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Speaker 1: four seventeen pm East Coast time on the twenty first

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Speaker 1: of October twenty twenty three, and ladies and gentlemen, it

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Speaker 1: is time for the UFC two ninety four post Fight show.

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Speaker 1: This is our reaction show. UFC two ninety four is

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Speaker 1: the results. Welcome to the Morning Combat Channel. Of course,

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Speaker 1: ninety four. Was fucking insane, wasn't it? Like that was

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Speaker 1: completely crazy in every way, good, bad, and just weird.

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Speaker 1: What a weird, weird night in Abu Dhabi, if I

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Speaker 1: shall we. And we're there by the way, I'm getting

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Speaker 1: who says that Megan o'levy just said hamza thinks he

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Speaker 1: But one last thing, of course, there's gonna be spoilers.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about nothing but the results. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: So let's get to these results. UFC two ninety four.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what a night. What a night. This took

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Speaker 1: place at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, the United

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Speaker 1: Arab Emirates. That's a relevant data point for the Johnny

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Speaker 1: Walker fight, which we'll also come back to, which, by

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Speaker 1: the way, was also completely what's the word I'm looking for,

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Speaker 1: main event, which is crazy, but in a better and

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Speaker 1: more understandable way. Islam Makachev retains his title defeating Alexander

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Speaker 1: Volkanowski via head kick ko. There were subsequent punches at

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Speaker 1: three oh six of round number one. Yeah, folks, let's

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Speaker 1: be very clear about this. There isn't a I mean,

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Speaker 1: maybe you could say Habi, but among active fighters anywhere

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Speaker 1: beat Islam Makachev on twelve days notice. You had arguably

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Speaker 1: the pound for pound best guy or number two at worst,

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Speaker 1: get a second crack at it, a second crack at it,

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Speaker 1: albeit on you know, twelve days notice, and he got

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Speaker 1: So I don't I'm not saying that other one to

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Speaker 1: I know that Volkanovski, who of course is quite literally

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Speaker 1: we all have great respect for his abilities. If he's

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Speaker 1: Put some respect on Islam Makachev's name. Everyone who thought

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Speaker 1: that that first fight was, you know, very close. Again,

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Speaker 1: I do recognize in real time it was competitive, and

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Speaker 1: They credit Volkanovski with forty nine seconds of control time.

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Speaker 1: All of those things are true, Dude, put put some

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Speaker 1: That's what. That talk that Birdman had with the Breakfast Club,

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Speaker 1: You can cheer and dislike who you all. That's up

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Speaker 1: He beat Volkanowski. I'm gonna argue cleanly the first time,

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Speaker 1: You told me affirmatively and everyone else in the world

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Speaker 1: twelve days, Noice. It's a pipe dream. It's absurd, it's silly.

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Speaker 1: Look at how good he is. Look at how good

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Speaker 1: They did everything possible in the first fight, and I'm

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Speaker 1: But this idea that Makachev is some guy who keeps

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Speaker 1: I think he's as funny and as charismatic as Habib

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Speaker 1: quite obviously not right, mean, how many guys are and

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Speaker 1: time to recognize that you have a that's the that's

423
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,960
Speaker 1: if you can debate who's the best pound for pound fighter.

424
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: But it's not hard to make a case for Makachev,

425
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 1: and you really have to understand the evolution of his game.

426
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 1: He rode what he had at the time he needed it.

427
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: But these championship fights, these championship opportunities, these very difficult opponents,

428
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: have made him raise his game. And the dudes who

429
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,640
Speaker 1: he trains with, and obviously the skill that he possesses

430
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: and the hard work he put in results in this

431
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 1: results in this where Volkanovsky didn't have turns out in

432
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 1: the end. Volkanowski didn't have a prayer. Yeah, I mean,

433
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm saying that. I wouldn't say that

434
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 1: probably about anybody else, but it's true in this case.

435
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 1: It's true. In this case he didn't have a prayer

436
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 1: against against Islam tonight. You know, no flukiness about it,

437
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: no nothing, Right, referee didn't get into early. We don't

438
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: have to worry about any judges in this particular fight, right,

439
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 1: none of that. Like he just he just smoked him,

440
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 1: just like that Big Bank take little Bank eighty four's

441
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: and Candy pays. Now we should mention a couple of

442
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: other factors here about who they're supposed to fight ultimately next,

443
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: Well gets a little dicey, doesn't it. So Volkanovsky says

444
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 1: he wants to stay active. He got real, he got

445
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 1: real bold and had promised that, in fact, he was

446
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 1: going to fight this fight and then go fight Iliatsuporia

447
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 1: in January. Yeah. No, uhuh right, you get head kick

448
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: Kot in the first round. Let's see, it's October, November, December, January.

449
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,919
Speaker 1: Commission might let him. I don't know how that's gonna work.

450
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they're not going to let him. They're gonna

451
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: make him take a break. If you get stopped like that.

452
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,160
Speaker 1: I know he says he's fine, but you know that's

453
00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 1: a that's a traumatic shot to your brain. And so

454
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess, based on how the sport typically functions,

455
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: that what you're going to end up getting is Max

456
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: Holloway versus ilya Taporia for the interim title in January

457
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 1: instead in Canada, which would make sense given that Max

458
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: is beating everybody else but him. Who else would Taporia fight?

459
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: Max is well liked in Canada. It's a great fight.

460
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: But I would be very very surprised, not totally shocked,

461
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: but surprised if they slot Volkanovski. And when you get

462
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: killed like that, they the commissions are typically going to

463
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: ask you to take six months. Not always, but typically,

464
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: especially on a high profile visibility fight like this the

465
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: main event of a UFC pay per view, So so

466
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 1: that is probably not going to happen now in all likelihood, right,

467
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 1: I would suspect that they're going to go with Max

468
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: Holloway on the other end. And by the way, let

469
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: me also say this, the thirty five year old stat

470
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: still in play? Is it not? One more time about

471
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: the thirty five year old stat? Right, it's not a

472
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 1: hard and fact rule. We've seen it broken already, like

473
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: people will break it. But it's a really helpful demarcation line.

474
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 1: It just goes to show you your time at the

475
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: top is very, very very short. It takes forever to

476
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: get good, it takes forever to get through the opposition.

477
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: You have a very short window of a few years

478
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 1: if you're lucky and one of the very best in

479
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: the world, to really make that count. Because once you

480
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,679
Speaker 1: tune thirty five, especially when we're taking fights like this

481
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: on twelve days, notice, it's just you're not gonna have

482
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: the same zip and pop and decision making scale. The

483
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: damage is gonna add up, and now you're gonna go

484
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 1: into a fight having been previously KOed against a guy

485
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: who's got vicious ko power in Ilyia Taporia. Not only

486
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: do I think that fight's not gonna happen in January,

487
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: I will say I think it gets a lot more

488
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: intriguing for Toporia's chances. Vulk at his best is better

489
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: than any featherweight I've ever seen. I think most people

490
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 1: would say that vulc at his very best. But at

491
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: thirty five coming off of a head kit Ko, are

492
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: you still your best? Oh? Yeah, yeah, everyone can do that. Guys.

493
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: They're very talented, very courageous people. They're not superhuman. They're not.

494
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: This is not the Avengers. A lot of people treat

495
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: them like they're these larger than life figures in terms

496
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: of what their biology can handle. And they can handle

497
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: more than the average person. That's true, but they're human.

498
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,919
Speaker 1: You go on to a fight against a heavy heavy

499
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: heavy puncher and kicker in the way that Taporia is.

500
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: Didn't see all of that during the Josh AMMITTFI, but certainly,

501
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 1: I mean he looks like he cut Jai Herbert in

502
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: half with a punch in terms of how he spun

503
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: him and lifted him off of his feet up a

504
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: weight class, no less, right, so his power carries up

505
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: a weight class. You're gonna fight that guy, come on

506
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,360
Speaker 1: off a head kick Ko. That one gets a lot

507
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: more competitive to me. You can only get your chin

508
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: tapped so many times like that, and you know, Volk's

509
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: never been like fully fully put out like that, I

510
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: guess until today, And even then he was still sort

511
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: of with it. But you know, he's been dropped several times.

512
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: The accumulation of this will have an effect, So you know, again,

513
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: I said this to BC on Friday's MK, I think

514
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who were not on the

515
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: Vulk train when he was fighting Mendez, when he was

516
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: fighting Aldo, when he was fighting Max, that got onto

517
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: the train now and it's like no, no, no, no no, the

518
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: train that you should have been on started. Then. It

519
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: looks to me like, I don't know if it's coming

520
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: to a close, but the best of him is probably

521
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: over right. Probably something like that, maybe a little bit presumptuous.

522
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to declare that to be true, but

523
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: I have a feeling it might be. Certainly, I'm one

524
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: fifty five. The door now closes to him for the

525
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,400
Speaker 1: very foreseeable future, and probably forever, at least in terms

526
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: of title opportunities. He might be able to luck in

527
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: terms of timing his way in in the same way

528
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: that Kamaru kind of got one at a future date.

529
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: So you can't affirmatively declare, but if you lose twice

530
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: to the champion and you get just absolutely bludgeoned in

531
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: the second one, it's going to be very, very, very

532
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: difficult for you to skip the line yet again against

533
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: other one fifty five or so. This was a risky one, right.

534
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: We talked about the risk on this fight and everyone

535
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: being like, Oh, he's playing with house money, Get the

536
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: fuck out of here. No he's not. No, no, he's not.

537
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: Now he loses the one to fifty five days at

538
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: least in terms of getting a title shot to become champ.

539
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: Champ are almost certainly over almost certainly over right, Yeah, yeah,

540
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: because he might be able to get the fifty five

541
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: belt later, but holding both at the same time, that's

542
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: almost certainly done with right. That will affect his legacy.

543
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say this. We all like Vulk, but

544
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: these are the risks that you run. He's going in

545
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: having been put out with strikes and going in against

546
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: a heavy puncher after the age of thirty five and

547
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: heavy striker after the age of thirty five. Yeah, there's

548
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: lots of ways where this could turn out real bad

549
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: and just sort of a cascading effect. Now again, Vulk

550
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: is extremely talented historically, so so if he can go

551
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: in there and put it on too Poria, that's a

552
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: new lease on life. We shall see. But you know,

553
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: when people like a fighter, they just like to focus

554
00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: on the really positive, affirming storylines around them, which I understand.

555
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: But I'm inherently negative, and I'm inherently I'm inherently you know,

556
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: risk conscious, and I'm always like, you know, people want

557
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: to pretend there's no costs to trying. There absolutely are,

558
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: There absolutely can be. So I give him shit tons

559
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: of credit for trying this on twelve days. Notice, I mean,

560
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: he was trying what I consider to be borderline impossible.

561
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: Sure enough, it looked like it was. But but the

562
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: athletic courageousness, the belief in himself, salute, you got to

563
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: give it to him. But Makachev, there is a lack

564
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: of respect out there, Not so much for Volkanovsky as team,

565
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: but that lack of respect out there that permeates everything,

566
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: that treats him like an afterthought, that makes him be

567
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: like some lesser version of Habib or whatever. Hobib couldn't

568
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: strike like that. I never saw him strike like that.

569
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't need to, but he didn't he and

570
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: he's his own guy. I'm not saying he's better. I'm

571
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: saying he's his own guy. And right now that guy

572
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: is an absolute handful for anybody at one fifty five.

573
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: So let's talk about what might be next for Makachev.

574
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: The Charles oliverified is still there. I think you can

575
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: run that one back. I don't know. After a night

576
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: like tonight, one way or the not, many people are

577
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: gonna have watched UFC two ninety four and then thought

578
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: to themselves, oh, wow, you know, Charles is gonna have

579
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: a great shot against this version of Islam. I mean,

580
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: you might still believe in Charles because he is so good,

581
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: but it's not like Islam looked like shit tonight. He

582
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: looked awesome. He looked awesome tonight. Right. His his shot selection,

583
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: his camouflage, his location, his accuracy, all of that was

584
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: like very very good. Right. And they you heard what

585
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: Javier A. Mendez said too, like they hated that there

586
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: was this narrative out there that you know that Volkanovsky

587
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: had unfinished business with him. They always thought it was

588
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: the other way around. No, no, no, no no, we have

589
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: unfinished business with you. And in the end it looks like,

590
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: you know, Javier and the team over at Aka or whatever,

591
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: the team that Makacheff has assembled were correct. But it

592
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: could be Charles, certainly you could do that. I don't

593
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: think anyone would object that Justin gaetzchee one has picked

594
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: up some steam. But I gotta say, does anyone really

595
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: kind of I mean, listen, Justin Getche, just head k Ko,

596
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: Dustin Poorier, Like you know, he's the BMF champ. He

597
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: is worthy of respect, he is worthy of being taken seriously.

598
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: But just given the way which he kind of crumbled

599
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: against ola Vera and then also kind of fell apart

600
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: the way he did against Tabib, it just feels like

601
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: Islam would be able to follow either of those paths.

602
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't know that you slugging it out with Geechee

603
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: at length is the best idea, But like, do I

604
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: ultimately think that Islam could get him down and submit him.

605
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: I do, of course, that's you know, whether or not

606
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: you have confidence in these ideas. In no way says

607
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: you should or shouldn't make them. But I suspect I'm

608
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: not alone in that. I suspect a lot of people

609
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: would look at this and be like, yeah, you can

610
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: probably get it. So I don't know what the UFC

611
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: will do. I don't know if they're unhappy with Charles

612
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: about this fight falling through. I don't know, because this

613
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: whole night was weird. You got a one sided main event,

614
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: you got a good but kind of not so good Comaine,

615
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: you had a disaster feature fight. Some of the other

616
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: ones that opened the car were pretty good. The preliminary

617
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: car was just a complete cluster fuck. As we used

618
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,959
Speaker 1: to say, goat rope. I'm in a total goat rope?

619
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: Are they bitter at Olavera hypothetically for not fulfilling this car?

620
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: Then they had to go to a guy on twelve

621
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: days who clearly wasn't ready. I don't know. I don't

622
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do about that. I think Charles

623
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: might they might run that back. But the Gaichie one

624
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: is a fresh matchup for old excuse me for Makachev,

625
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: so they could go in that direction to It's really

626
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: hard to say the sort of dark horse one that's

627
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: much more interesting to me. Before it wasn't now it

628
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: is because I don't think there actually is a one

629
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: to fifty five or who can beat Islam. That's not

630
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: a reason to not defend the title, but I don't

631
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: personally believe that there is one. I think he is

632
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: not just better than the rest of the back, I

633
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: think he's better by a considerable distance. I didn't love

634
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: the idea before, but now I'm thinking, maybe, uh, getting

635
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: the winner of Kolby versus Leon. I gotta tell you,

636
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: I don't hate the idea. I hated it before, I

637
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: don't hate it now. Wouldn't be my first choice. Don't

638
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: know that I really want to tie things up that way,

639
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: But if they went there, I don't think that'd be

640
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: the craziest or most insane thing that they've ever done.

641
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: So man, it's back to the drawing board for Volkanovsky

642
00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: and his team. About that, there's simply no doubt, not

643
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: the worst loss, but a pretty bad scenario for a

644
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: thirty five year old fighter, even though he's still champion

645
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: at one forty five. Of course, you know best to

646
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: ever do it, probably at one forty five, but that

647
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: Ko loss setting back that one in January, probably gonna

648
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: have to unify with an interim champion, whoever that ends

649
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 1: up being either Max or Ilia. Now, if Max wins

650
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: again against Ilia and there's a fourth fight between Max

651
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 1: and Vulk, I don't even know what that would mean.

652
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: I've never even thought about that, so God only knows

653
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: if we get to a place like that. But yeah,

654
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: fantastic night for Islam Makachev. Fantastic night. Did left not

655
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: an ounce of doubt about who's who, nothing, zero zilch,

656
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,479
Speaker 1: not a lot of fat on that performance. Huh, pretty

657
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: goddamn good. All right, let's talk about your comin event.

658
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: In your co namee. Hamzat Chimaiah defeats Kumaru Usman via

659
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: majority decision. There was one twenty eight twenty eight, which

660
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:16,959
Speaker 1: is a draw, and then two twenty nine twenty sevens okay,

661
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: this was a tale of two fights. Basically, there was

662
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: the Hamsat Chamaya from round one, who in my mind

663
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: won that round ten eight. I don't think that's a

664
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: ten to nine round. I really don't think you can

665
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: do that. And then there's rounds two and three, which

666
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Hamzat really won either of those rounds. Now,

667
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: I do think he did win the third, but it's

668
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: really close, and so that's where that draw comes from.

669
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: The draw comes from ten to eight first round for

670
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 1: Hamzat and then you give the subsequent two rounds to usman.

671
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: This was way more competitive then I thought it was

672
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna be. Let's talk about the first round one way

673
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: traffic ten eight round. As I mentioned, Hamzad able to

674
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: capture the back off of a takedown, not even a

675
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: great setup. He shot from way outside, but he did

676
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: it where his timing on it was good and he

677
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 1: had he had Kamar who close to the fence line,

678
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: so he was able to use that as a sandwiching mechanism.

679
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: I was able to get the leg ride and then

680
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: eventually to the back and then eventually flatten him out

681
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: on his belly. At times there was he At times

682
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: he stood even and he got the body lock and

683
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: he tried to shake him off. But even then that

684
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: even though he slammed Chimayav from his back, there wasn't

685
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: enough to get him off. He maintained top pressure, had

686
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: good ground and pound threatening with submissions clear ten eight

687
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: for Hamzat CHIMAIV. I mean he worked Kamaru over. If

688
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: fights were one round, you'd be like, well, that guy

689
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: is going to be the champion. And then the second

690
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: round came out and it wasn't like a it wasn't

691
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: like a horrible round. It was a little on the

692
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: boring side, and Kamaru kind of got back in it

693
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's look at the numbers here for

694
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: just a second, if we can, so in the second round,

695
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: so round one, in terms of significant strikes, Kamaru landed three, three,

696
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: Hamzad landed sixteen. He got two takedowns on seven attempts.

697
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: He's credited with at least one sub attempt, and four

698
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: minutes and thirty five seconds of riding time or control time.

699
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 1: Riding time is different. Riding time comes from collegiate wrestling.

700
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: Every one minute of riding time when a match is

701
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: over accounts as a point. But okay, neither here nor there.

702
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: So then in the second round Hamzak goes from landing

703
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: sixteen significant strikes to just nine, Kamaru landing eleven, Hamzak

704
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: getting one of one takedown with forty one seconds. That

705
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: was closer to I believe the end of the frame,

706
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: but it was pretty close. And I thought that on

707
00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 1: the feet that Uspin did slightly better work. Then I

708
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 1: found three Kamaru landing twenty two to thirteen of those

709
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: strikes and having like a moment where he was pushing

710
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: Hamzad back, kind of just biting down on the mouthpiece

711
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: with mouthpiece, with jabs and hooks. Homzod is credited with

712
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: one takedown, which he had two minutes of writing time.

713
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: He gets no credit for a sub attempt, and he

714
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: didn't do much ground and pound, and that was why

715
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: I was like, you know me, we'll talk about this later.

716
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm not one of these guys who thinks that grappling

717
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: doesn't matter unless you just score shit tons of damage.

718
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 1: But even then there's like a question of like, who

719
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: really did more to the other overall in a bigger way?

720
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: And I didn't know I scored it for CHAMAIAV in

721
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: real time. But I can certainly see a case for

722
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: Kamaru not winning the fight but certainly getting a draw,

723
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: and of course one of the judges did agree. Now

724
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: here's where it gets interesting. On the one hand, the

725
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: first round was an insanely inspiring performance from Chamaiev. He

726
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: was disciplined, he was aggressive, but he wasn't going berserk

727
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: like he was in the Gilbert Burns fight where he

728
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 1: was just over committing to any fucking thing that mattered.

729
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: It was much more strategic and calculated, even if the

730
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 1: pace was urgent, right, And it wasn't like he fought

731
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: like shit in the second round. But it's just like

732
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: everything that made the first round what it was went away.

733
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: He wasn't really able to get the takedowns, at least

734
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: he didn't shoot for one very much till the last

735
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: minute of the second round. And the third round he

736
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: got it, but there wasn't heavy ground and pound, even

737
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: though he was able to pin and on the feet.

738
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: It was kind of back and forth. And maybe you

739
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: could argue with the course of two rounds and the

740
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: total striking that happened, maybe you could argue Usman did

741
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: a little bit better. He was doing well with teabs

742
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: and some calf kicks. Chamaia of doing well with some

743
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: body kicks that was getting through. He had a jab

744
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: on occasion that was nice. These were sort of the

745
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: main things that they were going to. But it wasn't

746
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: like Chimaya really put it on him. In fact, like

747
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,919
Speaker 1: the pace went from like urgent crazy to medium third

748
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: round medium except until the very end and then or

749
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: of those moments where they were kind of firing back

750
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: at each other. So I don't know if it was

751
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: a cardio issue. I don't know. Again, we go back

752
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: to it, Am I gonna leave you? Thinks Chamaiev may

753
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: have broken his hand. That could be a big explainer

754
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: as well, you know, if he's losing the power on

755
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 1: his right hand, and of course he is, you know, staying.

756
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: I believe he was right handed. Right Tremaiav is the

757
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: Orthodox or is he South boy? He is Orthodox? Yeah,

758
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: he switches stance, I know. But anyway, man, my phone

759
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 1: just won't stop, just won't stop. Good Lord, let's see here.

760
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here we go? Oh nice? Okay, great. So

761
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: I'll just say this. I know he's supposed to get

762
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: a title shot from this. I think a lot of

763
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: as thought Kumara was gonna get run over. I'll be

764
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: on it. I picked Markeatcheff to win. I did bad

765
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: on the rest of my picks. I picked Markachef to win,

766
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: and I picked Chimayav to win, and I think the

767
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,959
Speaker 1: rest of the ok. But I fucking stunk up the joint.

768
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: But BC did too, By the way, BC completely fucked

769
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: it up. So we both had shitty records, but okay,

770
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: neither here nor there, I believe personally, even though Kamarrow

771
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: I think overperformed. You know, most of us thought that

772
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: SHAMAIV was going to come out of this just running

773
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: over Kamaru get the title shot against Sean and even

774
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 1: be favored. I'm not so sure if he'd be favored

775
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: against Sean. I'm not so sure right now. And I

776
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: also have to say this too, because I was late

777
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: to the Drinkis Duples See party. What was very wrong

778
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: about that, which you all know, but the driggst duples

779
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: see thing. It's like, dude, of anybody who is even

780
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: capable of getting a title shot, Like you've got Kennonyar

781
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: kind of floating out there. I guess cost is kind

782
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 1: of floating out there, but not really. But now you've

783
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: got Shamaiev and you've got Drinckis Dupleice dud Drinkist Duples

784
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: See fought and stopped. Robert Whittaker, Man, I gotta tell

785
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: you of anybody who's kind of in the orbit for

786
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: a title shot, you wouldn't pick it off of one win.

787
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: But if you're looking at anybody who's up for a

788
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: title shot and now you're asking let me switch. Sorry

789
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: about this switch. And anybody you know, anybody who's up

790
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: potentially for a title shot, anyone in that orbit, what

791
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: is their best win? The best win that any of

792
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: them have is Driggish duple C's win over Robert Whittaker.

793
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: That's the most meaningful, that's the most impactful, that's the

794
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: most valuable, that's the most telling. Like, that's the best

795
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: win in terms of a quality opponent, former champion, like

796
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: knows the game, and you stopped that guy. I think

797
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: inside of what two rounds something like that, and you

798
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: stopped him. It should be him, It should be him.

799
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: This to me was not the kind of performance that

800
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: really told me, like, oh, was gonna be a destroyer

801
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: at one eighty five. I think he could be. He

802
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: certainly looked like one in the first round. But you know, again,

803
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: this was kamar Usman off the couch, and he's also

804
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: basically a welterweight. I gotta tell you, I don't really

805
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: know how much I like this idea of Shamaia of

806
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: getting a title shot or whether we think he's still

807
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: the bruising marauder at one eighty five. He looked like

808
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: it in the first round and then not at all

809
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: after he went from all the way yes to not

810
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: really overnight. It just with the one minute between round

811
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: one and round two, it just completely turned. And again

812
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: I want to be clear, it wasn't like he looked

813
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,959
Speaker 1: bad in rounds two or three, but he didn't look

814
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: world beater. He did not look world beater. He looked fine.

815
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: He looked fine, basically not great. And you know, interestingly,

816
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: I think this boosts kamar Usman stock a little bit

817
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: at one eighty five. I don't know that it boosts

818
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: it in like a tremendous way. I I'm not saying

819
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, we got to see Camorbal fight for

820
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: the title soon. I don't think it's quite like that.

821
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: But I do think that he did himself certainly a

822
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: favor with the company and he performed well. Like he

823
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: and Gilbert both lost to Hamza, but you could make

824
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: a case for either of them having won. Like he's

825
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: kind of the two good guys. He really fought, like

826
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: really high high level title contender, title winning guys. He fought,

827
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: you know, granted, these are good fighters, but he eked

828
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: it out. He eked it out both times. He didn't

829
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: he didn't. He's like, dude, Hamsa Chimayav is like the

830
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: best first round fighter in like UFC history. In round one,

831
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: he's fucking terrifying, terrifying. And I'm not saying he's like

832
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 1: a chump in round two or a chump in round three.

833
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: That's not. But he's but that round one guy. That's that.

834
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: That guy is the grim Reaper. Everyone that comes after

835
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: that is a little bit more manageable, you know. So

836
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: I guess the UFC is going to give him a

837
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: title shot just based on the promise and how it

838
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: all goes. I you know, I'm certain that Hamza will

839
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 1: have his way in the grappling. I don't think that's

840
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,720
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy. I think even you know, a boost

841
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: Mega made of had some success, albeit relatively brief, against

842
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: Sean Strickland, so you would imagine Hamsa's gonna be able

843
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: to do that. But dude, Shawn can go the distance

844
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: no problem. And if this is a question of like

845
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: what he's going to have to deal with striking, it's like,

846
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, I was expecting to come out of

847
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,240
Speaker 1: this being like, oh, Hamza's just gonna lawnmower the the division.

848
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: No didn't look like that, not in any kind of

849
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: sustained way. But if he broke his right hand, and

850
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: that really explains it, and that's really behind why rounds

851
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: two and round three looked the way they did, and

852
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,439
Speaker 1: that's a little bit different. That would be, that would

853
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 1: be genuinely a mitigating circumstance if that really is the explainer.

854
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: But I guess we'll have to see. When he's on

855
00:45:55,480 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: he's on right, he's cooking, he's cooking with grease. But

856
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: then there's just times where it's like, what happened to

857
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: the rest of that? You know, I'm trying to see

858
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: there's anything else in the uh in the scoring Derek

859
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: Clearly twenty nine, twenty seven, David Lethabye had the twenty eighths,

860
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: and then and then the donk who's name I cannot

861
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: remember had it the other way. Let's keep it going

862
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: here down the list, man, I don't even know what

863
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: to fucking say about this. Let me take this off right,

864
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: How about this one? How about this one? Why don't

865
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: you get u there and subscribe? Huh, get up there

866
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: and subscribe. I'm out here slavin at five in the afternoon,

867
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: all right, Maga man, On Caliev defeats Johnny Walker at

868
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: three point thirteen of round number one. No, sorry, what

869
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: am I saying wrong? Fake news? Maga man On Caliev

870
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: versus Johnny Walker ends in a no contest at three

871
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: thirteen of round number one. Man, what a fucking comment

872
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 1: of errors. There were fouls all over this card. We're

873
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: going to do a extra credit where I'm going to

874
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: talk about the whole preliminary card because that was just

875
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: a clusterfuck times a thousand. But some of that spilled

876
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: over into this one. So you had the doctor who

877
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: had a previous issue. What fight was that? That was

878
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: the fight with Javid Basherat and Victor Henry. Poor Victor

879
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: Henry getting absolutely just screwed. But okay, so on Caliev

880
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: looks like he hits Walker with a body shot, maybe

881
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: even a liver shot. I have to go back and watch,

882
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: and you see Walker go like like visibly hunch and

883
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: so here comes on Caliev and then Walker tries to

884
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: greet him with a vertical knee. It partially lands, I

885
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: don't think it landed very cleanly, and then you know,

886
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: a grappling sequence ensues. Ultimately you have Walker kind of

887
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: up against the fence on his knee, and he eats

888
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 1: a very clear, clearly illegal knee according to the unified rules.

889
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: Now what ends up happening is they bring in the

890
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: ringside physician after calling time and all the other appropriate steps.

891
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: The ref was Dave Motemuvaheti. And what ends up happening

892
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: is the doctor comes in to check on him. The

893
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,479
Speaker 1: doctor asks him a series of questions, one of which

894
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: was do you know what country you're in right now? Now?

895
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: I saw people saying, you know how many people can

896
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: name where Abu Dhabi is? Well, guys, I have to

897
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: tell you if you get on a plane to go

898
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: to Abu Dhabi and you have to get your passport

899
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: stamped and you have to go through customs and explain

900
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: why you're there to passport control. If, in fact, I

901
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: don't know if you need a visa to go to

902
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: Abu Dhabi as a Brazilian or whatever the nationality that

903
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: would get him through the door on his passport, I

904
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: don't even know. But even if you don't even need

905
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: a visa and you can just travel there, you know,

906
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: asking someone as a general rule, what country are you

907
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 1: in right now? That's not a geography quiz. Right, I'm

908
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: not asking you to name the third biggest city in

909
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 1: Tajikistan or what the capital of Mongolia is. The answers

910
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: uh U long Bitar, but uh, neither here or there.

911
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: This is not this is not you know, name for

912
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: me the three longest rivers, not including the Amazon, the

913
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:29,400
Speaker 1: me Kong, and you know, I don't know the Mississippi

914
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: or something right where this is like a final Jeopardy quiz.

915
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: Asking a fucking guy what country you're in is not

916
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: some grand imposition, okay, especially when you have to get

917
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: documentation to go through like you or you fly to

918
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 1: a fucking place and you don't even know what country

919
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: you're in, Like, you know, unless you've been hitting the

920
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: head when your need in the mixed martial arts fight,

921
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: if you can't answer that, I mean, you're just you're

922
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: just fucking You're a fucking idiot, right Like that's that's

923
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: the only explanation for why you couldn't answer that question

924
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: unless you've been need in the head, which he was.

925
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: Now there is a again in this particular case, a

926
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 1: mitigating circumstance which I saw people bring up, which was, yes,

927
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 1: Johnny Walker does speak English at what I would consider

928
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: it to be a proficient, not quite fluent level, but

929
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: he's pretty good with it. He's got he's got good English,

930
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: is what I would say. But if you're going to

931
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: have to answer questions from a medical professional, and the

932
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: answer to those questions hinges on whether or not a

933
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: fight continues. I saw people saying he should have been

934
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,479
Speaker 1: given someone who could ask him questions in Portuguese. Yes,

935
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,320
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I do think that is fair.

936
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair to be like, oh, of

937
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: course he doesn't know where Abu Dabi is, motherfucker, he's

938
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: in it. He had to take a plane to get there.

939
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: How do you not know unless you've been hitting the head.

940
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: But like just the average person, how do you not

941
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: know what fucking country you're in? That's a silly ass argument,

942
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: But that, you know, having to field all of this

943
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: after you've been hit in the head and in not

944
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: in your first language. I am very sympathetic to that,

945
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 1: very sympathetic to that. They should have gotten someone who

946
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: spoke Portuguese up there. They should be able to ask

947
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: you those questions in whatever your native language is. You know,

948
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. But either

949
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 1: Walker didn't give an answer to the questions, or he

950
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: gave the wrong answer to those questions, because then there

951
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: was other questions that were asked, some of them were

952
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: hard to hear. The referee turns to the doctor. The

953
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: doctor says he can't continue, and the ref's like, are

954
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: you sure? He says he can't continue, and then he

955
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: waves it. Now, this doctor, I don't know if he

956
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: did the right thing in this particular case or not,

957
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: because if you're asking a guy questions and there's no

958
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: translator provided and they're just giving you a glazed overlook

959
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: with no responses, I honestly don't know what a medical

960
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:55,919
Speaker 1: professional is supposed to do in this case. However, however, right,

961
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: this is the same doctor who told Victor Henry after

962
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: he got kicked in the balls so badly that A

963
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: he couldn't continue, B he was vomiting in the back,

964
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: and then three had to go get apparently the broadcast

965
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 1: described as a testicular ultrasound. You know, I don't know

966
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: if how much I trust his judgment, to be honest

967
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: with you, and I don't know who flew him in.

968
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd seen him before or not.

969
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: Certainly none of us understand medical science in the way

970
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: that he might, but he might not understand being a

971
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: ringside physician in the way that high level athletes sort

972
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: of expect and demand of it. So the fight got

973
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: called off. They just waved it, and then Walker comes

974
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: out and he's pushing the referee. The security comes in.

975
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: Dana White had to get in there and you know,

976
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: bring some order, get these guys out of the octagon.

977
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: It was a shit show. It just seemed to me. Man, listen,

978
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: you had, let's see, let's go through it here very quickly.

979
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: You had Victoria Dudakova, you had Mohammed Naimov, and you

980
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: had Mike Breeden. Three fighters in a row later admit

981
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: after their fights were over and they were talking to

982
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: the media, they all admitted that they had staph infection.

983
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 1: So you had three guys who had staff infection. You

984
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: had our three fighters, two guys, one girl. Then you

985
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: had the whole situation with Kamaru's knees. You've got whatever

986
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: the fuck this ringside physician is going on. Dude again,

987
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it on the prelim card. You know,

988
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: I could point to a million of these, but Abu

989
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: Azeitar clearly and blatantly grabbing the hair of I don't

990
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,839
Speaker 1: want to say his name wrong, sidricis Duma is how

991
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: I think they said it, so I can't remember. But

992
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: he fully grabs Duma's hair and just gets a warning

993
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: for it, you know. And there were a series of

994
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: instances of a bunch of fouls where people got warned

995
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: and a point wasn't taken. This happened over and over

996
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: and over and over again, not to say. Also to

997
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: say on the premium card in the case of sh

998
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: shera bullet Magameidov defeating Bruno Silva getting a thirty twenty seven,

999
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, oh, he did more damage than the

1000
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: third round. Yeah he didn't, though, right he didn't. I

1001
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: mean there was some standing two ground shots that Bruno

1002
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: Silva landed, so some of the judging was a little

1003
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: bit weird. The folks in charge of the commission tonight,

1004
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: and listen, there's good folks there, referee Jason Herzog certainly

1005
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: being one of them. But they got overwhelmed tonight. They

1006
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: got overwhelmed tonight that ringside physician. I don't know. Again,

1007
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: I want to be very clear on this fight between

1008
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: and Calive and Walker. I don't know if he did

1009
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: the right thing, but there certainly are a lot of

1010
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: unanswered questions about what the proper protocol should be in

1011
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: a situation like this. And then everything else aforementioned that

1012
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: we had to go through with this doctor doing that

1013
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,760
Speaker 1: to Victor Henry, the weird judging at times, the refing

1014
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: not in any way doing anything about guys fouling. It

1015
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: was not a strong night for Commission representation this evening.

1016
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,439
Speaker 1: But there is one more point that must be made

1017
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: in a fight like this, and it's something that I

1018
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: say all the time, and I really hope people are

1019
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: listening now when you see this. Folks were asking about

1020
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: with certain scenarios where guys are trying to go to

1021
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: a knee to the head of a down toponent, and

1022
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: the ref is kind of having difficulty explaining when someone

1023
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 1: is down versus not in real time to the combatant skies,

1024
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,240
Speaker 1: the unified rules are not as good as one's rules.

1025
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: You can be a whatever MMA fan you want, You

1026
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: can like ufcmour. Fine, I'm not arguing any of that,

1027
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 1: but if you're just looking at rule sets, the rule

1028
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,839
Speaker 1: about knees to the head of a down to ponent,

1029
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: whether it's a hand, two hands, knees, three points of contact, whatever,

1030
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: it fucking sucks. It sucks. It's not good, it's not clarifying,

1031
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:49,760
Speaker 1: it's not helpful, and I genuinely don't understand why people

1032
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,839
Speaker 1: can't understand this. I'm not one of these guys who

1033
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 1: just wants to make damage easier in order to make

1034
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: the rules smoother and easier to interpret. It does have

1035
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: that benefit, but you can get to some bad places

1036
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: if you're just trying to do that, If you're just

1037
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: trying to make the rules make the fight go smoother

1038
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 1: because anything's allowed, you can get to some dark places.

1039
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: But this, to me, is not one of those cases. This,

1040
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: to me, is clearly having your knees down as defined

1041
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: by or having a downed opponent as defined by the

1042
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: unified rules, and what you're allowed to do in that circumstance.

1043
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: It just creates nonsense. It doesn't make for a better fight,

1044
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: It doesn't make for a thing healthier outcomes. On balance,

1045
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: it's just silly. There has to be a better way

1046
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: to do it, and the good news is we know

1047
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 1: there's a better way to do it. One's rule set

1048
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: is better. It's just matter of factly better, not just

1049
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 1: for this reason, but among others, this one in particular

1050
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: would be a big one. There should be much more

1051
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: allowance of knees to the head of a downed opponent.

1052
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: There are circumstances where you don't want to allow it,

1053
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: but there are so many that we find ourselves in

1054
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:05,800
Speaker 1: that are I think relatively easy to legislate that we

1055
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: should get ourselves to. So now we I said this before,

1056
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: John Jones hasn't fought since February of twenty twenty. We

1057
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: still don't have a number one contender in this fight.

1058
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: We don't even have this division. We don't even have

1059
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 1: a fucking champion in this division. Of course we did,

1060
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: and they got injured, and another one got it and

1061
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: then got injured. I understand, but there's still no one

1062
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: who has brought order to two five since John Jones

1063
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: left the division. It's gone up, it's gone down, and

1064
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with parody per se, but no one

1065
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: has a grip on that division quite like he did

1066
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 1: when he had it. All right, not much to say

1067
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: about this, but it was rad ikram Alis Skarov just

1068
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: fucking runs over Warlealvez at two o seven with a

1069
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: Tko kneed drops him with a jab. He gets up,

1070
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: there's a I think I forget there's action that pushes

1071
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: Alvis to the fence. He does a switch knee, just

1072
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: crushes him and finishes him off. Ikramalis Karov. How old

1073
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: is this guy? Alis Karov is thirty? Perfect timing boy.

1074
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, there's some movement at one eighty five.

1075
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: Right here comes Dricis duple See Sean Strickland is now

1076
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: your champion. I don't know how inspiring Hamsa was tonight

1077
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: again for all the things that could have gone wrong

1078
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: with his hand, whatever, but he's certainly up there as well.

1079
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: Bo Nichols kind of still in the back of the pack,

1080
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: but you know, probably not too far away. And now

1081
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: here's Ikramala Karov man. All of a sudden, there's a

1082
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: massive turnover happening at one eighty five. Probably good for

1083
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 1: the division to happen that way. You can't be given this.

1084
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: Guys who this dude who, Guys who are not ranked

1085
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,439
Speaker 1: can't be doing that. And I know that they tried.

1086
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: I know that they tried. They tried with Paula Costa.

1087
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: It fell through. Then they give him the sordine Imovov

1088
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: that fell through, and so Varley Alvez. Warley Alvez was

1089
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: a you know, he's a late replacement as well. Three

1090
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: late replacements on this main card. Kind of crazy. But

1091
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: you can't be given this guy who's not ranked. It's

1092
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: not fair to those dudes, right, he should be fighting

1093
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: guys that are ranked. Like I respect Alves for getting

1094
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: in there, I really do, but completely overmatched, completely overmatched.

1095
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: So I don't have much to say about this because

1096
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: the guy only fought for two minutes and seven seconds.

1097
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: But he desperately needs somebody who is a top fifteen candidate,

1098
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: because our top fifteen ranked contender, because he's he's gonna

1099
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: be fighting for a title eventually. I don't I you know,

1100
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna win. You know, that

1101
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: part remains a little bit unclear, but like, yeah, yeah,

1102
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in number one contender fights. Like that's

1103
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: the kind of talent he has, so we need to

1104
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: put him in fights that are more he's more appropriately

1105
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: suited for. And then you have Sayid number get made

1106
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:50,240
Speaker 1: off defeating Muen Gaffarov, who basically just overcommitted into They

1107
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: called it a guillotine show. Just I want to remind folks,

1108
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: if you are sinking the arm underneath and you have

1109
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: a bicep grip on the on the guillotine, they call

1110
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: that an ninja choke. But years ago, when it was

1111
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: taught to your boy who's now old and gray, they

1112
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 1: called it a power guillotine. If I call it a

1113
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: power guillotine, I can. It's okay for me to do that.

1114
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: I want you guys to know that it's totally okay.

1115
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: But if you want to call it a ninja joke,

1116
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: that's cool too. Anyway, ninja choke, power gillotine, whatever, hits

1117
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: them with the bicep grip, which is just an extremely

1118
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: powerful grip and finishes him off and no problem. So

1119
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: the night started out well on the main card with

1120
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: number gat made off and Alas Skaiov getting quick wins,

1121
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: and then it just kind of went in weird directions

1122
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: after it and before it. Obviously we'll talk about this

1123
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: more on on what you call it on extra credit.

1124
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: But Mohammed Makayev had a great night. Trevor Peak, that

1125
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:48,439
Speaker 1: was a terrible fight, Javid Basharat Victor Henry, I mean,

1126
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: oh my god, what the fuck was that? We talked

1127
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: about the Duma and Isa tar Fight, Mike Breeden and

1128
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: Anhol Jubilee. What happened to Jubilee? I don't know, I

1129
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: don't know, just guys orted barking at him. Any Froze,

1130
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: Mohammed Naimov defeating Nathaniel Wood, Victoria dud To Covid defeating

1131
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: Giniu Frey for she had missed wait and so had

1132
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: Mike reading and then Shara Maga Madoff. He looked pretty

1133
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: good for the most part against Bruno Silva. All right,

1134
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: let's take a look at your questions. Let's see what

1135
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: we got there, and let's see if we can answer them,

1136
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 1: because this has been just absolute craziness the whole way through.

1137
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: By the way, one more time, I mean, why aren't

1138
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: you subscribing? You should just be subscribing. You know what

1139
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: I'm saying? All right, while I pull up these answers,

1140
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: Let's see any questions. Okay, good question. How do you

1141
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 1: rate the Aka Nurraga Madeoff team historically? Pretty fucking good.

1142
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 1: Not only do they win consistently at the highest level,

1143
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 1: but their fighters have influenced the overall style of MMA

1144
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: grappling with fence wrestling, matt returns and groundpound incredibly successful. Yeah, dude, absolutely,

1145
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: great point. Again, this is more of a mix of

1146
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: two different teams in the ways they indicate. It's a

1147
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: little bit of AKA, it's a little bit of number

1148
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: made off team, but together they this is how it works, right.

1149
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: There's always a group or a person or some kind

1150
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 1: of coaching team or whatever that have advanced skills relative

1151
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: to the pack. They're able to use that, and then

1152
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: they teach the rest of the world how to fight

1153
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:22,919
Speaker 1: that way. They overtime lose that advantage, but then someone

1154
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 1: else does some other kind of advantage, and then the

1155
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: sort of situation repeats itself. They have sick athletes, they

1156
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: have ridiculous training, they have ridiculous motivation, they have excellent coaching,

1157
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 1: they have world class prep, and they have a vision

1158
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: of the game that's just ahead of what most people

1159
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: and the rest of the sport have to offer, you know,

1160
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 1: very clearly. All Right, You pose the question if Vulcan

1161
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 1: has to heal and featherweight, featherweight makes an interim of

1162
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: Hallowayen Taporia and the torch has passed five. But if

1163
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 1: Max wins, you just dangled it out there, would Vulcan

1164
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 1: even be like, hell, no, and vacate and go one

1165
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 1: to fifty five. I don't know, but if you're if

1166
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: you're Max, you probably want a fourth fight. If your Vulk,

1167
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 1: do you want a fourth fight with Max? I doubt it.

1168
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 1: Let's see, was the ending of Uncle av Walker. We

1169
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 1: talked about that talk Abu Dhabi doctors, we talked about that.

1170
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: I think people are gonna be too depressed for this one. Luke, Okay,

1171
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 1: why is everyone so depressed? You got to witness a

1172
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: good fighter. Oh he he's not as funny as the

1173
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 1: last one, all right? Oh he takes money from Kadira

1174
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: like the last one, at which people don't don't don't

1175
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: care about, you know, gentle, when Justin Gatchee Ted does it,

1176
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 1: or Henry Sahudo or Kamara Usman, like no one brought

1177
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: up with kamar Uspan he did the same thing, you know,

1178
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 1: or with his kid anyway, like you know, we're just

1179
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: gonna bring it up for Islam. You're gonna bring it up.

1180
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 1: You got to bring it up for everybody, and I

1181
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 1: think you should, but nobody seems to do that, so

1182
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: I don't quite get it. The staff infections. I mean,

1183
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:59,919
Speaker 1: this card was held together with like paper clips, and god,

1184
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: I mean, like three people fighting with staff. That's a

1185
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: bad idea to fight with staff. You know, other people

1186
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: could get it, you could worsen it, like it's not

1187
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: the best idea, but they did. They did. BC's vibes.

1188
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: Excuse me, BC, BC's vibe picks are legendary. Charlo Vulk,

1189
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: I need him to pick John all of vibes. Yeah,

1190
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 1: I mean again, in the overall picture of okay, bed

1191
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: BC and I are just absolutely the sorriest fuckers on earth.

1192
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: But on like you know, the big main events, he

1193
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: had Charlo who just shot the bed against Canelo, and

1194
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: then he had you know again, everyone loved the romance

1195
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 1: of Volk's story and I did too, you know, like, hey,

1196
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna come off the couch and fight and

1197
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:59,240
Speaker 1: settle the score, and like it sounded It's yeah, it

1198
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 1: sounded great. It sounded great. But that's just not the case.

1199
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 1: Do you think Bo Nichol would ragged all Hamzat. I

1200
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 1: don't know, But if I had any curiosity around that

1201
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: way before it went into overdrive. Now, I like, I

1202
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 1: really want to see what's next for bow Nickel, because

1203
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: I you know, you know, on a pure wrestling. Yeah,

1204
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: but okay, mm, wrestling is different, and you know, obviously

1205
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: MME in general is different. There's lots of ways where

1206
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: Bo Nickel could get could get tripped up. But now

1207
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know, I don't know. Again, but

1208
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: the hamzat thing in his hand, we have to see.

1209
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: Someone says, I'm a Paul says, I'm a big Taporia

1210
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: and Vulk fan from Montreal. If it's still going to

1211
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 1: be the main event, I may go to Toronto show. However,

1212
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: after tonight, I'm not sure how good of an idea

1213
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: would be for Volk to turn around so quickly. Yeah, dude,

1214
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: it would be a bad idea. It would be a

1215
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: bad idea. The commission probably won't allow it. Anyway. How

1216
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: did Usman's knees look to you? They look they looked,

1217
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 1: they looked Okay, they didn't look great. He didn't have

1218
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 1: a ton of spring. He threatened those reaching singles. Did

1219
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: you notice that he would threaten like where he put

1220
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: he puts like two hands like this. He threatened the

1221
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 1: reaching singer, but he never went for him. So I

1222
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 1: think his knees probably are toast, but not like injured

1223
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: in that way where he can't move or something like.

1224
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: He can still move around, he just can't. He can't

1225
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: explode off of him. You know, what's your view on

1226
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: Usman regretting turning down five rounds? Yeah, I mean, hindsight's

1227
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I would have bet on three as well.

1228
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 1: You know, how how did not Walker get that way

1229
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 1: in one hundred percent intentional knee? It's an intentional knee,

1230
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 1: it's not an intentional foul. That's the difference, right according

1231
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 1: to the referee. Yeah, he you know the knee was

1232
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: intended to land? Was that a foul intended in motivation?

1233
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:46,960
Speaker 1: How many pay per view buys do you think this did?

1234
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: Probably pretty well. There's a big crowd online tonight. I

1235
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: think there's a big crowd. Was this as awful a

1236
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: card as I currently believe it was. I'm giving it

1237
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: a three out of ten lee in Taiwan? No, okay,

1238
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: prelim card, three out of ten main card. I give

1239
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 1: it a six or seven six or seven six. Maybe

1240
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 1: it's better, let's see. As soon as I saw their

1241
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 1: stances in Islam, throw that bodykick, I got flashbacks to

1242
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: the Chevchenko versus I. That's a little bit different because

1243
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:22,320
Speaker 1: I was bearing down on Chevchenko, which is not the

1244
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: same thing. But yes, do you think that Chamaia of

1245
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: Usman fight should have been a five rounder? It's hard

1246
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 1: to ask someone on twelve days notice to fight five

1247
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: rounds in retrospect, yes, but it's hard to ask that

1248
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 1: in real time. All right, let me see if there's

1249
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 1: anything else that I may have forgotten to check. Think

1250
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 1: that's about it for me, So stay tuned, folks, because

1251
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a very good episode of a really

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Speaker 1: good episode of extra credit, there might be some stuff

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Speaker 1: on my personal channel as well, YouTube dot com Loop Thomas.

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Speaker 1: There's a plug. Go ahead and subscribe if you can.

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Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, what a weird, bizarre, kind of strange,

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Speaker 1: pretty good evening, but strange and bizarre, I think is

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Speaker 1: a great way to put it. And yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: we're done. Thank you guys so much for watching. Stay

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Speaker 1: tuned til morning Combat. Until next time, get some sleep,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of your day. Go sniff the flowers,

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Speaker 1: go get bit by mosquitoes, do something interesting outdoors. Piece y'all,

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Speaker 1: I'm out of here. Bye, bump by the bump bump, bump, bump,