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Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, Wow. Featherweight Fury in the UFC Fight Night

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Speaker 1: Man event this Saturday today, just behind us in the books,

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Speaker 1: Max holloway, yea yea, Rodriguez so good, we had to

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Speaker 1: give you the MK instant analysis reaction handling of this. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this is Morning Combat, the premiere combat sports and lifestyle

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Speaker 1: and calmity show on the planet. Today. I am Brian Campbell,

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Speaker 1: one half of your MK duo every Monday Wednesday Friday,

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Speaker 1: eleven am Eastern on the YouTube's here talking all things

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Speaker 1: combat sports. Why you're not getting Luke Thomas right now?

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Speaker 1: I thought Luke Thomas did the MMA recap, so you're

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Speaker 1: getting your boy BC, who's got a big vacation coming up.

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Speaker 1: So we don't want to wear Luke Thomas out. So

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Speaker 1: I'm hitting you right now in reaction to what was

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Speaker 1: an absolutely incredible five round war with Max Hollow coming

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Speaker 1: away with the unanimous decision over a game as all

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Speaker 1: kinds of hell. Yeah, hear Rodriguez off a two year layoff,

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Speaker 1: and I'm here to break that down for you. So

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Speaker 1: spoiler alert, I just told you who won. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, if you're somehow lingering on YouTube looking for

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Speaker 1: videos to not tell you who won. You're in the

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Speaker 1: wrong business here. It's not how this life works. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So that's enough on the spoilers right there, But please

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Speaker 1: There's nobody else like this, Okay. So that's all I

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Speaker 1: got to say about that. All right, Let's get right

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Speaker 1: into this fight, no fooling around. Basically a title fight

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Speaker 1: without a title belt at stake. The number one fighter

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Speaker 1: in the division, Max Holloway, the number three aar Rodriguez,

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Speaker 1: both looking to get back into that upper core and

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Speaker 1: get a shot at Alexander Volkanowski's title. Max Holloway, of

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Speaker 1: course using words like Connor McGregor as well lately. We'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens with that. But this fight was advertised

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Speaker 1: as being a you know, potential for fireworks or war.

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Speaker 1: It was exactly that, and probably then some you know,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't Gage she Chandler, but it was high skill,

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Speaker 1: high pace, and these two absolute warriors had to show

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Speaker 1: I mean, just a sick, sick chin to get through

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Speaker 1: what they did. The adjustments, particularly made by the former

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Speaker 1: just another you know amazing fight, a Fight of the

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Speaker 1: Year candidate, which I feel like we're talking about every

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Speaker 1: week right now. I saw that tweet from Forest Griffin

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Speaker 1: that made the air. That's, you know, another one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite fights this week. Right It's like, what an

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Speaker 1: incredible run right now for the UFC in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: and what a fighter that Max Holloway is. Guys, that's

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Speaker 1: why he's so great, you know. I think right now

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Speaker 1: that was heavily disputed whether he watched it once or

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Speaker 1: forty nine times, either without a cover on your head

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Speaker 1: or a cap before that matter. But here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: Two years away, we had some question into bout Yiaia Rodriguez.

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Speaker 1: He came out to win like a full title champion.

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Speaker 1: Yai Rodriguez came for the knockout in this one, and

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Speaker 1: know it is that Max Holloway is just great, but

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Speaker 1: super fight. Conor McGregor, the winner of Pourrier OLIVERA, what

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Speaker 1: The official scoring is Max Holloway wins unanimous decision. I

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Speaker 1: So that's just me, your boy BC. All that, and

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Speaker 1: live our show. It's it's uh, it's really it's really

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Speaker 1: So uh, happy veteran States all you have served out

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Speaker 1: there this week, Thank you, Thank you very much, including

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Speaker 1: happy life. They say, see, I don't, I don't you

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Speaker 1: First of all, I love Luke Thomas, Okay, off camera,

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Speaker 1: great guy. Never met him. No, I haven't met him,

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Speaker 1: all right, uh that's all I got. Two words. We

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