1 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: Oh, UFC two seventy two might be in the books, 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 1: but we haven't gotten to everything just yet. Welcome folks 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: to the podcast after the podcast. This is Morning Combat 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: Extra Credit Episode fifteen, a UFC two to seventy two edition. 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: My name, of course is Luke Thomas. I am one 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: half of the Morning Combat duo that is our main podcast. 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: This is where we get to some of those fights 8 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: that just don't make the cut for the big show, 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: but we don't want to leave them out. Okay, so 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: first things first, give this video a thumbs up. 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We'll talk 19 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: Kevin Holland versus Alex Olivera sarag Gay Spivak taking on 20 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: Greg Hardy, Jalen Turner versus Jamie Malarkey, Marina Hudh Driguez 21 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: versus Jon shaw Nan. We'll also talk about Tim Elliott 22 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 1: versus tagear Uhlanbakov, and then folks did want to talk 23 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: about Umar and nimergamnav Brian Gllaher will add that to 24 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: the honorable mention section. I will have some thoughts on 25 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: that I'll share as well. Okay, all right, so without 26 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: further ado, let's begin the show. First things first, we 27 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: start with Kevin Holland defeating Alex Olivera in the second 28 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 1: round thirty eight seconds via TKO. This was a bit 29 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: of a slowers start to Kevin Holland. Not he wasn't 30 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: exactly slow ish, he wasn't really himself. Now, of course, 31 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 1: you notice he wasn't talking at all really in that 32 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: first round. It was a couple of times he may 33 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: have physically gestured like come on, bring it or whatever, 34 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: but he wasn't talking, which I thought was right. Remember 35 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: to keep in mind something which is the greater context here, 36 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: Kevin Holland hadn't won since twenty twenty. Now that no 37 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: contest against Kyle Daukas is not a loss, and no 38 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: one really holds it against him. I'm just saying he 39 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: hadn't got his hand raised in the octagon since twenty 40 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: twenty December of twenty twenty, so about a year and 41 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: not quite a half, but in there since that's happened, 42 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: So he really, I think, was, you know, probably feeling 43 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: it a little bit. He mentioned he was trying to 44 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: fee out the weight class with his comments after the 45 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: fact and in that first round, though if you go 46 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: back and you watch, it wasn't like he was doing 47 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: terrible or anything. He just seemed, you know, if it 48 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: was the weight class where he was feeling it out, 49 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: then that's what it was. It also just seemed like 50 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: maybe the warm up was a little bit different. It 51 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: look like alex Olavera was more fight ready from the 52 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: opening bell in terms of a mental competitive posture than 53 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: Kevin Holland. Fair Enough, Alex Olvera is an experienced competitor 54 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: as well. Hello, he's a professional fighter. He's going to 55 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: try to do things. But what I thought was interesting 56 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: was the corner advice. I wish I could play it 57 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: for you here between rounds. Was just some of the 58 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: most coherent, properly delivered corner advice you'll ever see. Namely, 59 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: you're a little bit flat, I need you to you're 60 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: get encountered with your kick, So I need you to 61 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: set those up first, you know, and I need you 62 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: to sort of regroup and listen to me, and blah blah, 63 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: bah blah. And he was sort of talking about all the 64 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: very specific things and then he goes in and implements 65 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: it right away. And it was the problem for Kevin 66 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 1: Holland in the first round. And again, in addition to 67 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: sort of not having like was it fully dialed in 68 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: at the moment, was from a tactical perspective, he was 69 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: kind of following a little bit what Olivera was doing. 70 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: He was letting him. I guess Kevin was waiting to 71 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: see what he would show him. And that's not necessarily wrong. 72 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 1: It just put him on the back foot in the 73 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: first round from a scoring perspective. So obviously it had 74 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: gone all three, he would have had to win the 75 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: next two. But he did do a couple things right 76 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: that one right hand that bopped Olivera's head back. I 77 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: think Olivera was surprised at his range with that. Now 78 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: he got him back right away. Some of the low 79 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: kicks were working pretty well for Kevin Holland, so the 80 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: first round was not some disaster or anything. He just 81 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: didn't seem like he was flowing. He didn't seem like 82 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: he was really in a groove. And then he gets 83 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: that corner advice. He comes back out and you can 84 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: see immediately he's setting weapons. And in fact, in the 85 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: second round, while it was Kevin Holland who was getting 86 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: counter with the kicks with punches and kicks you on 87 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: your left side, you fire your right hand, it was 88 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: actually him doing that to Olivera. And then Olivera tries 89 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: to close again. Kevin Holland shows the high hand. He stuttersteps, 90 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: and Olivera moves to Olivera's Actually, I should do this way. 91 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: Olivera moves to his own left to get out of 92 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: the way, which is the right side of Kevin Holland. 93 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: Holland intercepts him with a right hand that is fully planned. 94 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: You can see Holland pivot into it, and you can 95 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: watch his eyes. He is following exactly where Olivera is 96 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: going the entire time hits him, follows up with the 97 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: ground and pound. I did see some folks say, well, 98 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: the elbows were not all of them were getting through, 99 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: which is true because Olivera was covering up like you know, 100 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: the sort of the most fetal head over the hands 101 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: over the head kind of position, and that the technically speaking, 102 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: the elbows were being blocked, but you can't lay there 103 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: in fetle just covered up for more than like a 104 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: really really beat brief moment in professional mma before the 105 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: referee from a body language perspective just decides to intervene. 106 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,119 Speaker 1: So I gather that, you know, was he necessarily putting 107 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: out a completely done opponent. I guess not in that sense, 108 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: but I don't really have any issue with the stoppage. 109 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: And I got to say, you saw how rangy Kevin 110 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 1: Holland was for this weight class. That is going to 111 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: serve him well as he gets you know, some more 112 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: reps here. I thought some of his defensive wrestling was 113 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: actually pretty good. You know, none of it's perfect, but 114 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: I did think he had some moments. He was good 115 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: about risk control, He was good about turning into Olivera 116 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: when he needed to. For the wrestling scrambles again, he 117 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: had the leg kicks in the first round. I thought 118 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: he looked super lean. He didn't have an ounce of 119 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: fat on him, So he is going to be somebody 120 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: if you can really keep working, keep going. We already 121 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: knew Kevin Holland was good. This is so obviously the 122 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: right weight class for him. Whatever the jitters were, whatever 123 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: it was for the first round, he got over it 124 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: pretty quickly. He got great corner advice. You couldn't ask 125 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: for a whole lot more for somebody who hadn't had 126 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: a win since December of twenty twenty, had to change 127 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: weight classes, has changed his training environment a lot. This 128 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: was good. This was good by him. He should be 129 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: very proud, all right at heavyweight. Sargey Spivac defeating Greg 130 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: Hardy at two sixteen of the first round. Now, I'm 131 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: not going to belabor all of the points that I 132 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: went over on Saturday night. I rewatched the fight to 133 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: see if I could pick up on a couple more things. 134 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: A lot of it stands. Hardy frames, and when he frames, 135 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: his elbow position rises, and from there Spivak fires an underhook. 136 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: Spivac I think I think he may have thrown one 137 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: punch the entire time he was on the outside with 138 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: Greg in that first round. He was just waiting to 139 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: get underneath one, or throw one and then get underneath one. 140 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: He was really not at all concerned about trading with him. 141 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 1: Greg Hardy does have fast hands. We talked about his 142 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call him overweight in the fat shaming sense. 143 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: I think he's competitively overweight. But even with that, he's 144 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: still quite nimble. He's still pretty quick, and his hands 145 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: were pretty fast, and Spivak didn't seem to want really 146 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: any part of that. So what ends up happening is 147 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: he fires the underhook off the crossface frame and then 148 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: from there. This is why I talked about on Saturday. 149 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: It does bear repeating one more time here. If someone 150 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: has a weight advantage on another person by forty or 151 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: fifty pounds, and the smaller person with one underhook is 152 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: able to manipulate them and move them around and change 153 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: directions and ultimately throw them. The point I've been on 154 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: Saturday night was like that, I cannot overemphasize. In order 155 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: to physically move them in that coordinated way, there has 156 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: to be a massive gap in skill, and there is. 157 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,679 Speaker 1: There's just a gigantic, gigantic difference. This wasn't blue versus purple. 158 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: This was something more like you know, white versus brown, 159 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: or even white versus black belt. I mean, this was 160 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: a huge, huge difference, and so he throws them, merely 161 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: gets him with a head and arm, trying or at least 162 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: threatens it. Hardy scoots to the fence, so he has 163 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: to let it go and is getting his posture broken down. 164 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: But really Spivak can't do a whole lot with it, 165 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: so he kind of lets it go, and Hardy's able 166 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: to stand briefly before Spivak is able to pick him 167 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: up and drop him, pick him up and drop him. 168 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: And then it's the second time he does it where 169 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: Hardy puts his left knee up and Spivak sits it 170 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: and pulls on it for a ride while having a 171 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: body control. Do you remember how he put Greg Hardy 172 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: back on the map? He literally just took his arm 173 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: and kind of almost half nelsoned it from the front, 174 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: weaves it in front of Hardy's other arm, so he's 175 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: catching the arm with his own arm, and then puts 176 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: his hand behind the head and just muscles him over. 177 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: Did you guys notice that pay attention in this fight. 178 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: I can tell you that the gap is enormous, but 179 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: here's one way to understand it. Pay attention to how 180 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: many times and how badly Spivak is able to move 181 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: Greg Hardy's elbows away from his body. When your elbows 182 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: are away from your body and your limbs can be 183 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: isolated and that inside space occupied and controlled, you are 184 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: in deep trouble. You are in deep trouble. That's what 185 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: underhooks are for. That's what when you work from the back, 186 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: over the top, one over the neck, one underneath the armpit. 187 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 1: I mean, how many times I have to tell you 188 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: how about all these camorras you see? How do people 189 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: set up up kimora from side control? You have to 190 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: isolate the arm away from the body. That's how it's done. 191 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,359 Speaker 1: There's a big there's a long video on the importance 192 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: of keeping elbows scooped and off the mat by Browlio Estima. 193 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: He talks about this. I think he did a seminar 194 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: at Marcella Garcia's once and it was really eye opening 195 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: for me. This was, however, many years ago about you know, 196 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: obviously limb control and limb isolation is a big part 197 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: of jiu jitsu, But when you really think about it, 198 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: is you know, separating and again understand where the human 199 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: body works. If your elbows are in tight right and 200 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: everything is squeezed in control, that's a very strong position 201 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: as your elbows move out and you get isolated. That 202 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: is a relatively weak position. So if you can occupy 203 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: that space once they're here, they're in a mechanically weak position. 204 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: Notice how many times that Spivak gets between the space 205 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: of the Greg Hardy's elbow and Greg Hardy's ribs. He 206 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: occupies it with his body. He uses it for under hooks. 207 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: He uses it for under hooks to throw, He uses 208 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: it for under hooks to off balance. He uses it 209 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: as that again, that sort of front half nelson to 210 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: drive him back down. He used it to threaten a submission. 211 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: I mean he was getting in between the elbows and 212 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: the body of Greg Hardy in virtually every phase that 213 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: that fight. No, in fact, he did in every phase. 214 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: Obviously they're standing far apart, you can't do it. But 215 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: to the extent that occupying that space is even possible, 216 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: he did it in every single possible phase. Folks. That 217 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: only happens that kind of control where you just get 218 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: literally run over from a front half nelson. That only 219 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: happens when the gap between them in that skill level 220 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: and that particular department is the grand canyon. Greg Hardy 221 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: could probably train the rest of his life and not 222 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: get close to that. In terms of that particular grappling 223 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: skill set, that's not I don't think that's in any 224 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: way an exaggeration. I mean that gap is almost uncrossable. 225 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: So you saw the results of it. You saw what 226 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: happened there. It was a great job by Saraghi Spivec. 227 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: And on that underhook, once he fires it off the 228 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: crossface early on, he tries for a throw and to 229 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: plant and Greg Hardy whips around, which is the natural counter, 230 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: which is exactly what Spivak wanted him to do. He 231 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: was baiting that counter so he could whip him the 232 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: other way, the opposite direction, and then take him over 233 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: with the underhook, all in one go by putting up 234 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: a tripping mechanism in there. So he faked a throw 235 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: to get Hardy to move, and then moves him again, 236 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: but this time does it on the opposite direction and 237 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: then with a blocking mechanism to make him trip over 238 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: and fall. Hardy never had a chance. Given that again 239 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: with the punching he I guess he always has a chance. 240 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: But in terms of once they started grappling, that was 241 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: not a winnable fight. It's not. It's like asking me 242 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: to sub Marcelo Garcia. It's just not It's like, short 243 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: of him being hit by a car, it's just not 244 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: really possible. Now, I don't think the gap is quite 245 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: as big between me and Marcelo as it is between 246 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: Spivak and Hardy. That's a little bit of an exaggeration, 247 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 1: but you get the idea. What I'm talking about here, 248 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: that is, and this is when I go back to 249 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: Hardy's development. I mean, I'll say this one more time. 250 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: So many people want him gone because of his domestic 251 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,599 Speaker 1: abuse passed, and I'm not here to get in the 252 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: way of that at all. Like if they cut him, great, 253 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: if they don't, great, like whatever. But it would be 254 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: a little bit unfair to say, like there are other 255 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: UFC heavyweights who deserve a spot over him. Yes, there 256 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: are some, obviously, But I mean to say is there 257 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: are definitely some worse ones. There are definitely some worse ones. 258 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: I guess that's a better way of putting it. Sorry, 259 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: but you get what I'm trying to say. He is 260 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: only have been fighting professionally for four years and he's 261 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: only thirty three. There are reasons to think he could 262 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: get better, but I think the idea of him becoming 263 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: somebody who can win in this division at the elite level. 264 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: I don't think that is really possible. And you know, 265 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: I had an MMA coach retweet one of my tweets 266 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 1: about it, and he was saying, it's just very hard 267 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: for a guy to get good at this level. You 268 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: need more regional fights to really get the best out 269 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: of yourself before you go to the UFC. He didn't 270 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: really have a lot of those. He got fast tracked, 271 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: and now I think he's paying for it. All Right, 272 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: we go to the Those are two fights that are 273 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: on the main card. Here are we are on the 274 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: prelim card. Jalen Turner at lightweight taking on Jamie Malarkey. 275 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: Ends at forty six seconds of round number two. Now 276 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: I did look at the numbers on this because in 277 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: real time he looked fantastic and I had nothing but 278 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: nice things to say about Dalen Turner. But it does again, 279 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: no fighter is perfect. No fight goes perfectly. Even Connor 280 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: McGregor got hit in the face when he knocked out 281 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: Jose Aldo right like, it wasn't a completely flawless performance 282 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: in a ten technical sense. But here is the thing 283 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: you should understand about Jaalen Turner that I do think 284 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: bears a little bit of examination. Okay, here is the 285 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: good news. Strikes landing permitt it six point five to one, 286 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: extremely high, very very very very high. And you saw 287 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: that he is so good about throwing long range linear punches. 288 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: You don't see me even his hooks are short, right, 289 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: they don't come wide. He doesn't have like some of 290 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: those Fador sort of Russian hooking style where everything is 291 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: coming out as wide as possible, even those having like 292 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: a real narrow bent on him. And he keeps people 293 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: and his opponents at the end of his strikes. That's 294 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: why that number is so high. He's accurate, he's active, 295 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: and he makes good choices about which punch is to throw. 296 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: He makes adjustments like that number is not high by accident. 297 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: My only real criticism, such as one can make one 298 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: would be that the strike's absorb permitted four point three 299 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: four that is high. That is also high. You tend 300 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: to see this with a lot of very ten baalented 301 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: striker based younger guys, where they'll have both of those 302 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: numbers really high a lot of times. Over time, you'll 303 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: see some of those numbers begin to more readily. Even 304 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: out where some of the strikes landed, permitt it will 305 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: come down just a little bit, but the strike's absorb 306 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: permitt it will come down significantly more. I think that 307 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: would be something he you know, listen, how he wants 308 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: to get better and how he should get better is 309 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: up to him and his coaches. I'm just going to 310 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: say there were several times in this fight Malarkey landed 311 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: a lot, and not necessarily with great setup either. Jalen Turner, 312 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: I think, is when these guys, where his offense is 313 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: clearly dialed in, the defense is still a little bit behind. Again, 314 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: we talk about this a lot with these younger guys 315 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: who were talking about recently Ignacio Bahamundees. The offense is there, 316 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: just got to bring in some more defensive sensibilities. Jalen 317 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: Turner is really in that same boat. Do when he's dealing, 318 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: he's dealing accurate, good use of range seventy seven inch reach, 319 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: and it feels like he uses it. I cannot tell 320 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: you how many times in the older generations of MMA, 321 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: how many times we saw long, tall, rangy guys not 322 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: use it effectively to their advantage. He, I think uses 323 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: it often to his advantage. However, there were times where 324 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: he would, you know, throw a punch, not necessarily set 325 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: it up with a faint or some other kind of disguise, 326 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: more like you would read it and then just kind 327 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: of leap in and tag him. Those don't need to happen, 328 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like that does That's not 329 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: like a cost of doing business the way he would 330 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: prefer to do business. There are ways to tighten up 331 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: what he's existingly doing, and again that's up to him 332 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: and his coaches. He doesn't have to change much. Just 333 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: got to be a little bit more precise, little bit 334 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: more careful, little bit more with thoughtful with the setups, 335 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: and that may dial back his offense just to tad, 336 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: but I think that is a trade worth making if 337 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: it substantially lowers the amount of damage he takes, both 338 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: in terms of his long term potential the kid is 339 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: only twenty six years old, and also in terms of 340 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: just making sure he's around for the big fights that 341 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: could be his if he keeps going in the right direction. 342 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: This dude is dealing. I'm telling you, this dude is dealing. 343 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: When he's offensively out there doing what he does best. 344 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: It's very hard for these guys. Here's another thing he 345 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: uses really well. We talk about Dan Hooker being sort 346 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 1: of tall, not as tall, but he is kind of rangy, 347 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: has long limbs for the weight class, especially when he 348 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: was at one forty five. He's good with those knees. 349 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: Jalen Turner finished him off with the right hook and 350 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: it was super accurate, but it was actually a knee 351 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: as Malarkey came forward, drove it into his body. And 352 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: again that's not necessarily a height issue per se. But 353 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: I like the taller, rangier guys having a variety of 354 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: knee attacks, and you saw that on clinch breaks. You 355 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: saw that when Malarkey was pressing into him. He was 356 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: just really on it with that. And I love to 357 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: see guys use their physical dimensions in ways that are 358 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: best suited for them. And Jalen Turner already has good 359 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: sensibilities about it. So this was a great performance by him. Again, 360 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: he should be very proud. It's just when we talk 361 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: about these guys in their early mid twenty six is, 362 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 1: you know, obviously getting towards the late twenties, but even 363 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: in that same we're still talking about guys who are 364 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: who I know in certain times they look the part, 365 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 1: and he will be there. But I want to make 366 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: sure everybody is careful for the Baha Mondezes of the world, 367 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: for the Turners of the world, for guys who are 368 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 1: clearly bright, the brightest prospects we have in the UFC, 369 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: that's who we're talking about. We're talking about the brightest prospects. 370 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: We got to be a little bit careful with them. 371 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: We got to give them a little bit of breathing room. 372 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: And that it's a short term sacrifice in terms of 373 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: not rushing them. It's a long term gain I think 374 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: for the consumer because you get a better fighter who 375 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: can be around longer. It's better for the fighter because 376 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: again they don't take as much damage relatively speaking, and 377 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: they can obviously produce maximum skill to get the most 378 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: out of their opportunities. Let's pump the brakes. A tough 379 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: fight for Jimmy Malarkey. He did have the good takedown 380 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: at the end of the first didn't do a whole 381 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: lot with it, but he was trying. He was just 382 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: at the end of everything. He had real trouble negotiating 383 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 1: that distance. And while Jalen Turner still doesn't make head 384 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: movement his biggest priority. It was way too Everything he 385 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,160 Speaker 1: was doing was way too much for Jimian Malarkey, who 386 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: by the way, is a good fighter. That's Odo Schmetish 387 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: and now Jamie Malarkey back to back. Those are two 388 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: really good wins by Jalen Turner. So obviously he's on 389 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: the right path. Let's just see if he can keep going, 390 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: and I'm sure he will. Uh we go now to 391 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: a fight. This one should have been on the main card. 392 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody says. Marina Hadriguez a women' 393 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: strawway taken on Yan chou Nan. She wins via split 394 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: N eight. I know there was a lot of people 395 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: upset about it. I did rewatch in real time. I 396 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: remember thinking to myself, I had scored it for Yan 397 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: chou Nan, but I guess the second round was close, 398 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: and so I sort of understood that, even though I 399 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: didn't agree. Is that something I could sort of see. Yes, 400 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: here's what I think happened in this fight. First round, 401 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: obviously Jan Channan, second round was Hedriguez was just a 402 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: third round. Third round was clearly Hadriguez. The second round. 403 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: What I noticed was it was relatively evenish with Jan 404 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: doing better work. Early there was a lot of jockeying 405 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 1: along the fence line about midway to semi the end, 406 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: and then when they started jockeying towards the end of that, 407 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: Marina Hardriguez had a really good offense. And there was 408 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: one moment where Yan seemed to trip and fall to 409 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: the mat, but like face first, so it looked like 410 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 1: it was off this clinch break, so she didn't get 411 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: exactly thrown it more, it just it looked like this. Really, 412 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: it was very demonstrative and it sounds like, wow, that 413 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: matters for a judge. Yeah, dude, they don't have access 414 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 1: to stats. They don't have access to anything other than 415 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: what their eyesight tells them sometimes that instant or they 416 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: have a small monitor they do in Vegas, but they 417 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,400 Speaker 1: often don't use it, so it can what things look 418 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: like actually matters. How many times we talked about guys 419 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: who kind of throw a lout of volume and a 420 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: lot of it misses, but because they're so active a 421 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: it kind of stifles the other person would be. The 422 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: judges have a hard time differentiating exactly what's landing and 423 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: what's kind of like bouncing off or whatever. What I 424 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: think happened for Hadriguez's favor is that her best offense 425 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: came late, right as the round was ending, you know, 426 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: with about a minute and a half left, And again 427 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: the middle part of that round was a little stalemateish, 428 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: and she had the most like memorable offense in that round. 429 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 1: I still think Jan Channan did the overall better work, 430 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 1: but I, you know, can I really complain about it? 431 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: Not really, I can't, so in that sense, to me, 432 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: it's a credible win. Yan Channan getting two of four takedowns, 433 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: no one getting a knockdown. Volume was pretty high in 434 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: this one. Two hundred and seven attempted for Herodriguez, one 435 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: hundred and forty three attempted for Yan Channon. Her hand 436 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: speed at first was great, her lateral movement, her inside 437 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: out movement was really great, and Hadriguez, you know, doesn't 438 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: have really any head movement to speak of, and so 439 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: she was having a hard time blocking and then countering 440 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: because Chaanan would put a bunch on her and then 441 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: get out at an angle without sticking around, so she's 442 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: not there very long. She's occupying your hands and then 443 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,479 Speaker 1: she's out at an angle. That was very difficult for her. 444 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: For long periods. Harodriguez was trying to pressure her and 445 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 1: did some pretty good cage cutting. But it was in 446 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 1: the second round where she was able to build offense 447 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: from the clinch, and then in the third round when 448 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: Shan Nan was really slowing down. I think some of 449 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: the body work had begun to affect her. Hadriguez targeting 450 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: the body twenty five percent of the time, that's not nothing, 451 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: that's actually and for example Jan Shawnan only targeted at twelve, 452 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: so Hadriguez was going to the body twice as often. 453 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: I think some of that was playing a bit of 454 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: a role, especially from the clinch she was getting pulled. 455 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 1: She was actually doing a lot of work just moving around, 456 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: and then much more offense was coming from the clinch 457 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: pros plus Hardriguez at that point could put hand combinations 458 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: get together better and she was able to read some 459 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: of the four motion of chau Nan better. Here's how 460 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: close this fight was, okay. Chau Nan had twenty four 461 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: to eighteen landed significant strikes in round one. She wins 462 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 1: in round three. Hadriguez had forty to chau NaN's eighteen 463 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: easy calls on both those rounds. In round two, they 464 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: both landed fourteen significant strikes each and there's only a 465 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: difference of it. Sounds like a lot attempted thirty four 466 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: to forty five in favor of Hadriguez, so they landed 467 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: the exact same amount and Hadriguez did slightly more effort. 468 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 1: I think that may have played a role. Can't can't 469 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: say with any certainty, but that seems reasonable to me. 470 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: And now Hadriguez, if you just look at her run 471 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: at this point, she has since losing to Karla Esparza, 472 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: She's defeated Amanda Heboss, Vi A Tko and then Decision 473 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: consecutively Waterson Dern and Jan shaw Nan. Outside of Esparza, 474 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: who is next for the champ. That's the best run 475 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: in that division by a country mile, so she should 476 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: get the winner. And then let's see, finally we moved 477 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: to the last fight on the card here, Well, excuse me, 478 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: that's not quite right. We'll still have to get to 479 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: the umar one. We go to Tim Elliott taking on 480 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: tageir Uhlanbikov. Tim Elliott wins twenty nine eight across the board. 481 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,439 Speaker 1: Probably right, he dropped Limbakov in the first. Let me 482 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: look at the stats on this one. He kind of 483 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: got out hustled in the third, with Ulambakhov ending the 484 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: third in a body triangle and kind of looking for 485 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: a rear naked choke. From the looks of it, they 486 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: appear to be roughly equal on significant strikes, and the 487 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: numbers to that are, yeah, about eighty to ninety, so 488 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: that's about right. They both ever did about the same 489 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 1: two twenty seven for tim Elliot, two twelve for Tigear. 490 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: Ulambakov tagear gets two takedowns, tim Elliott getting three. I 491 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: think that surprised a lot of people that played a 492 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 1: role in this one for sure. And tim Elliott's targeting 493 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 1: listen to this, thirty seven percent to the head, that's low, 494 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: eighteen percent to the body, forty three percent to the leg. 495 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: He was dialing that in constantly. Plus one of the 496 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: big things was he was doing really well in scrambles, 497 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 1: especially in that second and third. You saw Ulambakov he 498 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: had good position on takedowns, but Elliott was squirmy and 499 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: knew how to distribute and sag his weight, and so 500 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,199 Speaker 1: you could see Ulambakov kind of muscle the very last 501 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: parts of that takedown, not the entire part, just that 502 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: very last part. He needed to get it over the edge. 503 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: But because you do that, you you sometimes you can 504 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: give up at the real, actual sturdy control roll you 505 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: need for that, And as a consequence, it left just 506 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: enough room. And obviously Elliott has just enough sensibility in 507 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: terms of these scrambles and wrestling positions, some of the 508 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: funk stuff that he does to roll through them or 509 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: roll out on top and get high hips on high head, 510 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,239 Speaker 1: and you saw that constantly in this fight. He did 511 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 1: a really good job of that. Again, he's stuffed six 512 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: of nine. Excuse me, he's stuffed eight of ten. What 513 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: am I saying? He's stuffed eight of ten. That's pretty good, 514 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: that's really good. As a matter of fact, now, the 515 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: one kind of knock on this fight is that Elliott 516 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 1: blatantly grabbed the inside of Uhlan Bekauf's glove. Why is 517 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: that relevant. There's actually a moment, I think in the 518 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: first round between Jalen Turner and Jamie Malarkey where Turner 519 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: actually legally grabs the glove the hand over the top 520 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: of the glove of Malarkey and doesn't let him go 521 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: and then proceeds to like body him with it. It's 522 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: really quite interesting. This was the opposite. You can hold 523 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: the top of someone's glove, not your fingers inside, but 524 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: like you know, just standard control, you can do that, 525 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: and you can grab You just can't grab the small digits, 526 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: the fingers, the deditos, all right, you can't grab those, 527 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: but you can grab the hand. You can grab the 528 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: wrist and the like. You can also grab the inside 529 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: of your own glove, but you can't grab the inside 530 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: of someone else's glove. So he did that. He had 531 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: two knees that were a little dicey in terms of 532 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,479 Speaker 1: the legality. I think they were okay. In the end. 533 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: They were pretty close and he was sticking his fingers out, 534 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,959 Speaker 1: and dude Habib was in Uluambakov's corner losing his mind 535 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: over the glove grabbing. He did it a little bit later, 536 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: I think, in around three. Again, now there's a question 537 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: where those intentional or not. I don't know. If you 538 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: commit a lot of fouls, it's not as easy to 539 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: give someone the benefit of the doubt. But at the 540 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: same time it's really hard to say I can't. I'm 541 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: not in someone's head. It's trying to discern motive from 542 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 1: here seems like a very difficult exercise, So I won't 543 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,679 Speaker 1: weigh in on that. What I can say is, at 544 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: least in theory this fight or any other fight, you 545 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: see how often a point is never taken. It is 546 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 1: not irrational. I'm not saying Elliott did this, but somebody 547 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: else might. And so it's worth considering. If you know 548 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: the ref is unlikely to like, there should be some 549 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: data like how often it does a What are the 550 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: tendencies of certain referees to call stoppages, you know, take 551 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: points away for finger pokes or whatever. If you have 552 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 1: some kind of knowledge about that, whether it's you know, 553 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: collected data or just a sort of a keen sense 554 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 1: of things, and you know that guy's your referee, you 555 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: can probably get away with Again, we've talked about this before. 556 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 1: What makes a law a law is the enforcement of it. 557 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,479 Speaker 1: If you don't enforce it, what is the thing that 558 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: actually makes it legal? Nothing. So if they're not going 559 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: to enforce the eypokes, if they're not going to enforce 560 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: glove grabs, why wouldn't you, Oh, well, that's not a 561 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: way that anyone would want to win. I don't believe that. Actually, 562 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: I believe there are probably a lot of guys who 563 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: wouldn't mind necessarily win in that way. Now you don't 564 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: have to like that. You can hate that, you can 565 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: love that. Again, we're not saying Elliott did or didn't 566 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: do it. I have no clue whether he again purposely 567 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: did them or not. But in the future you should 568 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: think about the possibility that certain referees are soft handed 569 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: when it comes to calls, and then fighters who are 570 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 1: clever might use that to their advantage. That seems not 571 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: at all controversial if you ask me, especially if they 572 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 1: just don't call shit right, like, why wouldn't you? Why 573 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: wouldn't you? And then last, but at least we'll do 574 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: the honorable mention here Umar Numbergamdov defeating Brian Keller hur 575 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 1: submission rear naked shoke three point fifteen. This wasn't okay. 576 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 1: So this was like a weird performance with Brian Keller hurt. 577 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: You know, he was on the MMA beat. I love 578 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: Brian Keller. He he's a great guy. I didn't understand 579 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: his performance a little bit. I thought his takedown defense 580 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: was phenomenal. He was quite ready for that. He was 581 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: wizarding really well. He was getting his hips to face 582 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: the mat. He was making sure he wasn't positionally overwhelmed 583 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: too much along the fence line in open space like 584 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: do his. He clearly had prepped that. But then when 585 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: there was one moment where mermer Made was able to 586 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: get double underhooks and press up against the fence and 587 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: then begin that whole normer gamdof process, Kellerher gives up 588 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: back control and I went and I looked again. I 589 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: was like, how exactly did Umar and nimer GameDev lock 590 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: up that choke, the bicep re naked choke? How did 591 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: he lock that up? He was looking to fight the hands, 592 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: left hand over the top shoulder, right hand underneath the armpit, 593 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: and I was waiting to see, Like last week we 594 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: talked about Terence McKinney having this awesome hand sequence where 595 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 1: he was waiting for as far as zim to go 596 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: to on one so he could grab the wrist. He 597 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: was waiting for it. I was waiting to see what 598 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: was the Was there an elaborate hand fight here and 599 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: there really wasn't. In fact, Kellerher wasn't really hand fighting 600 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: at all. He was kind of rubbing his nose. I 601 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: wonder if it broke and distracted him. I don't I 602 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: don't know, but he just kind of lets go and 603 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: thermer Gamadev just goes, oh, you know, like as well, 604 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: oh you know, I'm left handed, so I can't do 605 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: it that way. But he he just wraps it up. 606 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: He just wraps it up like that, you know, and 607 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: so he gets the choke. I don't know what else 608 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: to say about it. He that kick he landed over 609 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: the top. They talked about it, where he just flicks 610 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: it at the end was amazing. But again, keller Her 611 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: didn't get beat up too bad. He only landed one 612 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: significant strike, which was not great. Although Neimbera made I've 613 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: only landed eighteen, so there was only nineteen significant strikes 614 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: landed between the two of them, not a lot. And 615 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: Nimberga Maydev whiffed on four or five takedowns. So that's 616 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: good work. I mean, that's good work defensive wrestling wives 617 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,479 Speaker 1: from keller Her. Something fell apart with the hand fighting 618 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: at the end. I don't really know. I don't know 619 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: if he got hit with something I didn't see it 620 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: or again, I'm going a bit off of memory here. 621 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: And then the one time I reviewed it and I 622 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,719 Speaker 1: don't remember seeing something like that. But perhaps you did. 623 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: If you did, leave a comment below to see what 624 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: I missed. It's solid or from nimbera made if he 625 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: did everything that was expected of him. It was just 626 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: Keller her had so super sturdy takedown defense, but then 627 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: the hand fighting just it looked to me like it 628 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: wasn't there. It just wasn't there. So credits to all 629 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: the winners and the losers have a chance to redemption 630 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,959 Speaker 1: next time. Right, certainly, we hope all right thumbs up 631 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: on the video hit subscribe if you love stuff like this. 632 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: There's plenty more coming. We have a lot more content tomorrow, 633 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: a show on Wednesday, a show on Friday not to miss, 634 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: plus all the work we do on Saturday. 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