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Speaker 1: we are UFC two sixty seven. Let me pull my

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Speaker 1: here we go. Okay, UFC two sixty seven. This took

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Speaker 1: place at the Etti Hat Arena in Abu Dhabi, the

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Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates. And let's start with your main event,

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Speaker 1: Glover to Shia. Ready for this one? How about this

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Speaker 1: defeats Jan Blohovich via rear naked choke submission at three

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Speaker 1: to two of the second round. He is your new champion.

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Speaker 1: Glover to Shara is now at forty two years of age.

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Speaker 1: I had initially wrote, but then corrected, that he was

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Speaker 1: and I really really mean this. Glover to Shia is

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Speaker 1: what it means. He exemplifies what it means to give

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Speaker 1: to the martial arts, right, this is what it means.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he's a prize fighter and that takes things in

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Speaker 1: But I don't just mean like what titles did he

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Speaker 1: That's the guy that he is, and it has paid

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Speaker 1: So how did he end up doing it? I want

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Speaker 1: Instead they were like going for something else, right when

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Speaker 1: because Glover can shred guards. He's not just a black

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Speaker 1: feeling that one for sure. But I guess the point

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make here is both guys didn't have

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Speaker 1: You have a scenario where if you've ever rolled with

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Speaker 1: fought Dominic Has knocked him out, and you thought, Ah,

433
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 1: this dude is finally put it all together. Then he

434
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,360
Speaker 1: fights Israel Atasanya, and you thought for sure he had

435
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,399
Speaker 1: put it all together because he really slowed that fight down.

436
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:11,919
Speaker 1: He took away a lot of the things that Israel

437
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Speaker 1: likes to do, and I thought, man, if Israel has

438
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,399
Speaker 1: a hard time getting through Glover might as well. But

439
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 1: Glover just barreled down and it kind of forced him

440
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,280
Speaker 1: to react to some of the punches he was throwing

441
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Speaker 1: in a little bit more of a calculated way, whereas

442
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,400
Speaker 1: rock Hold I think didn't fully respect either the power

443
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 1: or you know, just his overall ability to find openings.

444
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Speaker 1: Is what I how I would describe that. Now, there

445
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 1: is a question to be had here, and I know

446
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,919
Speaker 1: some folks are going to say this is crazy, it's not.

447
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 1: There is an argument, and I am presenting it as

448
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 1: no more than that there is an argument to be

449
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 1: made that the best light heavyweight on Earth is actually

450
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 1: in Belator. Corey Anderson has wins over Yan Bohovich and

451
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,800
Speaker 1: Glover to share a and in fact, he beat Glover

452
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Speaker 1: to share up you know, pretty readily. Granted that was

453
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Speaker 1: all the way back in September of twenty fifteen. Who

454
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Speaker 1: the hell knows what would happen today, But Corey Anderson

455
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 1: is absolutely at his best. I would love to see

456
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Speaker 1: the rematch. We won't because he's in Bellator. But I'm

457
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,680
Speaker 1: just pointing out Bellator's claim. I mean, they've got who

458
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 1: uh Jago Santo's by the way, Excuse me, what am

459
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Speaker 1: I saying? I'm reading the wrong one? Excuse me?

460
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Speaker 2: Here we go.

461
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Speaker 1: Krey Anderson beat him in twenty eighteen. He beat Yan

462
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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, the first time Kreyerson beat him in

463
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Even then, I think he's massively improved. In fact,

464
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Speaker 1: that's the last loss on Glover to share his record.

465
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Speaker 1: After that, he beat Karl Roberson, Ion Kutzi Laba, Nikita Krillov,

466
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Speaker 1: Anthony Smith, Jiago Santos.

467
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 2: And now Yon Blahovich. No rematches.

468
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Speaker 1: He's run, he's won from those losses. But he hasn't

469
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Speaker 1: really fought him again, so it's gonna be what it's

470
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Speaker 1: gonna be. But I'm just pointing out the deem Nemkov

471
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Speaker 1: will see what happens when he fights Corey Anderson. Maybe

472
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 1: he wins, maybe he doesn't. But if he does, I

473
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 1: don't think his claim to being the best is ironclad either.

474
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's just a foregone conclusion the deem

475
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Speaker 1: Nemkov is the world's best two hundred and five, but

476
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Speaker 1: I do think it is at least worth considering.

477
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 2: That the debate.

478
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Speaker 1: In almost any other division isn't a debate the UFC

479
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: has the best guys at two oh five. It's a

480
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 1: little bit harder to make that argument because of what

481
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: Cory Anderson has done and is doing, you know, just

482
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Speaker 1: more recently, just dusting Ryan Bata like it was nothing,

483
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: and then obviously with some of his history over the

484
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: both of these guys, although as we know, Jan got

485
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Speaker 1: his revenge, and then we'll see what vadem Nimkov can do.

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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, your top five are gonna

487
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: be obviously, Uh, it's gonna have Vedem in there, it's

488
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: gonna have Glover in there, and then you could put

489
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Speaker 1: a couple of the names in there. If you wanted

490
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Speaker 1: to Corey, you could put Yan, you could put maybe

491
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: onncliav Prahadjka somewhere in there, all these guys, and it's

492
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Speaker 1: just not totally it's not just it's just not ironclad.

493
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Speaker 1: I think folks thought that Belhovich was this runaway freight train,

494
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: and he clearly had a great run since losing to

495
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Speaker 1: Cory Anderson and then so everything from twenty nineteen on

496
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Speaker 1: except for tonight, has just been a phenomenal run for

497
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 1: Yan Blohovich. And I think it's fair to say, you know,

498
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 1: let me look at Jan's record here. You know, he

499
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Speaker 1: defended it against Adasanya, who was up a middleweight, and

500
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: then lost it against Glover. Does that mean he's a

501
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: transitional champion. It means he was more transitional champion than

502
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Speaker 1: you know, the next guy to be the guy at

503
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Speaker 1: two o five. But okay, he still won the weight class.

504
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: He's still defended it against the guy that you know,

505
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: I have been as high on as anyone else, you know,

506
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: maybe in the game. Ever, so his run was quite

507
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: decorated too. And I like what he said after the fight,

508
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: which is, okay, this is disappointing, But my story is

509
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: not done either. I have another chapter to go. I

510
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: fully believe him. Maybe tonight, which just wasn't his night,

511
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: Maybe tonight, which is Clover's night, wasn't the best performance

512
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: from him. Some things to definitely work on, for sure,

513
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: But it just goes to show there's I will say this,

514
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: between Bellator and UFC at two of five, there's a

515
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Speaker 1: lot of it.

516
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 2: Used to be the case that.

517
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Speaker 1: John Jones, what he ran through everyone he ran through,

518
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: he ran through. Guy was the guy he beat at

519
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: UFC one hundred, you know, I forget his name. He

520
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the next big thing but he

521
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: got beat. But then you know, he just roll runs

522
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: through every guy, Ryan Bader and Showgun, and you know,

523
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: we know the story from there. He was kind of

524
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: the guy for the time he was there, and everyone

525
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: was just kind of thereafter you remove him, and you

526
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: can see there's a lot of parody still with guys

527
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: still getting better, chapters still being written, careers taking certain.

528
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 2: Turns, good or bad.

529
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: There's still just a lot more to uncover, and there

530
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 1: isn't a single dominant figure in the way that there

531
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: has been A two A five for a long time,

532
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: and so you're.

533
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 2: Getting what you get.

534
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: But dude glover to share. He just, you know, one

535
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: of the few guys who's just a joy to cover.

536
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: He doesn't do, you know, big headlines. He doesn't say

537
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: a whole lot of nonsense. He doesn't you know he

538
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: has he ever refused used to touch gloves? Has he

539
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: ever missed weight?

540
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 2: You know? I don't.

541
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Speaker 1: I mean maybe I don't think so. I don't think

542
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 1: there's ever been a situation. And dude just shows up,

543
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: makes weight, wins the overwhelming majority of the time. Tonight

544
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: captures a weight class title, and then just goes on

545
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: about his day. Hard to say too many good things

546
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: about him, Hard to say way too many good things

547
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: about him.

548
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 2: How you on?

549
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll come back to that. And certainly if you

550
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Speaker 1: have a question, I have put up a post on

551
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: Twitter at at L Thomas News which you can answer

552
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: and then get to and then I'll look at your

553
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: questions at the end.

554
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 2: Let me type something out here real quick. Let's see here.

555
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about the next fight.

556
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 2: Let's make sure everything looks good.

557
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about the next fight down the list.

558
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: If we can't, we'll come back to this. If you

559
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: have any questions, let's talk about the bansomweight title, at

560
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: least the interim bansomweight title. Peter Yon defeats or peelter whatever,

561
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: defeats Corey Sanagan forty nine, forty six across the board,

562
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: which is exactly how I had it. I had san

563
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: Haagan winning the first and then losing probably every round thereafter.

564
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 2: Maybe you could make a case.

565
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 1: He won the second, but it certainly didn't win the third, fourth,

566
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Speaker 1: or fifth. At that point they were four gone conclusions.

567
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: Although Sanagan had a bad fourth round then a better

568
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: fifth round, even if I didn't think he won that one. Okay,

569
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Speaker 1: A couple of things. Peter Yan is just a tremendous talent,

570
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: a tremendous talent. He I love how he starts because

571
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: you can tell he's not a slow starter.

572
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: But he's not an overly aggressive starter either. This is

573
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 2: not a guy who.

574
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: Rushes into anything, just really kind of takes his time

575
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: as he's looking right really just sort of seeing what's

576
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: out there. And then once he begins to figure out

577
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: a few openings, slowly starts to implement them, and as

578
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 1: those begin to have success or failure depending on what works,

579
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: he then finds each way each round to make more.

580
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 2: Difficult for you, dude.

581
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: That is the mark of an extremely high level fighter.

582
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: One of the biggest differences between a very good fighter

583
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: and a super elite one. Although I'm not saying that

584
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 1: san Jagan is not super elite. Although I don't think

585
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: this was his best performance, which we'll talk about in

586
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:31,959
Speaker 1: just a second, because actually think some of the more

587
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: interesting story is a little bit there. But in the

588
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: case of Yon, dude, it's the adjustments between rounds. I

589
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: made this point about Mayweather before Mayweather in his prime,

590
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: and you can make some cases about you know, did

591
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: he take on the fights he was supposed to at

592
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: the time in which he took them, fine, But once

593
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: the fight started, dude, if you don't win in the

594
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: first six rounds, it's over for you, because you sure

595
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: as fuck ain't went in the last six. Whatever you

596
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: had in the first, he will just take away by

597
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: the seventh round, probably before that.

598
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 2: And it's this slow adjustment.

599
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: Where you come out with all these ideas, you come

600
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: out with all of these game plans, and he just

601
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: removes them one by one. Peter jan in his own way,

602
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: because he is a very different fighter in a very

603
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: different sport, but in his own way, he does exactly that.

604
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to find just this little thing that you did,

605
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna slowly take it away. I'm gonna start pouring

606
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: on my offense, and by the time I either stop

607
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: you or that bell rings, it's over for you. It doesn't.

608
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: There was no coming back from that point. That is

609
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: the sign of an extremely high level fighter. I would

610
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: have to go back and look at the tape to

611
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: get a better sense of how he did it, because

612
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: that's obviously a very very difficult fight to judge in

613
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: real time. Both guys are, in the case of the

614
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: early rounds, Jean being very defensive and covering up, not

615
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: sort of showing all of his cards in the case

616
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: of san Hagan trying to set the tone with a

617
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: ton of movement, a ton of volume, blah blah blah.

618
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: But what were the reasons why san Haagan lost this contest? Well, one,

619
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Speaker 1: you know, he took his fight on a month's notice

620
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: after a loss. I thought he beat Dila Shaw. Obviously

621
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,719
Speaker 1: he didn't beat Stirling, and I don't think he deserved

622
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: to get the nod here tonight. But I did think

623
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: he edged Dila Shaw, but it was a short notice

624
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: that probably wasn't the best circumstance to come into this fight.

625
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: Number one, number two. I thought the pop that Peter

626
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: Jan had was noticeably better than san Haagen's. Now that

627
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: could be for a couple of reasons. I think he

628
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 1: was also the stronger athlete of the two whenever they

629
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: had scrambles. And by the way, Peter Yan might be

630
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: the most underrated scrambler in the entire UFC. I mean,

631
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: his skill is extraordinary, his ability to stand, his ability

632
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: to come out on top, his ability to have to

633
00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: balance his balance is sick. He is a very underrated scrambler.

634
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: But you noticed he was a little bit stronger than

635
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: san Haagen. He was winning positions where they were both

636
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: kind of there at more or less the same time.

637
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: It was one of those who wants it more, and

638
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: you could kind of see him just kind of muscle

639
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: into it that last bit that san Haagen couldn't quite

640
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: keep up with. He would find himself underneath a lot.

641
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: As a consequence, there weren't a whole lot of scrambles,

642
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: but when they did, there was a sort of a

643
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: common denominator there. So I think there was a little

644
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: bit more pop, a little bit of a stronger athlete.

645
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: In the case of Yon, I think is one. I

646
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: think two. He didn't figure out the totality of sand

647
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: Hagan's game. I don't think he was trying to. I

648
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: think he was trying to find a handful of different

649
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: scenarios that san Hagen would go to that he could

650
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: take advantage of. As DC indicated, I'll pull up my notes.

651
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: I took notes on that fight, actually not the other ones,

652
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: but I'll pull it up here in just a second.

653
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: Here we go.

654
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: As as DC indicated, whenever there was that switch to southpaw,

655
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: he would get lit up the switch with a bodykick.

656
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:01,959
Speaker 2: That's a common thing.

657
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: You saw Volkovski do something similar, as we went over

658
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: in my video on my personal YouTube channel breaking down

659
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: the Volkanowski and or Takeify. You saw that a lot

660
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: from there. It's a common tactics. That was one that

661
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: was going to and it really pinked up his ribs

662
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: and the whole nine yards. So so there was this

663
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: there was this physicality there, there was this pop that

664
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: was there. The left hand couldn't miss. And the big

665
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: issue was for me was san Haagen had two problems

666
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: beyond some of these close contact scenarios.

667
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 2: One was that he.

668
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: Just couldn't get Yon off of him. He couldn't get

669
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: Yon to respect what he was throwing at him. Jan

670
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: had Jon had to respect enough to cover and roll right.

671
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: He had he had to risk. He couldn't just let

672
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: it get let him get He couldn't let himself get hit.

673
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: But he also couldn't just.

674
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: He wasn't.

675
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: It didn't look to me like he was feeling it.

676
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: It looked to me like as long as he kind

677
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: of covered and rolled with it a little bit, it

678
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: took the sting off of just about everything Cordy was throwing,

679
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: so there was nothing to make him. There were those

680
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: takedown attempts in the first round, and I think he

681
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: had a couple more later. I'll pull up the numbers

682
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: on this.

683
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 2: Here. Excuse me as I pull up my stats.

684
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: There were those takedowns in the first round, attempts to

685
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: kind of get, you know, to mix things up with Jan.

686
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: Obviously san Haagen probably not really looking for the takedown

687
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: per se of the whole take it if he gets it,

688
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: but using it a lot like Robert Whitaker, where it's

689
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: just designed to turn an opponent. It's just designed to

690
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: set up a strike. It's designed to set up some

691
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: kind of strike on an exit from a clinch break.

692
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: It's designed to do things other than just the takedown.

693
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: But I guess what I'm trying to say is it

694
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: wasn't merely that there was greater pop with ya with

695
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: Peter Yan. It was that the lack of pop from

696
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: sand Hagen forced him to be really on his bike. Now,

697
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: he was gonna be on his bike anyway, but Yon

698
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: could get closer and closer and closer, and the body

699
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: shots that he was digging early were pretty impactful from

700
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 1: san Haagan, but he kind of got away from them.

701
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: He didn't throw it nearly as many of those later.

702
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: He was a bit of a headhunter, has always been

703
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 1: a bit of a headhunter, and so so Yan was

704
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: able to comfortably kind of pressure this guy. You know,

705
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: we had to be minding his p's and q's, but

706
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: nothing was ever really making him second guess or really

707
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: hurting him or really making him go to a different option.

708
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: He just had to be patient ply his trade. But

709
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: he could stay in san Hagan's face. Okay, his defense

710
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: is exceptional. Another thing that's just great about Peter Yan.

711
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: You know, not only does he have phenomenal scrambling, dude,

712
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,439
Speaker 1: his defense is on point. Okay, that's the second part.

713
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: So it was if you're going to be the guy

714
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: that has to move, that's fine, but you do have

715
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: to have those moments where when you stick your opponent,

716
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: you really stick it to him. I didn't really see

717
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: that this time, so that was a bit of a problem.

718
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,760
Speaker 1: And I think the other problem with what san Haagan

719
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: was kind of up against is the defense he does

720
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: on offense, all of this switching and movement and side

721
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: to side stuff, and it's valuable and it has worked

722
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: for him, and at this point he's pot committed. He

723
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: definitely should not get away from that. At the same time,

724
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: what you end up seeing is he stays in the

725
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: pocket or in range way too long, and so he

726
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: gets over committed. A lot of the stuff he likes

727
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: to throw is a lot of like hooking and straight

728
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: combos off at an angle but kind of close contact.

729
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: And so what did you see Peter Yan doing. He

730
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: might double the job, he might double and then triple,

731
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: but then he would find usually a left hand over

732
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 1: the top. As Sanhagan was so close, he couldn't get away,

733
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: and Sanagan doesn't typically roll underneath hooks.

734
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 2: He leans to get out of the way.

735
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: Well, he was leaning and then just getting lit up

736
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: every single time. So Yan just knew he had to

737
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: find a way to hold on cover distance and then

738
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: he could tear this guy up with his punches, and

739
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: that is exactly what he did.

740
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: That was especially.

741
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: Evident from the left side in that fourth round. San

742
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: Hagan just has this sort of way of pulling back

743
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: where he just keeps getting clipped and he got dropped obviously.

744
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: I think it was in the third round. Let's pull

745
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 1: up the numbers here if I can. Man san Haagen's

746
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: volume is insane. Four hundred and forty nine total strikes attempted,

747
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 1: one of six takedowns. That was a pretty good takedown

748
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: he got. I think it was the fourth or fifth round. Yeah,

749
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: fourth round. He got one of three in that round,

750
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: the only one of the fight. Sanagan landed one hundred

751
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: and sixty nine of four hundred and forty five. Much

752
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: more economical by Peter Yon, just two hundred and seventy

753
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: attempted significant strikes two hundred and eighty total. It was

754
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: only ten strike difference, and then landing one hundred and

755
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: forty nine. So technically san Haagan landed more, but qualitatively.

756
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: I mean you could hear and kind of see that

757
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: Yan was doing the more damaging work. I don't know

758
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: how anyone could deny that. Let's look at the best

759
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: round for him, Peter Yond just nineteen strikes landed in

760
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: the first, thirty eight in the second, thirty six in

761
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: the third, thirty six in the fourth, twenty in the fifth.

762
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: I want to point out something about san Haagan's hit ability.

763
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: If you look at his overall numbers, this is what

764
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. This is this is what makes sand

765
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: Haagen great, and I think this is one of the

766
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: things that's been holding him.

767
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 2: Back a little bit.

768
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: Strikes landed per minute six point three to two, extremely high,

769
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: extremely high. A lot of that is just touch, touch,

770
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: you know not. It's not designed to hurt you. They

771
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 1: were talking about this in the broadcast. It's not designed

772
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: to hurt you. It could be designed to cheat the angle,

773
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: close the distance, blind you, whatever, and then something with

774
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: impact comes behind it. Still six point three two extremely

775
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: high number. Here's your problem. While he does have a

776
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: positive differential, strike's absorbed per minute is four point h five.

777
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:53,760
Speaker 2: That is high.

778
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: That is extremely high. I'm trying to find anyone in

779
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: the top five. Let's look at the top here, So

780
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: Glover to share a strike subsorb per minute three point

781
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: eighty four, Yan Blokhovich two point seven nine. Let's try

782
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: Peter Jahan. What's his strike subsorb per minute three point

783
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: five five? Still a little on the high end, but

784
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: not too bad. How about Islam Makachev point seven seven.

785
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: We'll talk about him in a second. They don't lay

786
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: a glove on that guy, right. Let's go to Dan Hooker.

787
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: Strikes absorbed per minute four point sixty six. Okay, a

788
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: little bit higher than Corey's, but he only lands four

789
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: point nine to five. And would you say Dan Hooker

790
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 1: has taken some beatings in his career?

791
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 2: I think you would.

792
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: I think that you know, you wouldn't say he has

793
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: bad defense, but that it has His defense has not.

794
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: His chin has saved him, His defense has not. How

795
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: about Alexander Volkov? Excuse me, when we pulled it up,

796
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with this real quickly. Volkov strikes absorb

797
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: per minute two point eight eight, marching Taibora. That fight

798
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: was not good three point three to one. How about

799
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 1: kam Zat Chimayah, we'll talk about him later. Point one

800
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: strikes absorbed per minute point one, Okay Li Jiang Lang

801
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: three point sixty five, maghamet On Calif Whi're talking about

802
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: a second one point seven to eight, Vulcan Uzdemir four

803
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: point two four. So those two fighters who had more

804
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: in Hooker and in Uzdemir, they all lost. In fact,

805
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 1: every fighter on the main card who had a strikes

806
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: absorb per minute higher than four Sandhagen, uh Uzdemir, and

807
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: uh who's the other one here? Somebody else here? Oh, Hooker, Hooker,

808
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: they all lost. Now not necessarily, not necessarily because of

809
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: that reason. The case of Hooker was totally different. But

810
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: you get my point, dude, that's a liability. That's a liability.

811
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard, not so much to win.

812
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 2: In the UFC.

813
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: You can still win, but it's gonna be hard to

814
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: a win at this level, especially against a guy like Yan,

815
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be hard to incredibly say your maximiz

816
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: your potential if you're accepting that kind of punishment. I

817
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: think what what Sam Haagen might say is a very

818
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: smart guy, because he is. He might say, well, one,

819
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: it probably is true that I shouldn't take as many

820
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: punches as I do. But you know a lot of

821
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: those don't land, they don't hurt me, they don't face me,

822
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. Fair enough, But he did

823
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: get dropped, maybe he got off balance, maybe they get

824
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: dropped that spinning backfist in the third or whatever it was.

825
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: I think it was the third. I've look at the

826
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: numbers here again. Let's pull this up from the Peterion fight.

827
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: When do they credit the knockdown? Yeah, the third round,

828
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: And in any case, it certainly you can't say that

829
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: it didn't play a factor in this fight. The defense,

830
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: there's a question of, like how much your offense caters

831
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: to certain scenarios that doesn't allow your defense to be

832
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: what it needs to be. Whether that's adding certain things

833
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: about rolling under hooks, or you know, getting in and

834
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: getting out, or hitting at different kinds of angles, or

835
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: tidening some things up. I leave that to his very

836
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: capable coaches who know what they are doing, certainly much

837
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: more than you or I. But the numbers speak for themselves.

838
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: You cannot let people put gloves on you like that.

839
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: In the case of Yan accepting some of those numbers

840
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: from Sanhagen, maybe you could get away with it. If

841
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: A a lot of it is blocked or b it

842
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: just doesn't really it doesn't meaningfully land, right. I mean,

843
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: he was getting physically, you could see it was turning pink.

844
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: You could see all kinds of sort of telltale signs,

845
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: you could hear them. You know, if you're getting hit

846
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:34,280
Speaker 1: like that, your volume it needs to have a corresponding

847
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: kind of effect. Maybe not all the time because you're

848
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: throwing more volume, but if your opponent is visibly marking

849
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: you up, dropping you, you need to return the favor.

850
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: And the offense that Sanhagan had was good, but it

851
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 1: couldn't get Yon off of him. He had a hard

852
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: time breaking through some of those defensive shells and positions

853
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: that Yan was applying. And then on top of it,

854
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: he was just taking too much, too much. If the

855
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: guy you're fighting has superior firepower and you're taking four

856
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: strikes a minute, it's gonna be hard to win a title.

857
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be hard to win a title. I

858
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: still think, I mean, these guys are both in their

859
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: fucking twenties, you know, I think that Peter Yan is

860
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: gonna beat al jamn Sterling. Al Ja man Sterling had

861
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: a post being like, we'll see you when him were ready,

862
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah.

863
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 2: His comments were the comments.

864
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: Beneath it were a fucking graveyard, which you can imagine.

865
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,959
Speaker 1: But I don't know who beats Peter Yong. Maybe Henry

866
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: Suhudo could come and give him a run for his money.

867
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the guy either. I think that's

868
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: the best bantam weight on earth by probably by a

869
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: considerable margin. But here's what I think about Corey Sanhagen.

870
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: I've been extremely high on him. I think that there

871
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: are probably some physicality issues that some strength and conditioning

872
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: could could address over time, not right away. I don't

873
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: think he should rush into any more bouts. I think

874
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: he needs more experience. And I mean, I'm not saying

875
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: this was the wrong call, like if they call you

876
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: with a title fight against Peter Yan. Mean, this was

877
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: as everyone was calling it. This was the most official

878
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: interim title fight maybe in UFC history, right, But I

879
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: think there's some strength and conditioning issues that have to

880
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: get that conditioning with some strength issues that have to

881
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: get addressed. I do think there are some calls they

882
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: he and his team have to make about how much

883
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 1: volume do we really need if it can't sit opponents

884
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,280
Speaker 1: back or down, how do we really cross that threshold

885
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 1: but not lose the kind of style that he's developed

886
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: about all the switching and all the input. I mean,

887
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: what is san Haagen's sort of style. It's giving you

888
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: so much input to think about you don't really know

889
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: what's coming. But for a clever guy like John who

890
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: can sit back and wait and then figure it out,

891
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: roll with punches a little bit, and then can see

892
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: you positionally over committed, and then he takes advantage of that.

893
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: His bodykick on the switch was phenomenal. He found just

894
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: a few things to go to and he went back

895
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: to them over and over and over again, and that

896
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: was how he won. He didn't win with a ton

897
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: of tricks. He won with a lot of defensive acumen,

898
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: a lot of understanding of real estate, a lot of

899
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: great timing, a lot of amazing reads, and then picked

900
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: just a few spots and took it away from him.

901
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: Peter Yon is going to be a very hard guy

902
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: to beat. And I don't think there's anyone in that

903
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: bantamweight division currently competing that I can see that's going

904
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: to have much of a chance against him. I think

905
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: San Haagan has the real possibility of getting a weight

906
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: class title. But for him, it's time to go back

907
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: to the lab, really work on his game, really work

908
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: on his defense, really work on his But I will

909
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: say this, I thought his wrestling offensive looked improved tonight

910
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: because that one takedown. I me, yeah, he missed another ones,

911
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: but don't think he's really trying all that hard. And

912
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: then I will say this, I thought his defensive wrestling

913
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 1: was very, very improved in this fight, so you can

914
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: see it's there. He just needs a little bit more time,

915
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: more time in the lab to perfect what is clearly

916
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: going to be a title threat in this division for

917
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: some time to come, but not tonight. Tonight was the

918
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: knight of Peter Yon, and he is an an exceptional,

919
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: exceptional fighter and a very worthy in this particular case,

920
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: interim but champion just the same. Here as a reminder,

921
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: if you haven't already, please subscribe to our Morning Combat

922
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: for when we do our regular shows and for all

923
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: the interviews and everything else. Please subscribe. Okay, so I'm

924
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: gonna get to your questions here in just a second.

925
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: But before I do, let's talk about the return of

926
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: Hamza Chamaiav. I mean, bro, what do you want to

927
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: say about this guy? He is, he's something else? Okay,

928
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: let's pull these numbers up. Oh you know what, I

929
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: didn't get to Islam and Dan. I'll get to them

930
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,479
Speaker 1: in just a second. Let me just go here because

931
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: I know you guys are probably itching to talk about them.

932
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 2: So what was my argument before?

933
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: I was ready to believe he could be as much

934
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 1: as the hype said he was, but we just didn't

935
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: have enough evidence.

936
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: Right.

937
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,720
Speaker 1: It's not to say it's not true. We just can't

938
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:05,760
Speaker 1: make a call. We just need a little bit more evidence.

939
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: And I made a point that, like Shapcott, Rokmanov didn't

940
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: have nearly the hype but had been way more battle

941
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: tested against the better opposition to make a broader call

942
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: about his upside. And I still think by the way

943
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 1: that guy might win a title. We'll have to see.

944
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: But as it stands right now, what was interesting about

945
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: this fight heading into it was that you're like, aha, right,

946
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: the leech Lijiang Lang was clearly the best fighter he

947
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 1: had fought to this point, battle tested himself pretty well rounded,

948
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: aggressive heavy puncher at times and seemed just quite game

949
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: for the moment, and you were like, Okay, I mean,

950
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: let's look at his career here for a second. Who

951
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: has Lee beaten Santiago Ponza, Nibbio, Elizu Zeleski, Doo Santos

952
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: who had his own issues tonight.

953
00:46:58,320 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 2: I mean, well with the referee, I guess.

954
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: And then some bunch of names that some folks been

955
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: I remember Frank Camacha who I know and used to

956
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: train with the years and years ago, zach Otto, Bobby Nash,

957
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, David Zawata. So the Ponzindibio win was

958
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: his best one, but he got it in the first round.

959
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: He looked good doing it, and you know, he had

960
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: lost to Neil magne V the decision in a five

961
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: round or in a three round fight, you know, understandable.

962
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: So we didn't think he was the best fighter on earth,

963
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 1: but we thought, okay, now this is a credible challenge

964
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: who has shown dramatic improvement and really deserves to be

965
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 1: taken quite seriously. So what does Chamayev do? Chamaiev walks

966
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: across the octagon, shoots under a punch with like and

967
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: you know his level change, like the how low he

968
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: was able to get and then how deep he was

969
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: able to hit the penetration step picks up the leech,

970
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: walks over to where Dana White, the UFC President's position

971
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,439
Speaker 1: on the cage, and then begins to shout at him

972
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: about God knows what that maniac was shouting about. What

973
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: makes Hamzat's game good. I don't know how it was

974
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: received on Twitter. I'm sure a bunch of idiots said

975
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: a bunch of stupid things we don't have to listen to.

976
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: But one of the things that kind of occurred to

977
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: me was Hamza's top game looks a little bit like

978
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: a mix between Habib and Colby. What do I mean

979
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: by that? Colby has very little ground and pound. He

980
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: doesn't do a lot of it all. He does have

981
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: a high volume on the feet.

982
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 2: Not on the ground. On the ground.

983
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: He likes to move through half positions, fake chokes that

984
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: you have to respect but are not really going to

985
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: be applied. Now, this was a real choke here, but

986
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, that's what he does.

987
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,280
Speaker 1: He kind of just smothers you the whole way. Kamzo

988
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 1: has some of the smothering style of Colby, but he's

989
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: got the urgency and the physicality and then the ground

990
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,439
Speaker 1: and pound and then the choke threats of Habib. That's

991
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's got a little bit of both

992
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: mixed in. Obviously, Habib is a dominant position grappler as well,

993
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: but not necessarily in the same way as Colby. What

994
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: was chamaia of good At?

995
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 2: Dude?

996
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: CHAMAIAV is so good at hitting a leg ride, so

997
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: he's wrapped one leg right, so he's halfway on the

998
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: back on the leg. He'll extend the leg and wrap

999
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: like a lockdown to keep them from being able to

1000
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: post on the leg. And he's very good at getting

1001
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: himself either behind the opponent or halfway behind the opponent

1002
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: to prevent the opponent from using the fence. You guys

1003
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,919
Speaker 1: ever noticed that Humsat is quite good at getting right here,

1004
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: so I can't we go free and then stand up.

1005
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: He takes that away from his opposition by getting to

1006
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: those half positions. That's actually why the choke didn't work

1007
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: at first, because what you noticed was if you have again,

1008
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be this way. But in an

1009
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: ideal world, you would want to have your chest and

1010
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: their back to have complete almost shoulder symmetry. The more

1011
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,800
Speaker 1: you have that, the easier the choke is going to be. Okay,

1012
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 1: he didn't quite have that. You would notice that rather

1013
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: than being this scenario, you would kind of see the

1014
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 1: leech a little bit off to the side, so the

1015
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: choke was probably tough, probably hurt, but not really enough

1016
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: to put him out. So that that was when you

1017
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: saw SHAMAIAHV eventually go a left arm around behind the

1018
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 1: leech onto the matt Allau kind of what Nate Diaz

1019
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: did to McGregor in their first fight, and then switched

1020
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 1: it through to the other side, and then I don't

1021
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: think he clamped it with his hand. I think it

1022
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: was just up here and the leech was hand fighting

1023
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: the whole time, and then switched it to the other side,

1024
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: and once he did and then pulled him across, he

1025
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: kind of pulled him into a more symmetrical position between

1026
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,439
Speaker 1: chest and back, and that was how he was able

1027
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: to close the show. Plus he probably has a fucking

1028
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 1: ridiculous squeeze on top of that. Okay, so how do

1029
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: we rag kamzat Chimayah. Here's what I would say if

1030
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 1: you want to believe in the upside. It's not like

1031
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: one victory at this point proves everything. But I think

1032
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: you are much more entitled to believe in the upside.

1033
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 2: Now.

1034
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: That was real evidence, dude. In four UFC fights, he

1035
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: has outstruck in total strikes his opponents two hundred and

1036
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 1: fifty four to two. He has outstruck them something like

1037
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: one hundred and something significant strikes to one. He has

1038
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: absorbed one significant strike in four UFC fights across in

1039
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 1: this particular case, two weight class, two weight divisions. Richard

1040
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: Mann is a writer, and not more than just a writer.

1041
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: He works for Fight Metric, He's a stats guy for them,

1042
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: and he wrote I think quite correctly that record is

1043
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: going to stand a long time. Think about who you

1044
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: have to be for your first four fights, and they

1045
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: can't land but one fucking glove on you under the

1046
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: significant strike definition one four trips to the octagon. I

1047
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: don't know if you'll ever see that again. I've seen

1048
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: some bad motherfuckers come through. I don't think I've ever

1049
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: seen that. I saw John Jones. I remember when John

1050
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: Jones made his debut against Andre goose Mau. You guys

1051
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: may not remember this Goose I was coming out of

1052
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: the IFL. He was widely regarded as like the guy

1053
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 1: who was gonna win. He was really he was very respected.

1054
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: John beat his ass. I remember when Connor McGregor was

1055
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: coming around and he fought Marcus Brimmage. Dude, he looked phenomenal.

1056
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: He didn't look like that. And again, who's to know

1057
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,240
Speaker 1: what kind of career that comes out will have because

1058
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: while he had the terrible bouts with COVID, it didn't

1059
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: seem to slow him down this time. But life can

1060
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: be unpredictable, is merely all I am saying. We never know,

1061
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: and it should be noted. What does it look like

1062
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: when this guy gets pressed into you know, there's going

1063
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: to be as as legitimate a challenge as the Leech was.

1064
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that wrestling at the

1065
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: top of the division is several orders of magnitude more difficult.

1066
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: But but two things I want to say about Shamaia.

1067
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: Number One, Folks, I have been around the fight game

1068
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: for about almost not quite two decades at this point.

1069
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: In terms of covering it, I'm old and I'm fucking lame.

1070
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: But here's one thing I know. One of the most

1071
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: exciting times in a fighter's career, whether it's Habib, whether

1072
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: it's Connor, whether it's John Jones, whether it's you pick

1073
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,919
Speaker 1: your favorite whoever that might be Demetrius Blah blah blah whatever,

1074
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: although his rise was different, But I mean the ones

1075
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: who immediately capture your attention at the UFC level, right,

1076
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: those guys, their rise through the contendership, their rise is

1077
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: perhaps the most fun time in their career in just

1078
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: one second, maybe, so you should get ready to have

1079
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: some fun because I don't know exactly who he's gonna beat,

1080
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: but he's gonna beat some good fighters that seems inevitable

1081
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: already has ah and that push through the contender queue

1082
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: when you're.

1083
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 2: Like, could he do it against this guy? Could he

1084
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 2: do it against that guy? Can?

1085
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: It's one of the most exciting times in a fighter's career.

1086
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: Enjoy it because we're about to get it and I

1087
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 1: can't wait. This is the first thing i'd say. The

1088
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: second thing I'd say is do we know everything about Shamaiah?

1089
00:53:59,520 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 2: No.

1090
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: We need to see what it's like if someone takes

1091
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: him down. We need to see what it's like if

1092
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: he takes a punch. We need to see what happens

1093
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: if he gets tired or blah blah blah. There's still

1094
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: a lot of questions that have to get answered in

1095
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: the course of time. But he represents the future of

1096
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: this division. He represents the future of mixed martial arts

1097
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 1: well the president in.

1098
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 2: Many cases too.

1099
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: He's coming, He is on his way, and he is

1100
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: about to tear through some folks. I really believe. And

1101
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: I think if you were a little bit on the fence,

1102
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: which I kind of was, I didn't think again, it

1103
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: wasn't a choice of is he bad or is he good?

1104
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: It's he's obviously good, but how good? Yeah, he might

1105
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 1: be quite special once rare kind of thing good. He

1106
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: is a dominant force. Now I do wonder what's gonna

1107
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: happen when some guy stuffs his takedowns and all the

1108
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: other things.

1109
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 2: You know or whatever.

1110
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so many unknowns as he tries

1111
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: to climb the ranks. Also, I think it was Aaron

1112
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: Bronson or who made his point on Twitter. Maybe with

1113
00:54:54,360 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: somebody else. There's a question of who's gonna want to

1114
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: take a fight with him? You know, who's going to

1115
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: sign up to take fights with this guy?

1116
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 2: You know?

1117
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know who's going to Who

1118
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: the hell are they going to convince to do that?

1119
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: You know, and people are like, oh, the off firms

1120
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: of Nate Diaz. I mean, maybe Nate takes that fight.

1121
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But you know, dude, strikes landed

1122
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: per minute, So this is what he's dishing out.

1123
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 2: This fucking guy.

1124
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,799
Speaker 1: Hamzat Chimayev is at nine point h three. That is

1125
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 1: almost as high as you'll ever see, and then strike's

1126
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: absorbed point one. I don't think I've ever seen a

1127
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: differential that wide. Strike's landed permanent minus strike's absorbed. I

1128
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen where the difference is basically

1129
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: nine the integer. He's from another dimension. He's from another dimension.

1130
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: If he can stay folks, he was born in nineteen

1131
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: ninety four, If he can stay focused, he's young, he's talented,

1132
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 1: he's hungry. I think you are entitled to now daydream

1133
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: about what is possible, and I think we should all

1134
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: get ready because I think what he's about to unleash

1135
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: is going to be so dynamic, so eye popping and

1136
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: so fun. Where it ends up maybe a title, maybe

1137
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: not hard to say, probably at some point, right.

1138
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 2: He's that good.

1139
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: But that run, that run to the top of the division,

1140
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: that before you actually get the belt. It's one of

1141
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: the most exciting times in a fighter's career and you

1142
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: should absolutely enjoy it all right, last, but certainly not

1143
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 1: least obviously, the Maga mat on Kalaia fight against Vulkan

1144
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: Ustamir was a big deal. I'm probably gonna save that

1145
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: for extra credit, which, if you guys don't know, is

1146
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: a secondary podcast we do here at Morning Combat that

1147
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: I get to all the fights we didn't get to

1148
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: on Big MK. He looked amazing. He's one of the

1149
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 1: next guys at two five. Amazing is a strong word.

1150
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: He looked good. He's one of the next guys at

1151
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: two o five that's probably going to contend, maybe hold

1152
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: the weight class title. The Russians are here. You know,

1153
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do about it? Volkov in Tibora,

1154
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: we can skip. Let's talk very quickly if we can,

1155
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 1: about the Makachev and Hooker fight. Hooker taking this one

1156
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: on semi pretty late notice as well, and you knew

1157
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: he was a threat in the stand up department. He's

1158
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: got great linear attacks up the middle. He's beating several

1159
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: guys with his knees. He is a dynamic force that way.

1160
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: But Makachev, I don't know how this guy's not going

1161
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: to contend for a title right away. I mean, maybe

1162
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: they'll give it to the winner of Chandler and Gai Chee. Maybe,

1163
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: But to me, Makachev is more deserving. Hooker is a

1164
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 1: legitimate opponent. And I hate to say this, but it's

1165
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: the reality. This did not look very hard for Makachev.

1166
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: I don't say that with like pleasure. I like Dan

1167
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: Hooker a lot, but you just got to call it

1168
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: what it is.

1169
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 2: Man.

1170
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: Did that look like that was super tough to you?

1171
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,479
Speaker 1: For Makachev, that didn't look like it was super tough

1172
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: to me. So how did he do it? He catches

1173
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: the kick, he goes to the double. I think he

1174
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: was level changing at the same time, but he caught it.

1175
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: He gets to half butterfly, uh, and then he was

1176
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: trying to lock up the head and the arm. If

1177
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:05,919
Speaker 1: this is the head of Hooker. He moves the arm

1178
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: over it like this and then puts his head behind

1179
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: him as he attacks the arm that's in front of him.

1180
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: Here he locks up the Komora grip like this, and

1181
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: then gets himself out of half butterfly and goes cross body.

1182
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: From there, he takes his right leg. I believe it

1183
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: was his right leg. If I got that right, then

1184
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: steps over the head. Why is stepping over the head

1185
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: so important? A lot of reasons. Two One is that

1186
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: when you step over their head, it stops how far

1187
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: they can sit up. They can't sit up their way

1188
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: out of it anymore. That's the first problem. The second

1189
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: part is that when you step over the head like that,

1190
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 1: you can now plant and then drive into the submission,

1191
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: which if Hooker didn't tap there, that shit.

1192
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 2: Was getting torn to pieces.

1193
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: I mean he had him come that is That's that's

1194
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 1: about as close as you're gonna get to checkmate in

1195
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 1: an mma grappling.

1196
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 2: That's about it right there.

1197
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,959
Speaker 1: It doesn't get I don't he His shoulder was gonna

1198
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: get trashed, his elbow was gonna get I mean, it

1199
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: was all gonna be bad. And I don't even know

1200
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: if he tapped. Maybe it was like a technical submission,

1201
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna say?

1202
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:08,919
Speaker 2: It was over?

1203
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: Folks asked how would he do against Porier or olivera Well,

1204
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: against Poorier, I think he would have some advantages on

1205
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: the ground. Obviously on the feet first of all, Poortier

1206
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: is no slouch on the ground, but I don't know

1207
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 1: if he's on par with Makachev, is what I would say.

1208
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: On the feet though obviously he could he could tear

1209
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: him up. But then Olivera is the interesting one, right

1210
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 1: because Olivera's stand up dramatically improved and on the ground, dude,

1211
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: he is a tough customer that Makachev. If Makachev ends

1212
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: up fighting Olivera, that could get very interesting, very fun.

1213
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how Makachev does there against guys

1214
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: that are terribly overmatched. Yeah, he looks awesome. Would would

1215
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: Olivera be terribly overmatched? I have a hard time believing that.

1216
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: So that would be interesting, that.

1217
00:59:58,040 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 2: Is I mean of the two.

1218
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 1: Actually think that's the much more fight then Makachev versus Poorier.

1219
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: But Poorier may end up winning, so we'll have to

1220
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: see how that goes. But that guy should be your

1221
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: next title contender. I respect Michael Chandler a lot. He

1222
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: had his chance. I respect just engage you a lot.

1223
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: He had his chance. But the reality is what the

1224
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 1: reality is. I think that guy has done more than

1225
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: anyone in that division to deserve the opportunity and beating

1226
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: Dan Hooker. He didn't just beat Dan Hooker. He just

1227
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: easily beat Dan Hooker. And again it pains me to

1228
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: say that because I think so highly of him, but

1229
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: two twenty five at the first round is the number.

1230
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it did not look especially difficult for him.

1231
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: He barely broke a sweat, So Islam Makachev deserves that respect.

1232
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, Dan Hooker will be back.

1233
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:43,919
Speaker 1: It wasn't like he took a ton of punishment or anything.

1234
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure his arm is okay. It'll be okay. You know,

1235
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: he'll be back in there in no time at all,

1236
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: and he'll get some good wins. D Dan Hooker is

1237
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: a good fighter. He's gonna beat good fighters. But tonight

1238
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: belong to Islam Makachev. I mean, look at the names

1239
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: who won man the Brazilian in the main event, a

1240
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: Russian in the comin, a Russian Makachev Volka in the

1241
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: heavyweight fight, Shmaiev who's from Chechnya but you know, part

1242
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 1: of the same part of the world anyway, and then

1243
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: on Caliov it was just a Russian and Brazilian bonanza basically.

1244
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 1: On that main card. All right, So if you've got

1245
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: a question, I'm gonna get to it now. Let me

1246
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: pull it up. Not about about bos seventy four of them.

1247
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm not going to get to all of them.

1248
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: Let's try Where does this come back from Glover? Rank

1249
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 1: all time? How many fighters lost their first shot then

1250
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: went almost ten years later?

1251
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 2: It wasn't ten.

1252
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty fourteen where he fought so

1253
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: seven but seven years between UFC title shots and then

1254
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 1: claiming at the second time. I don't know if there's

1255
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 1: any precedent for that. You can argue nemkov YERI or

1256
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 1: Jerry whatever his name is, uncliv or the best life heavyweights,

1257
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: but I think UFC has a better division.

1258
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 2: That could be true. That could be true.

1259
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: Does this title I show how good Jones was holding

1260
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: onto the belt for a long time?

1261
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, in his day. Yes.

1262
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: However, I want to stress I don't know if we're

1263
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: in that day anymore. He might still be Glover, but

1264
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: that he is the same force he was as he

1265
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: was back then, the same force now as he was

1266
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: back then. I am very skeptical of that claim, considering

1267
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: Hamzat takes no damage and likes quick turnarounds. If he

1268
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: gets a top five wins and he could jump Leon

1269
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: for a title shot, he might. I don't think that's

1270
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,439
Speaker 1: all that crazy. He might just persons ask like ten questions,

1271
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: we get somebody else.

1272
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 2: My only question was legendary Polish power.

1273
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: Versus old man's strength. That was thoroughly answered. Yeah, I

1274
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 1: suppose it was. How about a UFC Russia versus USA

1275
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: Mega card like Rocky four?

1276
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 2: You could do it.

1277
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 1: The Russians are here, folks get used to it. Should

1278
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: UFC consider having Dean Thomas shift to the commentator's table

1279
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: for more detailed commentary over the jerky style of Felder

1280
01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: and somewhat DC. I don't mind Felder and DC in

1281
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: the way that you do. I do think Dean Thomas

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Speaker 1: is quite good in that role and maybe could get

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Speaker 1: a spot. I would need to see how he does,

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Speaker 1: because sometimes he repeats himself like Dean's knowledge and the

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Speaker 1: nuggets he drops are like Primo still working out some

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Speaker 1: of the broadcast bugs if you ask me. But I

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Speaker 1: love Dean. I'm glad he's there. He's earned that spot

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Speaker 1: and he's.

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Speaker 2: Good at it.

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Speaker 1: What I learned from two sixty seven, this person writes,

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Speaker 1: is ground game outweighs stand up big time?

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Speaker 2: Nope? Who's next to face on caliav Reyes? Maybe?

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Speaker 1: Well, whoever is close in the numbers if they can

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Speaker 1: get someone to say yes to him. How do you

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Speaker 1: feel about fighters calling their training partners fights? Felders seem neutral,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know what that means. Oh, I don't

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Speaker 1: like it, but I'm UFC doesn't seem to really mind

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. They don't seem to think that

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Speaker 1: it's a big deal. It kind of is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Who poses the toughest test for Peter Young going forward?

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Speaker 1: I actually think it's Cory Sandhagen, just not right now,

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Speaker 1: in a couple of years. Right now, we'll see how

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Speaker 1: TJ does.

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Speaker 2: I guess.

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Speaker 1: What would you say is the best counter to the

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Speaker 1: smash style of MMA? Is it extremely high level BJJ

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Speaker 1: Gilbert Burns level? If someone is not that high level?

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Speaker 1: Other particular submissions, I think a good job, believe it

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Speaker 1: or not, and it's phenomenal footwork, clinch breaking could be great.

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Speaker 1: But then also, yes, you have to make them pay

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Speaker 1: as soon as you get down there. So someone like

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Speaker 1: olivera like gain, here's my I think, like I don't

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Speaker 1: know how the Oliver era Makotchev fight goes, but that

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Speaker 1: would tell us a lot. Do you think Sanagan will

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Speaker 1: need to sit down on his punch? Is more going forward?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: A little bit, a little bit. Did yon over the

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Speaker 1: top friendliness with Glover and the build up cost him

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Speaker 1: to fight?

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. These guys are too long.

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Speaker 1: Maybe could be these guys getting their head a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but I tend to think it was more just It's

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Speaker 1: not as night is Hamzat the most impressive prospect ever.

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Speaker 1: He's on the short list for the first four fights

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Speaker 1: for sure. That's the best first four fight run I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen in the UFC. Right, who has a better

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Speaker 1: first four fights? How do you think Yon's striking style

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Speaker 1: compares to that of Holloway and Volkanovsky? Very different from

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Speaker 1: both of them, Jesus Holloway is much more volume, jab heavy,

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Speaker 1: not nearly as kick heavy. Volkanovsky much more faint, movement based.

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Speaker 1: Yan can be something of a counter striker more often.

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Speaker 1: They're very different. Would Adasagnya? Would Attasahnya beat anyone in

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Speaker 1: the top five of the light heavyweight division?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 1: Remember the visa issues Glover had from twenty eight to twelve. Yes,

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Speaker 1: people were concerned he might be past his peakle he

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Speaker 1: made his debut at thirty four. Yep, now he's champ amazing.

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Speaker 1: Great point, do you Reckon Hooker will ask for a

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Speaker 1: fight on the December card if his arm wasn't injured.

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Speaker 1: CKB teammate Bradridell's on that card, so a bunch of

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Speaker 1: KB coaches would probably be there. If I was him,

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Speaker 1: I would take some time. I don't think that's what

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Speaker 1: he wants, but I think that's what's in order. Top

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Speaker 1: three Welterwakes excluding Ousman, who does Hamzat Chamaia have the

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Speaker 1: best chance against Covington, Burns, Leon Edwards. I think Chamaiah

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01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 1: would chew up Leon Edwards, Covington and Burns. Harder to say,

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Speaker 1: harder to say. Love to see all of them, right,

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Speaker 1: that's the whole point. That's when you know a guy

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Speaker 1: is starting to make it. It's like, oh, I'd love

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Speaker 1: to see all those you know. Did the fight between

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Speaker 1: Glover and Yon play out the way you expected?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: It definitely well. I knew if he got to the

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Speaker 1: ground to be better, but the ease with which he

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Speaker 1: got to the ground kind of surprised me. Do you

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Speaker 1: think Henry Suhudo has a better chance of beating Peter

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Speaker 1: Yan than Sterling?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I do.

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Speaker 1: Does Nate Diaz seem like a good fight for Chamaia

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Speaker 1: have given his impeccable chin and diverse skills in the ground. No,

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Speaker 1: I think Jamaiah would do terrible things.

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Speaker 2: To Nate Diaz.

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Speaker 1: If I was Nate Diez's team, I would stay the

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Speaker 1: fuck away from that fight. How scared to the rest

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Speaker 1: of the UFC we have the smash factory. After watching

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Speaker 1: this card, bro, if you didn't know that the resilience,

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Speaker 1: if you didn't know that the Russians were here, this.

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Speaker 2: Was a wake up call.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain the possible thought process for Yan diving

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Speaker 1: for that camorra that led to the finish seemed like

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Speaker 1: a really bad decision making by Yon giving up position.

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Speaker 1: I'd have to go back and look. I didn't, I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. Was Yon a little shy in his approached?

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Speaker 2: Maybe a little?

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Speaker 1: Maybe a little. Do you think Yan's son is cuterer

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Speaker 1: than Hosibula. I don't understand what's so funny about Hospibula.

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Speaker 1: He's some small dude who's not a baby and then

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Speaker 1: says outrageous shit and people think it's hilarious. To me,

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Speaker 1: it's like, I know that's not what he is, but

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Speaker 1: it's like you're not supposed to say this word anymore.

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Speaker 1: But it's sort of like immature, and everyone's we all

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Speaker 1: look your old fuck you yes, fuck I mean I don't.

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01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: I mean fine, I don't care, but it's just sort

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Speaker 1: of like immature, like, oh, let's laugh at uh people,

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01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,000
Speaker 1: let's laugh at midgets. It's like, that's not what he is.

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01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 1: You can't think it's some other condition. But count me

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Speaker 1: in as being like, I don't get what's so fucking awesome,

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01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: But okay, everyone loves him. You got to talk about

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Speaker 1: the Justin Gatchee tweet to d CMMA, let me see

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Speaker 1: what he said, suck it harder. Oh I guess when

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Speaker 1: DC must have asked Makachev about you know, well, why

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Speaker 1: should you leap frog those guys?

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, no, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's where you get into problems like Felder.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he should have interviewed them, you see what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Dan Hooker at won forty five seems like his best chance. No, dude,

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Speaker 1: he looked like shit at one forty five too much

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Speaker 1: of a cut. Should DC remove himself from the commentating

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Speaker 1: for his teammates fights, maybe post fight if they win?

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Speaker 1: Uh cold? Anyone stop Makachev? Happy for the lever, but

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01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,880
Speaker 1: Prohachka is going going to go to jail for what

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01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:57,600
Speaker 1: he does to him. I would probably favor Prohachka, but

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Speaker 1: tonight I don't even want to say something like that,

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01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: because tonight night belongs to a guy by the name

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01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 1: of Glover. To Shia, tonight is a night for dude.

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01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: I'm forty two and thought I was being brave because

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01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 1: I walked. I'm brave, but you know I'll walk home

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01:09:10,640 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: from my barber, who was all the way across town.

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01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 1: Took me like an hour to walk home. I'm like, Okay,

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01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: you know I'll do that because I'm forty two and

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01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 1: I need to. This motherfucker fought Yan Blohovich in a

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Speaker 1: cage at forty two and we're the same age. God

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01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,640
Speaker 1: bless him, dude, God bless Glover to Sharra, what a

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Speaker 1: fucking hero this guy is.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, if you haven't already.

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Speaker 1: One more time, one more time like the video, hit

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Speaker 1: subscribe join the Morning Combat Movement on Monday. It will

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Speaker 1: be me, Brian Campbell and you to get to all

1419
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:44,839
Speaker 1: of this and more. This is just the immediate reaction.

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Speaker 1: We thank you so much for joining us here today.

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01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: You are the best. We love you. I hope you

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01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 1: enjoyed the fights. People say you're a boomer. Yes, I'm

1423
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Speaker 1: a boomer. I don't give a shit, but I love you, guys,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you watching. What a great card, maybe one

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01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: of the best free cards in UFC history. It was

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01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:05,240
Speaker 1: that good and a wake up call about what the

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Speaker 1: future of MMA is going to look like. And it

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Speaker 1: is looking decidedly Russian and decidedly smash factory. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, we're the richer for it. So congrats to

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Speaker 1: all the winners tonight and to the losers. You will

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Speaker 1: be back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys. See him Monday. Enjoy the fights, get

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Speaker 2: some sleep.