2 Straws Episode 1: Invicta FC 28 Breakdown

hi my name is Jessica penny and this is Angela Hill and thank you for joining us this is our first episode of two straws

today we are going to be covering invicta 28 the headline is Mizuki and

ginger OVA and right now we're just gonna get right into the weigh ins so

there is a huge trend with Invicta about people missing weight and I think I

think we should do a little bet we have a poll yeah how many fighters are going to miss weight and this is no

disrespect but this happens every single time and I always make a bet well I think last time they were pretty

good it was only like three I like three people missed away so that's pretty good we're gonna make the card so I'm gonna

say around around three I think three is gonna be the magic number this time what do you think well after reviewing the

fight card very closely I'm gonna say two because we have to repeat offenders so I'm gonna go with well let's see all

right so let's get into it this is the the show weigh-ins this is where you get

to go and you get to show your personality like a show horse so we're

gonna get started with this way in this live ceremony away in but uh first

things first we have a ring-card bully on this card a ring-card boy this you

distinctly remember Invicta FC president yes Shannon now knowing that they would

never she said it in her best Dana White voice no [ __ ] men will never hold

ringing cards in this fight this is a sport this is not a circus act like Shannon up stood there and told me that

she would never do that and look Lori enough so I should never say never just

like our president Dana White exactly he would never have women in the UFC mmm-hmm here we are men's right

so look at this guy hey obviously he was brought in as a ring-card boy because he

has girls hair like I mean that's the thing that makes us stand out against all of the ring guard boys who are on

the table for this we're taking from the

UFC roster I can think yeah well it's a nice city gotta he got like

a little four pack for this I obviously cut wait for his ring card boy they're

dead um however I would have liked to see it a little bit more costing with

his main yeah he's gonna lose Thank You obvious lies it's naturally wavy hair

and that can be a problem when you get down to the end it can get quite Cocker Spaniel Irish yeah and it's really

important to texturize I like I would have just put a little bit of product and a little yeah a little ease yeah

yeah I like how am I like how uh who's that Natasha like no she's kind of

holding this hand guiding them to the correct spot no honey you stand there no

stand right there there you go good boy oh look at Elias standing like like

hello I'm the king of Mormons and these are my mini lives yeah he's just like me

they're recruiting for the next season of Sister Wives hey they are in Salt Lake City right we're on to you men who

work on Sedona good job well quite I am a little disappointed that he's not wearing specta I mean come on you're a ring-card

boy you gotta flaunt the stuff but you know what he looks like he could be in a salt and pepper video and and I'm kind

of digging it I'm kind of digging it a little bit more grease on the ABS all right here we go they're like I mean

more power to am I no many men that would have the balls Rob to get up in there and work it with

those beautiful ring ladies so I had to talk to you good job good job all right let's get

started with our viewing of Invicta FC 28 Mizuki and gentil roba our host TJ

DeSantis looking like dana white dress by drew Carey oh yeah it's like

alternate universe dana white if he never taught boxercise eyes okay

oh we got a little fake Jojo in the air little pint-sized Jojo this looks like

she's been put in the squish machine yeah the shrinker the shrinker taken down to a 105 sighs yeah the only way

she'd ever be a little by Bert Gillian the core serous is Rebecca Levine it's

looking looking pretty solid looks like a solid atom weight matchup I mean queen of Adam wait Jessica penny should know

I'm definitely excited to see the atom weight division grow again I'm always petitioning for it to come to the UFC so

I can go back to my true home however however that adds to show them no y'all

seen it oh but I

you know Rebecca Levine is actually French Oh is she yeah you know her last

name is actually French for vine

all right so we have a carry that we have a carry Kinison vs chelsea Chandler

not to be confused with Chelsea Handler Oh Oh check out this is an angry feline

girls like Iannetta Diaz brother channeling do oh

look it even has the elevated flex pose yeah she looks real angry I don't know

why she's angry because she's already eaten ain't no it's already properly hydrated any of these girls are well I love early

wins Yeah right like who's getting better you come in looking healthy for the fancy one that I really choose in

life where it's great you show it whenever you want in early wins but oh did you see that side as she gave her

she gave her a mat aside I like she wanted to like see if the girl was still

flexing but like not turn her head so she can't she was right no she can i if she could rest cuz she's still not

properly hydrated sore muscles were probably so next up on stage is walking

in K Henson who is fighting our new teammate miss kau Schwartz yeah 50 Cal holiday

the holiday airlines gonna suplex a [ __ ] we need to talk about Kate Hansen

shape like what okay how do you feel about everyone sit down okay how do you

feel about a girl wearing a pro gun pro life pro guide shirt two lanes listen

me personally I I don't know that it was in great taste I don't know that you know what to each

their own but I I don't know if I would use Invicta Williams to talk about my

political views yeah and I mean just your pro-gun correct like you have them

for them you know they do yeah yeah you're American like it's cool to you

know have certain tastes and be about certain things but I mean you're on a female fight card and personally I feel

like it's a female's choice to do what they want with their body and you're on an all-female card you're automatically

polarizing yourself on this card so it's it's just a weird thing to do

you know the good thing is she's not gonna have a choice when Cal spikes there on the head tomorrow moving on hey

oh yeah this that's our girl girl Cal 50 Cal holiday holiday Airlines and you

know I'm really excited for this fight she's strong she's aggressive and that girl can wrestle she can wrestle her ass

off yeah she can so this is a really exciting strawweight matchup for Angela and I personally because we have our

teammate Cal Schwartz 50 Cal fighting kay Hansen and 50 Cal is won in wine

she's more notably known for giving Tiffani benzos her second defeat as an

MMA fighter second defeat you say yes and she is squaring up against someone

who is want to know with a very impressive submission win so both of these women have pretty similar styles

when when we say that we are gonna see them probably go for the ground unless one of them has a surprise in their

pocket and one of them is gonna try and stand and keep the other person out of their comfort zone which is not

necessarily a bad game plan um yeah you know a cow's last fight she lost via

armbar she hit a really nice throw but then got caught up in the grappling game and you know notably the girl missed

weight that she was fighting but it is a weakness that she's been working on so it'll be nice to see her fighting an

opponent who has similar experience and is a grappler because that's gonna show how much she's improved if she has so

I'm looking forward to this I think cow is gonna get that win I also think this

little girl is gonna get some learning done they're both representing America

it's gonna be America versus America kind of fight to jarheads going into the

trenches brother versus brother sis's first so are you attacking White House

last opponent miss wait let's let's talk about this this is kind of an ongoing problem with Invicta we have one person

so far on the card that has missed wait these both ladies weighed in at the appropriate weight and congrats and

let's talk about this sometimes you know it's it's kind of crazy to me that people we have repeat offenders like

they didn't go back to the drawing board and they didn't change up their strategy and make the weight or they didn't realize that probably they don't belong

in that weight class and and you should probably move up yeah it's um it's a it's one thing to miss weight once and

realize okay I either did this thing wrong I wasn't as in shape as I needed to be or as small as I needed to be on

fight week or you know is there's a difference between that and actually just showing up and kind of being blase

about it and saying hey well it's just gonna be a slap on the wrist anyway 20 percent of my purse which is probably

like a few thousand bucks Big Joe I mean some people would rather not suffer and

pay the fine in order to weigh in bigger so so it's definitely an issue I think

if the penalty was greater and maybe the financial penalty was greater or if they didn't award these girls with or any

fighter in any promotion if they didn't award them with being able to rebook a fight immediately

perhaps that would teach them to okay instead of showing up awfully I'm going

to fight in my weight class that I should be fighting in or I'm gonna use I'm gonna be disciplined and show up on

wait for the next fight instead of showing up big and coming in with a huge size advantage against my opponent I

mean it's really unfair because you put the impulse the opponent in an awkward situation where they've already went

through a fight camp they're most likely 90% not gonna say no to this fight

because they've so much time and energy into making way in getting there and being in shape or

ready to fight this person and they want that exposure so no one most people especially at this level aren't gonna

say no to a fight if the fighting misses wait even if it's by like five pounds

and even though five pounds doesn't seem that much to a normal person like like you guys five pounds on way and a is

about thirty pounds the next day so it really makes a huge difference it makes

it make different and it's also not to mention it's it's unhealthy for your body and luckily a lot of promotions

have adapted this early weigh-ins things so you're getting over 24 hours to weigh in which is which is huge with your

recovery so it's it's a lot easier to kind of cut a little bit more weight and then recover properly so it is a health

issue it is a professionalism issue and I'm really hoping that people kind of step up and find their proper you know

regimen for losing weight or find the proper weight class yeah I'm really excited that EF sees finally let in the

25 is the 125 is because now you're not gonna see these people dying to make 115

like you're seeing a lot of girls moving up to a weight class are more comfortable with and it's gonna be

better for everyone yeah I mean it's it's where the opportunity is and so everybody wants the opportunity to fight

in the UFC 135 it's it's a huge weight class it's not necessarily the most

natural weight classes for women 115 125 is a little bit more of an average weight class for women and it's a lot

easier to cut more weight than it is to kind of bulk and build up I'm coming from 105 pounds and I'd love to see that

weight class in the UFC in one day I don't know if it'll happen however but I

I think the more weight class is the better and I think the better it will be for everybody involved we'll see less

people making you know mistakes and missing weight we'll see more people fighting in proper weight classes and

and more competitive fights for that matter you see these lopsided matchups where people are overpowering other people and and

it'll be great for the audience exactly free fat straw weights all right up next

for another featured bout we have Cal pop-tart Robbins against Pearl Gonzalez

Talley like California knows how to

party that's not at all how is it wait no that

was how to party talking about Pro

Gonzalez we have an ex UFC fighter um working her way back up the Rings

probably trying to get back into the UFC I'm Julia dreams do come true ladies and

gentlemen make it happen to you from The Ultimate Fighter house yeah turn out

that cage I'm excited for parole I think it's gonna be a good move for her she can really figure out her style I think

she was kind of thrown to a lot of tough competition she's she's been doing it

for a while huh she has but but lacks like the the big stage expand yeah and I

mean unless you've been underneath those big UFC lights like really nothing compares to it there's there's nothing

like that those those first fight nerves and it's just it's really difficult to

kind of get your bearings while you're facing really stiff competition so I believe Invicta is a great place where

to get experienced I'm really excited to see what she can do and she's facing somebody with a very similar style in

pop tart so that's definitely good mag yeah like you girls coming forward

hitting each other and pushing each other against the cage and wrestling for that clinch wrestling for that superior

position um anyway let's talk about what

pearls wearing look at that pearl necklace why was girls why would she wear a girl necklace

like that's so [ __ ] dated oh yeah hey

I guess it makes sense but I mean isn't that kind of like you wearing like a string of pasta like [ __ ]

preschoolers make no no what Hostin necklace you know how much a pearl necklace cost or like me like that's

like expensive old lady [ __ ] I like me like verses Kendrick running up a hill

versus kindergarten are two now finish it yeah well who knows if it's real

girls well she's a real pearl hey I mean she does look like every rapper is baby

mamas so she could've got girls from anybody I wonder how many times Manolo

made a pearl necklace joke on the way Oh [ __ ] Millions you know you know if anybody know who Manila is is a guy go

like this in the background over here my infamous UFC and Invicta photo bomber

yeah he's always shown us that he's great he's an awesome guy yes yeah comedy pure company and Callie

Robbins she had the fight with Sharon Jacobson it was like an insane like 30

seconds of a fight they were somebody got thrown someone got hit and then Callie robbing it with the armbar finish

so um this girl is tough and she doesn't give up I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be a tough fight for pearl

and then talking about people who cut a lot of weight and probably could go up to flyweight honestly um I'm always

interested to see these these bigger straw weights who could kind of bridge that gap and go to and go to flyweight

I'm always there just seeing their gas tank so if there's fight goes the distance I'm really interested to see how their bodies hold up over time with

cutting so much weight you it tends to wear on your body and your body actually doesn't perform as well as it used to in

your early times going for that weight mm-hmm we shall see moving on next up we

have Milan ado David and we have Christina marks both women have have

been either in or close to the UFC Christina marks was a cast in the ultimate

fighters my ex yeah and do they ever had a short stint in the UFC so we have

Christina marks who is primarily a striker yeah I'd say it'll be interesting to see how her ground game has progressed

because I feel like that's been kind of her Achilles heel she really doesn't have the best ground awareness though

she's very strong very agile and and a pressure fighter I'd really like to see

a little bit more roundedness yeah well-roundedness from her yeah it definitely seems like I mean you look at

her record she's kind of like half and a half so you can tell that there she definitely has strengths but the

weakness is she's not really sharing up so it's it'd be nice to see some time

for the progression with this fight and it's really important in between fights

to really do your homework to to study each each competition you make whether you win or lose it's really

important to go back to the drawing board and just kind of look at things that you did well could have done better

and want to improve on so each fight is an opportunity to learn something and

then each time in between your fight camps is the time to learn and grow and

I'd really love to see that from her I really want to see it from from every fighter because that's you know that's

what we're all here for mixed martial artists always need to learn and grow and press I think doody Ava's got this one um I

don't know she's the stockier fighter she just seems more well-rounded and I

don't know from my experience I feel like the person with the stronger grappling or at least the stronger wrestling is usually able to get that

win it really has been been truing in most cases if you have good grappling

awareness and you have the ability to take somebody out of their comfort zone take him to the ground and that's

exactly the gameplan that I would have against Kristina marks yeah she's notoriously lacks ground

awareness so I would definitely take her to where she's not comfortable I don't want to fight somebody where they're extremely comfortable I'm strong and

confident I'm gonna take him out of that if you were an alligator and you saw a

gazelle lapping up water would you go on to the

land to eat them or would you drag them into the pond longest road to the

analogy I was trying to say but I didn't want to stutter cheers in the flyweight

division we have deanna vitamin d bennett who is our second person that

just miss wheet but we'll get back to that yeah she is versus logo Jim Karina

Rodriguez Karina Rodriguez man she is um she's a legit striker she's come to

train with us a couple times and you know the girl has hands she's definitely a boxer she has that Mexican boxing

style and you know she's at level gym so she has great training partners yeah I

mean she's surrounded by a really strong female team and and you can only improve

from there yeah surrounded by other strong female fighters also um you know uncommon fact wait what do you say

little-known fact also little-known fact all the girls at Lobo

don't have any teeth okay look at her if you go through the photos you'll never

see any of the girls on Lobos smile with teeth look at Rodriguez Grasso

big Raza was it named uh yeah no teeth

no teeth smiles ever they always smile their game face that's their game face

it's koi it's a koi game Paige it's a coy smile it's like I'm gonna like I'm smirking I'm gonna punch you think about

it if I were a crocodile attacking a gazelle

would I show my teeth before I attack or would I first approached him like this

[Laughter]

signature game face leave those girls alone so we have we have Karina

Rodriguez very strong striking again I'd like to see a little bit more well-roundedness um she trains with a

great team of females and she's actually training with somebody who has a win

over her yay

I did I was creeping hard it was a I

think I thought I might have had a fight against Grasso and so I was creeping on

them he knows a tough fight I think it was Grasso's first tough fight in her career and that's probably what made her

go to train with them that just the mutual respect for each other I absolutely love seeing that on me being

a person that grew up in a predominantly male gym it is it is see me so amazing

yet able to train with with females I have I have you I have other great so it

just it really helps your grandma progress when you're training against people that you're actually like so they

get you work yeah exactly it's always surprising when you come from an all-male gym to see how

competitive it is when you spar with a woman like you fight it you forget that

there's other girls like you other girls out there that are just like you who are you know the best female in the gym and

so they never have anyone that can really given work and so that's what happened with the Carina and Grasso and

it's it's awesome it's awesome to see all the little girl clicks forming and you're just gonna see more and more

competitiveness the longer the sports goes on for women I think about when I first started and wanting to compete

trying to find wood high fives trying to find MMA fighters trying to find you know grappling opponents and tournaments

it was just it was near impossible and me being on the smaller spectrum or smaller side of the spectrum it was

just it seemed impossible I never got the kind of competition nor the kind of

training that that I really needed until like only a few years ago really yeah imagine if a crocodile no no actually I

was gonna say imagine if a flyweight let's say if a male flyweight like you

know Datsun or Demetrius Johnson yeah imagine if guys could only lose a

heavyweight like Cain Velasquez or something like that they neither of them would ever get the the training that

they needed you know like that if it would just won't work you know it was like the pieces don't fit so it's good

to see girl groups farming and you know it's just gonna make the sport better I

absolutely agree and so opposite of Karina Rodriguez we have Deanna

vitamin-d Bennet and I'm sorry to say I'm not sorry to say we have two people

that miss weight which means I'm right that's like led to this vitamin Doritos

so Danny Bennett who was a member of the

last flyweight Ultimate Fighter for all women yeah um she she did fairly well

she's actually had some really impressive wins she behaved yeah she's

beat Penn Giuliana ping yet uh who else she has beat oh my goodness

Jennifer Maya Colleen Schneider oh wow she has a really you know like slightly

division you know guys the fly make the fly who hates division isn't that

familiar to most people just because they just got it reduce to the UFC but like Jennifer

Juliana Pena calling Schneider Maya they're all like really really good

fighters also division yeah so it's it's really impressive that she was able to

beat these people but I don't know I felt like there's always some extra thing that we don't know about with

Bennett when she shows up like I feel like there's always a little bit of drama or like some some kind of

magnified forces I know when she was on the show her father died or her father

just died and you know I feel like it's just like one of these invisible things

that we never really are we never really know about a fighter and it affects

their performance when you see that they're hot or cold there's something going on there and a lot of times is

mental absolutely inconsistency it really does stem from your personal life there there

is just there there's always something that can hold a fighter back and that

can sometimes be your personal life I mean you're constantly in the gym dealing with all of this this adversity

and then to have it in your private and personal life just just adds to it and that can really deeply affect your

performance yeah another nut she missed weight she's also a repeat

offender and I don't know I feel like that that has something to do with some

outside forces what their tune well what's whities obviously she takes it seriously she she wants to be a

competitor you know she's been doing it for a long time so there has to be something else that's stopping her from

showing up and making a weight like professional and there is also the fact

that she has miss weight at 115 115 and this is 125 and she's missed wait this

this girl jumps up and down I mean she's fought the former Invicta FC champion in

Sousa and she was dropped by a liver shot and I I really do attribute that to cutting the huge

we cut that her liver was like right here like right outside of her rib it really it really wasn't hanging out on

her skin there's just no way you can recover from that yeah dramatic of a weight cut and

and still expect to perform at your best and so it's it's wild to me that we see somebody who has has made you know that

115-pound area and then she misses me though man sighs yeah it's just wild to

me yeah it's well there's definitely something going on but you know Bennet like to her credit she always brings it

it's always an exciting fight and she's in her hometown so um so I'm expecting to see like a really nuts fight like I'm

expecting them to both come to the center um I think Karina's gonna have the sharper striking

I think she's gonna land some bombs and you know I don't know I I think she

could possibly not bend it out just because her chins been tested or Chin's been like she's been TKO'd a few times

maybe just twice right she dumped a body shot body fat but on the show she got

hit with a head kick so yeah she's she's been TKO'd a few times so you know

Karina's gonna put her box into the test I think she might get that one despite the the missed weight which is kind of

taking the attention off of the fight this is gonna be a really exciting matchup we do have a really great

striker and we do have a very well rounded fighter Indiana Bennett Annie and I definitely think this is gonna be

one to watch I mean it is the kind of main event it's a calm a event and if Bennett gets it to the ground she

definitely has a chance of finishing it looks like we got a little cosplay today with the gender over you recognize that

KK I don't it says what piece

it's the dude with the punch the ideas like the really strong punch anyway straw hat and boy shorts and we need a

side-by-side but yeah that's one piece that's what well maybe it's not maybe maybe she just likes a hat but yeah it

kind of looks like cosplay so i'ma jump on that and for our main event event we

have Jean J roba and Mizuki we have an undefeated Brazilian fighter who is bringing a bit of mystique to this to

this matchup and we have Mizuki who's kind of a staple with Invicta FC been there since she was 17 years old yeah

that's crazy I think maybe even 16 like she she was fighting in Japan was young she yes oh you're young like I was

watching her before I started MMA and she's younger than me so I feel pretty old

[ __ ] you Mizuki does getting the

strawweight title who um I'm a little

disappointed that I didn't get to officially here in the belt of every but uh up with this is you kidding in my

wire so they're gonna be fighting for this bad boy um you know it's it's great

to see Invicta finally should've put it on she's that way I didn't plan that it

was just there but since I'm here I guess just put it on you might as well

yeah do you wear that to the grocery store um every now and then

where they're insects yeah we have this

trolley a championship bout coming up for the main event um I'm happy that

they're finally getting the title fight going because it really puts it really

puts important its back into the strawweight division when you don't have a champion because they got pulled away

to the fight one of the top contenders oh and they had no one else to fight

them when you have a when you don't have a champion for division it's it's really

hard to you know have the girls work towards something so I feel like now

that they finally have these two up there and you know mizuki definitely deserves a shot even though she came in

last minute and then you have this undefeated brazilian girl who's actually like beat some legit competition is it's

gonna put importance back into the strawweight division you're gonna have people like calling them out it puts a

target on us and fighters back and then you know you're able to see who's gonna

be the next prospect so that being said you being the the former queen of the

starway division in the victor FC who do you see winning this matchup um you know I think I think Mizuki has

been tested more you know whenever I see an undefeated fighter I've I don't know

something to me feels like they have the potential to break as opposed to a fighter who's felt that loss they've

gone back they've really lost and they're able to fix those mistakes and

come back a stronger fighter despite Chanda robot fighting some legit competition she still has a lot of

padded she's she still fought a lot of like you know cans people of losing

records oh and to Records her I think like three fights ago she fought someone

who was like two and two so her record doesn't really represent like how many

times she's been tested in the ring and I think with Mizuki it's more you

you see what you get she's fought like people in the UFC she's beat people in the UFC she's

always been like improving and getting better and her entire life is dedicated

to MMA you know like she can't come home without getting a wine without you you

know reprimanded like you've seen her cold she's he's got his eye on her so like she's definitely in it to win it

well I am definitely looking forward to all of these matchups I see very excited

to see who's going to get the straw weights jab Hey this is Angela Hill I am

Jessica penny and thank you so much for joining us on our first show this was two straws and we really appreciate two

straws tune in next time guys cheese

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