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Female UFC vets Jessica Penne and Angela Hill rap about the big women's co-main title clash btw Grasso and Shevchenko for the 3rd time! Will we see Grasso rise to the occasion with a definitive win? Will Valentina take back the crown she felt she won in the last fight?? Whose nose will be rose?! Comment your predictions for the UFC Riyad Mexican Season Indepence Day Noche Sphere Show below.
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we talked a lot about morab versus uh
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versus omali last time but let's talk
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about Gro versus chevchenko the trilogy
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the trilogy it's so hard to figure out
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what adjustments a fighter is going to
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make after two fights against each other
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especially because the last one was so
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close yeah and most well not most but um
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there's a big handful of people that
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think Valena have ch
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should have won she should have gotten
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that really fancy uh belt that they made
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especially for
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Gro do do you think she would have
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gotten that belt if she had won I don't
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know it was a beautiful belt oh man they
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could have given her some uh where is
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she from again I forget some one of them
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Eastern European countries isn't she
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polish oh she no I don't I don't know I
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don't think so but maybe she is [ __ ] I
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don't know I just know she does a weird
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dance she wears weird uh white flowery
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craigan
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craigan
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kigan sorry
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craigan that's what it says from
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kistan CRI am I saying that you know I
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am terrible pronouncing CRA Dy that
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sounds made
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up I swear that's what it says no it
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does look like
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craigan um but I'm not sure the exact
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pronunciation but I wouldn't be
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surprised if it was craigan I just never
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heard of that country and I'm mad at
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that because shevchenko has been champed
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for a long time like as soon as uh uh
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Yanna became champ we're like yeah
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polish you know first polish champ first
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polish champ they they've do not did not
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give proper props did not remember I'm
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saying first Craig aany Craig aany
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champion in the UFC we're probably
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butchering that by the way if we if we
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said it properly we'd be like oh yeah
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that's where it's from yeah know it
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rings no Bells
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yeah um well there was a little bit of
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criticism from Alexa grao on valentina's
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performance and the way that she comes
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out and she says if she comes out the
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same way that she did again she'll win
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again ooh grass H getting a little spicy
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putting a little tamao on that you
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know uh she said Valentina starts a
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little bit too slow she's a little bit
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too paced which comes from you know her
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Muay Thai background probably they're
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notorious for you know that kind of slow
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starting pace and then building as the
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fight goes right right so it'll be
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interesting to see
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um it'll be interesting to see what
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adjustments they make for sure yeah I
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see a Grasso you know adding to her game
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but also she's had success you know in
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her mind twice with the way that she's
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come out she's put it to uh Valentina
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pretty well with her with her volume
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with her straight punches uh switching
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stances and and grappling yeah now it's
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uh it's really going to be an
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interesting one to see um I don't know
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I'm I'm looking at MMA decisions right
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now and it pretty much split down to
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midal on what people thought not one
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person got the decision that Michael
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Bell got of
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4747 giving Grasso a 108 in the last
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round I think that was the reason why so
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many people were so heated because that
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score basically dictated the entire
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fight yeah like giving um shevchenko
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three rounds but then giving Grasso such
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a huge advantage in that last round
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basically said okay she gets to keep her
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belt so um it's going to be
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interesting to see how chevchenko comes
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out chevchenko actually responded to
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that and she was like so what did do you
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think that I will stay at the back of
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the cage and then you will stay at the
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back of the cage and then we never fight
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because I guess she was trying to
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say she is she is the evil female
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character that every James Bond movie
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needs you know like she has the accent
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she has the RBF she has the blonde hair
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she has like the scary just like
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demeanor about the killer Vibe yeah she
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she is the typical bad guy and they they
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match this fight perfectly because Gro
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is the hero you know she's the deey
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princess uh who's representing Mexico a
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Mexican Independence Day so like this is
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the story that they're building and it
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was done perfectly but
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Chef chenko when they said that she was
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just like oh blah blah blah and I think
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the reason she said that was because she
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felt like Grasso was also not coming
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forward so I think it was a roundabout
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way of saying that but I'm wondering um
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if
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shevchenko wrestles more I'm wondering
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if she tries to get that control time up
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again because she was having a lot of
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success with that and I think the one
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thing that was scaring her away from
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just going ham with it was the fact that
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Gro was able to choke her out in the
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first fight it could but that was such
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like a it was a totally different
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situation exactly yeah so she shouldn't
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be afraid of it jumped on it yeah yeah
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it was one of those those really great
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reactions reads that Gro made in in this
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like small window of opportunity and she
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just snagged it and got it yeah uh so I
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don't think I think she should you know
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lean in to to the grappling cuz she's
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great takedowns she she has a great
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Grappler she's so well-rounded she's
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such a dominant champ in her you know
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prior outings that I would love to see
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her be more aggressive there as well
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yeah same I I think maybe after going
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five rounds of her and seeing that there
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wasn't a threat when she was on top when
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she was like you know controlling the
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fight and controlling that part uh maybe
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she's going to have a lot more
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confidence and just going back to the
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well with that and being more aggressive
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with that but uh I think
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that's always going to be in the back of
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your head right if you're fighting
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someone that submitted you even if
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you're on top even if you're controlling
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every part of their body you always feel
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like oh but if they get that underhook I
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might be in that same situation you know
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so you're a little more tense down there
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than you would be against someone who
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you had no experience with who you just
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happen to be controlling and then you're
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feeling comfortable enough to pass to
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hit to posture up to do all these things
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that would be a little risky against
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someone who has submitted you before so
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I'm thinking that she'll probably be a
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little more aggressive on the ground um
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and maybe Gro is going to be ready for
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that but she definitely showed that the
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takedowns are there um I think in the
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first fight chevchenko was taken it away
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until they got until she hit that uh
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spinning back kick and got
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submitted hey if she doesn't throw that
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freaking kick she might be able to take
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this handily mhm
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but we'll see it also feels like
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Grasso's uh straight punches her Jabs
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her onews they give ship chenle a lot
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more trouble than anyone else has on the
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feet she's so fast there yeah she and
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you can feel like when you when you Spar
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a boxer who has just only boxed their
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entire life when you get jabbed by them
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it's a little different it's different
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they turn their punch over and it feels
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so stiff it's like someone taking a
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broom stick and
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just hitting you with a p no it feels
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different it feels different and and the
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energy that you feel from it is
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different too it's it's kind of draining
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it's um there's a little bit of of
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healthy intimidation that comes from it
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it's just like that get away get away
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oh oh maybe I
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will don't do that again and then they
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do it again and you're like [ __ ] now
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what yeah now what I guess I'll shoot um
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so yeah if she if she's going to be if
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she's able to do more of that I think uh
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she can have a really successful night
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but uh yeah it's going to be a wild one
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it it really is a tossup because both of
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those fights were so close before the
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end happened decision and submission so
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uh yeah I'm excited to see it who do you
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want to
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win I kind of want shevchenko to win wow
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I do
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why I just um I love who she is as a
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champion okay she has this like air of
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Mystique about her I think she's a
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really hard worker I think she's she's a
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great representation of what a champion
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is so is Gro honestly but Gro had the
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belt for a while so I just want to see a
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little bit just want to see the mixup
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you want to see it get crazy shake it
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yeah I want pandemonium exactly yeah cuz
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then we get to see another one yeah yeah
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that's true I want gr WI
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I want this to be over I want Chev
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chenko to work her way back up because I
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feel like when you're a dominant champ a
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lot of times you get an easier run than
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the people coming up after you've
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already done the hard work so yeah you
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get a hard run on the way up yeah but
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once you're there sitting on top of your
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throne you get to look down on all the
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little peasants and watch them work
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really hard what do you think she forgot
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what it's like well no I I I like to see
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a champion work their way back to the
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top especially someone who was so
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dominant you know like I I want to see
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if she's made of that if she's able to
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do that because when you're a champion
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you get like to look at what the best
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matchup is you get to see the best
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fighters fight the best fighters you
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pretty much get your game plan made for
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you as they're on their way to the top
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but if you're chevchenko and you lose
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you might be fight fighting someone like
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Natalia Silva next you don't really know
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what she looks like against like the top
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five you know against like the cream of
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the crop or against multiple different
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matchups where you can pick okay she
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eats this oh this is how you take her
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down oh she doesn't like that jab you
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know what I mean like the champ gets to
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do that and they get a lot of evidence
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on how to beat the person so I want to
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see that get mixed up I want to see how
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shevchenko deals with that and if she's
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able to make her way back to the top I
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got you I got you I like that story and
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also I like grassel I like that she had
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a rough run at straw weight kind of wind
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loss and then she got to Flyway and
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found her groove and she's so freaking
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nice and she's so freaking sweet and uh
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you know I and she has this boxing style
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that's really really fun to look at like
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it's it looks good it's violent it's
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it's nasty like I like that I I enjoy
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watching people get punched in the face
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and she does that a lot you know so I
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don't know I I the striker in me is more
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excited about gr so even though
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shevchenko is a great Striker I just
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like watching people get punched in the
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face and it seems like her punches have
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a bigger effect than a lot of the other
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women in flyweight mhm I got you so
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we'll see who comes out on top
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