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Speaker 1: UFC two ninety eight has concluded. It is in the books.

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Speaker 1: on the other end. Let's see BC is sending me

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Speaker 1: hilarious texts about Zuckerberg. Yeah, guys, don't walk out with Zuckerberg.

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Speaker 1: about something. First of all, let's read these results, shall we.

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Speaker 1: UFC two ninety eight took place at the Honda Center

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Speaker 1: in Anaheim, California, in your main event, iliat to Portia,

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Speaker 1: Number One, A lot was made of this rule of

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Speaker 1: even approximating the two thousand and five Grand Prix run

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Speaker 1: in Pride, the Middleweight Grand Prix run that that's the

426
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,919
Speaker 1: greatest tournament run in MMA history. John Jones didn't have

427
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Speaker 1: anything like that on his resume, and he had some

428
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 1: nice scalps. He didn't have that when Chris Widman beat

429
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Speaker 1: Anderson and Silva. Do you think that Chris Widman was

430
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: his win over Mark Munno's which was devastating, But was

431
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Speaker 1: that on par with what a guy like Anderson Silva

432
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: had produced. No, of course not. That's not the point.

433
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,680
Speaker 1: The point is you're not fighting the guy who beat

434
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Speaker 1: those guys. You're fighting a later version, which could be

435
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 1: bad depending on the circumstances, or if they're older, it

436
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,439
Speaker 1: could be quite advantageous for you, even at middleweight. But

437
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: this idea that like, if you haven't proven what the

438
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 1: champion has proven, oh well you can just calmly assert

439
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,400
Speaker 1: that the champion is going to win. That is not

440
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 1: how MMA works at all. And I hope you can

441
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 1: see that now today Again, when you watch a few

442
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,399
Speaker 1: of these life cycles, when you're an old gray piece

443
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 1: of shit like me, and you've been around this game

444
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you've watched fighters balloon and then collapse,

445
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,479
Speaker 1: and then the whole life cycle, and then they retired

446
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 1: and they get old and they go on go fund

447
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: me to get their healthcare paid for, the whole nine yards.

448
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: When you've seen that, patterns begin to emerge, and you

449
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: kind of have to be a little bit sil to

450
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: not notice some of these patterns. Contenders often do not

451
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 1: have resumes that match the champions that they beat, but

452
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 1: they still beat them just the same. So what does

453
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 1: that tell you? It is not a reliable indicator about

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00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: how the matchup itself is going to go. Matter of factly,

455
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 1: let's look at some of these numbers. By the way,

456
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 1: I will say this Vulk walking out to men at

457
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 1: work is in my judgment, in all time classic now

458
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 1: like that, you know, when guys come out to music

459
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: that's like cultural and I realize that, like, you know,

460
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 1: I don't know how cultural that is, but it's certainly

461
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: like a point of national pride that they have this,

462
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: like you know, very visibly and notably Aussy Aussy song

463
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,360
Speaker 1: and he's walking out to it, and it's like, it's

464
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: it's amazing to watch. It's one of the best walkouts,

465
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: like Max's Hawaiian kickboxer stuff like that, like really cultural

466
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Kencion del Mediacchi is not Maniacchi is

467
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 1: not quite like that. But I thought it was a

468
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Speaker 1: cool thing that to Poria came out to. All right,

469
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: let's look at these numbers if we can here and

470
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Speaker 1: see what we can deduce from them. To Poria moves

471
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: to fifteen in zero at this point. Yeah, Volkanovski outlanded

472
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Speaker 1: him numerically. This doesn't count for shit, but he did

473
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Speaker 1: outland him numerically. He outlanded him in total strikes one

474
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Speaker 1: hundred and seven to seventy eight, and then in strikes

475
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: landed total. Again, he's our quantitative totals, not qualitative totals.

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00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 1: He outlanded him forty seven to thirty six, and then

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Speaker 1: total strikes or excuse me, significant strikes landed forty seven

478
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Speaker 1: to thirty five. That would be Volkanovski to t Poria.

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00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: Taporia is credited with a knockdown and I guess three

480
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Speaker 1: seconds of control time. Let's look at the targeting. Targeting

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Speaker 1: by Volkanovski. Well, that's interesting targeting by Volkanowski forty four

482
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: percent to the head, twenty three percent to the body,

483
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: thirty one percent to the leg. To Poria forty eight

484
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: percent to the head, thirty four percent to the body.

485
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 1: That made sense, and then seventeen percent to the head.

486
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Speaker 1: He went to the leg kicking a little little bit,

487
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: turned him with it in the first round to Portia did,

488
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 1: but it wasn't like a huge part of his game.

489
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,719
Speaker 1: But some of the body punching again, that is like

490
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 1: a number one distance closer for him, down to the

491
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Speaker 1: body up collapse position. Go again, he just does not

492
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 1: in the same combination. But you know something like that.

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Speaker 1: Let's look at Volkanovski in his Latin, not in the

494
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Speaker 1: makat Chev fight. Let's look at it in the Rodriguez

495
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: fight or the Rodrigaz fight. I can't do it very

496
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: well here at two in the morning. Okay, targeting, Yeah, head,

497
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,199
Speaker 1: seventy two percent, body just six twenty one percent to

498
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Speaker 1: the leg. Let's go to his previous title defense, which

499
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: would be before that, the third Max Holloway fight. Look

500
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: at his targeting. Yeah again, seventy six percent to the head,

501
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: nine percent of the body fourteen. So he seems to

502
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Speaker 1: be like seventy seventy five to the head, single digits

503
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 1: close to ten percent for the body, and then around

504
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: fifteen percent to the leg. That seems to be his

505
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: normal breakup, right, that's his normal breakup. And then one

506
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: more time for this fight, it was forty four twenty

507
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Speaker 1: three to thirty one, so he had to really play

508
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Speaker 1: with his offense in a way that I'm not sure

509
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: he was fully comfortable with. Maybe that explains getting positionally

510
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: overrun in the way that he was. That could be

511
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: part of it. Certainly, Again, ninety three percent of distance

512
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Speaker 1: versus Taporia's eighty percent, and he got eleven percent in

513
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Speaker 1: the clinch. I guess I don't have to go back

514
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 1: and look at it, but yeah, he got he had

515
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: to change his offense enough where it just wasn't potent

516
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: to really deter Ilia, and then all he needed was

517
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: a little bit of a window and then it was armageddon,

518
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: and then it was armageddon for him. I will say

519
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: that I did not like to Pouria pre fight, arguing

520
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,959
Speaker 1: that like, hey, I'm not going to give Max Holloway

521
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: a title shot. I'm not going to give Brian or

522
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,640
Speaker 1: Take a title shot. I'm not going to give you

523
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: your title shot. I'm like, well, dude, if you're gonna

524
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: be the champion of the way class, you need to

525
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: defend the title. I mean, this is a little very ridiculous,

526
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: to be perfectly honest, even say something like that. So

527
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: I don't think that will last. I don't think the

528
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: UFC is going to really stand for that. He did

529
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,360
Speaker 1: call out Connor McGregor after the fight was over, which

530
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 1: I think is kind of an interesting thing. He sort

531
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: of sees himself, I know, he was getting again to Bory,

532
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: was getting shipped for it this week, comparing himself to

533
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: Connor and or or you know, doing things that seemed

534
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: reminiscent of Connor and some of it. I'm it's like,

535
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know what you want from these guys.

536
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: It's like Connor, Hey, here's a blueprint of an enormously

537
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 1: successful guy who does it. Maybe we should copy some things.

538
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: Oh no, you should get your own path, right, dude.

539
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 1: Everybody copies everybody else. You know, Yes, on some level,

540
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: having a little bit of originality, a little bit of

541
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,199
Speaker 1: spice of it is kind of a good thing. But

542
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: in general, people copy other people, and fighters are going

543
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: to copy other fighters, especially very successful one. It makes,

544
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, the least surprising thing you could have told

545
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: me was like that was the issue. I will say

546
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: in the I guess it was this morning I saw it,

547
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: or maybe yesterday or yesterday morning I saw it, that

548
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: there was this incredible video that I mean it was

549
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: or maybe it was two days ago. Whenever it was

550
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: It was all of these Spanish or spain centric I'll

551
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,719
Speaker 1: spend that in a minute, celebrities like Raphael and Na

552
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: Doll obviously the tennis player at Iker Casigis. It was Valverde,

553
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: Rafael Verde from who's technically Arguayan but he plays in Spain,

554
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: the place for Real Madrid, and it was just all

555
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 1: of these celebrities. Cooke was on there from Atletico Madrid.

556
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: Sergio Ramos today put out a big old statement about it,

557
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: or you know, a video and support of him. Dude,

558
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: these are titans of Europe, titans of one of the

559
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: bigger economies in Europe. I am telling you, man, I

560
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: cannot dude, Iker Casigis eever you want to say it.

561
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 1: Iker is widely his twenty This was so. The first

562
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: guy was Nadal. The second guy in the video was Ker,

563
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: who has like twenty one million followers on Instagram and

564
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: is widely considered to be one of the very best

565
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: goalkeepers of all time in the sport of soccer slash football.

566
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: That's and and Iniesta was on there, one of the

567
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: one of the guys who was part of the Barcelona

568
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: dream team along with Javi and Messi and all these

569
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: guys like dude people who are like the best representatives

570
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: of the biggest cultural items in world sport, in Spanish sport.

571
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: All of these dudes and ladies were rallying behind this guy.

572
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: I don't think folks understand how big he can be

573
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: in Europe. He can be a monster star, and of

574
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: course he can open up other countries as well. George

575
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: is a small economy, but you never know what kind

576
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: of network effects it could have. He's just twenty seven

577
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: years of age. It is remarkable what he might be

578
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: able to do for the UFC, for his own brand,

579
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: for MMA, it's it's this is the brutal ass Welcome,

580
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the brutal life cycle of MMA,

581
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: where it is very hard to have somebody that you

582
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: really like as a fight fan, not because they're not good,

583
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: but because they can be as good as Alexander Volkanowski is.

584
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: They can be that good, you know, one percent of

585
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: one percent of one percent. They can be that good,

586
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: and it's still not enough. And the rain on the top,

587
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: to borrow the words of the notorious Big was short

588
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: like leprechauns, even for guys like that, even for guys

589
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: like that. It's just insanely difficult. But I think folks

590
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: may not really understand. So getting back to the contender thing, dude,

591
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: Ilia versus Yair, huge fight, and you guys, if you

592
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: don't know this, they have been squabbling in the media.

593
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: Ilia versus Brian Ortega huge fight. Ilia versus Max is

594
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: a phenomenal, phenomenal fight. I don't know if they're going

595
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: to go those directions. My hunch is that even though

596
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: this was one side, it's not the word. Even though

597
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: the finish is without any kind of dispute and the

598
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: winner is quite clear. I think that because of Volkanovsky's status,

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00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: they might try and give him another automatic rematch. Maybe

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00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: he goes to Spain to do it. That'd be kind

601
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: of cool, I think for all of UFC. I don't

602
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: think they're actually going to put that in Spain, but

603
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,719
Speaker 1: one never knows. I think that they could do that.

604
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: That'd be kind of interesting, for sure, And of course

605
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: it raises a question about what's next for Volkanovski. Right,

606
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: so let's talk about him for just a second here.

607
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: When is let's see let's see old Volk so he

608
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: is thirty five. Obviously he just turned it in September.

609
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: They'll probably fight before that, So I mean, just you'll

610
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: go back to his last fights. He's lost three of

611
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: his last four now, granted, two of those up a

612
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: weight class, one of those on short notice. All three

613
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: of those were title fights. The guy who beat him

614
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: twice is probably the best pound for pound fighter in

615
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: the sport. And then we already know the story about

616
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: here today, so it's not like he's fighting chumps. It's

617
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: not like he won't win again. That's really not my belief.

618
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: I think he'll win again for sure. But I do

619
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: think this is an inflection point. I do think this

620
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: is an inflection point in his career. I don't think

621
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: you can look at three losses at age thirty five

622
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: in this division and then say, oh, a rebound is

623
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: really possible. Some kind of a rebound is really possible.

624
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: That's true, Yes, some kind of a rebound is definitely

625
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: very possible. But I are you gonna pick him to

626
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: beat Ilia next time? I'm not. I'm not. You have

627
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: you have to be super super super durable to beat

628
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: a guy like Tapuria. You have to be super durable,

629
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: you have to be well rounded, and you have to

630
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: be active for that reason. I think Holloway kind of

631
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: makes it an interesting matchup in a way that maybe

632
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: Volkanovsky is not even the Volkanovsky has obviously gotten the

633
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: better of Max three different times. But styles make fights,

634
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, they certainly do so. One more reminder

635
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: to everyone the rule of thirty five boys and girls.

636
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 1: I didn't make get I didn't come up with it,

637
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: but I certainly popularized it, and it caught my attention

638
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: for a very good reason. It's one of the few

639
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: stats where everybody in MMA, everybody, lots of people in

640
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: MMA constantly want to ignore the role of age because

641
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: they want to believe in heroic tales, and they want

642
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: to believe in the fighter male or female that they

643
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: that they really adore, and they want to believe in

644
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: these stories that are possible and up at and two

645
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: of five and heavyweight, hey, that is possible, very possible.

646
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: Like you don't have to worry about those fuckers aging

647
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: at all. Just let them get to forty. I mean,

648
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: you know who cares. But the business at one fifty

649
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: five and below is it's a different sport. It's a

650
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: different sport. One fifty five and down is just a

651
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: different sport at the elite, elite level, it's a different sport.

652
00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: You're not you have the worldwide participatory talent pool is

653
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: so much bigger, The level of refined skill is so

654
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: much greater. All of these guys have knockout power, you know,

655
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: not all of them, but you know it's a constant

656
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: threat if you're gonna fight at the elite that are

657
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: you know, so many black belts in jiu jitsu, so

658
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: many people who can wrestle, so much youth. I mean,

659
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: it's just a fucking murderer's row. And God bless Volkanovski.

660
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: He did better than just about almost anyone else you'll

661
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: ever see. But on this night, given these circumstances, it

662
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: was too much to ask. It was simply too much

663
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: to ask. So if they had to do a different

664
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: game plan, what would Vulk do differently? I mean there

665
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: would have you know, what he might do. He might

666
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 1: clinch a little bit more rather than retreating. I bet

667
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 1: that they'll look at this and say that the retreating

668
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: was a bad idea, that like actually going head into

669
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: Toporia and locking up with him would make more sense.

670
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: That also carries risk. It's not like that's not without problems,

671
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: but you know, going into like if he's coming in blitzing,

672
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: meeting fire with fire rather than trying to retreat. Is

673
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: he can do that stuff for the most part, right,

674
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: like that practice head movement where you're kind of on

675
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: the other end. They can do that. But Volkanowski's not

676
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: necessarily that guy, not against someone who is this kind

677
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: of controlling and dominant, a puncher in the way that

678
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: Tuporia is. So so I don't know what they're gonna do.

679
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: By the way, if you know, I need to see

680
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 1: I want to text see if there's been any announcement

681
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 1: for UFC three hundred. Let's see what Patta versus Jamal

682
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: Hill is going to headline UFC three hundred. Okay, I

683
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: mean I don't hate it. Okay, we'll get to that

684
00:35:54,480 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: a little bit later. That's that's a strange one. That's

685
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 1: a strange one. I don't quite get that, all right, Well, whatever,

686
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: So there you have it. Folks can't say I didn't

687
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: warn you. Folks were all week, all week badgering me

688
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 1: the whole time. Taporia is gonna get taught a lesson

689
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, And I was just sat

690
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: there being like, I don't think I wouldn't have been

691
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: surprised if Volkovsky had want to be a little surprised,

692
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: if Volkanowski had one, I would have been a little surprised,

693
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: but not totally. I wouldn't have been like shocked or

694
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: something like that. But like he was gonna go in

695
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: there and teach Taporia a lesson. I don't think you

696
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: guys knew who you were dealing with. M hm, Taporia

697
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: is that guy. He's been that guy for some time.

698
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: He just needed the right opportunity to show it. Your

699
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: margin of error against somebody like that at this stage

700
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: of his career is infinitesimally small. You have, you cannot

701
00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: fuck up with him at all. He just had. He

702
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: just needs the littlest and his ability to find He's

703
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: not some brawler who's out there swinging right. This is

704
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: not so I got something in my eye. This is

705
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: not Paulo Costa. This is not Paulo Costa, just you

706
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: know kind of ah, no, No, this guy is surgical

707
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: and has a system and is disciplined. You just have

708
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: no room for air. You have no room for air.

709
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: So I hope everyone understands that now it's dude, It's

710
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: it's hard to be an MMA fan, man, it really is.

711
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: It's hard to be an MM fighter for any number

712
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: of reasons. It's hard to be like a champion. It's

713
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: so difficult to get the title, and it's so incredibly

714
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: hard to have a successful title reign that lasts as

715
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: long as you hope there are there are I mean

716
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: here is here is a certainty in the fight game

717
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: that I hope everybody understands, and every fighter should understand

718
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: this too. And I know it's like, oh, who are you, Luke,

719
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: You didn't fight fair enough? Fair enough? I didn't. But

720
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: I have been around long enough to have seen this

721
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: movie over and over and over and over again. And

722
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: the lesson goes like this, your career is going to

723
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: end eventually. This is true for every fighter Ilia two,

724
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: and it might happen sooner than you think. Or you

725
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: can think of it as your peak is going to end,

726
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: and that also might be sooner than you think. These guys,

727
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: they can't fathom the idea, especially in the smaller weight

728
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: classes of like age limiting we'll talk about in a minute.

729
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: You had Henry Shudo at age thirty seven trying what

730
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: he tried against Morob. Dude, it's at one hundred and

731
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: thirty five pounds. Good luck. You're going to have to

732
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 1: be way, way, way better than those guys, which is

733
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: going to be really difficult to do at age thirty

734
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: seven at one hundred and thirty five pounds. But okay,

735
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: if you have questions about the main event, we can

736
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: come back to it. But let's talk about some of

737
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: the other fights on this car because, by the way,

738
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: the fights tonight I thought were excellent. I know some

739
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: folks didn't like the Gary and Neil fight. I didn't

740
00:38:58,239 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: hate it as much as y'all did. I didn't love

741
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: it and hated as much as y'all did, But in general,

742
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: in general, I thought it was a very, very, very

743
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: good night of fights. The main card was superb. The

744
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: matchmaking was excellent. As I mentioned before, you had two

745
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: fighters on this card, not one, but two, two fighters

746
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: on this card who averaged more than six takedowns per

747
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Morob than Anthony Hernandez. Will talk about him

748
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: in just a second as well, because he fucking bawled

749
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: out like a beast on top of it. All right,

750
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: but let's talk about Robert Wittaker. Robert Whitaker defeats Costa

751
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: Bojashina eight on two of the judges scorecards, thirty twenty

752
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: seven on the other one. Boy, I gotta say, I

753
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: don't understand that one, and I know what folks are

754
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: gonna respond with, Well, he was winning most of the

755
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,919
Speaker 1: round before he got rocked. That's true, dot dot dot.

756
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: But he got rocked. He got rocked quite badly. That

757
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: is by far. I mean, who took someone who did

758
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: the most significant damage in that round? It is clearly

759
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: Costa Coastad not only landed a shot that was the

760
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: most damaging of any shot relative to what Robert Whittaker

761
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: had landed, but on top of it, who took the

762
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: other guy closest to the precipice of defeat. Costa should

763
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,720
Speaker 1: win that round every single time. I don't quite get that. However,

764
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: he couldn't keep it up in rounds two and three.

765
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: Here was a guy who had difficulty cornering Robert Whittaker,

766
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,720
Speaker 1: who had real difficulty trying to counter him. His jab,

767
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: I thought, was for Polo Costa pretty good. I thought

768
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: his jab was pretty good, but not as not as

769
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: good as Rob's. Rob's was better. I thought his leg

770
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: kicking was good, but I thought Rob had just the

771
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: right answer for it. In general. Again, we're talking after

772
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: round one, and more to the point, the combination punching

773
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 1: of Robert Whittaker off of those blitzes. You just had

774
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: Costa chasing ghosts. He couldn't find him, He couldn't do

775
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: anything about it. No wrestling involved that I can recall

776
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: in that one at all. This was at distance. And dude,

777
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: this was a gutsy win for Robert Whittaker. I mean,

778
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: he was in a bad way at the end of

779
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: round one. He had not much time after that. He

780
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,240
Speaker 1: does get you know, the break of the first round,

781
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: and then comes out in the second round driven but

782
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: not reckless, focused, sticking to the game plan and having

783
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: enough offense, not being there to get hit for the

784
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: most part against you know, obviously Costa got his licks in,

785
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: but nothing truly substantive after that, and he was dealing

786
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: on him at times, again with a combination punching, some

787
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: of his own jabbing. The blitzing that we know him about.

788
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: This was like, you know, it's kind of funny. It

789
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: was in many ways somewhat vintage Robert Whitaker. I'd actually

790
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: say What makes it the most impressive to me is

791
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: even though Costa is limited as a fighter and he

792
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: is not on Rob's level, he is dangerous number one.

793
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: And this was the most mature performance I had ever

794
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: seen from him. I've actually never seen him fight this

795
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: maturely before, where he wasn't you know, there was a

796
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: little bit of recklessness the whole time. And you know

797
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: he's jabbing and then bringing it back to his waist

798
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: and which can have some advantages, but it's in his

799
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: case it's mostly a bit of a jab. But you

800
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: know that he was much more disciplined than he normally is.

801
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 1: And he didn't get the knockout excuse me, knockout, uh,

802
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: the big shot he landed. He didn't do it from

803
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: punching a guy at mid range while the other guy

804
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: was up against the fence, which is where like most

805
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: of his other best work, where he's just bombing on

806
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: a guy, you didn't see that this time. He actually

807
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: set that spinning heel kickup and landed it quite nicely,

808
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: I thought so. So Rob had to deal with the

809
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: best version of Costa to date. Now, maybe not the

810
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: best one in terms of like fan entertainment, maybe not

811
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,439
Speaker 1: the best one in terms of like landing the big

812
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: power shot, but in terms of a focused and precise

813
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: attack a guy who you know is again skill for

814
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: skill relative to rob is limited. But this was the

815
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: best version that he had to offer. Let me look

816
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: at some of the stats in this particular contest if

817
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: we can, Yeah, Whittaker just overall out landing him. These

818
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: are gonna go round by round. Whittaker in the first

819
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: round thirty eight to twenty seven. These are numeric totals again,

820
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: but he did get rocked real badly thirty two to

821
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: twenty six. Whittaker landed in the second and then twenty

822
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: five to fourteen. He had he had coast to chasing

823
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: ghosts in that third round, and then Whittaker failed on

824
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: one takedown. That's right, they are right. He did try

825
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: and just really turn him with that one. He didn't

826
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: really try and take him down. And then you look

827
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: at the targeting. This is very obvious from Robert Whittaker.

828
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: Twenty nine percent of the leg, sixty six percent of

829
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: the head, just four percent to the body. Right, he

830
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: goes to the leg and to the head and not

831
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: a whole lot else coast to fifty eight percent of

832
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: the head didn't headhunt nearly as much, just fifty eight

833
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: in terms of targeting eleven percent to the body and

834
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: twenty nine percent to the leg. That's actually pretty I mean,

835
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. He's not on Rob's level, right,

836
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: but not many people are. And for him to put

837
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: together I thought a again for him, a reasonably well

838
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 1: mixed offense. You know, it made the job difficult for Rob.

839
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,959
Speaker 1: He's a heavy a puncher of well, he's a heavy kicker,

840
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,720
Speaker 1: he's a heavy striker. Like that's not an easy task

841
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: to accomplish. But he absolutely got it done. And he

842
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: got it done basically having to work out of a

843
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: deficit that he got himself into in the first round.

844
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: That that is all time shit from Robert Whitaker, Dude,

845
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: Robert Whitaker man. Every time someone tries to count him out,

846
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 1: every time someone says, oh, he's finally you know, Okay, Well,

847
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: he got the rematch against Izzy and it didn't go well,

848
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: and then he got knocked out by DDP and it's

849
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 1: probably gonna be curtains for him there. Remember he's fighting,

850
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: he's only thirty three and he's fighting up at one

851
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pounds. He has a lot of

852
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: life left in him. He has a lot of life

853
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: left in him. And the resolve that he has to

854
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: come back from these bad defeats and get back on

855
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: the horse and apply his game and continue to improve

856
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: and really stay committed to the process is extremely admirable

857
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: from him. Extremely I don't think a lot of people

858
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: understand the mental resolve. You have to have to have

859
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: gone through two wars with jo Well Romero and everything

860
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: he did during his title and then to lose to

861
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 1: Izzy and then to go back and you're fighting Cannoneer,

862
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: and you're fighting Vctori and you're fighting Till and all

863
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 1: this stuff. Then you get the rematch and it doesn't

864
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: go your way, and then you end up with DDP

865
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: and that doesn't go your way. And then you come

866
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: back here and you get this win after getting badly

867
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: rocked in the first round. Dude, that is he is.

868
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: He is a the Offse's man. They keep sending us

869
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: their best guys. It seems like right in terms of

870
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: like people and sportsmen. Wolkodowski good person, good sportsman, Rob Whittaker,

871
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 1: good person, good sportsman. They keep sending us their best

872
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: like this and at least in this particular case, he

873
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: got his hand raised. Extremely extremely difficult to do what

874
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: he's done to this point. Let me see if there's

875
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: anything I missed from that run up to this point. Yeah, no,

876
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: I got the more of in Victoria winning than Gasta. Yeah,

877
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: all that stuff till cannoneer. Yeah, I forgot about the

878
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: gasoline fight. That was another one that was fighting the night.

879
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: You know. So he's got He's got three losses since

880
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, two to Izzy and one to Drikis and

881
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: these were all title fights. Other than that, Bro's beaten

882
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: these guys. Polo Costa. How old is he is currently

883
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 1: thirty two. I mean he's missed a lot of time, man,

884
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: I mean obviously again, you know, it's one eighty five

885
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: and thirty two is hardily old. But he's missed a

886
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 1: lot of time. He didn't fight all of what twenty

887
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: twenty three now here in twenty twenty four, he was

888
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:15,320
Speaker 1: gone for like a year and a half after the

889
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: Luke Rockwold fight. I thought that he showed some signs

890
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: of life in this fight to a degree, but I

891
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: think there needs to be steadier rotation of competition. This competing,

892
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: this infrequently cannot benefit him the most long term. So

893
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: what would be next for him? I don't I don't

894
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: know if they're going to mean well, I don't know

895
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: what the hell they're gonna do. So, is is he

896
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: gonna fight Drickis're gonna give it to Rob? Is? Is

897
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: he going to have to fight Rob before they fight Rickis?

898
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: I don't really know what they're gonna do. Is I

899
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:51,240
Speaker 1: guess Rob could fight Sean Strickland. That's an interesting one, dude,

900
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: Rob versus Sean Strickland. How does that go? Jesus, that's

901
00:46:55,239 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: a hell of a fight, right, very good timing, you know,

902
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:06,280
Speaker 1: blitzing offense against shut down, kind of Philly Shell MMA style,

903
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: you know. Guard. When I say guard, I don't mean

904
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: the legs, but this standing guard. That's that's a that's

905
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: a hell of a fight. I would love to see

906
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: that winner gets a title shot. I'd be all right

907
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: with that. I'd be alright with that. So I guess

908
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with him. But that seems like

909
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: a reasonable inference about how that's going to go. All right,

910
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: going further down the list if we can. Okay, So

911
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: everyone hated this dude. Everyone hates this guy. Ian Machadeo.

912
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: Gary defeats Jeff Neil. Split decision, so two judges had

913
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 1: it thirty twenty seven for Gary and then one had

914
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: it twenty nine twenty eight. And people are like, oh,

915
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: if you had it thirty twenty seven for Gary, you're

916
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: out of your mind. I don't think so. I did not.

917
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: I had it twenty nine to twenty eight for Gary,

918
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: But I can understand how you would get one. You

919
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: would give him the first round, even though I don't

920
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: think you should. I think Neil should get the first one,

921
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: but then the second and the third round to me

922
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: belong to Neil. Sorry, belonged to Gary. I'm sorry. And

923
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: so he would get That's how he won. On my scorecard,

924
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: twenty nine twenty eight, he got those two. But I

925
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 1: could see how he would get all three. People think

926
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: that like a thirty twenty seven scorecard because it's not

927
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: the most correct card, that it can't be a correct card.

928
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: And I have bad news for you about MMA judging.

929
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: There is not one scorecard in many many cases that

930
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: is acceptable. There is not one. There is usually a

931
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: range of them. And here's the problem, dude, Everyone and

932
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: their brother hates this guy. I don't have any feelings

933
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: negatively towards him at all. I think a lot of

934
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: the shit he's been through is really stupid, but I

935
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: don't know him as a person. Maybe he does suck.

936
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, so I don't really care one way

937
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: or the other. But what I can say is that

938
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: you're not gonna convince me that the assessment of the

939
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: fight is made independent of the feelings people have about

940
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 1: Ian Gary, because if you think this is the first

941
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: time Ian Gary fought like this, what the fuck you've

942
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: been watching? I mean, he didn't have as much offense

943
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: this time. Okay, fair enough, But like a guy who

944
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: fights long range on his horse and avoids the offense

945
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: of his opponents when they kind of charge in or

946
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: try to corner him, this is what he does. Like,

947
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:12,879
Speaker 1: none of what he did today should in any way

948
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: be surprising, and I wasn't sure he was going to

949
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: pass this test, but he did. Although again, if you

950
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: got by the way, can you have a fight where

951
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,479
Speaker 1: one judge scores at thirty twenty seven for one guy

952
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: and another judge scores at twenty nine to twenty eight

953
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,720
Speaker 1: for the other guy, and for that to make sense,

954
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: I know this is gonna make people who's head explode,

955
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: Yes it can. This is to me a problem with

956
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: the judging system. But as the judging system is constructed,

957
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: is that kind of thing possible, Yes, it is. It

958
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: is very possible. Listen, Gary didn't blow me away on

959
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: this one. I thought what he did was I thought

960
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: for sure Neil was going to be able to get

961
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: I thought Neil was gonna do something like what Taporia

962
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: was gonna do, or what Taporia did to Volk. I

963
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna get some like that where he

964
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: was going to corner him land a big shot and

965
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: it was going to be curtains. And that's really not

966
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: exactly how it went. First of all, Gary's defense in

967
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: terms of avoiding the blitz and rolling out to exit

968
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: was much better as the fight wore on. By the

969
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: time the third round happened, Neil didn't have much to

970
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: offer him really at all in that particular context. More

971
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: to the point, Dude, those knees he landed up the

972
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: middle as the blitz from Neil would take place, I

973
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,959
Speaker 1: thought were superb. I was shocked he was throwing those.

974
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't know he had it in

975
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: him to be perfectly honest with you. So those were phenomenal.

976
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff along range I thought was also

977
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: pretty good. Some of the lay kicking he was doing

978
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,280
Speaker 1: was I thought pretty good, you know, back and forth.

979
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 1: But the knees up the middle were tremendous. The timing

980
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: on them was excellent. His takedown defense or his ability

981
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: to like not get overwhelmed in the clinch, his ability

982
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: to break up off the clinch was very respectable as well.

983
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 1: Neil had a hard time under hooking head on the

984
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: opposite side, keeping him there. I was actually able to

985
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: get same side under hooking and then circle out off

986
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: the fence. He did that very well. And people are like, oh,

987
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: you know, he ran the whole time. Guys, it's name

988
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: of the game, hit and don't get hit. People are

989
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 1: going to do this, and I know people are gonna

990
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: hate this because again everybody wants to fucking dunk on

991
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: this guy. And again I don't give a shit. Dunkle

992
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 1: him or don't. I don't care. But I'm not judging

993
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,720
Speaker 1: him based off like what has happened in his marriage.

994
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: I just don't care even a little bit, or what's

995
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: happened in his house. Don't care even a little bit.

996
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: I'm just judging what's happening in the cage. Guys, If

997
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: you don't want him to do that, cheer for the

998
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: fighter who takes that away from him. What he is

999
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: doing is perfectly legal. What he is doing is perfectly strategic.

1000
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 1: It's not like thrilling or fun, but it's perfectly strategic.

1001
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: And it's the same answer that you're always gonna get

1002
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: in in fighting, which is, if you don't like it

1003
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: when someone's doing it, makes make him stop, take it

1004
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: away from him. Did Neil go for takedowns? No? Or

1005
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: not very effectively. I mean they were clinching along the

1006
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: fence line and then up against the cage itself, and

1007
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: then he couldn't get anything from that. Does he Is

1008
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: he even credited with one? Let's see, did they even

1009
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,879
Speaker 1: credit him with a takedown attempt? No, he didn't even

1010
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: He's not even credited statistically with a takedown attempt, and

1011
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: not a lot of offense. Sixty seven total significant strikes

1012
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: landed to the forty six of Jeff Neil. Let's look

1013
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: at the overall numbers per round Gary twenty to eighteen

1014
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: in Round one, Gary twenty three to seventeen in Round

1015
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: two Gary third round obviously much better for him, twenty

1016
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: four to eleven. So he got better as the fight

1017
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: war on as well. Do he's a good fighter. I was, actually,

1018
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: I was actually impressed, as the strong word, because he

1019
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: didn't like show dynamic skill per se. But I wasn't

1020
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: sure he was going to pass this test. I mean,

1021
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: beating Neil Magney as one thing who's very very relatively speaking,

1022
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: very old, Jeff Neil is still pretty young, big power

1023
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: in his hands, battle tested, you know, I don't know.

1024
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how that one's going to go. And

1025
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: he had trouble finding him, He had trouble landing on

1026
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: him again, just eleven significant strikes landing for him in

1027
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: the third round, and his targeting was about the same

1028
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: as actually as Ian's fifty four to fifty eight, twenty

1029
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: one to twenty six, twenty three to fourteen. That's interesting

1030
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: he couldn't find them. But the name of the game

1031
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: is to hit and not get hit. So here's my point.

1032
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you you have to like that. You

1033
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: don't have to like that. I'm not even telling you

1034
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: have to like him. I don't care if you like

1035
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: him or not. I don't know the guy. I've never

1036
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: interviewed him, don't know him. You know what I mean

1037
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: your call. I find some of this shit to be

1038
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: obviously high school nonsense, but whatever. Like who you like

1039
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: and dislike who you want to dislike. But if you're

1040
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: just like evaluating him as a fighter, this was not

1041
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: a super dynamic performance. I wouldn't give this an A

1042
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: or an A minus, but a B or a B plus. Yeah,

1043
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: I'd give it one of those. Sure, not for excitement,

1044
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: but for sticking to a game plan, for avoiding the

1045
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 1: worst that you're I mean, did you see the best

1046
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: of Jeff Neil today? No? Who took that away from him?

1047
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: Ian did? All that movement gave him a lot of problems.

1048
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: All the stabbing knees up the middle gave him problems,

1049
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 1: All of the paw to come and make them to

1050
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: clinch and then come over with the elbow. All of

1051
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 1: that was him. He made him second guest, He made

1052
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: him not be able to get found, He made him

1053
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: do all that stuff. You have to respect it. You

1054
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: don't have to like it, you don't have to cheer

1055
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: for it, but you have to respect it or you

1056
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 1: cannot respect it. And then he can fight someone else

1057
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: that you maybe wanted to beat, and he'll beat that

1058
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 1: guy and you can just be continuously frustrated. Again, that's

1059
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: an option as well. You're allowed to have that one.

1060
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't make you feel any other different

1061
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: ways about it. But my recommendation is you don't have

1062
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: to like the person, but you should respect the skill

1063
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: that they showed. And beating an opponent like Jeff Dela

1064
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: when he's only twenty six years old Ian Gary so

1065
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: not a dynamic fight, you know, not a thriller. Certainly

1066
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: on the rest of this card, it would be the

1067
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,320
Speaker 1: worst fight on the main card by a million miles.

1068
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: But I saw people being like, that's the worst fight

1069
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. I'm like, guys, we just came off

1070
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: of Raquel Pennington in my ro Bueno Silva. Please be

1071
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: fucking serious. You can't be serious. I mean, Ryan Clark

1072
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: was out there being like they should just you know,

1073
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: that was a bad take. But Ryan Clark was out

1074
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: to be like, we should just shut down women's mma.

1075
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: I mean, Gary's fight wasn't fun. It wasn't fun. But

1076
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,760
Speaker 1: you know, there's just so much analysis of this fight

1077
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:18,439
Speaker 1: that is laundered through everyone's everyone decided that they don't

1078
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: like him, and then they're using that. It's like, oh,

1079
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: that's what the actual fight analysis is. No, it's not.

1080
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: You can separate how you feel about him and then

1081
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: the fight analysis, and then inside the fight analysis. There's

1082
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: plenty of dislike in there too. It's not like we

1083
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 1: give it a rave review, but like people being like, oh,

1084
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: this was a horrific fight. It was all right, it

1085
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:41,879
Speaker 1: was whatever, But he performed pretty ably. I think given

1086
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:47,280
Speaker 1: the circumstances. Let's talk about this one. Marab dawaalasheey defeating

1087
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: Henry Sehudo across the board, so he loses the first round.

1088
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:52,959
Speaker 1: He gets rocked in that round. He also gets taken

1089
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: down in that round. I can't wait to see the

1090
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: stats on this one, because Morob is a fucking animal.

1091
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:05,760
Speaker 1: Jesus what, no way. He held Sahudo to twenty nine

1092
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: total significant strikes. He landed five Morob did He landed

1093
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: five of eleven takedowns, Sahudo one of seven. Are you

1094
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: shitting me? Wow? Actually Sahudo got the takedown in the

1095
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: second round. Excuse me, but he did have oh, he

1096
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: had control time on top because I guess there was

1097
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: a I forget exactly how he got on the bottom,

1098
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: but you get the idea. Dude, listen to these numbers,

1099
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: sixteen to eleven for significant strikes in round one, but

1100
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: Henry had the big punch that rocked him, and I

1101
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 1: think overall controlled the rounds offense for the most part.

1102
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 1: Round two he fell off a cliff, thirty four significant

1103
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: strikes to Henry's nine thirty four to nine, and then

1104
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: around three twenty four to nine. Morob gets two of

1105
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 1: four takedowns in round two and then two of five

1106
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: takedowns in round three. Henry goes one for five in

1107
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: round two and then zero for two and takedowns in

1108
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: round three itself, going heavy to the leg, Henry did that.

1109
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: That was very success. Maybe that's what it was. I

1110
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: forget how he got him down, but that he was

1111
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 1: very successful with that early. But then, dude, help when

1112
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: he was in that first round and he was bouncing

1113
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: Henry and he was going side to side, and he

1114
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: was fainting, and he was seeing everything that was coming.

1115
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: Morob was in trouble then, and Marob was coming. He

1116
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: was throwing a shot and then getting square with him,

1117
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 1: and that's when he was getting tagged and He eventually

1118
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: kind of corrected for that a little bit. He would

1119
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: roll out a little bit to the side to avoid it.

1120
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: But when he was in that space, it was not

1121
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: going well for him. But dude, dude, it's one hundred

1122
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: and thirty five pounds, morob is thirty two years of age,

1123
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: and independent of that, might have the best gas tank

1124
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in all of my years in mixed

1125
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: martial arts. People like, oh, he should teach a conditioning class.

1126
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: How did he not go win the CrossFit games already?

1127
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I just never even understand. I don't know

1128
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: how strong his pressing or his you know, his snatch

1129
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: and his clean and jerk is. But good lord, dude,

1130
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy has just the most insane gas

1131
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: tank I've ever seen in my whole fucking life. By

1132
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: the time the second round came around, at thirty seven

1133
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: years of age, at one hundred and thirty five pounds,

1134
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: Henry's energy fell off a cliff, because of course it did.

1135
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: You You're just not allowed to age gracefully in this

1136
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 1: weight class. You're not. You're not You're not allowed to.

1137
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: It was just it's not gonna happen for you. It

1138
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: is unforgiving. We feed the bones of the elderly to

1139
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: the young in this sport. They're not going to allow

1140
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: it for a five year gap Andrew over the age

1141
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: of thirty five. Oh, it's curtains for you, bro, it's

1142
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: curtains for you. It's not it's not gonna happen. It's

1143
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: not gonna happen at all. And he slowed down. And dude,

1144
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: once he slowed down, the ballgame was totally different. The

1145
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: punches were labored, He was not nearly as active, the

1146
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: takedowns were much more ready. And by the way, he

1147
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: would get the tight waist whatever grip he had, he

1148
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,439
Speaker 1: had a script. I don't think he had a butterfly grip.

1149
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 1: He had a secret or a gable grip, and he

1150
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: would get the tight waist and he would start throwing

1151
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,680
Speaker 1: Henry around. And dude, what you notice from that is

1152
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: this is one of the arguments I always make about

1153
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: the value of grappling. The second round, ground and pound

1154
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: such that he had any morob it was not devastating.

1155
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: There were some decent shots here or there, but it

1156
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: wasn't devastating. But what it was was soul sucking. Right.

1157
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: He was riding his hips, turking a leg, doing whatever

1158
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: he could to just hang on the guy, make him

1159
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: carry the weight, force him to like kind of you know.

1160
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: But by there was times where he was like sitting

1161
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: on his own knees. It was on his knees, but

1162
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: like sitting on his own ankles, like and if you've

1163
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: ever done that, and when someone's put weight on top

1164
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: of you, when you stand up, your knees feel weird

1165
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: for a little while because they've been compressed the whole time,

1166
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: and it's fatiguing, and it's draining, and it all goes

1167
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: to your neck and your lower back. He was wearing

1168
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: on a guy. Dude, that to me me really kind

1169
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: of matters. Doesn't come with ground and pound. You don't

1170
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: get a close submission attempt from it, you don't get

1171
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: any of that shit. But it really can have an

1172
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: effect on a person's demeanor. It can have an effect

1173
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: on their ability to fight the next round. It really

1174
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: has a dramatic impact. And sure enough, it was already

1175
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: a problem for him in round two. By the time

1176
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: round three came along, I thought Morob was just in

1177
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: cruise control. Who looked he looked like he could have fought,

1178
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: he said, he wants to fight ten rounds. Well, you

1179
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 1: know that's not legal, Mirab, but you could understand his enthusiasm.

1180
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: His skill is much better than people realize. But it's

1181
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: not the kind of skill that's going to knock you

1182
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: out right away. He's not going to sub you out

1183
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: and you know, you know, methodically move to mount or

1184
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: from the back, do that kind of stuff. That's not

1185
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: who Morob is. But Morob has a gas tank that

1186
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: is extraordinary. He does have very good skill overall in

1187
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: terms of wrestling and control. He's a little guy. He's

1188
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: a little bit happy feet. He kind of bounces a

1189
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: little bit too much and then kind of hops into position,

1190
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: which is not the stablest way to get into position,

1191
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: which is sometimes why I think also with some angle

1192
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 1: mistakes he can get hit or he doesn't have as

1193
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,439
Speaker 1: much success early retreating. He has to kind of get

1194
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: calm and then step in slide rather than bounce. It

1195
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: can be a bit of a problem for him, but

1196
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: he is extremely durable and because he can use grappling

1197
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: as a way to absolutely just it's like a blood

1198
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: letting with him, dude, just a stab and let the

1199
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: blood go and watch these people just become half versions

1200
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: of themselves. That is what Morob does. It's extraordinary, man,

1201
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: very very special, and it's weird because it's not like,

1202
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: you know, again, what do we consider exciting. Knockouts are exciting,

1203
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: submissions are exciting, you know, big slams, although, dude, what

1204
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 1: am I even saying? He Hewes versus Trigg twotom in

1205
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: the rematch between Matthews and Frank Trigg, Matthews gets hitting

1206
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 1: the balls and he's getting bombed on and the referee

1207
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: doesn't see it. And finally matt Hughes rallies and he

1208
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: picks up Frank Trigg and he runs across the octagon

1209
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: while Trigg, by the way, he was referee and a

1210
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: couple of the bouts tonight was draped over his shoulder

1211
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 1: and runs across and then dive bombs him on the

1212
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: other corner. Well, you had Morob do that and take

1213
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: him over to zuck stupid face and then just fucking

1214
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: you know, flatten him right to the canvas. I think

1215
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 1: this was the third round. I was like, dude, he

1216
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: is the most delightfully insane person in MMA, and I'm

1217
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: one hundred percent here for it, one hundred percent here

1218
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: for it. He'll just put a work rate on you

1219
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: that unless you can match that intensity for as long

1220
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 1: as the bout goes, you have to either hurt him

1221
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: or you have to match his intensity. And Henry did

1222
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 1: that in the first round. He hurt him and had

1223
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: pretty good intensity where I think Morob was a little

1224
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: bit on the back foot. But that was it. That

1225
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,439
Speaker 1: was it, And I gotta say, dude, I actually feel

1226
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: pretty bad for h Henry. I don't understand why he

1227
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 1: sat out his prime. H only he knows the answer

1228
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: to that, but he did. He sat out a big

1229
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: portion of his prime and he only made one hundred

1230
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars for this fight tonight. According to

1231
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: the figures that the UFC gave to the California Athletic Commission,

1232
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: it was one fifty to show, one fifty to win.

1233
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: He didn't win, so would just be one fifty. Dude,

1234
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: after taxes and paying out your your your folks, what

1235
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: are you gonna get from that? Sixty K? Sixty five

1236
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: K maybe something like that for all of that sucks, dude.

1237
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 1: It's hard, hard way to fight, hard way to make

1238
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: a living. So I totally get why he would. I

1239
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: think before this fight was saying, if I win, you know,

1240
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 1: I'll get to go to a title and if I lose,

1241
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna be it for me. Yeah, I would

1242
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: I understand that I wouldn't want to fight these guys

1243
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty k either. You know, at

1244
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: this age, at age thirty seven, Morob should probably get

1245
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: a title shot, right, we're talking about Morob. Morob's beaten

1246
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: three former champions at this point. What was the stat

1247
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 1: that I saw? Forget? I have to go find it,

1248
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 1: but Mara here, hold, let me see if I can

1249
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: find it. Morob. Yeah, Morob has beaten three former champions.

1250
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 1: He's tied al Jabn Sterling for the longest bantamweight win

1251
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: streak with nine wins. He moved to number three all

1252
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: time for takedowns, landed, and then extended his wind streak

1253
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 1: to ten straight. Dude, he's a he's a beast. He

1254
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 1: should he should get the title shot. He should get

1255
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: the winner of Cheeto and uh Anjon O'Malley. I don't,

1256
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see how anyone could disagree with that.

1257
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: I don't know who else would be more deserving in

1258
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: the number one contender spot than him at this point,

1259
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 1: it's him, and I think for Henry it's probably it

1260
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: all right. Last, but not at least for his main card.

1261
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: Anthony Hernandez defeats Roman Copylov rear naked choke three twenty

1262
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: three of round number one. Dude, Roman Copylov does everything violent,

1263
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: everything dude he does and do anything that's just not

1264
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: like scary to watch. First round, Hernandez lands twenty strikes

1265
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 1: to the Kopylov sixteen, and he did get one takedown

1266
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: just at the end, but he didn't get much for it.

1267
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: But by the second round he got two of three

1268
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: takedowns for two minutes of control time and Kopylov still

1269
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: had more numeric totals, but that doesn't really count in

1270
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: terms of strikes. Story of this fight Hernandez. First of all,

1271
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 1: the down blocking from Copylov was great. The takedown defence

1272
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: along the fence itself was great. But I noticed something

1273
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 1: at the end of the first If you notice he

1274
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 1: brings his outside leg forward like he was trying to exit.

1275
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 1: You know how the guys split their stances. If they

1276
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: bring the legots on the outside, that's typically it doesn't

1277
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 1: always have to be, but typically it should be behind them. Right.

1278
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 1: So if they have a split stance, if you're on

1279
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: this side of the cage, then this leg should be

1280
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: going back, the other one should be going forward. And

1281
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:54,439
Speaker 1: the reason why so you can press into the fence

1282
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 1: so you can cover that right so they can't take

1283
01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 1: the back, and there's all kinds of stuff you can

1284
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 1: do from there. Anyway, I saw that he switched that up,

1285
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:05,240
Speaker 1: and you can do that if you're going to then

1286
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: make an escape for it. But he didn't, and then

1287
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: he gets pushed to his I think he got pushed forward.

1288
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: Her Nanda was able to get kind of behind him

1289
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I was like, Aha, he got

1290
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 1: him to make a mistake here. He got him to

1291
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: get the positioning off and sure enough he was able

1292
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 1: to use right hooks to kind of keep copy Love

1293
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: occupied here. And one of the things about shooting like

1294
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: bending over at the waist like that. Craig Jones has

1295
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: talked about this. Normally when you shoot and wrestling, you

1296
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: want to have your back straight, head up, big tall posture,

1297
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 1: using your head right. If I go on a head

1298
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 1: outside single like this, I'm not bent over like this

1299
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 1: at the waist. I'm over here, hi, big, big tall

1300
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 1: chest the whole nine yards like big posture. You don't

1301
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: have to do that in Ma. You can actually bend

1302
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: over the wat as long as you're just gonna run

1303
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: himack to the fence. The fence changes that dynamic, and

1304
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 1: sure enough it was right hooks up top and I

1305
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 1: actually had a jab a little bit too, and then

1306
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: he gets underneath, pushes him back, and then the whole

1307
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: sequence started. He was able to get his hands together underneath,

1308
01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: pulls him out and from there it was a show.

1309
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: It was a wrap goes for the rear, naked choke

1310
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: and it was so close and you can see he

1311
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: had the he had the palmped to palm initially and

1312
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 1: he was trying to hide it behind him, kind of

1313
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: like what Nate Diaz did a little bit with Connor

1314
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: at first when he was sneaking it behind him. But

1315
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: it was just palmed to palm. It wasn't a hand

1316
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: to hand. Uh maybe I guess that was a huge

1317
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: trig one or two, I forget which one that was,

1318
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 1: But anyway, pulling it behind, pulling it behind. But Copylav

1319
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: resisted and then righted his posture, and Hernandez basically just

1320
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 1: let go a little bit and then resank it into

1321
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: the bicep grip and then was smiling like like I

1322
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:32,680
Speaker 1: got like. Once it was underneath the chin, he knew

1323
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 1: he got it. And Copylov tap I thought copy Lov

1324
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: did a great job to turn him off the cage again.

1325
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: The down blocking was good, the head kicking was amazing.

1326
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: He gave Hernandez a lot of problems. But Hernandez, at

1327
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five pounds averages nearly seven takedowns

1328
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 1: per fifteen minutes. The guy is they call him the machine.

1329
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: That is such, I mean two mon's Morob's the machine.

1330
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: No what they call him fluffy? Excuse me, Morob's the machine.

1331
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: They call him fluffy either fucking way. He could be

1332
01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: the machine as well. He has dying might offense, just

1333
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 1: in terms of the volume of it and how quickly

1334
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 1: he can figure things out. And if you can't keep

1335
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: up with him playing speed chess with you, it will

1336
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: be curtains for you as well. Again, targeting by Anthony

1337
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 1: Hernandez eighty two percent to the head, eighty two percent,

1338
01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:17,799
Speaker 1: eighty two percent, eleven percent of the body, five percent

1339
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,799
Speaker 1: to the leg. Remarkable, truly remarkable. That guy is so special.

1340
01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:24,519
Speaker 1: But and here's the best part about it. Copiolov didn't

1341
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: look bad. He didn't look bad at all. He looked

1342
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 1: great for as long as the fight lasted. I mean,

1343
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 1: you know, except for the very end. But he was game, dude,

1344
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:38,439
Speaker 1: He was a game opponent. But Hernandez is just an

1345
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 1: overwhelming force. He needs to be fighting ranked guys. He

1346
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 1: needs to be fighting in you know, fight nights, main

1347
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 1: events something like that, Like he needs to Let's get

1348
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 1: that guy in a five rounder, right, Let's get him

1349
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 1: in a five rounder for sure. Anthony Hernandez beast beast.

1350
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:58,880
Speaker 1: All right, Let's see what some of your questions are.

1351
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 1: Let's see what we got here. Okay, do we have

1352
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: to keep going with the immediate rematches? If anyone deserves it,

1353
01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 1: it's vulc But this result makes the division so interesting. Again,

1354
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 1: I just think that they probably will. I don't know

1355
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 1: that they need to this person arrest. Does Bobby Knuckles

1356
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,719
Speaker 1: fight Izzy for number one contender or winner of DDP

1357
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:30,160
Speaker 1: versus Izzy or again, or Sean Strickland Ilia versus Islam

1358
01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: at some point I'm not I'm not interested in that

1359
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: right now. I mean maybe in the feud, I don't know,

1360
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 1: but not right now, not right now? How do fighters

1361
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:42,640
Speaker 1: like Roberto Durand maintain their career at the top for

1362
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:45,559
Speaker 1: so long? Man defeated Iran Barkley at thirty eight. It's

1363
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 1: insane what he managed to accomplish. Yeah, I don't know.

1364
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how some of those I mean,

1365
01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 1: here we allls talking about one of the greatest to

1366
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: ever do it as well in his particular sport. But

1367
01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: Monos de Pierre. But I don't know how to answer that.

1368
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 1: It's a good question. I don't know how to answer that.

1369
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 1: Is Ilia versus Max instantly one of the most exciting

1370
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 1: potential fights of twenty twenty four one percent iron Chin

1371
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 1: versus unbelievable power a lot more than that skill skill

1372
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: on both sides too. Will the UFC go to Spain

1373
01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 1: with a small event? Probably at some point Probably, person writes,

1374
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 1: I noticed Volk switches to southpawl a lot and almost

1375
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: never throws from that south paw. It's not quite true.

1376
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,599
Speaker 1: Lately he's been getting caught in transition. Sometimes you think

1377
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 1: him fighting switch actually with a liability. No, that's not

1378
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:41,559
Speaker 1: really what caught him this time. I don't think thoughts

1379
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 1: on their Paeta hail versus for a main event for

1380
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 1: three hundred. I mean, look, three hundred is a great card,

1381
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 1: right UFC three hundred is a phenomenal card. That's not,

1382
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 1: to me, the most exciting main event, but it's not

1383
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 1: a bad one as a main event goes. I think

1384
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: the card is too good to really complain, is what

1385
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,840
Speaker 1: I would say. That's not a Crown Jewel. You know,

1386
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 1: that's not Brock versus Mirror. It's not John Jones versus DC,

1387
01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 1: or what ended up ended up being with you know,

1388
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:19,840
Speaker 1: Amanda and Misha. You know, it's not it's not those,

1389
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 1: but it's it's a it's a The card itself is

1390
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: too good to complain about. I think, what are the

1391
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,600
Speaker 1: chances that Moreno and Figuredo fight a fifth to I

1392
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how to answer that with Vulcan.

1393
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:37,759
Speaker 1: Is he losing their belts hook or not being anywhere

1394
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: near title contention in Olberg? Maybe not being chant material.

1395
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 1: Do you even believe the glory days of c KB

1396
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: are over? I'd be very cautious about that. Part of

1397
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: any good gym is going to be developing talent and

1398
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:54,960
Speaker 1: also recruiting it. So let's see how who enters their

1399
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: gym in the next five years, there's a lot that

1400
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 1: can right for them there. This person writes, been watching

1401
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: this guy. I think this guy's a black belt in

1402
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu too, he writes, been watching for over a

1403
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: decade now. It never gets any easier watching a pound

1404
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: for pound fighter's time at the top come to an end,

1405
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: and these rains at the top get shorter and shorter.

1406
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, folks, gone through the days of GSP,

1407
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 1: Silva and DJ and it never gets easier. No, no,

1408
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: it does not. It is. It is a very difficult

1409
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:28,639
Speaker 1: thing to do. Which stadium in Spain is better suited

1410
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: for a fight night? Berna Bayu, camp New? Uh? What

1411
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:35,600
Speaker 1: is the one that Atletico plays in, the Wanda Metropolitano.

1412
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:38,800
Speaker 1: That's a big ass one too. Campnu is a dump. Okay,

1413
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: don't let anyone else tell you. I know they're remodeling it,

1414
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 1: but just so you know, camp New is a piece

1415
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: of shit. Like Barcelona, the city is a beautiful place,

1416
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 1: It's an amazing place. The city itself is tremendous. Camp

1417
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,559
Speaker 1: New is a dump, like Don't let anyone tell you

1418
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 1: it's anything other than a dump. It fucking sucks. I've

1419
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: been here three times. It's a dump. Just so you know, everyone,

1420
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 1: I wanted to win Tonight lost. Dude. I don't know

1421
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:10,639
Speaker 1: what to tell you now that I officially hate MMA.

1422
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: What sports you suggest I get into? Dude? You'll be

1423
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:16,360
Speaker 1: all right, You'll be all right, dude. This is the

1424
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: life cycle. You just got to learn to live with it.

1425
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: Favorites were eleven and Zer until the main event. Iliah

1426
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:27,800
Speaker 1: was literally the ultimate underdog tonight. Yeah. True. What is

1427
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: Ilia's next fight? Again? Probably going to be a rematch,

1428
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:32,800
Speaker 1: but if not, the Max fight makes sense. I love

1429
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 1: that fight. Probability of Tatoria fighting Connor and Spain probably zero,

1430
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 1: right because it's gonna be a pay per view fight.

1431
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:45,639
Speaker 1: Will Ilia be the one to finally crack Max's chin?

1432
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:47,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this much, I would not want to

1433
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: be I would not I would not want Max to

1434
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 1: test that. Uh could go real bad for him. Looking

1435
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 1: at the thirty five in clubstat do you think finishing

1436
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: ability is the lynchpin of being able to hold a

1437
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 1: title into later stages? Ps DJ beat Adriano over thirty

1438
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: five not UFC was still worth mentioning. Yes, it is

1439
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:12,600
Speaker 1: a very valuable achievement. But DJ was thirty one or

1440
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:14,679
Speaker 1: thirty two when he lost to Tehuto in his last

1441
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 1: fight in the UFC. He does not qualify. Uh was

1442
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:25,240
Speaker 1: there any warning from Volkanovski's corner about circling going into

1443
01:14:25,280 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 1: his direction of Teporea's power side. I think he was

1444
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:30,680
Speaker 1: more just trying to go side to side and not

1445
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,599
Speaker 1: just constantly circle away from it because I can cause

1446
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 1: you problems as well. I don't think his corner failed

1447
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: him like that. No, someone says, lift the god forsaken curse, Luke,

1448
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:47,840
Speaker 1: It's not a curse. It's observed reality. It's the world

1449
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: in which you live. If it was just magic, we

1450
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 1: could just undo the magic. It's not magic, man, It's

1451
01:14:55,560 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 1: fucking It's a difficult sport. It's a difficult, difficult sport.

1452
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: Who hits hard at one forty five Emmitt or Ilia?

1453
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:12,599
Speaker 1: Pound for pound, It might hit equally hard, but Ilia

1454
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 1: is going to be much more accurate. How long until

1455
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:19,639
Speaker 1: Tapori becomes the biggest active star in the sport. Well,

1456
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: he's got to win fights. He has to keep winning

1457
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:24,880
Speaker 1: fights otherwise it's not going to go well for him.

1458
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: His reign at the top will be short as well,

1459
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 1: and he has deficiencies too. Let's be very clear about that.

1460
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:33,760
Speaker 1: So before we start talking about how big he will be,

1461
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:36,240
Speaker 1: let's recognize he needs to keep winning. You know, you

1462
01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:38,040
Speaker 1: lose the title after I one or two of these fights.

1463
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 1: Who cares? You know? How can someone get a title

1464
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 1: shot when they haven't finished a fight nearly three years.

1465
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that's referring to. In an alternate

1466
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: timeline where Vulk didn't take the rematch with Islam and

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01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:54,120
Speaker 1: we get Vult coming into his peak, does it go differently?

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01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,439
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. I think

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01:15:56,439 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 1: that was just a reminder that the end was upon us.

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01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:05,679
Speaker 1: Regarding Volk's comments about his mental health after Islam too,

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01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 1: do you ever truly worry about a fighter's life once

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01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 1: the end of their career is near, when it doesn't

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01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,599
Speaker 1: end how they would have hoped? Yeh sure. Tony Ferguson

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01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 1: was there tonight. I've been kind of concerned, but you know,

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01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 1: he appeared to be in good spirits. I guess we'll

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01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: see how it goes, but yeah, a dude, absolutely, I

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01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 1: worry about it all the time. I mean, that's not even,

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01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 1: that's not even, that's not even counting like the CTE.

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01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,599
Speaker 1: This person asks, are you going to be insufferable about

1480
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: Ilia's win or are you're going to be cool? Now,

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01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 1: I'm going to be insufferable, going to be super insufferable,

1482
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:39,720
Speaker 1: And I mean that with absolute sincerity. I intend to

1483
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 1: be insufferable about it. I intend to. I intend to

1484
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 1: remind everyone like told you, and not just the thirty

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01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: five and overthing, like picked him on CBS, Sports, HQ,

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01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 1: picked him on MK, picked him on the Live. I mean,

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01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 1: I never ever wavered, And I had to hear all

1488
01:16:56,320 --> 01:17:02,160
Speaker 1: of this chirping about who got ten to seven at

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01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:05,760
Speaker 1: the UH at the UH what do they call it?

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01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:11,760
Speaker 1: The Upright Citizens Brigade Sketch Comedy Tour. Yes, he got

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01:17:11,800 --> 01:17:15,720
Speaker 1: ten to seven at the Upright Citizens Brigade Sketch Comedy Tour. Yeah.

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01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 1: It turns out Elliott to Poria is not that great

1493
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 1: at sketch comedy. It's true, quite bad, especially when he's

1494
01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 1: taught doing that in his third language. But he can fight,

1495
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: he can do that, and I was focused on that

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01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:30,440
Speaker 1: the whole time. So yes, I intend to be very insufferable.

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01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: But the good news is is no more insufferable than

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01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:37,840
Speaker 1: everyone else was about how Tapooria sucked, about how to

1499
01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: Poorio was never gonna win, how he was gonna get

1500
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,439
Speaker 1: taught a lesson, about how all of this, all of

1501
01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:47,840
Speaker 1: the most meaningless, totally wrong shit that everyone floated this week.

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01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: I'll be no more insufferable than that. But I do

1503
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: intend to be insufferable. Yes, that's part of what I

1504
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: intend to do. Absolutely, Uh, where are we on this? Jesus,

1505
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:09,600
Speaker 1: My Twitter has blown the fuck up. Yeah, yeah, I

1506
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 1: think that's it, boys and girls. I think that's it

1507
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:20,160
Speaker 1: for tonight. Tried to warn you, tried to warn you.

1508
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:27,640
Speaker 1: It's not magic, it's not a curse. It's not some

1509
01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: special voodoo. It is observed reality, and that makes it. Frankly,

1510
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 1: the most to me terrifying thing about it is that

1511
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: we know it won't happen every time. But we know

1512
01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 1: for the vast majority of these guys, especially one fifty

1513
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,439
Speaker 1: five and below, when they hit thirty five and they're

1514
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:54,200
Speaker 1: trying to defend or win titles, the universe is going

1515
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: to pull the emergency brake on it one more time.

1516
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 1: I'm going to remind them the prime or their career

1517
01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 1: it will end. It might happen so than you think

1518
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: it's hard to inventory your decline when you're feeling the

1519
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 1: middle of the approval. It's hard to inventory all the

1520
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 1: things that aren't going right when so many other things

1521
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:15,679
Speaker 1: are finally going right. I hate it for him, dude.

1522
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: I hate it for him, I really do. I hate

1523
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: it for him. It's so unfair that these guys take

1524
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 1: so long to get paid, so long to get adulation,

1525
01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 1: so long to get respect, and it gets taken from

1526
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: him so quickly. But you should have some heart if

1527
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:39,000
Speaker 1: you're a Volkanoski fan, because all he is is maybe

1528
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,640
Speaker 1: the best featherweight of all time. He's one of the

1529
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: very best fighters of all time. Losing tonight doesn't change that,

1530
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:48,679
Speaker 1: doesn't change a thing about that. If you had one tonight,

1531
01:19:48,720 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 1: that would have been, frankly like a huge feather in

1532
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:53,800
Speaker 1: his cap. Obviously, it's not great that he lost, but

1533
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:57,600
Speaker 1: he is one of the most talented fighters, one of

1534
01:19:57,640 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: the best champions we've ever had, one of the best

1535
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: sportsmen that we've ever had. Changed the game for MMA

1536
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 1: in Australia, probably to New Zealand for to some extent

1537
01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 1: as well, I'm sure, and we're all richer for what

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01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 1: Volkanovsky has contributed to the fight game, but his peak

1539
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 1: has probably passed us. It's probably passed us. So I

1540
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:20,679
Speaker 1: don't make the rules, but I do observe them. All right,

1541
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:24,640
Speaker 1: all right, thank you guys so much for watching. Like

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Speaker 1: the video, hit subscribe, do all that fun shit, and

1543
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:30,559
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Speaker 1: We've already got some stuff planned, some fun Post two

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01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 1: ninety eight stuff, and a whole lot more. Okay, I

1546
01:20:36,439 --> 01:20:38,720
Speaker 1: love you, I'm glad you watched. I hope you got

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01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,519
Speaker 1: something out of it. We appreciate you. Hit the subscribe

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Speaker 1: get some sleep. Peace. Love you,