I

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Speaker 1: I was still pretty close to even on that round,

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Speaker 1: So I don't mind the decision at all. You could

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Speaker 1: have gone either way. When fights get this close, I

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Speaker 1: know it upsets the losing fighter tremendously, and for all

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Speaker 1: the reasons that we know. It impacts their pay and

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Speaker 1: record and leg I mean, it's just terrible for them,

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Speaker 1: even though it can come down to the tiniest, tiniest detail.

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Speaker 1: This was an interesting fight because Torres did not fight

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Speaker 1: Now she's what may have cost her was that she

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Speaker 1: she wasn't really trying to Rather, I should say what

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Speaker 1: but just there was really no engagement whatsoever. And eventually

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like Algoe in round one against John

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Speaker 1: Does the scoring is irrelevant? But what I thought was

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned getting away from that, that second grappling scenario,

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Speaker 1: But the problem with that is, of course there is

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Speaker 1: and so that opportunity being missed certainly did not help her. Again,

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Speaker 1: a setback for Torres, but she hardly fought poorly.

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Speaker 1: in her twenties. She's clearly getting better. She's clearly deserving

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Speaker 1: Two, her overall defensive takedown percentage success rate heading into

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Speaker 1: But nine percent is not ambiguous. That is a very

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Speaker 1: caught something she wasn't supposed to. That's devastating. But it's like, dude,

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Speaker 1: The second part is, I mean the Tourism the Hadriguez

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Speaker 1: The fight's real close, and yes, sometimes she loses and

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Speaker 1: sometimes she wins, but it's not a hugely dis similar

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Speaker 1: her overall striking ability has gotten significantly better. She's strong,

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Speaker 1: obviously on the ground, dude, they don't have anything for

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Speaker 1: It just feels like there's as good as she is

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Speaker 1: lose sight of what I'm saying. I just don't know

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Speaker 1: if some of these other pieces aren't brought along more forcefully.

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Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. But she's a handful pretty clearly.

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Speaker 1: Mark mattson defeating Vince Michelle. I know some folks probably

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Speaker 1: wanted me to go into Hernandez and Frimed instead. That

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Speaker 1: It was a lightweight contest. Matts and defeating Paschelle via

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Speaker 1: unanimous decision thirty twenty seven on two judges twenty nine

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Speaker 1: seemed to me that Pachelle should have gotten the second round.

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Speaker 1: Third round he got controlled, and first round was very close,

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Speaker 1: What I'm pointing out though, is if you're thirty seven

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Speaker 2: Let's put it that way, all right.

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Speaker 1: Ian Gary taking on Darien Weeks twenty nine to twenty eight,

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Speaker 1: into Raquel the most. I'll say this for aspen Lad.

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Speaker 2: How old is she?

432
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Speaker 1: She is twenty seven, so she's still quite young. She

433
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,760
Speaker 1: made weight, she's still twenty seven, and she clearly has

434
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Speaker 1: some ability. She didn't really get a chance to get

435
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Speaker 1: a ground a pound, going by virtue of what Rocky

436
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Speaker 1: Pennington was doing to stand up, and by the time

437
00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,000
Speaker 1: the third round sort of four pressure came it was decent,

438
00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 1: but not great and in any case, too little, too late.

439
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:44,879
Speaker 1: I am shocked that they thought that they had a

440
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Speaker 1: chance at winning that fight. That is extremely surprising to hear. Listen,

441
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Speaker 1: I am very conscious. I try to be. I don't

442
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 1: I can't always be. I try to be as conscious

443
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Speaker 1: as I am about some in my role, offering critical

444
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 1: feedback and evaluations of people who are as it relates

445
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,959
Speaker 1: to that practice far better than I and you know

446
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 1: this is the this is their identity. Like you don't

447
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 1: want to be I try that to be unnecessarily cruel

448
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,399
Speaker 1: about any kind of criticism, nor do I intend to

449
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,159
Speaker 1: be here, and it won't sound this way. I just

450
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,439
Speaker 1: mean to say the following. I do not know if

451
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 1: she's getting the proper amount of development up to this point,

452
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Speaker 1: given where she has been in her career. Let's pull

453
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Speaker 1: up Lad's resume here. You know, when she was burning

454
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Speaker 1: through Sijari Ubanks and what was her fifth fight, Lena Lansburg,

455
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,639
Speaker 1: Tanya Avenger, cijar Ubanks again. In her eighth fight, she

456
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,879
Speaker 1: lost to durand to Me, which was fine because Durande

457
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 1: me hit her with a big shot sixteen seconds in.

458
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Speaker 1: And then she was kind of losing the Kunaskaya fight,

459
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Speaker 1: and then lost the Dumont fight and the Penitent fight.

460
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can say she's regressed, but

461
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: I cannot comfortably say that from the time she beat

462
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Speaker 1: Tanya Avenger she has meaningfully improved performance of the night

463
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Speaker 1: bonus when she beat Evenger and granted, Rocky Pennington looked

464
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 1: awesome this fight. I mean she had the timing down

465
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Speaker 1: of aspen Ladd right away. She was getting underneath all

466
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Speaker 1: of her punches, she was getting in between them, she

467
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 1: was getting after them. She had the timing down and

468
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 1: was giving in the striking department fits to aspen ladd

469
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Speaker 1: through at least of the first two rounds. It was

470
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Speaker 1: it was incredible to watch that so Rocky Pennington. You know,

471
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 1: there was she was Superman punching into it. She was

472
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Speaker 1: going to the body then coming upstairs. I mean, just

473
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Speaker 1: a total veteran showcase of her boxing ability. This was

474
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Speaker 1: one of the better performances in terms of just straight boxing.

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Speaker 2: I see.

476
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Speaker 1: Pennington's always had a good boxing, but this was like a

477
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Speaker 1: really strong showcase of it. And then she's gritty in

478
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Speaker 1: the clinch. Granted she got pressed into the fence with

479
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Speaker 1: the third frame, but through the first two she had

480
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Speaker 1: done tremendous work Rocky Pennington. You know, for all the

481
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Speaker 1: difficulties she has faced, the loss to Nunez and the accidents,

482
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Speaker 1: and she had a terrible bout with COVID and all

483
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Speaker 1: this stuff, through all of that she has really rebounded

484
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Speaker 1: and she looks great. She looks as you know, afresh

485
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: as a daisy. I don't know, she's been in the

486
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Speaker 1: game for a while, but she's firing on all cylinders

487
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: these days. But for asmen, Ladd, I just listen. At

488
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Speaker 1: twenty seven, it would be very foolish to write her off,

489
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Speaker 1: very foolish to write her off. And I'm not going

490
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Speaker 1: to join in with the course of people attacking the corner.

491
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Speaker 1: I would just say, we saw a lot of progress

492
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Speaker 1: between her fifth and eighth fight. Between her ninth and

493
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Speaker 1: her twelfth, we have not seen even close to the

494
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Speaker 1: same amount. And yes, I grant, I grant that between

495
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Speaker 1: the ninth and the twelfth she has fought much tougher opposition.

496
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Speaker 1: At least in three of those cases, all of them

497
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: were tough. But you know what I'm saying, Durand to

498
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 1: me and Pennington title challengers Kunskaya too, although it was

499
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: a little bit somewhat rushed anyway, the point remains the same.

500
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Speaker 1: I've not seen the same amount of development, and I'm

501
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Speaker 1: not sure where all of this is presently headed. I

502
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Speaker 1: think that there's probably some.

503
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Speaker 2: Need for.

504
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Speaker 1: Consideration about, you know, at twenty seven years of age,

505
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Speaker 1: where she wants to be by thirty. Granted the Dumont

506
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 1: fight was at one forty five. She was back at

507
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Speaker 1: one thirty five. She looked better here, but.

508
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Speaker 2: Not.

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Speaker 1: I guess I'm not understanding where this is supposed to

510
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: be going relative to where it had been going, and

511
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: that seems like a problem. Mike Mallott defeating Mickey gall

512
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Speaker 1: three forty one of the first round. TKOS was a

513
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Speaker 1: welterweight bout man. Mickey Gall is in a tough spot, folks.

514
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: He had won and lost alternately since the twenty sixteen

515
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: fight against Stage north Cut. So we beat Sage north Cut,

516
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: then lost to Randy Brown. Then he beat George Sullivan

517
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: but then lost to Diego Sanchez. Then he beat Salem

518
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: to Ai but then lost to Mike Perry. Then he

519
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: beat Jordan Williams, which was nice I was in twenty

520
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: twenty one, but then he lost to Alex Morno and

521
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Speaker 1: then followed it up with a loss to Mike Mallott.

522
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: Now he has been finished before he got finished by Diego,

523
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Speaker 1: but that was in the second round. He got finished

524
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Speaker 1: here inside of four minutes. This is he's in a

525
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: tough spot. He's seven and five. Now he's not so old.

526
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: He's thirty. That's not old, but at thirty. If you're

527
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Speaker 1: at seven and five and then for the first time ever.

528
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: You're on back to back losses, and you know Alex

529
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: Morenau is very talented guy out afford to seven, maybe

530
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: on the game for a long time. And then Mike Mellott,

531
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: the guy looks like a physical beast. But these are

532
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: not guys at even close to the upper end of

533
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Speaker 1: that division. I think Moreno is pretty close. He might

534
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: be in the rankings. I don't want to disrespect him

535
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,239
Speaker 1: unless I already have more No. No, I don't think

536
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: he is there yet. So you get the idea. These

537
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: are guys that are not even ranked in the top fifteen.

538
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they're bad, it doesn't mean they won't

539
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Speaker 1: be there, It doesn't mean they're not worthy of respect.

540
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: But we're talking about you know who's ranked where he's

541
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Speaker 1: still outside of even that, and he's getting he's getting

542
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: put away. How did he get put away here? He

543
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 1: was an orthodox fighter, and he switched stands through a shift,

544
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: which the initial punch of the shift landed, so that worked.

545
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 1: That was good, And they tried to come over with

546
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: a right and it didn't come through. So he reshuffled

547
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: into distance to close the distance. While staying in that stance,

548
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: he throws a punch, but Mallett slips off the center

549
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: line and drills him over the top with it. And

550
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: then if you look closely, he already had the left chambered.

551
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: Now not chambered like this, you're delivering a straight shot,

552
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 1: but chamber for the trajectory it's going to go anyway.

553
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: So this pushes the head over and then it's just

554
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 1: a short little left hook, almost like an uppercut, kind

555
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: of like a shovel punch, and it hits him clean

556
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: as a whistle, sends him face first down. So the

557
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: shift was nice for Mickey gall that was actually pretty good.

558
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: But staying in that position and kind of inching your

559
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 1: way forward and then standing straight up, you know your

560
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: defense is going to be different. Obviously, by virtue of

561
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 1: the stand switch, you're cheating that position a little bit.

562
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: Just by walking up. You had to kind of, you know,

563
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 1: either reset or change stances or bring your hands up

564
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: or so there had to be some kind of re

565
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: evaluation of that moment rather than just inching forward in

566
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: that stance kind of reaching out in front of you.

567
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: There's just not there's just not enough defense there. There's

568
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: not enough defense there. And Mike Mallott. For him to

569
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: be able to take that kind of pressure and then

570
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: slip off the center line and then throw and then

571
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: bring the left. That was fantastic, fantastic from Mike Mallott.

572
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: What a perfectly placed shot, big athletic power. He brought

573
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: it to bear. And again I'm gonna keep saying that, dude,

574
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: these guys who can slip punches versus the ones who can't.

575
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Mickey gaul can. I think he may

576
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: have a little bit in this fight actually, But in general,

577
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: as a rule to think about you hear me say

578
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: it all the time. There's a gonna be a huge

579
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: there's already developing. It's only going to widen. The ones

580
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: who can slip versus the ones who can't. In anime

581
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 1: is gonna be a massively important dividing line. And that's

582
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: just not true as a general skill. But fight to fight.

583
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: When you can do it, can you slip under certain

584
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: considerations and not under others, All of those are gonna

585
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: be brought to bear. The ones who can slip most

586
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: of the time are gonna have exponential advantages over their competitors.

587
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: And you saw that here as well. It brings them

588
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: into position and creates vulnerability for you to attack or

589
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: it's a it's a very narrow window, but once you

590
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: open it, you can, I mean, you can just absolutely

591
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: devour people with it. So sick win by Mike Mallott.

592
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, for Mickey Gall seven and five,

593
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: he's three, he's one in three in his last four

594
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: he has losses to Perry Morno and ma Lot. The

595
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: only win was the Jordan Williams one, which is a

596
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: nice win. But I don't I don't know what uf

597
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: He's gonna do with him. This is a bit of

598
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: a cautionary tale. I'm afraid you do have to at

599
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: least respect the fact that he has made it an effort.

600
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: Mickey Gall, I think he has. You know, he went

601
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: to Joe Shilling's team. I think that was probably a

602
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: good move for him. He switched it up away to

603
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: Stanford MMA, probably another good move all things considered. But

604
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: once you're at the UFC, you have to be very

605
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: careful about your development. And this is why I always

606
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,479
Speaker 1: tell people people develop in different ways. You know, at

607
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: this point, John Jones wouldn't have needed as much, you

608
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: know that careful matchman like, yeah, careful matchmaking around the

609
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: right kind of fights. He probably would have been a

610
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: little bit more fight ready. Well that's him, that's not

611
00:28:58,360 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of other guys. This is

612
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: why rush the Ian Gary's and in different ways, the

613
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: Patty Pimblets and whoever else. Granted Patty has more experience

614
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: than Ian Gary, but certainly on the regional scene. But

615
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: even then, you really, really really want to be careful

616
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: about how you progress these guys because once it starts going,

617
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: it's hard to undo. So you got to make sure

618
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: that the escalation is happening at the right time, and

619
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: that can come, as I mentioned, not just getting to

620
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: the UFC, but getting into the top ten, getting into

621
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: the top five, becoming a title contender. They have to

622
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: make sure that all of these thresholds are crossed when

623
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: they are supposed to be crossed, otherwise development can get

624
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: badly affected. It's just hard to get better when you're

625
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: under this kind of duress about making sure everything you

626
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: need is already there. You needed time before that to

627
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: bring all of them to bear, and then you can

628
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: mix and match them as needed. That's what the very

629
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: best ones do, very quickly, very quickly. For honorable mention,

630
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: I had indicated Anthony Hernandez and Josh Framm having an

631
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: absolute war out there. What a ridiculously crazy fight. Anthony

632
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: Hernandez a amazing grappler. I was blown away. I did

633
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: not see that coming from him. And also his gas

634
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: tank was phenomenal. He was giving it to friend, then

635
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: friend gave it to him, and then he turned the

636
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: tides once more to really kind of claim that fight.

637
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: Great job from Anthony Hernandez, salute, what a performance by him.

638
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: And then Julio Arse out of I think Corona Queens,

639
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: New York, Little Columbia in many ways, defeating Daniel Santos

640
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: thirty twenty seven on two of the judges scorecards, twenty

641
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: nine to twenty eight on another one. Dude, he was

642
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: his footwork was great, his jab was great. I mean

643
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: that it just looked like he'd been really working on

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Speaker 1: that for a long time. Dude, Julio Arse screams, last

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Speaker 1: guy in the gym. Just you can just tell, you

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Speaker 1: can just tell that this dude has put in a

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Speaker 1: ton of work to make sure his movement looks crisp

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Speaker 1: and clean. It's his intentionality is clear, his defense is

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Speaker 1: already you know, yes, he's making reads, but it's already

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Speaker 1: muscle memory about where he needs to be and he

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Speaker 1: what signs do you need to see to begin to escalate,

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Speaker 1: to get more volume out, what fans are working, which

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Speaker 1: ones are not? How do I bring them back? But dude,

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Speaker 1: that was all set up from his footwork. That was

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Speaker 1: all set up from footwork. That was a fun nomenal

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Speaker 1: display of getting yourself into and out of position as

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Speaker 1: as required, absorbing pressure as he did and making sure

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Speaker 1: that you know, listen, it's the basics footwork, the jab.

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Speaker 1: But dude, you're seeing with skilled with skilled technicians like

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Speaker 1: Julio R say, you can see the value in phenomenal

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Speaker 1: footwork and a great job. And of course there's more

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Speaker 1: to it than just that, but those two building blocks alone, boy,

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Speaker 1: if you have those dialed in, those will do a

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Speaker 1: lot for you. Phenomenal job by him as well. So

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Speaker 1: congrats to all the winners and chin up to all

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Speaker 1: the losers because there's always another tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thank you guys so much for watching

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Speaker 2: the podcast. Thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and got more coming your way. Got

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Speaker 1: a big surprise coming to you, I think tomorrow. I

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Speaker 1: hope we'll see how it goes, but until next time,

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Speaker 1: appreciate y'all watching, enjoy the fights,