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Speaker 1: You know all the you know my you know my resume, right,

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Speaker 1: right now, coming up northeast area. We've got a lot

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Speaker 1: all that, and then some tall, pale and handsome BC here.

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Speaker 1: Luke not in his place the one and only former

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Speaker 1: a tower of ayahuasca power sugar, Rashad Evans, I always

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Speaker 2: I love sitting next to you. Brother. I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that, appreciate that. So look, you know, if

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be some big fights coming up in the

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Speaker 1: so check that out. Put all the ads in the book,

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Speaker 1: all the business behind us. Let's get into the business

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Speaker 1: of doing what Rashad does best, breaking down fights. This

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Speaker 1: Yas Island headlined by some walter waits Michael Kisa and

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Speaker 1: Neil Magni your late replacement of course for Tremaiav and Edwards.

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Speaker 2: I love this smothering style. You know, that kind of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this was a heck of a statement toward the

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I think it's his transitions in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one thing for me to say what I

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Speaker 1: My fear for him was he's not spectacular enough.

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Speaker 1: He can give you a tough out and surprise you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I hate to say it like that, and

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Speaker 3: They have some.

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Speaker 3: You just don't see that from Neil Magnet.

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Speaker 2: He's really good all over the place, but he just

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, we're not.

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Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is he just doesn't have,

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Speaker 1: And maybe the only MMA fighter who has tattoos that

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Speaker 1: Me, all right. There's no real subhead to this card.

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Speaker 3: And you see the results.

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Speaker 2: You know, great transitions, great grappling, all of it just

434
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Speaker 2: seems to tie together and just a poetry and just

435
00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,640
Speaker 2: a flow. You watch these guys like Zipbat and Kamza

436
00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:59,000
Speaker 2: and those guys, the way they move the storytelling of

437
00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,119
Speaker 2: the fight from the way that they set up their

438
00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,760
Speaker 2: strikes to all of it, it's such a beautiful art,

439
00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,439
Speaker 2: is almost you know. It brings such a beauty to

440
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Speaker 2: the violence of the sport.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bill, look, let's be doing some translating afterwards. I

442
00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,879
Speaker 1: was a shocker too here, DC. You gotta put the

443
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Speaker 1: mic over and be like, hey, while we're here'bib, we

444
00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,240
Speaker 1: all know you're not coming back and date his lying,

445
00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,920
Speaker 1: So can you out him already? I mean going on here,

446
00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,400
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I don't want to put any kind

447
00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,159
Speaker 1: of car before the horse. But uh, this guy, the

448
00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,400
Speaker 1: younger Nermoga metof welcome to the vandaweight division where it's

449
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,000
Speaker 1: all killer, no filler. Only when you look at his body,

450
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,119
Speaker 1: I mean it's good god. I mean the guys ripped.

451
00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,160
Speaker 1: You look at the intensity, the motor, the oh god.

452
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Speaker 1: I mean I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready for his

453
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Speaker 1: next fight right now. But Rashad, I wasn't even able

454
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Speaker 1: to really, uh you know, finish my erection on that

455
00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,320
Speaker 1: fight because lightweight's Mike Davis and Mason Jones came out

456
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Speaker 1: next through two rounds. I thought I was watching the

457
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Speaker 1: fight of the year. Rashad great matchmaking two lightweights looking

458
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Speaker 1: to make a massive statement. Mason Jones was coming over

459
00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,200
Speaker 1: from cage fighting, had shown out, you know, a confidence

460
00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,359
Speaker 1: in himself. I was starting to get nervous because this

461
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,000
Speaker 1: was so competitive, so action packed, so awesome that whoever

462
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 1: lost this was gonna never be the same from it

463
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Speaker 1: because they let it all hang out with shouty.

464
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Speaker 2: You're well, it was a beautiful fight, and that's what

465
00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 2: you want to see. You want to see guys going

466
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 2: there and just lay it all on the line, especially

467
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Speaker 2: when you have a big opportunity to fight on a

468
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Speaker 2: card in Abu Dhabi and you're getting an opportunity to

469
00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 2: really fight on the stage like the UFC. I mean,

470
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Speaker 2: for a lot of these guys that come into the

471
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Speaker 2: UFC and just finally get the chance to fight in

472
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Speaker 2: the UFC and just the whole professionalism along the way,

473
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Speaker 2: and then they finally get to fight in the cage,

474
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Speaker 2: it's such a reward and to see those guys go

475
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Speaker 2: out there and lay it.

476
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Speaker 3: On the line.

477
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's everything that the UFC is about. This

478
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 2: is what makes the UFC different than every other sport

479
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 2: is a simple fact that you know, these guys on

480
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Speaker 2: the prelims and every guy. It is the fight to watch.

481
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 2: You can't come and watch a UFC fight late and

482
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Speaker 2: the only thing that you didn't miss anything because you

483
00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,200
Speaker 2: probably did miss something because of preliminary fights and most

484
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Speaker 2: of the time better than the main event fights.

485
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, Dana, take notice of what we just said here. Okay, rules,

486
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 1: all right, stop putting people on the show in your videos.

487
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Luke, good God were shot Evans. Let me

488
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 1: speak with royalty here. I didn't know a ton about

489
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Speaker 1: either guy coming in. Should I have known about Mike Davis?

490
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,480
Speaker 1: Guy looks like an absolute stud because me you could

491
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Speaker 1: tell Mason Jones was delivering early the kind of shots

492
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Speaker 1: that previous opponents didn't get up from. And this guy,

493
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Speaker 1: Mike Jones, Mike Davis just keep coming. Man.

494
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Speaker 2: No, I didn't know much about these guys either, and

495
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,639
Speaker 2: that was that was a biggest surprise for me to

496
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Speaker 2: go ahead and see these guys deliver like that and

497
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Speaker 2: fight the way that they did. I mean, I mean,

498
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Speaker 2: you can't. You can't ask for nothing better than that.

499
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Speaker 2: But I mean, now I know, and now make sure

500
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Speaker 2: to watch.

501
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Speaker 1: Knowing is half the battle.

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Speaker 2: There?

503
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Speaker 1: Can we also lather it all over mine own fior

504
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Speaker 1: out the women's flyweight and the opening bout that used

505
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Speaker 1: Victoria Leonardo as target practice. I'm not here to say

506
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,880
Speaker 1: creepy stuff, no la, no sneaky anything. How about sneaky

507
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 1: awesome As a striker, where's this chick beat all of

508
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 1: our lives with Syad?

509
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Speaker 3: Super smooth, super slick.

510
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the kind of striking that takes

511
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Speaker 2: you to the next level, especially in a weight class

512
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,360
Speaker 2: like this. I mean, this is this is what it's

513
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 2: all about. This is this is the kind of thing

514
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 2: that makes me excited to see. You know, how she

515
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 2: can grow and what she can do against the toughest

516
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 2: of the toughest in the weight class. And you already

517
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Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about, man, because this is what

518
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Speaker 2: we need. We need strikers who can go in there

519
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 2: and deliver, some who can definitely be like, Wow, she's

520
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 2: got something to bring and definitely can contend with shif

521
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Speaker 2: Chenko in the striking area, you know. So I'm happy

522
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Speaker 2: for it. I love to see get I love to

523
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 2: see new talent get birth. That's gonna give these champions

524
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 2: that are just running away and has such a huge gap,

525
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of run and maybe something to

526
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Speaker 2: worry about.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, this is really the benefit

528
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Speaker 1: if there is one of UFC pushing forward and uh

529
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: fighting through the quarantine as aggressive as they did. I mean,

530
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Speaker 1: it is, as Michael Kisa said on our show last week,

531
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Speaker 1: it's the era of opportunity. I feel like there's more

532
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: young hot studs at the moment, or potential studs we're

533
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to find out than I ever remember before.

534
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think maybe it's just if you know,

535
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Speaker 1: if you stay in shape and you stay by the phone,

536
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: and you're a badass, and you go for finishes and

537
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: go after Danis Hart and you're willing to fly during COVID,

538
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: I mean, you could become something quickly, and a lot

539
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: of people doing that. This flyweight, Sue Madaraji, I'm gonna

540
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: butcher this. All I know is he called himself the

541
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: Tibetan Eagle. How about that tall, long ass flyweight there.

542
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 1: Loved what he did against zeruk adashev same thing with

543
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,919
Speaker 1: omarriak Metoff. Different situation, different weight class, but you know,

544
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 1: Stock a little bit down coming out of that Chris

545
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 1: Widman loss, and he put it on Tom Breeze, a

546
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: great boxer submitted him, took him down even Vivian Adugio.

547
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 1: As Cormier would say, Ado Ragio turned Roxy Matafari into Hamburger.

548
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 1: Met I got so many good things to say about

549
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: this show.

550
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Speaker 3: We're shot. I know it was a great card, you know.

551
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a rock Sande fan, so I hate

552
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 2: to see Roxanne get beat. You know, rock sand is

553
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 2: one of those girls who just one of those fighters

554
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 2: who just kind of she grew on me.

555
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:04,400
Speaker 1: Man.

556
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 2: You know, she was not the most skilled, but she's

557
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 2: like one of the hardest workers. You know, she definitely

558
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 2: earned her spot in the roster, and she was definitely

559
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 2: getting a lot of trajectory and going up and winning

560
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Speaker 2: some fights.

561
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Speaker 3: But I mean she went against a killer today. That

562
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 3: girl was tough, tough, beat her.

563
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 2: And beat her, beat her. You know, it's bad when

564
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 2: you get beat in the area where you're where you're

565
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 2: looking for safety, you know what I'm saying, When you

566
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: get dominated on the ground where you were like, man,

567
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 2: if I get her to the ground, she's in trouble.

568
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 2: But then you're on the ground, you're just like, man,

569
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 2: this is you get no wins anywhere. You know, I'm

570
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 2: when that's when the sails get just like just taken

571
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 2: right out of the right, right out of your said,

572
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 2: the wing is taken right out of the sails. You're

573
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 2: just like, you know, what what can I do against

574
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Speaker 2: this person?

575
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Speaker 1: Yeah? In to Roxy's credit, she was toughest nails, never

576
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: stopped trying. She had a couple of moments on the

577
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: ground there. But uh uh, big big day for breakout performances.

578
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Speaker 1: So shout out to everything we saw there in Abu Dhabi.

579
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Speaker 1: We are just a few days away, of course, from

580
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Speaker 1: the third of these three cards UFC two fifty seven.

581
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:03,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to your picks later in the show,

582
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: but we're shot on a one to ten because you know,

583
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: we're journalists, right you know, we're journalists. I think I

584
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: think we're journalists right here. I mean some people think

585
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,439
Speaker 1: we're entertainers. I like to think a little bit more

586
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: like we're artists, you know what I mean? Like, you know,

587
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 1: but I will say that we're also fans. We're shot

588
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: and I sort of had my you know, check moment

589
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 1: this morning. I woke up to do a little CBS

590
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: Sports HQ with Luke Thomas. As we're sort of set

591
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: in the stage, I'm just like, holy crap. You know,

592
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: we we put up with a lot of crap fights,

593
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: but you know this is why you lift them weights

594
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: in the off season, Bill Parcells. For moments like this,

595
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: we get Connor and Dustin Chandler and Hooker, Like, are

596
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: you kidding me? I mean, you're you're your fan level

597
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: right now. You got a hart on from here to Hanover.

598
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 3: Where you a man?

599
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: I got a phoner, I got.

600
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Speaker 3: I got myself a phoner. Man.

601
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Speaker 2: I can't listen. I've been I've been excited about this

602
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 2: fight for the last two weeks, since we talked about

603
00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 2: it last And you know, it's just something about out

604
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 2: econom McGregor fight that just kind of just brings such

605
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 2: a excitement. You know, it's such a it's such an

606
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 2: old school excitement because back in the day, like we

607
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 2: used to get up for fights, you know, because there's

608
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 2: so much anticipation, you.

609
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 3: Know, so much build up before the fight.

610
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Speaker 2: But it seems like when Connor McGregor's fight, and no

611
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 2: matter how many fights are scheduled before him, you're always

612
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 2: counting down to win Connor McGregor fights. And here we are,

613
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Speaker 2: it's on Saturday, and it's gonna be I mean, it's

614
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 2: it's gonna be exciting, man, It's gonna be one of

615
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: those fights, because you mean, Connor's gonna come and bring

616
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 2: He's talking about having the performance of a lifetime. But

617
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: then you have Dustin Poitier, who has just been on

618
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Speaker 2: a tear.

619
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Speaker 1: I mean, this ain't cowboy, no disrespect here. This is

620
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: a real ass fight. And I don't think you can

621
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 1: over say what you just did because about what Connor

622
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: does to the whole business. And some people say, you know,

623
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, I always used this like, oh, you're American journalists.

624
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: You guys just want to suck off Connor because he's

625
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: white and he's blah blah blah, you overrat him and blah.

626
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: You know, dude, this guy brings like an insane amount

627
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: of life to the sport. Like covering a Connor fight

628
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: in Vegas, rashad. Have you been in Vegas during a

629
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: Connor fight?

630
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Speaker 2: Oh?

631
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, It's just dude, there's nothing, there's just nothing

632
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: like it. First guy who made wayans, press conferences, public workouts,

633
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: events that were legitimately more exciting than a lot of fights, Rashad.

634
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: And like, you know, I don't care if you love

635
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: or hate him, right, I don't care if you only

636
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: want him back so the sport can be healthy. They

637
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: guy like, no one like Lesner came close, Rousey came close.

638
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: No one's been able to give this type of feel

639
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: to the sport. So as we know, Rashad with that

640
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: long break, you know, came back a couple of times.

641
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: With that long extended four and a half year break.

642
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: Really you never knew if he was gonna come back

643
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: and get back in line and try to be a

644
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 1: real fighter again. I think that fact is what excites

645
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: me the most, that this saying, you know, Diego Sanchez

646
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: that he's fighting, or even Nate Diaz for a third time,

647
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: which would be great. He's getting back in line for

648
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Speaker 1: the title. I love it. I love it.

649
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: I love it too, man, And like you're saying, you know,

650
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 2: the best thing what I like about Connor the fact

651
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 2: that you know he makes people believe. You know, he

652
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 2: puts such a belief out there because he fights with

653
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 2: so much belief. He believes so much in himself that

654
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 2: you know he makes believing like, yeah, I believe too.

655
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: You know.

656
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 3: He makes each and every single one um like you

657
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 3: know what I can do it.

658
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: He makes cause it's like watching him go out there

659
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 2: and just set these astronomical goals, just like, dude, you're

660
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 2: absolutely crazy, there's.

661
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 3: No way you're gonna beat jose Ld.

662
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 2: You about to get slept, and then he goes out

663
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 2: there and knocks him out in twenty seconds, and he

664
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: just like what you know, it just doesn't seem it

665
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 2: just doesn't seem right. But then you keep watching this

666
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: guy and he keeps on showing and proving, you know,

667
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: becoming the first you know, double champ and all those

668
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 2: different things that he's manifested. And he said, you know,

669
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 2: after a while, as a fan, you start to be like, yo,

670
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: this dude, he's onto something. You know, his belief in

671
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 2: himself it's infectious, you know what I'm saying.

672
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 3: You just want to be like, can he do it again?

673
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: I think that's why when there were comparisons to Muhammad

674
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: Ali at the peak of his twenty sixteen run, and

675
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't you know, sacrilegious because you know, you don't

676
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: have the cultural effect that Ali had. But it's the

677
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: whole idea of just making you believe that no matter what,

678
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: he can do it mixed with the way to sell himself. Yeah,

679
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: big weekend coming up. But before we get to that weekend,

680
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: before we put you on the spot, Rashad, and get

681
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: your picks. We're gonna put you in the damn hot

682
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: seat right now. A new segment we have called I

683
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: don't Know The Wheel of Torture, the Wheel of Death,

684
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: Spin the Black Circle. Let me give you the preface here, Rashad.

685
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: We got ten categories. You are going to spin the

686
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: wheel five times and you must answer no matter what

687
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: the question reads. I'm sorry, that's the game. The pressure

688
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: is on you. It was created because Luke Thomas can

689
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: be Look. Look, we respect Luke Rashad, right, but the

690
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: guy could get his panties in the bunches, right right?

691
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: Come on, so you know I'm not talking about that.

692
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't you know. No, Rashad's gonna face

693
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,479
Speaker 1: you here. Do we have any intro animation here? Am

694
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: I missing anything? Should I read the categories before we

695
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: go to the the spin? All right? Thank you, Gaff

696
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: Gaff producing today. No Jay, It's a No Jay Wednesday.

697
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: Believe that. Here are your ten categories, Rashod, for the

698
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: Wheel of Death this week, and here we go. Number one,

699
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: leaky pipes, sticks and stones, but stuff carried over from

700
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: last week, the tracks of my tears, Stump the sugar,

701
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: money never sleeps. I wanna you wanna Wow? I mean,

702
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: do you know wow? Puke Commas boo boo, wild thing Wow.

703
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: Shout out to John on that one and City cock

704
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: boxing rashad. Can you step up please here and spin

705
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: the damn wheel? All right, let's hit the animation.

706
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 3: How I spin this wheel?

707
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: There you go there, It is all right? You ah,

708
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: you get what you get in this game. Sticks and

709
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: stones is the category. Here we go, rashod hey shot.

710
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: Whether staged for promotion or fueled by dislike, trash talk

711
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: between fighters remains a seductive draw for fans ahead of

712
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: a big fight. Be honest with us here because you

713
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: always do. What was the one thing that was said

714
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: to you or about you by an opponent during your

715
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: UFC career that like legitimately hurt you or affected you

716
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: the most? Mmm?

717
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 3: Oh man, let me thank you.

718
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: You were a part of some of the juiciest rivalries.

719
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: Let me remind you.

720
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 2: Of your history, John Jones.

721
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 3: The one, the one that got me that hurt me

722
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 3: the most was.

723
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 2: It was it was the rampage, the stinky leg Machida

724
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: that killed me. That killed me, you know what, because

725
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 2: I was fresh off that knockout. It was it was

726
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 2: still in my soul, like I couldn't even watch the

727
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: video yet, and he hit me with the with the

728
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: with the.

729
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: I appreciate the honesty here.

730
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one hurt.

731
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 2: That one hurt because it was funny, you know what

732
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like it was funny.

733
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 3: And then yeah, that one kind of hurt a little bit.

734
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. He's honest. Just so

735
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: everyone knows, Rashad doesn't know the questions that are coming. Uh,

736
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: here we go, let's spin the wheel, let's find out

737
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:29,239
Speaker 1: it's a random draw. Oh hey, Rashot, you get what

738
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: you get tracks of my tears. They're getting personal and

739
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: introspective with one Rashot evange today, Rashot straight up, what

740
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: has been the biggest regret of your professional fighting career?

741
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 2: Oh man?

742
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: Put you on the couch hair Okay, okay.

743
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 2: Oh man, this is tough. The biggest regret of my

744
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: professional career. Uh. I feel like when I look back

745
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,479
Speaker 2: on my career, I felt like I allowed myself at

746
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 2: one point to get so caught up in the politics

747
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 2: of the game and the whole like me not liking

748
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 2: Dana and the few that I had with Dana at

749
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: one point, and not getting a fight that I felt

750
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 2: like I really deserve, and I felt like I just

751
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 2: now looking back, I should have just kept fighting and

752
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: kept fighting and just kept fighting because having now sitting

753
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: here being like man, I wanted to have more fights.

754
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: You know, I missed the opportunity. I missed the time,

755
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And I think that was

756
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 2: probably the biggest one of one of the biggest, uh,

757
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 2: one of the biggest mistakes. And also I made a

758
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 2: lot of mistakes in the John Jones camp that just

759
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 2: kind of that stuck with me. Man.

760
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 3: I feel like.

761
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 2: During that camp, my whole camp just kind of got

762
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 2: out of control, and I didn't do my best to

763
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 2: reel it in, you know, allowed I tried to h

764
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 2: I tried to be too nice, you know, try to

765
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 2: be too nice, and didn't and didn't make some executive

766
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 2: decisions that I need to.

767
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: And this was the first camp away for Jackson's correct first.

768
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, first camp away from Jackson's really the first big

769
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 2: fight with the Black Zillions, and in that right, there

770
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 2: was a lot for our growing team who really hadn't

771
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 2: settled at the time with the hierarchy of who's going

772
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 2: to be coach and you know who's direction. I was

773
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 2: going to go undering all those different things, and it

774
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 2: kind of got into a little a weird back and

775
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 2: forth kind of beef with Henry Hooft and my coach,

776
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 2: Mike Renards them.

777
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha appreciate the insight there you mentioned looking back

778
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: on maybe being too caught up in the business. Was

779
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,760
Speaker 1: there like a turning point for you when you figured

780
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: out the business because there's no playbook for a fighter

781
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 1: coming in right.

782
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 3: You know, I figured it out, like you know, I

783
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 3: figured out that.

784
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: You know what I figured out was just just fight, man,

785
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 2: Just fight because I can never win an argument with

786
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 2: Dana White, even if I'm right, I can't.

787
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 3: You can never win an argument with Dan and White.

788
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

789
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 2: He's he's holding the keys, he's holding That's where I

790
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 2: wanted to go, right, So I want to be champion

791
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 2: in the UFC, and I would just allow myself to

792
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,240
Speaker 2: just get so caught up in things that he would

793
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 2: say off the coff in an interview and be like,

794
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 2: oh man, Dann White shouldn't say that, whatever case may be,

795
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: and just start reacting to it, and then you know,

796
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 2: I will get goaded into these these these these.

797
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 3: Fights with Dana, and I'm just in for what you know, silly.

798
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 2: I hear you, I hear you.

799
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: Well done right there? All right, Rashad. We head back

800
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 1: to the wheel. So I was looking down for a second.

801
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: Luke Thomas, texting me, asked, barf, I mean you know

802
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: this is really going to delay your own show that

803
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: you helped build for for this these hyjienks. People think

804
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: I'm the sophomoric a hole of this duo. Let's hit

805
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: the wheel for spend three of five. Here we go. Oh,

806
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: half of America was hoping for butt stuff there, Rashad,

807
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: stump the sugar. It is tripp me a time in

808
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: these parts, Rashad. Here we go. I'm gonna put sixty

809
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: seconds on the clock on my phone. Rashad. Al right,

810
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: there have been twenty two former UFC champions I'm talking

811
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: full champions, not interim champions, that are currently still active

812
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: and on the UFC roster twenty two. That's an error

813
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 1: on on the lower third there. I'm gonna put sixty

814
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: seconds on the clock. Can you name ten of the

815
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: twenty two active UFC fighters who are former UFC champions?

816
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 3: Go ooh former UFC champions active?

817
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 2: Are they current champions? There is no just only only

818
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 2: the ones that used to be champions.

819
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: You former champions?

820
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, you said for them. Okay,

821
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to stall for some time, all right,

822
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:57,720
Speaker 2: Jose aldose one, Cody Garbran is two. Yes, let's see,

823
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

824
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 3: Thirty seconds or show Oh my gosh, okay, okay, you

825
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 3: not to say thirty seconds? Uh geez waity five? Oh

826
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 3: my gosh.

827
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 2: Max Holloways three three? Uh so.

828
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: Fifteen seconds?

829
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 3: Okay? Uh uh dang I m.

830
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,919
Speaker 1: Oh rashot. It was a it was an effort. I'm

831
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: not gonna say good effort. Ten okay, uh twenty three

832
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: there were actually you you named Cody garber which is

833
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,240
Speaker 1: actually correct. There's twenty three x UFC fighters that were active.

834
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,760
Speaker 1: You could have hit us with something as ridiculous as

835
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: Nico Montano right right, there's GDR, there's Arlavski. It's a

836
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: wild mix. Oh yeah, John Jones, you know, Chris Liidman,

837
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,240
Speaker 1: you know, I know it's it's it's meant to.

838
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: Put you John Jones, Chris Weiman, I forgot about these guys.

839
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Rashad, two chances to redeem yourself

840
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: on the wheel. Here we go, Hey, Rashad, fight week,

841
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: which means big bucks for the UFC, big pay per

842
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: view buys to come. But if UFC fighters were stocks

843
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: and you were betting on the next five years of

844
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: the sport, Rashad, who do you think is the UFC's

845
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: second most valuable come out of the under roster besides

846
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor. When you're looking at stocks rising and falling

847
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: over the next five.

848
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 2: Years, it has to be the style bender Stylebinders that

849
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 2: got in me.

850
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 3: I think that.

851
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 2: What he can do at the one eighty five division

852
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 2: and then going up to the tool five division. But

853
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: I mean his ability over all, his his likability, his

854
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 2: you know, he's able to communicate with his next generation,

855
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: and uh, he fights like hell. I mean, he's one

856
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 2: of the toughest guys out there right now. And I

857
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,240
Speaker 2: mean I think he's he's he's a guy.

858
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: That's a great that's a great question, because I don't

859
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: think he's even begun to tap into his true commercial

860
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: prime window. And you know, if he can get to

861
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: John Jones fight, if he can win the light heavyweight championship, heck,

862
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: he's right now in play, maybe along with Connor, maybe

863
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: Shudo as the as the guy who who has a

864
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: chance to get the first shot at being a three

865
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: division champion potentially. So it's that's certainly a strong pick

866
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,959
Speaker 1: of potential sort of brands that that that have next

867
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Speaker 1: behind Connor. You know, John Jones never would have been wrong,

868
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: but there was a ceiling to his drawing ability. Look,

869
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: there's just it's a it's a small club for shod

870
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: you know, like Anderson, Silva, GSP were good long term

871
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: brands that you know, you know solid, you knew what

872
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: you were gonna get. But there's really only been the

873
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: the Connors, the Rouses, the Lesseners who are.

874
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 2: Just you know, yeah, Connor is like almost on the

875
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 2: league of his own. Though almost almost on the league

876
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 2: of his own.

877
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: I mean, Rashad Evans twice has been in the main

878
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: event of pay per views that drew a million buys.

879
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, okay, so you are a guy who

880
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: understands this, all right, I understand all right. Final spin

881
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: of the wheel Rascheck. Look, you never know what you're

882
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: gonna get him this segment because lame here we go,

883
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: Come on, butt Stuff City Cockboxing, Rashad. As you may

884
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: or may not know, Luke Thomas, my cohort on this show,

885
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: is the biggest fan of all things Eugene Bhriman and

886
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: the thunder over there from down Under at City Kickboxing.

887
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: He loves it so much. Sometimes we have fun with

888
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: the name great fighters there. Okay. In fact, you just

889
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: mentioned a great fighter, Israel Atisania. He's unbeaten, he's great.

890
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: We all love him. No one loves him more than Luke,

891
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: of course. But since Luke isn't here, Rashad, let's look

892
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: into the camera and be honest, let's look into our

893
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: crystal ball. Who will be the first fighter to hand

894
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: Israel Attasanya a defeat inside the octagon? If you had

895
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: to guess.

896
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't know.

897
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 2: Well, if I was to say anyone, I would say

898
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 2: Kamza Shamaia whoa whoa?

899
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: At middleweight? Are you saying?

900
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 3: Yeah? At middleweight?

901
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: Very interesting?

902
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 2: If I was, I mean looking at the skill set

903
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: and being able to I mean Kamzak's grappling and his

904
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 2: ability to get guys down to the ground coupled with

905
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 2: the stand up is a problem. Is a problem. What

906
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 2: I've seen him do at Couture's. I knew it was

907
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 2: just training, but I seen he has another level of

908
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 2: skills that he's about the show and that that he

909
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 2: can go. So he's he's my top top guy.

910
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 3: To be like. He can upset some people.

911
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 2: Man.

912
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: I love the answer because I didn't see it coming,

913
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: and it's not impossible in a lot of ways when

914
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: you look at We don't really know yet whether out

915
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: of sound he's gonna make it a light heavyweight or

916
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: heavyweight in the UFC. He could go up and and

917
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: win it and not fight there again, or win it

918
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 1: in a dangerous fight and not want to stay there.

919
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: And we also don't know how quickly if Hamzutz as

920
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: good as he looks that he can become a legitimate

921
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: title contender and or champion and or superstars. So uh,

922
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: that would be interesting if Chamaia became a brand quick

923
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: started making noise said I'll go up to I'll go

924
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: back up to middleweight and fight Izzy. Wow. Wow, very

925
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: interesting stuff there. John Jones could have been a good answer,

926
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: but we don't really know where shot. I don't know

927
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: what the hell that fight would look like.

928
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I mean, listen here here, I

929
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 2: would have said, John Jones. But that fight is not

930
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 2: gonna happen. It's not gonna happen because you don't spend

931
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 2: the amount of time that John Jones is putting in

932
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: to gain this on a size, just to cut weight

933
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 2: to fight at two five.

934
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 3: It is he's not gonna be a heavyweight. So that

935
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 3: fight is not gonna happen.

936
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: All right, all right, that's fair, it's fair. We'll see,

937
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens right there. Love speculating love me

938
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: the fact that we got some big stars that may

939
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: or may not be bumping into each other in the

940
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: near future. Man, you know, no kissing ass to make goodwill.

941
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one really has the potential to be a

942
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 1: monster year if you're an MMA fan, if you're a

943
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: UFC stockholder, so to speak. Grid transition to get into

944
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: this weekend Rashad, we talked about it earlier UFC two

945
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: to fifty seven. Of course, your lightweight doubleheader atop the marquee.

946
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: I want to bring up something I'm gonna ask Luke

947
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: about it later in the week when we do a

948
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: bunch of shows. But I certainly want to get your

949
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: take on it that there's an elephant in the room

950
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: for UFC two to fifty seven with these four lightweights,

951
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: because four of the top you know, five or six

952
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: lightweights in the world. They're gonna fight each other with

953
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: no vacant, no interim title on the hand, which is

954
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: very surprising. We all know of the supposed meeting with

955
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: Dana and Habib. I don't say supposed, because I know

956
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: what happened. I saw the video. I just say supposed

957
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: it about the content of what was actually said and

958
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: taking place. Of course, Dana said Habib's at Maybe let

959
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: me watch the fights this weekend. Let me see if

960
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: somebody jumps out at me that I can come back

961
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: and do thirty and zero against Rasha. I don't know

962
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: if you saw, but in the last twenty four hours

963
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 1: Habib did give an interview in Russian to a Russian

964
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: reporter at the hotel. If you don't know, Habib cornered

965
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: his cousin. Today, He's gonna get on a flight and

966
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: go to Vegas. He's not gonna be there this weekend

967
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: in Abu Dhabi, but he gave the interview. It was

968
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: a little bit cryptic, but let me sum up what

969
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: was actually said. Habib said, I don't have the hunger

970
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: or fire to get back in the cage. He straight

971
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: up seven. He said, there's no reason to believe I'm

972
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: gonna come back and you know, into the UFC in

973
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: short notice. And he specifically said, my mother is the

974
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: most precious thing I have left in my life. Why

975
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: would you put me in a position to try to

976
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: disa point her? Now? The reason why I say, Rashad

977
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: this interview is kind of cryptic because he never specifically

978
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: said Dana's lying, Dana was wrong, and he never specifically

979
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: said there's no chance I'm gonna come back, but he said,

980
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: at least right now, he has absolutely no hunger. How

981
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 1: do you read this whole entire situation because knee jerk,

982
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: I want to be like Dana. You just got caught

983
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: lying to try to gain buys for Saturday night. Do

984
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,919
Speaker 1: you think Habib's gonna sit in front of that TV

985
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: and actually go all right, somebody impressed me, give me a.

986
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 2: Reason listening to what you just said about him not

987
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 2: wanting to diss his mother and disappoint his mother and

988
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 2: the fact that you know, his mother's all he has left,

989
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 2: and knowing how I feel that he feels about his

990
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: family and his word as a man, I think there's

991
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 2: not a chance in hell. But I also think that

992
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 2: there's a side of him, that the competitive sides to

993
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 2: him that.

994
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 3: Might entertain it.

995
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 2: Might entertain it, and if enough zero's come in the equation,

996
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,479
Speaker 2: motivation can come quick.

997
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, right now, I'm not

998
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 3: motivated to fighting. I have no motivation to fight anybody.

999
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 2: But if you say, hey, Sea, we got a cool

1000
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 2: meal for you, I'm like, hey, I want to fight now.

1001
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 2: You know what?

1002
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: Now I want to fight.

1003
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: So money changes everything. Money changes the conversation. And who

1004
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 2: knows what Habib's price point is, And you know, honestly speaking,

1005
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 2: it may not even be about a financial price point,

1006
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 2: would be It maybe be about just you know, walking

1007
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 2: off with at thirty and ol. But going from what

1008
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 2: you originally said, how you started off, I just don't

1009
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 2: feel that he would do anything to make his mother

1010
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 2: feel like he went against.

1011
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 3: His word to her.

1012
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I tend to be more on your side than

1013
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: Luke's of the idea that there is a price and

1014
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: maybe the counter fight is the only fight that could

1015
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: get to that price, and not because I believe normalga

1016
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: Metov is motivated by money per se. But you know,

1017
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: he talked in this short interview also about his own

1018
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: MMA promotion and all the things he wants to do

1019
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: for that. So maybe there's something on the inside of

1020
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 1: that meeting that had to do with help in Habib's organization.

1021
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows, who knows what level Dana would

1022
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: go to to try to make this happen. One thing

1023
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: I will never put anne thing I will never underscore reshot,

1024
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: even though I believe more in Habib's conviction than I

1025
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: do the odds of this rematch happening. There are very

1026
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: very few times you're a promoter and you have a

1027
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: lottery ticket the size of Connor Habib to in your pocket,

1028
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: and if Connor does win on Saturday, look they're gonna

1029
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: go full force, meaning UFC to sit Habib down and say, dude,

1030
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: what do you need? If it's not money, what is it, right,

1031
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: What the hell do you need? Because how often do

1032
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: you have a fight where you're like it could not

1033
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: only break the pay per view record two point four

1034
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: million buys for the first Connor Habib, but Rashot if

1035
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 1: done right, meaning if Connor's coming into the rematch fresh

1036
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: off of stopping Dustin Pourier, this is maybe the only

1037
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: true MMA fight, not including a Dan Paul brother that

1038
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:54,879
Speaker 1: can go three million. I mean, it's in play.

1039
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 2: I totally agree. I totally agree it would be. It

1040
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 2: would be epic, to say the least. But I mean

1041
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 2: it's like, do you remember that lead up for the

1042
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 2: last fight. It was bananas. It was it was it

1043
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 2: was anxiety filled, you know what I'm saying, Like whenever

1044
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 2: those two interacted, my heart was racing, like the fight

1045
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 2: was gonna pop off at any time. It was just

1046
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 2: one of those lead ups to the fight that is

1047
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 2: just epic. And imagine again, imagine what it would be

1048
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 2: like again. I'm sure that Condom would be a little

1049
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,479
Speaker 2: bit more tactful as far as the things that he said,

1050
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 2: because he has matured and you know, seemed to have

1051
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 2: changed a lot his approach when it comes to just

1052
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: talking trash and what he's doing about how he's amping.

1053
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 3: Up the fight.

1054
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,439
Speaker 2: So he's changed in that respect. But at the same time,

1055
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 2: with the blood so hot between him and Habib, I

1056
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 2: don't know if he'll be able to resist just saying

1057
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 2: some things that's gonna just push the envelope of Habib.

1058
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: And even if it was cordial, the build of the

1059
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: second fight and was a dud from that WWE per se,

1060
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: you know, standpoint mean, you know you're not gonna get

1061
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: a dolly through a window this time around to really start,

1062
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: you know, the coles burning. And it is true that

1063
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: sequels don't tend to outdraw the original fight in big fights.

1064
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: And also, you know movies, sequels are typically never as

1065
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,800
Speaker 1: big or as good as the first one. But I

1066
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: just think, you know, Habib's brand has grown so much

1067
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: because of that Connor McGregor fight, because of the fight afterwards,

1068
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: and then again if Connor's reborn. I mean, you're talking again.

1069
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 1: There's no ceiling, there's no limit. I don't feel like

1070
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,280
Speaker 1: we're going to see it. Once I saw that Habibi interview,

1071
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm back on the you know, easy data.

1072
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: But again again, until Habeeb's doing an interview in English

1073
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: in which he's pointedly asked a question and he gives

1074
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 1: you a direct answer, it's really tough to know whatever

1075
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,240
Speaker 1: the hell they talked about. But let's talk about Rashad

1076
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: what we do have this weekend? You and I a

1077
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: couple of weeks back filmed in early preview, looked at

1078
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: the storylines, looked at the mindsets, looked at everything we

1079
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: could do from every single friggin' angle for Connor McGregor

1080
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: Dustin Pourier, part due we know they fought in twenty

1081
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: fourteen first round. Stop it for Connor. I don't want

1082
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: you to tell me how much Dustin's grown. We know

1083
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: all that. Let's talk about this damn fight when they

1084
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: touch gloves. Is it as simple as we sometimes say

1085
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: about fights. If it ends in the first round, you

1086
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: gotta go Connor. If it goes after that, who knows.

1087
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,240
Speaker 1: If it goes to round three, you gotta love Pourier

1088
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. Is it that simple or not?

1089
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 2: I think so when it comes to this fight, because

1090
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 2: I mean, well, you know what, let me take that back,

1091
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 2: because Connor McGregor has has shown the ability to not

1092
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 2: fade out like how he was. I think we were

1093
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 2: kind of all left with that impression in our minds

1094
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 2: that Connor that fades out and then Nick Diaz fight

1095
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 2: and those you know, those fights, but you know he's

1096
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 2: He's shown in the fight with with Habib that you know,

1097
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 2: he did get dominated, but one of his best rounds

1098
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 2: was a third round after being taken down repeatedly and

1099
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 2: being dominated. And to go out there and have a

1100
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 2: great round against Habib after you've just been for the

1101
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 2: last two rounds is a big deal. You know. It

1102
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 2: shows that he's definitely fixed some things in a gas

1103
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 2: tank area, you know, But he's going against a guy

1104
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 2: who who fights in a phone booth, who loves to brawl,

1105
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 2: who's able to tap into that other guy to bring

1106
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 2: out that mentality that it takes to go down the

1107
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 2: stretch and really trust that you're gonna come out the

1108
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:27,359
Speaker 2: other end of those fifty to fifty exchanges when both

1109
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,959
Speaker 2: guys are swinging and the first guy lands a punch.

1110
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 2: I mean, it takes a certain mindset to do what

1111
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 2: Dustin Poyer has been able to do that been doing lately,

1112
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 2: and it kind of makes me wonder, like, how is

1113
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 2: Connor McGregor gonna be able to handle that kind.

1114
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 3: Of a fight. I mean, we know that he has

1115
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 3: the fight ending power in the.

1116
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 2: Left hand, but what happens to that left hand after

1117
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 2: it gets a little bit tired from grappling and all

1118
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 2: the things that I think that Dustin Poyer should come out.

1119
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 2: And do you know, if I was Dustin Poyer, I

1120
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,399
Speaker 2: was being his coach, the first thing I would tell

1121
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 2: Dustin is, listen, what we're gonna do is we're gonna

1122
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 2: try to grapple with Connor as much as we can

1123
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,240
Speaker 2: get him to, trying to get those the lactic acid

1124
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: out of that that in that arm, and that would

1125
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 2: mess up his power, and that will mess up his accuracy.

1126
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 2: And when you look at that left hand, it's all

1127
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 2: about accuracy and power. So grappling early can definitely take

1128
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 2: a little bit of steam off that left hand and

1129
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 2: then make the fight, make the punches, I guess more

1130
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 2: bearable as a fight go on for for Dustin Poyer.

1131
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 3: Who does get hit? You know that's another thing. He

1132
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 3: does get hit.

1133
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, he does get hit. I mean, that's why it's

1134
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:40,760
Speaker 1: in play that you know, a refurbished version of Connor

1135
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: where that's fired up in the best shape possible, adding

1136
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: new tricks. That that it's in play, he could get

1137
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: a first round stop. But just you know, is it likely?

1138
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, you know, that's certainly something

1139
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 1: we have to find out. But Dustin Potriet can be hurt.

1140
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: Finished is maybe another story, but he certainly can be hurt.

1141
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: So it's out there, it's in play. One thing I

1142
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,439
Speaker 1: did see had a great interview I thought with Aaron

1143
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,280
Speaker 1: Bronsteader of TSN a couple of days ago, some real poignant,

1144
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:08,720
Speaker 1: angled questions, and Connor basically said, look, everything talking about

1145
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: Poitier's evolvement since the first fight, you know, it's it's

1146
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: a it's a plus because of the experience and he's

1147
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: fought you know, we know he fought a murderer's row

1148
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: of guys, but rashat he was in a ton of wars,

1149
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: I mean a ton of wars in the last six years.

1150
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: And one thing McGregor said was, you know how much

1151
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: of those wars gonna help him at this point in

1152
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 1: this big fight. I've been not only adding things. You know,

1153
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of tape out there of what

1154
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor's been up to lately. So do you see

1155
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: that as a plus for Connor at all? When we

1156
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: would normally say that that's a negative, that he's been

1157
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 1: out of the case for so long.

1158
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 2: I think it's definitely a plus for Connor. I mean,

1159
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 2: you know, the murder's row that Dustin Poier went through

1160
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 2: was just phenomenal. And in those fights, you know, taking

1161
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 2: on you know, MegaR puncher and striker.

1162
00:53:59,000 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: And.

1163
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 2: And Justin Gai Chee, I mean Justin Gai Chee for me,

1164
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 2: he hits the hardest in the weight class, you know

1165
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.

1166
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 3: And Dustin beat him, beat him, you know, So.

1167
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 2: It shows that he's not totally like he can't he

1168
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 2: can't take a big shot and he can't take a

1169
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 2: shot from a big puncher. But then you start adding

1170
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 2: the fact that, okay, well he had a really tough

1171
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 2: fight with Max Holloway, and then he also had a

1172
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 2: great tough fight with Dan Hooker, and that adds up

1173
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 2: after a while. Man, your chin could only take so

1174
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 2: much before it just starts to just just just not

1175
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 2: allow your body to do it, you know. And that's

1176
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 2: the thing about it. It's not even something that you

1177
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 2: can mentally do yourself. It's like when that button is

1178
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 2: pressed is pressed, and you don't even know if those battles,

1179
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 2: even though he didn't get knocked out, if that button

1180
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 2: has been hit. One thing I have liked about the

1181
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 2: fact that Dustin. Even in those wars, he took some

1182
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 2: time off, and the time off that he off took

1183
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 2: off was because he was injured. But that allowed his

1184
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:01,919
Speaker 2: body to heal, That allowed his his faculties to come back,

1185
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 2: and his beard to come back stronger. As far as

1186
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 2: being able to take a hit, you know, you're not

1187
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 2: intersparring and things like that. So those are the kind

1188
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 2: of things that makes me think that he can still

1189
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 2: take a hit and he can still hanging in with

1190
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 2: some of the big punchers. But Connor McGregor's power is

1191
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 2: different and he's proven that time and time again.

1192
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: All Right, you know what it's different for Shod your

1193
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: ability to pick fights if people haven't followed what you

1194
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: and I did before the Morning Combat took over on

1195
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: the State of Combat podcast or followed you on CBS

1196
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: Sports HQ where they were Our friend Jakim Dirmis has

1197
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: w mystic Shad for the accuracy for Shod your picks.

1198
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: You know, look, everyone's gonna miss and perfly people can

1199
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: always find a miss. But there's actually fans that DM

1200
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: me one did today. Hey, is there any chance you

1201
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: could reach out to Rashad and find out who he

1202
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: likes in the Magni fight because I love to bet it.

1203
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: So let's just know that coming in William Hill are

1204
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: friends there Right now, I have McGregor minus three point

1205
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,720
Speaker 1: thirty three as the favorite, plus two point fifty for Pourier.

1206
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: Before I get your actual pick. A couple of my

1207
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: friends on the CBS Sports staff are a good guy.

1208
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 1: Brandon Wise was looking at the odds real close. A

1209
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,320
Speaker 1: lot of money if you can get McGregor by decision

1210
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: like plus six hundred in that area. Is that in

1211
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: play in this fight?

1212
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:14,320
Speaker 2: Do you believe?

1213
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 3: I don't think so, man, I don't. I don't think so.

1214
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 2: I think that you know, if if he McGregor is

1215
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 2: gonna come out and he's gonna be looking like the

1216
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 2: McGregor that that can, you know, be a world stopper,

1217
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 2: then he's gonna be the McGregor that gets a finish.

1218
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: All right, you heard that from the mystic one. Now

1219
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: it's time for your pick. For shod Uh, No one

1220
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: cares about my pick. This is about you. The Hall

1221
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: of Famer put it on the line, Connor Dustin two.

1222
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: Who wins when?

1223
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 2: Why? How as much as I want to pick, as

1224
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 2: much as I want to pick Dustin Poitier. I just

1225
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 2: I just can't. I just feel like Connor man, he's

1226
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 2: he's got he's got the power of that power and

1227
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 2: a left hand in accuracy, you know. I feel like

1228
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 2: the way he controls the range and the way he

1229
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: keeps people at the end of the left hand, and

1230
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 2: how smooth and how straight it comes out and how

1231
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 2: how how it hits. I think that's a big problem.

1232
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 2: I think that's a big problem for Dustin, who sometimes

1233
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 2: has to get hit a couple of times to just

1234
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 2: wake up and be like, Okay, I'm in this. You know.

1235
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,479
Speaker 2: I feel like you take too many of those shots

1236
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 2: from Connor. You're not taking too many shots at all

1237
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 2: after that, you know, And that's just the truth of

1238
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 2: the matter. So I like this fight within the first

1239
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 2: three rounds for Connor.

1240
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: Love it. Wow, Wow, big, big, big stakes, big opportunity

1241
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: for both. You gotta believe it's a It's an old

1242
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: I wanted to say it's a guarantee whoever wins that

1243
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: fights for the dam UFC title, but you don't want

1244
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: to say guarantee when Habib's kind of out there and

1245
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: you know, who knows what's gonna happen next Rashad. We

1246
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: all want to hit this co main event as well.

1247
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Dan Hooker, Michael Chandler, this could be

1248
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: your fight the year. I mean, this is gonna be

1249
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes if it goes that long, of hell, I

1250
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: mean I can't wait because they're both action heroes. How much, though,

1251
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: do you think either Chandler's wrestling or Hooker's size and

1252
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: maybe technical advantage will play a role in this I.

1253
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 2: Think Hooker's side is going to be a big problem

1254
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 2: in this fight. I think that Hooker's ranginess and also

1255
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 2: Hooker's ability to keep the fight standing. I mean, Hooker

1256
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 2: is a striker, but let's be honest, Hooker can wrestle too.

1257
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 2: You know. Hooker can wrestle and he can keep the

1258
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 2: fight where he wants to. So I think that this

1259
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 2: fight is going to be a very difficult fight for

1260
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 2: Michael Chandler. I mean, you know, fighting the taller guys.

1261
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,439
Speaker 2: I feel like it's gonna be a little bit tougher

1262
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 2: for Chandler, especially the ones who's so proficient and smooth

1263
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 2: are striking at as.

1264
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 3: As Dan Hooker. Man, I think that.

1265
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 2: Getting in the UFC also, I think with with with

1266
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 2: coming over to the UFC. There, this is a whole

1267
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 2: new ball of wax for him. Everything has been totally different.

1268
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 2: There's so much anticipation, and guys who normally come in

1269
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 2: from the bellatour there.

1270
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 3: Is like a little bit of a.

1271
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 2: Slow start, just kind of like, you know, they don't

1272
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 2: jump right in, you know what I'm saying, Especially going

1273
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 2: against a guy in Dan Hooker who has been who

1274
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 2: been on a roll. You know, he lost his last

1275
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 2: fight against Dustin Poier, but that I mean in that fight,

1276
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 2: it was one of those fights where he's like, do

1277
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 2: we really have to pick a winner because both of

1278
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 2: these guys fought such an amazing fight and and Dan

1279
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 2: Dan Hooker is fighting at that that that lever right now.

1280
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 2: You know, when I watched him fight and in New Zealand,

1281
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 2: you just seen him come to life in a different

1282
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 2: kind of way and really just own that spotlight and

1283
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:27,479
Speaker 2: really have a sense of belief and who he could

1284
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 2: be in the future as far as being championed. So

1285
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 2: I think that in this fight, I'm gonna go hang

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00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 2: man Hooker, all right.

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Speaker 1: It's minus one twenty five for Hooker has a very

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00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: slight favorite. Chandler a plus one hundred dog. Do you

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00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: have a method of victory here?

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00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's gonna be a decision.

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00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a Harri fault decision. I

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00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 2: think that when it comes down to it, I think

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00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 2: that Hooker is just gonna be able to, uh to

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00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 2: be able to keep keep Chandler on the outside. And

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00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 2: and you know, Hooker, Chandler's gonna want to come in

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00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 2: and lay those big bombs. But I think that the

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00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 2: kicking and and and just the knees up the middle

1298
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 2: is gonna really, uh really stifle a lot of the

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01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 2: game that Michael Chanla does.

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01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, best opportunity for a hooker Harrisons, Heidi Fleis's Hollywood

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01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: turn in the nineties, rashod Uh Is there anyone else

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01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: you like on this card? I don't want to preview

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01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 1: anything else, but I do love me some Amanda Hebas.

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01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: That's a tough ass fight with Marina Hadriguez. Any other

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01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: one fighter you're looking at that feels good on this one?

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Speaker 3: Who do we got?

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01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 2: Who do we got? Who do we got?

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01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: The best under card you got, Jessica I Jojo calderwould

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01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 1: it's almost even money there?

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01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 2: Uh?

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01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 1: You know it kind of you know, it kind of

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01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 1: slips down from there. It's kind of it's kind of

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01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: top heavy, but I love it just the same.

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01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,280
Speaker 2: Uh, who I'm trying to I don't have the card

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01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 2: in front of me, man, I'm na namely some names.

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01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 3: I'm not looking at the card right now.

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01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: Let me read Tavares and Carlos Junior squaring off, Matt

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01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: Favola and uh Ozateeer. I mean, it's it's round tree.

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01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 2: You know. One of my favorite guys to watch is

1320
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 2: a steam Roller for Vola. Yeah, I love, man, I

1321
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 2: love I love watching watching the Steamroller fight. Man. Uh,

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01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a good fight. I think that the

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01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 2: Joe and call the Wood fight is going to be

1324
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 2: a great fight against Jessica I. Both of those girls

1325
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 2: were in position to be the I mean, Jessica I

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01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 2: had a chance to fight and she's trying to make

1327
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 2: it way back to that championship level. And Joeanne call

1328
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 2: Thewood missed it after she lost her opportunity from a

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01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 2: fight that she took. So it'll be good to see

1330
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 2: Joeanne call the Wood see if she can seize another

1331
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 2: opportunity to get back into the winning square to actually

1332
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,959
Speaker 2: get a chance to fight Shipchanko again, so it's gonna

1333
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:31,959
Speaker 2: be a great card all around.

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01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: She lost her she lost her ticket to the title there,

1335
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:36,760
Speaker 1: Jennifer Maya took that away from her, so we'll check

1336
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: that out. But he missed his rising Rashad. I'm I mean, look,

1337
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: there's a great fight. But she's gonna be. She's gonna

1338
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: be in that title picture soon. All right, she's coming out.

1339
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: She's coming. The dad get the tattoo on the inside

1340
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: of his arm of his daughter.

1341
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 2: No, I didn't see that. I didn't see that man.

1342
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: Luke of course made fun of it for a half

1343
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: hour because the last tattoo artist. All right, we love

1344
01:01:57,960 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: ourselves from Luke Thomas. If you love what we do

1345
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 1: it more combat, Please like this video, subscribe because this

1346
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 1: week's going to be killer Luke and I in the

1347
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: same area, same building, same hotel. We're gonna be going

1348
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: back to the Bomb Shelter. Breaking news. Thought we were

1349
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: headed to Mohegan. We're gonna reconvene in the Bomb Shelter

1350
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: this weekend. You're gonna check us out hosting the Showtime

1351
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 1: Championship Boxing weigh In on Friday. We're gonna have plenty

1352
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: of bonus content. Friday's Live Morning Combat episode's gonna move

1353
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: a little bit toward the afternoon, maybe like a one

1354
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: o'clock start time, But luc and I'll be all over

1355
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: CBS Sports HQ. Please send in your questions for room

1356
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: service diaries. The way to do that is that on

1357
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: over to Apple Podcasts. Give us a review, click the

1358
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: five stars, say something nice, put your question in there.

1359
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: We'll read it on the show. Rashad. I don't know

1360
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: if that's the smartest format to drink and then do

1361
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: a podcast, but.

1362
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 3: You know you might.

1363
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 2: You might end up saying something that you might regret

1364
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 2: later on.

1365
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 1: We'll seem to like it, you know, I mean, hopefully

1366
01:02:56,000 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 1: Japanese MMA doesn't come after me again. Understanding there, Uh,

1367
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: the man you're looking at right there is the great

1368
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: Rashad Evans, the Sugarman. You can follow him at Sugar

1369
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: Rashad Evans on all Things. Do we have a social

1370
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: media Oh? There you go, there it is. You know,

1371
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: you ask, you get it back, all right, So follow

1372
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: that man. You know, I don't know if his dms

1373
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: are open. Don't slide in note pics It nothing like that.

1374
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 1: Heading over again to Store Dot Show dot com get

1375
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: your morning combat merch. You want to be looking good

1376
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: like Bill and Jen out there in the RV in

1377
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 1: the West coast. Right, they bought some more merch. Okay,

1378
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,919
Speaker 1: get some of yourself showtime dot com for a free

1379
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: thirty day trial. Why not?

1380
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Speaker 2: Right? Why the why? Why?

1381
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't like it? You know, if you can,

1382
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 1: you can pound sand in Luke's front yard, Rashad. Let's

1383
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 1: let's you know one final question here. Luke Thomas is

1384
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 1: a forty one year old male somewhat of an upstanding,

1385
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: you know, citizen in the city of Washington. The guy

1386
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: works out in his freaking front yard. How weird is that, Rashad.

1387
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: He lives in a city and he works out in

1388
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:57,959
Speaker 1: his front yard.

1389
01:03:58,560 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 2: What does he got like.

1390
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: Rack and like all this like ropes and random stuff

1391
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: like come on right, that's like you know, that's.

1392
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's yeah, that's like Rocky type style.

1393
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: You know he wanted to, you know, go in the backyard,

1394
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 1: get a gym, do something. I bet he goes out,

1395
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: you know, picks up the morning paper with the boxers

1396
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 1: with the with the opening in the front.

1397
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 2: You know, you know what he's doing while he's doing it,

1398
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 2: in the front yard. So everybody knows that the neighborhood,

1399
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 2: not who, not the nst with that's what that's what

1400
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 2: that is.

1401
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: That's a fair point. He may be smarter than we

1402
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 1: think he is. I'm telling you, I'm telling you are

1403
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: definitely loyal. That's the show for this week. Special. Thanks

1404
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: for shot, to you for sitting in. Hopefully people can

1405
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: cash out at the window with your bets. Anything to

1406
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: promote anything good coming up for your shot.

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01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 2: Not not much, BC, I just want to say thank you.

1408
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:49,880
Speaker 2: It's been good hanging out and going tip to tip

1409
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 2: with you, buddy. It's been great going tip the tip

1410
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 2: with you.

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01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how we that's how we do, at least

1412
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: in theory, never in person, though never in person. That's

1413
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:01,479
Speaker 1: for sugar Man, Rishard Evans. My name is Brian Campbell.

1414
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 1: Special thanks Showtime, CBS Sports and Malca. Luke Thomas will

1415
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: be back. We got so much content coming your way.

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01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: Until then, may all of your ex lovers be satisfied

1417
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: as your boy BC with two words, tell them Rashad

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01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: we out