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Speaker 1: too far away. Yeah, yeah, who the hell else is

427
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,159
Speaker 1: it gonna be? Who the hell else is it gonna be?

428
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: They're gonna do that one again. And by the way,

429
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 1: like would you count out Padeta in a fifth fight?

430
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't? You know? This was a good win ultimately

431
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 1: and a try I mean, an absolutely triumphant moment in

432
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: combat sports. But you know he didn't go in there

433
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 1: and just beat the shit out of him from beginning

434
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: to end, Like this one was competitive and then perilous

435
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: at times, and then you know it all kind of

436
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 1: fell apart from him, but that is inevitable. Let's look

437
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: at some of these numbers if we can, because you

438
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: guys know I like to do that. So let's take

439
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 1: a decent look. And by the way, I want to

440
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: point out something too, I uh, just sort of you know,

441
00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 1: cards on the table. I was not a to secure

442
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 1: an interview this week with him. He would I don't

443
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 1: think he did any extra media this time. He did.

444
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: He's always doing extra media. Of course, he doesn't have

445
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: to again these guys, don't you guys know my rule.

446
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,639
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, you know, would you ever want to interview

447
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: John Jones again? Or were you mad at him or whatever?

448
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: And it's like, I mean, he didn't owe me anything.

449
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: I mean, it would be nice if he wasn't a

450
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, a prick during the press conference, but he

451
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 1: didn't owe me anything. Same with this. He didn't owe

452
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: me anything, but he didn't do He didn't do Moreny Combat,

453
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: he didn't do aerial show, he didn't do anybody's show.

454
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 1: He kind of kept to himself. Now, I don't necessarily

455
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 1: love that As a media guy, of course, I always

456
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: prefer to talk to the athletes, the ones that I

457
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: want to talk to anyway, and he's, for me, anyway

458
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: top of that list. But I want to contrast that

459
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: with like the Ronda Rousey media blackout right where she

460
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 1: wouldn't do any press and was like there was like

461
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: this weird hostility to all of us after that loss

462
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: to Ronder. I mean, just think about the fucking mentality

463
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 1: of a guy like Izzy versus the mentality of Ronda ROSSI. Now,

464
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: she was a decorated champion, she was an Olympic bronze

465
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: medalist and judo. I have great respect for her abilities

466
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: and what she means to m m A. And I'm

467
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 1: not saying I could do any better. In fact, I

468
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: would crumble were I to have to face the same

469
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: kind of insane circumstances that she did, where she had

470
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: to fly from Australia after getting you know, upset in

471
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: this historic way, and you know it was all bad,

472
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: and you know, she had this hostility she had to

473
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: the media where she wouldn't show up for anything and

474
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't even look anyone in the eye and

475
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't talk to anybody. And then she goes and gets

476
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: fucking pasted by a man to Newness. Izzy had three

477
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: losses to the same guy too, by vicious knockout. And

478
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: he came back here and he dialed back the extra media,

479
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 1: but he still did media day, he still did everything else.

480
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: He did the presser, he did everything he was supposed

481
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: to by but that he's contractually obligated to do and

482
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:59,120
Speaker 1: then goes out there and vanquishes his his rival. Think

483
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: about how mentally stealed you have to be. If someone

484
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: as good a combat athlete again, bronze medalist in judo

485
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: and a UFC champion, after all of the pressure she

486
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 1: felt couldn't really handle it anymore, look at what he

487
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: was able to do, just another completely different fucking level.

488
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 1: And man, you know again, it was it. I don't

489
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: think it was in any way wrong to either pick

490
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: Potata to win. It won't be wrong necessarily to pick

491
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: Patata win next time. If that's the way you feel.

492
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 1: It's not like it's crazy. These fights are competitive, These

493
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 1: dudes are well matched. These are close contests, right, you know, Yeah,

494
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: And the first guy to make a fucking mistake is

495
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: gonna lose, right, I mean, that's really the way it

496
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: goes with these two. But I just want to point

497
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: out people have been underestimating this dude all the way through.

498
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: All the way through, dude. I documented it after he

499
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: beat Whitaker the first time, when he knocked him out.

500
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: Every single stage of opposition, there was someone else in

501
00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: his division chirping, There were media chirping, fans certainly chirping, overrated,

502
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: not that good. And then he's he got more into

503
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: his tenure. Oh he's boring this, he's boring. Then certainly

504
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: his style became a little less. There was so much

505
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: tape on him. Guy's had such good game plans and

506
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: also champions kind of get set into a rhythm and

507
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: a routine. He got shaken out of it by Alex Paeda,

508
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: but then coming back and winning like this man. Dude

509
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: has been continuously written off, continuously shit on, continuously told

510
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: that you know he's this or he's that, and made

511
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: fun of for his unique way of thinking, his unique

512
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: way of looking at the world, his unique personality, which

513
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: some things you may like about it, some things you

514
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: may not. Fine, fine, But I hope at some level

515
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: anyone who's doubted this guy, anyone who's ever had a

516
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: moment where they don't think he's that great, where he's

517
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: really not up to the task. Yo, he's that fucking guy.

518
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: He's that guy. I couldn't imagine the competitive pressure he

519
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: put on himself, the training pressure he put on himself.

520
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: The guy's never out due to injury. He's always in rotation,

521
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: he's always busy. He cleaned out this fucking division, and

522
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: then this fucking guy who did that to him, he

523
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: goes and sends him to the land of wind and

524
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: goes hotly. Shit, folks, if he doesn't have your respect

525
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: after tonight, then you know, I don't know what to

526
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: tell you. Okay, looking at some of these numbers here,

527
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: which I love to do. Let's look at him, all right,

528
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: not a whole lot going on. First round, Paeta numerically

529
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: outstruck him, landing twenty strikes two. Is he's fifteen? It

530
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: sounds about right, a little bit busier with those leg kicks,

531
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: no control time obviously. Second round Patata technically numerically outstruck him,

532
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: but he gets a lot closer twenty nine to twenty six.

533
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: And obviously the last three were the ones he got

534
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: from the right hook, the second one and then the

535
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: one on the ground. I'm not sure how they counted it.

536
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: Let's look at placement. This is the interesting one leg

537
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: kick sixteen in the first round by Padena. Ten in

538
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: the second round. So Tho slowed a little bit, but

539
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: they were still pretty active. Is he seven of eight

540
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: in the first round for leg kicks? Just two of three?

541
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: So the leg kicks again that changes his offense completely,

542
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: and that's a fucking another thing. Man, Dude, I have

543
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: so much respect for this guy, and I have so

544
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: much respect for what he won today. And I know

545
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some jerk job in the comment fucking

546
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 1: Luke is a nut hugger. What do people who uh

547
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: who think you know, red Bull tastes good think? I

548
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what these people think. But

549
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: the reality is this. What was the big lesson from

550
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: the Bolohovich fight. Now, partly, Bolhovic was much bigger, and

551
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: they had the grappling and he had the top control,

552
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: so that was a big one. So maybe, like you thought,

553
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's ready for two of five. Okay, fair,

554
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: that's a fair point. But the other part was he

555
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: was able to check the leg kicks that forced Izzy

556
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: to push into him and go to second order offense

557
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: because he couldn't get it going. It's a fairly similar

558
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: thing here. He couldn't. Really. I had some leg kicks

559
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: that were doing good work, but there really wasn't what

560
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: was doing the best work targeting to the head. Padata

561
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: just one strike in the first round, one in the

562
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: second round. Seven. Okay, fair enough, uh, and to the

563
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: body three shots from Padata, twelve from Izzy, Uh, excuse me,

564
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: three from Pareata, five from Izzy in the first, twelve

565
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: from Pareta, I'm sorry in the second nine from Izzy

566
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: to the body. Yeah. In terms of targeting, Padata sixteen

567
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: percent of the head, thirty percent of the body, fifty

568
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: three percent of the leg for Izzy, forty three to

569
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: the head, thirty four to the body, and then twenty

570
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: one to the leg. Let's compare that to the last

571
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: fight to see where that was. Now. Granted, obviously that

572
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: was five rounds or nearly five rounds. Okay, So is

573
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: he in the first fight forty seven head, twenty four body,

574
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: twenty seven leg. In this one he was forty three

575
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: thirty four twenty one. So he went a little bit

576
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: more to the body this time and a little bit

577
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: less to the leg, roughly similar to the head. For

578
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: Pareta in the first fight, he went forty six twenty

579
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: nine twenty four. This time he went sixteen thirty fifty three,

580
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: So he dramatically shifted. For the sample size is not

581
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: the same size, but he dramatically realtered his targeting again.

582
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: First fight forty six percent to the head this fight

583
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: sixteen thirty percent drop in the first fight twenty nine percent.

584
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: To the body in this one thirty so that's the same.

585
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: But to the leg in the first fight twenty four percent,

586
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: in this one fifty three fifty three. So he decided

587
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: to make a much more concerned effort to do this,

588
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: and then of course he closed range and then he

589
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: got hit with the right hand and that was it. Dude,

590
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: what a win. Holy, what a win. What a triumphant

591
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: moment for a guy like that. All right, let's talk

592
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: about the co main event if we can here Gilbert

593
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: Burns defeating Jorge Masvidal via unanimous decision thirty twenty seven,

594
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: thirty twenty seven and then twenty nine to twenty eight. Boy,

595
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: after that first round, I was a little bit worried.

596
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: I was like, shit, does MK have a Gilbert curse here?

597
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: Because remember we interviewed him right before the Hamzat fight,

598
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: and he looked good in that one, and but he lost.

599
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: And then the first round was like a little bit

600
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,959
Speaker 1: more competitive than I thought it would be. But uh

601
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: so I was like, oh shit, man, I don't know

602
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: if I don't know if he's gonna get it done here.

603
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: But he got it done and it was a little

604
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: bit of a I won't say a safe performance from Gilbert,

605
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: but though he definitely took his time in the first round,

606
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: both guys did, and it looked like he and he

607
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: had told us as he thought that Porgey was gonna

608
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: throw everything at him like this is he said, this

609
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: is Jorge's last chance. Jorge has acknowledged it's basically his

610
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: last chance. If he didn't win, he was gonna be done.

611
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: And he was like, well, that means he's gonna be dangerous.

612
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: That means he's gonna throw everythingsolutely at me. That means

613
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna really take it to me, which is a

614
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: good way to think about it. But then he came

615
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: out and he was actually hanging back and counterstriking. I

616
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: think that took a second for Gilbert to get some

617
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: adjustments going. But I mean, here's what stood out to me. Obviously,

618
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: Gilbert's wrestling is just really really good at this point.

619
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: Once he's on the ground. He didn't have tremendous ground

620
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: and pound, which is what he told us he really

621
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: wants to work on now. Granted, Jorge is real good

622
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: about collar tying, overhooking, rolling with stuff risk control, so

623
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna be hard to hit. So that was kind

624
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: of that was still a little bit surprising. But I

625
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: guess maybe maybe it shouldn't have been as surprising as

626
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:38,719
Speaker 1: it was. But good wrestling, good top control, the speed

627
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: of Jorge, excuse me, the speed of Gilbert Burns. The

628
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: hand speed like with that, with that double jab right

629
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: hand that like buzzed the tower a few times. I

630
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: think drolled him a couple of times too. I think

631
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: it caught h Jorge by surprise. I mean, here was

632
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: just the way Jorge looked to me. He looked to

633
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: me like he had a good game plan, right, like,

634
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: let's counter strike, Let's make him pay, Let's see if

635
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: we can draw him into a firefight. That's not the

636
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,959
Speaker 1: worst idea, you know, see what your takedown defense can

637
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: do for you, see what your submission defense can do

638
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: for you, and then see if you can draw him

639
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: into a fight, and and whatnot. But the problem was

640
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: do he just looked old to me tonight? You know,

641
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: I have a great deal of respect for Jorge as

642
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: an athlete. I have great deal of respect for his

643
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,719
Speaker 1: abilities as a fighter. I've long believed I mean, he's

644
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: always been kind of like a fighters fighter like they

645
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, he's always been really well rounded, always kind

646
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: of you know, sometimes he would play down to the

647
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: level of his competition, but sometimes he played up. And

648
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: I know he had a bunch of setbacks too. And

649
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: then he had that sojourn quite literally in the wilderness

650
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,479
Speaker 1: for the reality show and in the jungle, then came

651
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: out kind of reformed in twenty nineteen and had the

652
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: great series of wins that he did. I've always had

653
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: a great deal of respect for the guy. And to

654
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: come from nothing like he did, where you're dropping out

655
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: of school and you're fighting people in backyards, Like, what's

656
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: the long term plan there? My god, I like draw

657
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: a straight line between that and having multimillions in your

658
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: bank account. You know, the ninety nine point nine percent

659
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: of people who try that are gonna not make it,

660
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But he did, But he did.

661
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: I think he also had a absurd belief in himself.

662
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: I think again he had very much well rounded, like

663
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 1: crafted ability. He was always a guy who really worked

664
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: on his game and like all the different parts of it,

665
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: had never quite had an ace in the hole until

666
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: right about twenty nineteen. And then you know found his opportunity.

667
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: But I have a great deal of respect for him

668
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: for what he was able to do. But he he

669
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: just looked old tonight. He looked old. He looked like

670
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: he couldn't anticipate the punches coming very nimbly. Not that

671
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: he's ever been like great at slipping shots, per se,

672
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: but it just looked more so he didn't have the

673
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: same pep in his step he could be. I think

674
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: was it the third round, he was like slowly retreating

675
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: towards the fence line, getting flat footed. He was swelling

676
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: up easy. He just wasn't you know. He's thirty eight,

677
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: it's one hundred and seventy pounds. Man. It's just not

678
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,959
Speaker 1: a great place to be. It's not a great place

679
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: to be. And it bums me out too. Like I know,

680
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: he said he's happy with the money he made, which

681
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: I'm very glad to hear. But you know, Jorge is

682
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: one of these cautionary tales to an extent, and in

683
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: the sense that he got he got money, so like

684
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: maybe oswell, that ends well. But the part to me

685
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: that kind of stands out is that he didn't make

686
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: it until right until he had the very last window

687
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: to make it right before he fell postprime, like right

688
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: at the end of his prime. And he only made

689
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: those checks at that time, you know, And he made

690
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: some good ones, but he only made it at that time.

691
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: And I would have liked to have seen him make

692
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: a little bit more money. I would have liked to

693
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: have seen that. I think in a different arrangement, he

694
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: could have done even better than he did, although obviously

695
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: he did quite well, but he just he you know,

696
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: he had good he had good wrestling defense, he had

697
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 1: good ground and pound defense, you know, but the speed

698
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: was kind of catching him. When when Gilbert was able

699
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: to kind of regauge the distance and then double up

700
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: on the jab or find the angle man he was

701
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: lighting them up up. He couldn't see some of the

702
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: curve shots, and they were coming down here and then

703
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: coming up like there was just he just didn't have

704
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: the same anticipat pation. He didn't have the same drive,

705
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: he didn't have the same durability, he didn't have the

706
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: same He just looked like weighted down almost, you know.

707
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: So Gilbert Burns afterwards was like it sounded like what

708
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: he said was I'm not fighting anyone else next to

709
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: till it's for the title. We shall see about that.

710
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: He was telling us he was hoping that a win

711
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: over Jorgey, if he had the right performance, could potentially

712
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: yield like he could jump the line over Colby. I

713
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen based on this. Obviously, if

714
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: Jorge had won, he might have jumped the line, but

715
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: that's not in play, and so he retired. Let me

716
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: see what we say is Jorge's best win. Is it

717
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: the Till win? Is it the Ben Askron win. Maybe

718
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: it's the Nate Diaz win in terms of the celebrity factor.

719
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: In terms of the best win, it's probably the Till win.

720
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: Serony win was good, So he's got wins. He finishes

721
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: his career on four straight losses, which is about right.

722
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just again, he's thirty eight now, but

723
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: I guess what was he back in twenty nineteen, excuse me,

724
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, so he'd be thirty three years apart, so

725
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: he'd be thirty five. That's still pretty old. I think

726
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: he was fighting Kamaru. Yeah, it's tough. So he's got

727
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: wins over Nate diez, Askrin, Till Serny Ellenberger, Pearson, Seesar

728
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:26,280
Speaker 1: Faheeda Mutanci, James Kraus, Darren Krutshing, pat Heale, Michael Kisa,

729
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 1: Tim Means, Justin Wilcox, kJ Neons, Evangelista, Cyborg, the original Cyborg.

730
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: NOI ki kotani sotoru kawaka, excuse me, kiddo oka, I apologize,

731
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: Eric Reynolds. And then it goes on down there. From there,

732
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: he still has you know, the Toby Imadel loss kind

733
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: of stands attest the time, unfortunately for other reasons. But

734
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: he had a great career. You know, what do you

735
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: want me to say about after the post five thing,

736
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: he's like a Trump's a grace president ever. And then

737
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: he was like praising DeSantis, which I'm guessing Trump probably

738
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: won't like, but whatever, who cares. You know, these aren't

739
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: my these aren't guys I would vote for. But it's his,

740
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: it's his night, and God bless him for it. I

741
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: suppose Gilbert Burns look good to me. Last thing on

742
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: this little hesitant early, as I mentioned, not overwhelming, middle,

743
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: and late. Remember he's thirty six. He's saying that like,

744
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to fight until it's for the title.

745
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll get that, maybe he doesn't. That also might

746
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: signal to me that maybe he's contemplating retirement, because at

747
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: thirty six he doesn't look bad. In fact, against No

748
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: Magnie he looked great, and he looked pretty good here tonight.

749
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: But I think he realizes that he probably doesn't have

750
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time otherwise, doesn't want to risk

751
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: it against somebody else, and if he has to get

752
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: someone else and then loses, it sounds to me like

753
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: I don't think he's very long for this welterweight road either,

754
00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: To be quite honest with you, all right, wow, how

755
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: about this one? Rob Font defeating Adrian yan Yez. Yes,

756
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: it is called yes, it is pronounced yan Yez. There

757
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: is an n ye over the end. He doesn't pronounce

758
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: it that way. You can say Yanez if you want.

759
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. Two point fifty seven of round one. WHOA,

760
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: What a performance by him? So yan Yez Janez came

761
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: into this fight with a lot of hype, and deservedly so.

762
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: He was five and zero in the UFC, tearing people up.

763
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: We knew this was his biggest step up. I didn't

764
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: mind the matchmaking at all. I didn't mind the matchmaking

765
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: because while I agreed that and everyone knew Font was

766
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: his toughest test. Font you know, had tasted the top

767
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: and found himself wanting Chido Vera and Josie Aldo and others,

768
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: Leneker others. Uh, but you know, he's beaten a lot

769
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: of other guys, Like he's obviously very well schooled, has

770
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: one of the best jabs in the sport, you know,

771
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: certainly in that division. But he'd been off for a

772
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: year and maybe he needed it. I thought it was

773
00:39:58,239 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: a good thing. But you know, you kind of thought,

774
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: all right, he'd been to the mountaintop, found himself wanting

775
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 1: how old is Rob Font? Rob Font currently sits at

776
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: thirty five, so he'll be thirty six in June. So

777
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: he didn't have much time left either, especially at one

778
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: thirty five, So you kind of thought, tough test. But

779
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: Jadez should be able to get past it. And he

780
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: looked good early. When I say early, I mean if

781
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: I didn't go very long, maybe like the first minute

782
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: or so. But a few things really happened. One Fonts

783
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: jab we talked about this last week. His jab folks

784
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: were asking me, like, what are some of the differences

785
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: in their striking styles. One of them is that the

786
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: jab of Font, I think is just more central to

787
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: his offense generally. And two he puts a little more

788
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: steam on it, right. I mean, the job can do

789
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: lots of other things that can blind you. It can,

790
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: it can you know, it can stun you. It can

791
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: pop your head up like an uppercut depending on how

792
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: you throw it. You know, it can do all. It

793
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: can do all kind can set up distance, it can

794
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: help you change angles. I mean, it can do whatever

795
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: you want. You can do lots of things. But for Font,

796
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: while his is versatile as well, his tend to have

797
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: a little more steam on him, a little more pop

798
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: when he lets him go. I think you saw some

799
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: evidence of that there, and I think that disrupted Yez

800
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: a little bit. But the other part is that the

801
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: collar tie, boy, that was something I never saw coming.

802
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: That was interesting. The collar tie that was a whoever

803
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 1: let me say this, whoever in Rob Fonts, either either

804
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: his presence of mind or whoever in his camp, came

805
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: up with the idea to collar tie yan yas whooh slick,

806
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: super slick. Because he didn't fight it. Do you notice

807
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: he didn't fight the collar tie, right, He didn't roll

808
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: under it, he didn't grab it. Like, remember, guys, what

809
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: do we always talk about in wrestling or jiu jitsu

810
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: as being the first thing, that's the most important thing

811
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: before anything else can happen. Grip, your grip, Your grip,

812
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: you right. Your grip is insanely important. It's the first

813
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: order of what you're doing, at least do jiu jitsu

814
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: and wrestling before everything else. If you don't have the

815
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: right grips or the other person is breaking your grips

816
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,439
Speaker 1: and you can't get gripping going, you can't get shit

817
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: going right, it's like critical, Well, what is a collar tie.

818
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: It's a grip, it's a grip. He didn't break the grip.

819
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: He didn't break it with two hands, he didn't roll

820
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 1: under it, he didn't pull out like he didn't. There's

821
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: lots of ways you can break a collar tie. He

822
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: didn't do any of them. He didn't break it. And

823
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't like font had like a super strong grip

824
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: on it. But he attaches himself to Adrian with it.

825
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: He can literally attach himself to like I am now

826
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: connected to you visa VI in my hand. Well, then

827
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: that right hand just came around the corner and absolutely

828
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: popped him in like the most absurd of ways. I mean,

829
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: what a I don't know what they saw on tape.

830
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: I have to go back look at some of his

831
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: other fights. I'm not sure what they thought of there,

832
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if they thought it was even

833
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: gonna yield that necessarily, but the decision to collar tie

834
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: against yan Yez, who doesn't He does have good head movement,

835
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 1: he does roll, but he doesn't how much like dirty

836
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: boxing experience does he have? Not much? The other part, too,

837
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,760
Speaker 1: was I tweeted about this. If you look at their stats,

838
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: they're all pretty similar in many ways. Font will go

839
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: for a takedown per fifteen minutes, so they kind of

840
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: separate there. But the biggest difference was they landed almost

841
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: an identical clip, but on the absorption rate strikes absorb

842
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: per minute, yan Yez was much higher, much higher. I

843
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: think he was in the mid fives or Font was

844
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: in the high threes. Right, like a lot different, a

845
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: lot different. And I still think he's working out the

846
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 1: kinks in his style. Adrian Unyez, I think he's working

847
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: out the battle. We talked about Corey Sandhagen right like

848
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: he had style where he was if he watch his

849
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: like earlier fights. He's very offensively forward and minded. He

850
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: got hit a lot. Now he was able to make

851
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: it work up until he started facing the elite, but

852
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: then it kind of cost him, and it cost him,

853
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: and it cost him, and it cost him, and then

854
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: he finally began to get a better balance between the

855
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive ratios of their game. And to me,

856
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: he still gets hit a little bit too much, I have.

857
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: I think his upside is still crazy high. Please almost

858
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: understand me. But this was a learning lesson. This was

859
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: a learning lesson for sure about you know, the different ranges,

860
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: the different conditions where striking can happen, and I'm sure

861
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: he knows these things, but to be in the presence

862
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: where you're breaking grips whereever you're going to break them, boy,

863
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: that was that was devastating. And that wasn't the only

864
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: shot he landed from the from a dirty boxing clinch.

865
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: It was one previous to that, where he was also

866
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: landing heavy shots. It was just that he got it

867
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: back again and then landed that right hand that came

868
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: from like fucking key West, and it just came all

869
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: around the corner and viciously sat him down. So tough

870
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: loss for Adrian Janiez. But hell old is see. I

871
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 1: think he's twenty nine something like that, twenty nine, twenty nine, Yeah,

872
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,800
Speaker 1: and he's sweet. He'll be twenty nine until Novembers a

873
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: little while longer. Actually, he's got time. He's got time

874
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: to learn. He's definitely got some time, all right. Kevin

875
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: Holland defeating Santiago Ponzinibio view ko into the third round

876
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: at three sixteen of the third round, Ponzinibbio getting upset

877
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: at the stoppage. He couldn't He gets turned off of

878
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: a kick and tries to turn back around, and then

879
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: Holland kind of hides the left hand and then leaps

880
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: into him and then catches him, hurts him, and then

881
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: he polishes them off with another shot, and he was,

882
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: you know, ass up, face down, and he took another

883
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 1: one on the ground, just completely uncontested. As he's looking

884
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: at the mat. He didn't like the stoppage. I don't

885
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: think he knew where he was, or he must have

886
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: forgotten what had happened or something, because you know, I

887
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: know there works some concerns about referee denverg Leiada, especially

888
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: because he was actually the referee in the main event,

889
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: but he had no choice. He had no choice but

890
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: to step in and stop that one. So that was good.

891
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I love this performance from Kevin Holland.

892
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: For the most part. He got chewed up with the

893
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 1: leg kicks and didn't have a great answer for that,

894
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: but in general, one talking to his corner and listening

895
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: to them, that was great. Number two is take down

896
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: de fence very much on point three, lateral movement was great.

897
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: And four he's always had great pop. Dude, he can

898
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: always hit. He can hit hard at one eighty five.

899
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: He can definitely fucking hit hard at one seventy. He

900
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: just needed the right time, so he was patient, he

901
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: was listening, he was sticking to a game plan, and

902
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 1: not everything went right, but he didn't get lost in it.

903
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: Stuck to what he was good at. Covered distance, which

904
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: he is. He looked fucking huge compared to ponzinnibbio, even

905
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: though they're both obviously one hundred and seventy pounds. I

906
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: thought this was a solid win for him. Is it

907
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: his most spectacular, most crazy or whatever. No, but I

908
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing.

909
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: Like if he's going to really make an effort at

910
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: reconstituting himself and get it out there. How old is

911
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: Kevin Holland? As I go through everyone's age at this point,

912
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 1: thirty Yeah, in November as well. Dude, he's still young.

913
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 1: He's still young. He's not even exactly in his prime

914
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: yet or getting there. I thought that was a great

915
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: win for him, not crazy, didn't give it away, didn't

916
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,439
Speaker 1: make a bunch of stupid mistakes. Takedown defense was on point,

917
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 1: footwork looked great, movement looked great, listened to his coaches,

918
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: found his opening, took advantage of it, made good decisions

919
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: like yeah, what's not to like about that? That was

920
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: a great performance. And then this one? How about this one?

921
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: Christian Rodriguez defeats Raoul Rosas Raoul Rosas Junior via unanimous

922
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: decision twenty nine to twenty eight across the board. I

923
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: really want to talk about this one. If I can,

924
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: then we'll get to some of your questions. I was

925
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: never a big fan of him signing in the UFC

926
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: at age seventeen, and I really did not like this

927
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: performance from him. I will tell you why. I know

928
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: what everyone is gonna say, and by the way, I've

929
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: been voicing these concerns you heard to one MK. I'm

930
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: going to continue to voice him because it's a bad

931
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: idea for ninety nine point nine percent of athletes or

932
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: fighters to sign with the UFC at age eighteen, male

933
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: or female, one thirty five or heavyweight. It's a bad

934
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: fucking idea. Some people will be able to get away

935
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: from it. And the jury is still out on ral

936
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: Rosas Junior. Let's not jump to conclusions and oh the

937
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: sky is falling. But if you have concerns, you are

938
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: very right to have them. And I've seen what everyone

939
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: has done. They infantilize the kid, and I guess he is,

940
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: but he's also a grown man at this point. Eighteen

941
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: are about to be nineteen hover old. He is. They

942
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 1: want to infantalize him. And what they'll say is, oh,

943
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: this was a great learning experience for him, and get

944
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here.

945
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: That is not the takeaway from this event tonight. Now,

946
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: it could end up being helpful, like any loss could

947
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,479
Speaker 1: be to a fighter, but it's not the fucking point

948
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: and it's never been the point. That has got nothing

949
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: to do with anything. Here is the problem. Two things.

950
00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: One his stand up look really bad, not even remotely

951
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: ready for this level, even an adjusted UFC level. People like,

952
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: what does UFC level mean? Fine, even your most generous

953
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: version of it. This looked bad the stand up. And

954
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: he does have good wrestling, and he does have good grappling,

955
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: but he doesn't have elite wrestling, and he doesn't have

956
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: elite grappling. He has issues finishing the submission. He is strong,

957
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: I'll give him that, and he will only get stronger

958
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: in all likelihood, he might end up going up a

959
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: weight class, going to one forty five or something as

960
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: he develops. That's not the point. The point is this.

961
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 1: He doesn't apportion his offense correctly. He bum rushes everyone,

962
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: doesn't set up his shots. If he can't get the submission,

963
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: then his entire game falls apart against guys who are

964
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: even respectably good. I can't even remember Christian Rodriguez fight

965
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: other than this one and now. So not only do

966
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: you have a skill set that's really not ready for

967
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: anyone in the UFC for the most part, except like

968
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: handpicked guys who are at the very end of the bubble.

969
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: But more to that point, and the good news is

970
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: he didn't take a beating. But more to the point

971
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: is that, dude, I'm gonna keep fucking saying this until

972
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: people start listening, which they probably never will, but I'm

973
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: gonna keep saying it until it's no longer true. This

974
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: is not the place to get formative development. Now. Anyone

975
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: who comes here who's ready to do good work is

976
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: going to get development. Like, for example, we just talked

977
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: about Adrian Yanyez, Right, he will learn from this at

978
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: age twenty nine. This will this will be clear. He's

979
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: too smart and too good to not get better from this. Right.

980
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: And that's not to say that Rosas Junior will get

981
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 1: better too. He probably will. All these guys who lost

982
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: tonight are going to get better in some capacity, except Pore,

983
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: who is now retiring. But there's there's experience, there's learning lessons,

984
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: and then there's formative experience, the building blocks of your game,

985
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: the building blocks of putting a game plan together, the

986
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: building blocks of getting it over the course of three

987
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: rounds or now in the regional scene, five rounds, getting

988
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: opponents who can he should have been fighting guys like

989
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: this on the regional scene, which they they exist over

990
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: there like you go to a good one, like you

991
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: couldn't get him, you know, at you know crazy Steve's

992
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: fuck face shack. No, you couldn't do that. But at

993
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: LFA they'd have guys who could, who could mimic at

994
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: least some of these particular challenges. They'd have guys who

995
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: could do that, and he would he would be able

996
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 1: to more, piece by piece build some of these formative lessons,

997
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: formative development before he ever got to the UFC. Well,

998
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: now he's here, they're gonna have to give him matchmaking

999
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: on a curve, which didn't work for Sagan Northcut, and

1000
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: it didn't work for Paige van Zant, and it didn't

1001
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: work for Dan los On, and it doesn't work for

1002
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: and I watched the Dan los On career as well.

1003
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: It doesn't work for a lot of guys who are

1004
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: really young because this is not the place to get

1005
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: formative development. Bellatore is different. We have i'een aj McKee

1006
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: go from pro debut to winning a title all in

1007
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 1: one organization because they actually can cater to that because

1008
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: they're they're a little bit I think more nimble. They

1009
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: don't have all they don't have even a fraction of

1010
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: the same level of talent in terms of the overall roster.

1011
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: But because they can bleed into that regional side, they

1012
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: can give people more meaningful development at every stage. UFC

1013
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: has a hard time doing that because in order to

1014
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: give people what they need, they often have to sign

1015
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 1: well outside of their common standards to do it. So

1016
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: like people are like, oh my god, I'm so amazed

1017
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: at what I've seen. Don't get me wrong. The kid

1018
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: is good. He is good, he is talented. What has

1019
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,919
Speaker 1: anyone seen that gives them prodigy vibes? Because I saw

1020
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: Bjpenn at age twenty two different ballgame that was a prodigy.

1021
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: There's nothing in his game that speaks to me as prodigy. Nothing.

1022
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: He is good. He is very good in certain areas.

1023
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: He is lacking in the stand up. He is deeply

1024
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,720
Speaker 1: lacking when it comes to experience. He is vastly overestimated

1025
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: what his skill set can do for him at this juncture.

1026
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 1: Now he got a loss. He didn't get his ass whipped,

1027
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: which was nice. That would be the worst of all circumstances.

1028
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: But now he's here and he has to work on

1029
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: his development in a place, in the formative sense of it,

1030
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: that is absolutely not where you want to do that,

1031
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: And bad shit will happen when you do. Everyone thinks

1032
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: that when I make these criticisms, I'm attacking some teenage kid.

1033
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: Old man screams at cloud and yells at teens, you know,

1034
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: like I'm Paul Blart Malkop trying to chase around all

1035
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: the fifteen year olds. Who are you know, farting in

1036
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: hot hot topic. That's not what I'm doing. That's not

1037
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: what this is about. I have been watching this shit

1038
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 1: for a very long time, man, I keep seeing these

1039
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: movies over and over. The promoter has a vested interest

1040
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: in hype. They have a vested interest in it. They

1041
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: have to sell authenticity too, but they'll sell plenty of

1042
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: hype along with it, and young kids like this, dude,

1043
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: Stay in regional MMA, you might be broke for much longer.

1044
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: Stay there, get get You should have a five round

1045
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: five before you ever get to UFC at this stage,

1046
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 1: like an amateur. I don't know how, but rules about

1047
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: amateur to state to state, but in certain places they'll

1048
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: accommodate that. You should be doing that, you should be

1049
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 1: having all of that. You're striking? What the fuck was

1050
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 1: his striking? What was that? What was that? That is

1051
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 1: not ready for prime time? At all and not even

1052
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,919
Speaker 1: frankly very close. Oh but he's young, he can get better.

1053
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: Not everyone gets all that better. Like this idea that

1054
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: it's automatically going to happen, especially when you're development is

1055
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: happening here where you don't have nearly the same amount

1056
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: of latitude to creatively pick the right challenge at the

1057
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: right time. Yeah, good luck, good luck. All right, let's

1058
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: take a look at some of these tweets. See what

1059
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: you guys have for me? All right, all right, all right,

1060
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 1: here we go to what extent do fighters who cut

1061
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: weight consider recovery in their choice of weight class. You know,

1062
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 1: what's one thing that occurred to me about Padeta. I

1063
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: don't think he's got a bad chin, but I don't

1064
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: know how much that one to eighty five cut does

1065
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 1: for his durability? Right again, Is he hits hard all

1066
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: that shit right? Or you know, a good accurate shot

1067
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: can do a lot. I mean, he's never been known

1068
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: as like a super hard power puncher, but he's got

1069
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 1: enough to do real damage. Right. But I often wonder

1070
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: man like that cut, like he's barely making it, you

1071
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like there's no extra fat on

1072
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,439
Speaker 1: him whatsoever. He must have a crazy diet to get down.

1073
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: And uh, I wonder what it does to his durability

1074
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: A two of five. I wonder what it could be.

1075
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:58,280
Speaker 1: You know, can you think of a bigger back against

1076
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: the wall moment in mim history? No, No, I cannot.

1077
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: Bobby Knuckles is probably bitter Yep. Did you notice the

1078
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: eerie similarity between the end of round one at UFC

1079
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:14,720
Speaker 1: two eighty one and the finishing sequence here? Yes? Literally identical,

1080
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: not quite identical, but very similar. Is Pareta susceptible to

1081
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: the straight? Right? Was he wobbled? Dude? If you hold

1082
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: your hands like this, you're gonna be susceptible to punch?

1083
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 1: Is coming around it? Right? He gets away with it.

1084
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: But he, you know, because he's so sturdy and so tall,

1085
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: and he's got good range management, and you know, he

1086
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: doesn't require a lot of I mean, he puts a

1087
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: few hands on you and problems start, you know what

1088
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: I mean. So like he's able to to he makes

1089
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: it work for himself. But it's a problem. Sure, Peretta,

1090
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 1: this person says risk more taking this fight. Yes he did.

1091
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: He took a lot of risk too. Sure, that's fair.

1092
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: He had to kind of do it. But yeah, do

1093
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 1: you agree with Rogan's proclamation that is he is one

1094
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: of the all time greats regardless of weight class. Well,

1095
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 1: he's at first, in my mind, the second best middleweight

1096
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: Ever does that make him an all time great? That's debatable.

1097
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if I mean, I'm not how I'm

1098
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: ready to have that conversation. Yet his career is not

1099
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: over right now as it stands, It's a harder argument

1100
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: to make. Boy. But boy, I gotta tell you, after

1101
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: a win like that, man, you're just not gonna see

1102
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: many fighters ever, ever, ever, ever, ever deal with anything

1103
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: like that and win, You're just never gonna see it.

1104
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: Like you could watch fights for another twenty years and

1105
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: not see something like that. Fuck, I've been watching it

1106
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: for longer than that. I don't know if I ever

1107
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: Marquez getting it. But Marquez was on the old you

1108
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Marquez was on the Marquez mark.

1109
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: Marquez was on uh in the words of infinite elegent

1110
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: intensity that dare creatine, you know what I'm saying. But

1111
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: all right, either here nor there, let's see where does

1112
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: this Rake am on Spectacular moments in UFCMMA history at

1113
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: the right at the top. How about you using new

1114
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: gloves tonight to prevent ipokes? Yeah, well it wasn't just tonight.

1115
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: Apparently they've been using it for a while. The story

1116
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: just finally got out. Here's the thing about that, only

1117
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: good news, not mad at it. I hope everyone understands

1118
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Two thumbs up from this guy for

1119
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: the UFC putting these into effect where they kind of

1120
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,919
Speaker 1: curve the hands over like that, right, so it's hard

1121
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,439
Speaker 1: to raise your fingers. Guys, this technology has existed since

1122
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 1: Pride fucking Bellator under Bjorn Rebney was using this, Like,

1123
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: why did it take so long? Whatever? Better late than never,

1124
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: I guess. Is there any argument for a more marketable

1125
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: star for the UFC than Stylebender? I mean, there's always

1126
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: people who can respond to large audiences. But yeah, he's

1127
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: he did himself some favors tonight. Could they do this

1128
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: a fifth fight in Africa? Yes? I don't think they will,

1129
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: but they could. Is he has beaten the top five

1130
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: at middleweight? So is he versus Jamal Hill next and

1131
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 1: Petta versus Whittaker? I wouldn't I don't think they will,

1132
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't hate it. This is he's best win.

1133
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: I think the Whittaker wins are better, but well, in

1134
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: certain ways, the Whittaker wins are better, but this was

1135
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: the biggest. There just can't be anything quite like what

1136
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: he had to deal with in terms of the mental

1137
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: difficulty and the competitive pressure. This is highly unique. Better

1138
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: career choice for Patana ask for a rematch or move up?

1139
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: Get the rematch. You can always go up. Where does

1140
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: Whittaker go from here? Fuck? If I know, dude in

1141
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: a room title? I mean, I don't know. I don't know.

1142
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do with that? How

1143
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: could is he be one of the best on the

1144
00:59:58,200 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: cage and one of the worst on the mics. I

1145
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: thought his speech on the mic was fucking awesome. You know,

1146
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 1: the joy he felt was only possible because of the

1147
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: absolute searing pain and self doubt he had to endure.

1148
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: What's bad about that? You never had your ass kicked

1149
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: by life, You never had your You never failed at

1150
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: something again and again. You ever tried something and it

1151
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:24,959
Speaker 1: just blew up in your face and you embarrassed yourself.

1152
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 1: Do you how many times I've fucking done that? Million times? Man,

1153
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: million times? You know? And I don't have that kind

1154
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: of triumphant return moment to to but you know, support

1155
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: me in the end, like what what hey, man, if

1156
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 1: it wasn't for you, it wasn't for you. That shit

1157
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: spoke to me. Although as he had plenty of his

1158
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: own success in this fight, it did feel to me

1159
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: like the KO came against the run of play that

1160
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: Padata seemed to be more dominant than he has been

1161
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 1: in his previous fights. Yeah, but he got he got

1162
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: over zealous. Let's see, let's see. Am I the only

1163
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: one that wants to see Eazy versus Whitaker three? I

1164
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: mean I don't want to see it, but not right now?

1165
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: Is this the best revenge in MMA history? Yes? I

1166
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: mean the thing is Saint Pierre losing to Sarah was

1167
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: like shocking, like super shocking, like I remember, like like

1168
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: the MMA world stood still, So getting that back when

1169
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 1: he did it in Canada, right, beating Sarah in Canada

1170
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: the way he did was pretty epic, Like that was

1171
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: pretty good. Obviously, Beating Matt Hughes's ass the way Saint

1172
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: Pierre did was pretty big also, kind of like winning

1173
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: the BJ pen rip. St. Pierre had a few of

1174
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 1: those moments where he shut he was shutting fuckers up.

1175
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: You know it's a good one. It's a good one.

1176
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: Do I think Rosas Junior catapulted too fast a main

1177
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: event card? Fuck? Yeah? Yes, yes? Like what the fuck? Uh?

1178
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: Someone says I think Poton got too comfortable A little

1179
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: bit of both, Like they're saying, oh, I'm they're saying that.

1180
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 1: You think it's the different strategy for Izzy and I

1181
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: think it's Poton getting too comfortable both is he? But

1182
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: if he didn't have this more offensively minded strategy in

1183
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 1: conjunction with Poton letting his guard down, they work together.

1184
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: Who's ko was better this weekend? Is he or Mendoza?

1185
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: I didn't see them. I mean that's where he tweeted it,

1186
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: but I haven't looked at it in close to tail

1187
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 1: fucking Brian Mendoza beating Sebastian Fundora. Dude, Brian Mendoza. Brian

1188
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 1: Mendoza a year ago, was in swing bouts on boxing cards,

1189
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: was on swing bouts, and then he beats Jason Rosario

1190
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: with one of the most insane uppercuts you'll ever see,

1191
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: gets this fight and then fucking sits down about I

1192
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: feel bad for Fundora because he wanted that. Uh Jamel

1193
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: Charlo fight, But what are you gonna do? Yeah, so

1194
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 1: I was asking. He was talking about Massaaal's defense and striking.

1195
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: He just had he couldn't anticipate what was coming. He

1196
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: just he was getting caught flat footed. You know how

1197
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: hard are Isy's haters gonna cope after this victory? They're

1198
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: already starting. Someone says, I understand your bias for Izzy,

1199
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: but this needs a rematch. Yeah, dude, I'm not against it.

1200
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 1: I'm not by all means running back and again. If

1201
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: they run it back and you think Potato's gonna win,

1202
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: I don't think that's crazy. I don't think that's crazy

1203
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: at all. Oh, questions about Kelvin Gastlim, I'm gonna bring

1204
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: back extra credit for that? Is that old shirt responsible

1205
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:56,880
Speaker 1: for your tech problems? Probably? These questions are all basically

1206
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: the same. Why didn't is he use teap kicks against

1207
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:04,440
Speaker 1: Potata to keep him pushing back and load em? I

1208
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: think he likes to have his feet under him a

1209
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: little bit better, and so it takes longer to do

1210
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: that and bring him back. I don't know, I have

1211
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: to ask. I don't know if I'll get an interview

1212
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: or not. I don't know, I don't know how that's

1213
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: gonna go, so we'll see. Would you still give Alex

1214
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 1: the Hill fight at light heavyweight? I wouldn't hate it, right,

1215
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 1: all right? I think that's it. Thank you guys so

1216
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 1: much for watching. Here, let's do this. Let's do this. Yeah,

1217
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: let's do this. Hit that. Subscribe, y'all subscribe. Thank you

1218
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: so much for watching. I cannot tell you how much

1219
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I am so sorry for the early

1220
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: tech difficulties, but we got it done, we made it happen,

1221
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 1: and here we are. One of the most triumphant moments

1222
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 1: you will ever see from any fighter in the sport. Insane, incredible,

1223
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: one of a kind in many ways. But the rivalry

1224
01:04:57,200 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: may not be over. They may do it again, I think.

1225
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for watching. We are out of here

1226
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 1: until next time. Get some sleep, will you? Yes? Please?

1227
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Speaker 1: Hm