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Burns V Morales Recap w/ UFC vets Jessica Penne and Angela Hill
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Jun 16, 2025
Another banger goes down in the Apex, but if no one is there does it make a sound much louder than Dustin Porier's cheer in the Bud Light genie commercial? Lots of finishes on the prelims, a FoTN opener on the main card and a new star emerging in the Main event gave us a lot to talk about. Also Ange has fight news and we're doing double giveaways this month for members! (Click the link to join below) Powered by Duelbits. Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join 02:01 Michael Morales makes history 07:21 Who is next for Morales 09:50 One of the “Olds” 13:36 Herpes takes out the Co-Main Event 18:39 Yusuff v Santos 20:12 Erosa v Costa 26:11 2 GIVE AWAYS 🫨 27:31 Pennington v Pinhero 32:11 Gomes v Reed 38:33 Santos v Lisboa 43:58 Gordon v Moises
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They call me DJ A. OK
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It's early, guys. DJ A. OK on the ones and twos. What up
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Hello. Welcome to another episode of Two Straws. We had some good fights last night
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not too shabby for an apex card i think everybody's like putting their bid in for like getting on the
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next pay-per-view they're like they're like pick me like hey i like when people scream when i knock
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out a legend like as opposed to the crowd going let's go like i feel like when you're at the apex
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you know that stupid commercial i forget what it is what is it like burger king or something
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where the guy's like, hey, what's your wish? It's like a genie or something
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They're like, oh, I want to meet an alien. And an alien appears. It's the Budweiser commercial
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Yeah, Budweiser. Yeah, yeah. With Dustin Poirier. Hanging out with guys. Oh
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Like that's what she does when Dustin Poirier appears. But then like at the end when the guy goes
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we should get in there. And he's like, ha, okay. And then he goes, let's go
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I hate that part the most out of that commercial. It's the worst acting of the whole thing
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It just doesn't fit. Yeah. Don't really scream. Just do a soft scream
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Can you demonstrate? Let's go. That's what the apex sounds like. It sounds like Dustin Barney's scream, his cheer in the Bud Light commercial
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So it's really kind of anticlimactic. climatic but the cool thing is you can still go in there it's an easy work day you just get in get
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out and you can make history at the same time and that's what uh my uh what's his name michael
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morales i keep wanting to call him miles morales but uh michael morales that's what he was able to
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do against gilbert burns um i think we all kind of saw it coming but we also wanted to believe in
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Doreen, y'all, you know, like damn straight. He's he's a legend. He's gotten in there with the best
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He's beaten some of the best. And the skid, I feel like is the thing that beat him more than this type of fighter
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Like, I feel like if they were both on skids, he might have done better or the thing is
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Morales's mom was there. That's true. It gave him that extra boost
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He could he did it for his mom. He couldn't lose in front of his mom. Yeah. And it was a beautiful moment after the fight, you know, running and getting to embrace
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which is something that you had to experience at the Apex. Yeah, yeah. You don't really get to do it
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Well, like you can, but there's usually a huge barrier or, you know, if you're not main event
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your people are like a little further back. Way further back. And the friends and family
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They're on level two. Yeah. In the corner. They're in the friends and family section
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And only the champs get to have their moms in the front row
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On the floor. Yeah. Easily accessible. They can meet you as you're walking out of the cage
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It's really nice. It's beautiful. It's really cute. But Apex, they're right there
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So I got to have that moment when I hit my guillotine finish. My mom and my brothers were there
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So that was really sweet. And he got to have his moment, which was really cool because I had no idea his mom was like a judoka
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And she kind of spurred the whole MMA journey. like the martial arts journey
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So that was awesome. And I loved, I went and creeped on her a bit
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and saw her doing like little newsreels where she's hitting like the judo in and out
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The fittings? Yeah, the fittings and training at her gym in Ecuador
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So that's really cool that they were able to have that moment there
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Yeah, that was beautiful. And what a huge statement that Morales made
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Yeah. I did not realize that he was more suited for 185
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He looked huge against Burns and he looked sharp and fast and explosive
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And again, like Burns has seen a powerful striker and fought larger opponents
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He's, you know, coming up from 155, better suited at 170, but still a smaller frame for
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that weight class. But I was relying on Burns's experience and grit to carry him through the fight
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But Morales just caught him really nicely with this beautiful uppercut that just started, you know, dismantling him
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And he hung in there as long as he could. But, you know, the ref had to step in eventually
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It was a tough night for him. And again, that's four fights dropped in a row against all extremely tough, talented opponents
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But Morales definitely made a statement. And it'll be interesting to see what's next
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His first main event, huge knockout. And definitely catapulting him up into the division
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Yeah, this one was, it was pretty crazy to see. And like you said, he hit him with that uppercut
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He's hung in there really far. When he grabbed onto the leg, I was like, oh, okay, he's still there
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We kind of had a long time where he had a long time to work
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But then when he got up, Miles Morales, Michael Morales. I keep calling him the Spider-Man name
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Just call him Morales. Morales. It rolls off the tongue too easy
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I'm sorry. Even though he hit the Spider-Man backflip once, he is not Spider-Man
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But Morales, he lined up that jab, just kind of put it in Gilbert's face
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and then had one of those huge punches from down the street
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It looks like the one-punch man punch. like that, just like cartoony, like, you know
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and that's the one that puts him out. And he's able to find that mark with a lot of people that he fights
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And it's different, like, strikes every time, but he just has, like, a really good command of his body
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What weight was he fighting at before? No, he's been a 170-pounder, but he just looks huge
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Oh, okay. He hasn't come up or down. He's maintained that weight
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His frame is just imposing. There's a noticeable size. He's huge. He is very big
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He's huge. That weight class, that weight cut doesn't seem to drain him. He seems to be doing it right
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He's young enough. His body's resilient enough. He has everything fine-tuned. Training at Interim in Tijuana right over across the way
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Yeah, we've been there. Yeah. Yeah, it's a great gym to be cultivating young talent
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And it's just really impressive, his command of range and his body awareness
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His feet are always under him. He just has great command and presence with his striking
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Yeah, for sure. I'm looking forward to see who he fights next
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A lot of people were looking at him to challenge at least have a title contention fight next if he was able to get past Gilbert So now that he beat the number eight ranked guy we should see him climb pretty high
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And let's see who's TBD right now. It's Ian Gary, Leon Edwards, Shavkat, Sean Brady
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and Bilal Muhammad, aside from Jack Della. And who did they say Jack Della was fighting
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Next? Yeah. Isn't he fighting Islam next? He's fighting Islam next, yeah
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So out of these other guys, who do you think he's going to get
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I mean, he could fight down too, but I think for a guy like this who's on the rise and really just like starching people
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I feel like they're going to give him someone who is going to be a challenge
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but also knockoutable. I mean, they could just step him up to Jeff Neal was supposed to fight originally
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so he's kind of on deck. I think that he would be a good fight
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I see Morales beating him at this point. Steven Thompson would be a great one
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I don't know that Colby Covington is matched up. But everybody that is on that, you know, seven through number one contender
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is like pretty booked up, to be honest. Do you think... Or waiting
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Do you think they would sacrifice two of their new scary guys
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and make Morales fight Carlos Protz? Ooh, because that would be fireworks
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And like, I'm afraid to put Morales up against someone who isn't really on a streak, who's at the top, who has dealt with a power striker like him before, who can get them to the ground, who can make it a boring fight
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Like, I feel like it would be good to just give him another one where, you know, toughest guy rises to the top and they're both getting their experience in
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I'm sure either one of those guys would jump at the chance at the opportunity because it would be a statement fight
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It would be it would be fireworks no matter what. Yeah. Like who's the biggest new dog
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I like that fight. I think they should do that because quit quit feeding the old to the young
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I hate it. I know they're they're cleaning house. This year has just been the year of changing of the guard of
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you know i i again i've said this before and me being one of the the olds i would i would
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appreciate i am i know who i am one of the olds one of the olds back in my day we didn't have
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weight classes rehydration mill we just use chicken peas yeah oh yeah that's it in the good
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old days uh it's they're basically using ivs this time don't let them fool you with the pi it's the
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same thing it's just not through your veins you just get a a note like a iv pass yeah hey they
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use an iv yeah people are still doing it yeah i forgot my point well you said as one of the old
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i was just saying i i like the idea of people getting to to fight where where they're at and
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I know that there's, you know, climbing the ladder and eventually you'll get to the point
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where the, the younger, the new schools will meet the old schools and there will be a changing
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of the guard. But, um, I just feel like people that have made, you know, a statement have built their
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their legacy have such a presence and a following. I feel that they deserve to fight people who are kind of at where they're at in their careers
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I think those make for really exciting fights. The fights that we didn't necessarily get to see coming up because everybody was, you know, on a different trajectory at a different pace
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So I really like seeing people, you know, fight other people. People in your generation
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Don't be fighting up and down generations. Just fight the guy that you've been looking at the whole time and just your paths haven't crossed
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I think they handled Jim Miller's fight trajectory really well. It wasn't until he fought our homie, also Spider-Man
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Cooper? Hooper. Hooper. Sorry, I put Chase Hooper in the same. I combined them
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I was like, wait, that's not his name. What is his name? Did he fight again? No, Chase Hooper
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It came out together. Yeah, yeah, Chase Hooper. I should have been able to put two and two together
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I don't know why I couldn't think of his name. But yeah, until he fought him, he was fighting people like that
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like fighting people in his age bracket, people who had the same either amount of fights
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or have been in the UFC that long. And I thought that was really fair. But, you know, there's only so many of us left
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So eventually you got to fight down. But yeah, I like Morales against anyone at the top
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I think he'll probably be waiting a little bit, maybe get the winner of some of the fights we have coming up
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like the winner of Usman Buckley. Or yeah, see what happens with that
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But yeah, I'm excited for him. That was a really big showing
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And I think before, Gilbert was saying that a lot of people turned him down
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Like a lot of people turned down Morales and he kind of understood why he had been given him because he had lost so many in a row and kind of has to prove that he still has juice
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Now that Morales has passed Gilbert Burns, I think it's going to be hard for someone to say yes
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He might get that Shavkat treatment where he gets to shoot straight to the top just because everyone's avoiding him
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Potentially. Yeah. So that was that was a really just like crazy fight
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Really interesting future for for that division. The co-main. That didn't happen
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Was not available to watch Paul Craig versus what's his name? Barato
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Barato. Barato. Barato. bilato because uh he had a little case of the herp oh poor guy so i i saw the link that you sent i
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wasn't sure um what medical reason it was but yeah it was herpes it was a case of the herpes
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i'm not to be confused with with the other herpes but this is it was mad herpes it was mad herpes
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okay this is really common this is like a very common thing for any kind of combat athletes
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anything where you're going skin on skin with people and there's sweat involved
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And you're training at, you know, crappy gyms with no showers or no hygiene protocols
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Well, it's extremely contagious and people don't take into consideration or maybe they don't know
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although it's really hard to not know that you have like a skin condition
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Yeah. But some people don't realize how contagious it is. And it just takes like one point of contact and you're infected and then it spreads and it spreads and spreads
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So it um it really unfortunate and it unfortunate that you know people go onto the mat knowing that they have a skin condition and still put their training partners at risk Yeah it gross And I think a lot usually it ignorance Like you said like people don realize how contagious it is that it actually an issue
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Like the person you're grappling with probably doesn't want mat herpes, you know, but it's
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one of those things that are so common. Like they might think it's just ringworm
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They might think it's just, you know, some a weird pimple or something
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And then they continue to train and then the entire room has it
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And it's something that doesn't go away to like it sticks to you. No, it's a virus
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It sticks with you your whole life. Yeah. And it's usually outbreaks are usually stimulated by stress of a fight camp, stress of a weight cut
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So this is something that can be managed with medication. but it is it is a lifetime thing and it's unfortunate that it took him out of competition
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but they're moving it to two weeks it should be cleared up with medication and that in that time
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frame so it's not a huge deal it's just really unfortunate and it is really unfortunate that
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there is a terrible stigma attached to it and people are you know going in and making fun and
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talking crap it's just it's something that's very common well I think it's his quote too he doesn't
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say matt herpes he just says herpes so everyone's like and that was probably translated or whatever
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but everyone's just like ew who are you kissing and um who was the female fighter that it was
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it was jessica aguilar was that her who also got a fight pulled because she had like a
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outbreak on her left it might have been she's she's not the only one either i know that um
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some other people and i can't remember the names off the top of my head but but yeah it's common
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And she had, I don't know if it was a cold sore, but that's not, I mean, it's similar, similar to mad herpes
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But mad herpes usually presents itself on the skin. Then you have type one that is more of like a cold sore type thing
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And then type two, which is sexually transmitted. They'll never find that
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In places I cannot say. Like homegirl with the staff. She had staff
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Yeah, and it's also a lot of people, you know, when you're in close contact and you're sweating and you're not necessarily running to the shower in between training sessions like you should
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Sometimes you get skin conditions like staph and people tend to, while staph is not a lifetime skin infection, it does
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It's contagious. It's very contagious. Yeah, it's gross. It's disgusting. Fighting is disgusting, guys
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Like we've all accepted it. But, you know, the commissions aren't as eager to let us roll around each other's disgusting viruses and bacteria
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So I'm kind of happy that they pulled it for Paul Craig's sake
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And, you know, it's just one of those things that would you rather have this virus for the rest of your life or fight in two weeks
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Exactly. I think they made that. No, it's an easy decision. Yeah, they made the right decision
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there's wrestling coaches who put the entire team on the herpes medication
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when they get into season because it's something that can take out their entire team
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Absolutely. So they just, if you have it, if you don't have it
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everybody is taking this pill every day just to stave it off. And yeah, that's what every fighter with it should do, especially in fight camp
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Oh, yeah. So instead of that, we had a couple more fights
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My boy Sadiq Youssef, unfortunately, he lost his fight against... Santos. Yeah, Santos
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Santos was coming off a tough. He looked like a barrel of muscle
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So this was his first fight at 155. He was on the Contender Series at 145, had a big knockout
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His last fight was a decision that I thought he lost. It was not necessarily the most impressive outing
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especially when he had such a buzz about him coming off of the Contender Series
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But 155, he looks filled out, and I thought that he would maybe be undersized
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He was not. He was the big boy in this fight, and he definitely used that weight and that frame to ward off Yusuf
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and make it a pretty tough night. He had really nice, sharp stabs, strong punches
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Everything was thrown with speed and power the whole fight. Yeah, he looked huge against Yusuf
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And, you know, Sadiq just wasn't able to get anything going. It was a tough fight to watch
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But yeah, he showed that he belongs to be or he deserves to be in there as Santos did
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And I'm interested to see what he does next. But yeah, tough night for Sadiq
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The middleweight fight before that was pretty crazy. But none of them really could size up to Arosa versus Costa, which kind of opened the card
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It was such an insane fight. It's totally different style. So you have Costa who came down from 155 and he's been doing pretty well at featherweight
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And he is a sharp, explosive, powerful striker. He's a lot of energy
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And Arosa has the long, lanky body type. He tends to be more volume than power
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And he has a lot more tools than Costa. Costa is still a bit raw in his MMA game, but he's effective in it
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It was a really fun fight to watch. that that third round was really exciting it was insane like i was wondering when they were
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going to slow down but they kept ramping up ramping up yeah they were feeding off of each other yeah
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yeah and like dude erosa just kind of started slow but i feel like if he had just gotten on
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the gas pedal in that first round the fight could have gone to him it was a really close fight it
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was really back and forth uh erosa like just looked pissed off that he had to try you know
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Like, I got to go like full speed. Like, I got to put it in the fifth gear tonight
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Like, come on. But, you know, he knew that was what's going to happen because Costa has just been on a tear
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Yeah, it's it's I always go back to the body type, too
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So Arosa has to work twice as hard because his punches are not doing as much damage as Costa's
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So Costa can, you know, make contact and it'll be a lot more damning
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and evident to the judges that... Damn it. Yes. Damn you, Costa
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So for every, you know, one power punch that Costa throws, Rosa's got to throw five to kind of make up for that big reaction
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Costa was like landing really nice kicks in the first round
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um just his counter game was really sharp in that first round and arosa was just behind the entire
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time and then arosa started picking up the pace he started nailing with a few things i think uh you could have argued second and third for arosa but i feel like the right guy won just because of how sharp he looked in the first The third was just crazy back and forth
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You'd think a takedown might have sealed the deal for either one of them
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but man, that was such a good fight to watch, and I'm happy they got the 50K
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because there were so many finishes. I was worried that they were just going to do that thing
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where everyone gets a bonus who finished the fight. It was like, these guys were trying
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They were trying their damnedest, like you said, throwing damning blows at each other to try to get this fight over
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especially Arosa after that first round. He's just like, man, you. You kid
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You know what I did? Get out of here. You know what I did really like from Arosa was that jumping up kick
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that kind of like oh it was straight out of Sergio Pettis oh is it it's like the Pettis brothers yes
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yes yes okay well no not the not the roundhouse no he pushed up okay I didn't know they did that
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I've seen them do the like the kind of capoeira kick from their butt but I've never noticed the
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like forward scooting up kick I like that it was really nice it was very creative yeah I like that
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a lot. Yeah, he's got some like chicks up his sleeve. I think if they
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just like did something, gave him a big slap right before he walked
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out or I don't know, some bath salts or something. What's up to that gets you going? He needs that mushroom
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That mushroom we were talking about. Oh yeah. The niger. He needs a bit of the niger
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The meth mushroom. Yeah, the meth mushroom that the Vikings use to go berserker mode
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But he needs a little bit of something just to get him going first round because his skills are there and he's got wins over some good people
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But yeah, like after that first, it was really hard to work his way back to win that one
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But man, Costa is on a tear. That was his fourth or his third fight this year already
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So was that his second fight at featherweight? Was it? I think so. Okay
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I was just pissed that he was fighting so much. I'm like, come on, Mick
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I got to catch up to Costa. But yeah, when you jump weight classes
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that makes it a lot easier to get a few extra in
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Yeah, fun to watch. Yeah, really fun to watch. And since we're on the subject of me fighting
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I might have some news. Oh, might you? I may have some news soon
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I don't want to jinx it because I haven't gotten my contract yet. But I'm very excited
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It's just between us. You can drop a little hint, maybe. Maybe I'll drop a hint in our members only content
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You know, I also realized that we haven't done a giveaway in a while. Oh, my gosh
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It's time. Yeah. It's we passed like two months. No, it's only been a month
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I'm sorry. The older I get, the more time warps together. Right
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I lose. I lose weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Same. I'm like, oh, that happened like a year ago. Right
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is like that was five years ago. Holy crap. Wow. Five years was so long when I was like 15
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It took so long for five years to go by. Now it's just like
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ugh, that, you're done. Yeah, five, whatever. So yeah, we will have to do two giveaways
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at the end of this month. So if you're not a member, make sure you become a member
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Join us. It's only, how much is it? A dollar a day? A dollar. Or a dollar a month
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Yeah. Or two dollars. It's like $1.99. Yeah, yeah. It's worth it
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Basically a dollar. It's a dollar. Back in our time, two dollars was worth what
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And, you know, we've been looking at the comments and I've been seeing that people, you know, want us to do like a watch along, which I would love to do
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If you guys would like to see that, go ahead and join. help us get some equipment so we can do that because it's actually kind of a fancy
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technical thing and we may have to get more equipment and potentially hire someone
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It's a whole thing, guys. It's a production. So if you're saying watch along and you don't
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have the little member icon by your name, then we're not going to listen to you
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Yeah. But I think they might have been it might have been a member of this
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Well, member again. Well, we'll have to go back. We'll have to go back to the comments
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So, yeah, I'll drop the news in the members-only content as long as you guys promise not to leak it
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because that might lose me the fight if you guys leak it. So I'll let you know when we start saying
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you know what's going down before anyone else did. But let's move down to a couple of strawweights
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that fought on this card, too. We had Tisha Torres versus Luana Pinera
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which was a classic Tisha fight. Yeah, Tisha knows how to play the game
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She knows how to like make the judges take that 10 for her
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No, I know. Like I've fought her twice in both times. She just plays the game super well
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She frustrates you, makes you run right into that sidekick, which does nothing
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but pushes you back. And it looks bad. It looks like, oh oh she did something um but it's really just a defensive maneuver but it works like when i think
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tisha approaches fighting like uh like a karate match as long as you're touching the person more
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times it doesn't matter if there's power on it if you're hurting them as long as you're landing clean
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then more than the other person then you're winning the match so uh this is kind of the
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perfect matchup for her in Luana Pinheiro because she waits, waits, waits
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and then she goes haymaker, haymaker, haymaker, and then goes for the hip throw
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So we saw her get her game going in the third round
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but it was a little too little too late for Luana in that one
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Yeah, I think it came down to the third round. I think that they were 1-1 respectfully
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And Pinero, while she was getting those throws, while she was taking Tisha down
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I just think that the judges had such an eye for the damage, the kicks
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the fancy wheel kick, the stab kicks, the leg kicks, the, you know, damage that Pennington was doing
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rather than Pinero getting the fight to the ground and not necessarily doing anything with it
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Yeah. And but the other thing that you have to consider, though, is if you're looking at the damage, then why didn't they score the drop in the first round
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You know, why didn't they there were moments in the second round where they both kind of wobbled each other
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But it looked like Luana was doing more of the wobbling. But like Tisha would land her strikes, you know, she would like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop right afterwards
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and I think that just added up more for the judges. Yeah, I think that while she's..
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dropped at the end of the first, there had already been just like too much work done
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She had already kind of made her statement. So that little, you know, 30 seconds of work at the
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very end didn't stay in the judge's minds as much. And then at the end of the second round
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Pinero had, you know, a little spurt that could have stolen the judge's attentions. But again
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there was just two, or sorry, Tisha had a spurt that could have stolen the judge's eye. But again
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they just stayed with um with Pinero scoring yeah so to your point um all judges gave Tisha the first
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um Pinero the second and then Tisha the third and I think um we have one 30-27 for Pinero but
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for the most part uh the media scores were 29-28 Pennington and then you had like uh
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the other half of people going 29-28 Pinheiro. So I felt bad for her because she is on a skid right now
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Is that four for her? I think so. And it just sucks because it was such a close fight
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I feel like I would have scored it for Pinheiro just because of how dominant she was at the end
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But again, you got to rear up at some point and just hit
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just to seal the deal. just like rear up and just boom, boom, even if there's nothing on it, just to show that
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hey, I'm not just manhandling her. I'm doing damage. But it was a super close fight
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And I'm wondering what's next for her after that, because whenever you have a really close
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fight, you wonder if they're going to give you another chance. It'll it'll be interesting
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I mean, she's she's young. She has eyes on her. She's, you know, always saying, yes, I see her being, you know, a company
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girl so we'll see um if it was the last fight on her contract or not they may or may not
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if it wasn't the last fight then you know potentially we'll see her again yeah we might
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get they might give her another chance um and then we also had uh denisee goms another girl
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friend of mine we punched each other in the face before uh and she fought your girl
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elise reed and oh my god so denise gomez does the right thing she just says screw my opponent's
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game plan this is what's gonna happen i'm just gonna go out and throw and fire something's
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gonna land which it did now she set it up well she um she came forward she she knew that that
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lead hand was low and she just lined up the overhand perfectly i mean the first thing she
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through was a big old overhand and it just landed right on the button
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And I felt like that was her just kind of cue, like, okay
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the thing that we worked on is going to work on her. So let's double down
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Let's do it a lot. After she landed that punch, she went real hard for the takedown too
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So I felt like even though the commentary was like, oh, this is a bad idea
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I think that's what you have to do at strawweight. Like you have to get them thinking about the takedown so that that hand
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is even lower when you go back to the striking. So it's hard to get knockouts at strawweight
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Like half of Amanda Lemus' knockouts were early. You know, they were early stoppages in my opinion
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And then when you look at someone like Andrade, like not everyone has that build
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Not everyone has the ability to look scary at 125. So when you're looking at strawweight
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you usually need to mix in a little grappling in order to make those shots count
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So I like that she went to that. I think it shows a lot of improvement
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She was able to let her hands go eventually. And dude, like Herzog, Herzog was trying to, I don't know
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I was like, damn, Herzog really wanted her to get a little extra damage in there
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Like, did Jess message him? She said, hey, just let it go
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Let it ride. No, he was probably tired of hearing her husband in the crowd
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Oh, wait. Yeah, what was her husband doing when you guys fought
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Oh, nonstop. What was he saying, though? Do you remember? Because I don't remember
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I had, like, tunnel vision. Annoying things. What is he saying
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You got to drop at least one. Because I felt bad for the girl after that knockout
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I was just like, God damn. Oh, don't feel bad for her. No, yeah, tell us so we can all not feel bad
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no her husband was the most obnoxious heckler i've ever heard in my life he wasn't in the
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he was not in her corner uh but like it he was the only thing you could hear in in the apex damn
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i'm just he wasn't doing the polite dustin poirier let's go no no he was just obnoxious
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Give me one quote. Just one. My brain hurts. Oh, I'm sorry
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I'm trying to think. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm like, you pressuring me isn't going to help me remember right now
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Go and go! I'm basically saying what her husband's saying. Go! Let's go
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No, just saying that, you know, I'm tired. I'm, you know, she has better hands
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She has better this. She has better this. Just like any time
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Just trying to influence everyone. Yes. Not just his wife. It's just like unrelenting, just obnoxious
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It wasn't like to motivate her. It was like putting me down. I was like, come on, girl
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It's like, just cool, cheer for your girl, but chill. Yeah, well, I will admit that Johnny does the same thing
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when we fight Brazilians. Oh. He starts saying something in Portuguese, and I'm like
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oh, oh, oh, you're doing the thing. I'm like, quit giving her advice
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Oh, wait, no, you're telling her she's tired in Portuguese. So it goes right to the brain, right to the brainstem
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Yeah, yeah, that's obnoxious. But I didn't hear him after this fight
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Yeah, yeah, it was a rough one. And I think Denise Seagolms, I think she gets a bigger opponent next time
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that was a big what do you call it a big knockout for Strawweight
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like you don't see that that often but we've seen it twice from her we've seen it against
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when she knocked out Yasmin and now that she's knocked out Reed
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at least yeah I mean maybe that will be like the next Pinheiro fight you know because she not in the rankings yet
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Golems isn't. So that could be something that they set up if they want to give her one more chance
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like the Gilbert Burns kind of deal. But, yeah, we'll see if she gets in the rankings after that
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I wouldn't be surprised if she's in the rankings after that. Sometimes you just need a big win to break in there
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Well, I mean, I see her stealing Luana Pinero's spot at number 15
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Just kind of jumping in over there or like right on the outskirts of 15
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But yeah, and there's some interesting fights. Just at 14 and 13, she could take on Tisha
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She could take on Luma. How do you say her last name? Look Bone Me
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Luma Look Bone Me. Yes. Yeah. I like that name. I know
37:53
You sound like you like saying it too. Yeah, it's Thai. Just like you saying, you like saying Yang's name too
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Who? Zanang Yang. Oh, I hate that name. Zanang Yang. But you say it
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Zanang Yang. With such conviction. I mean, that's not how you say it. I say it like a cat would say it
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With a little ram. Meow, meow, meow. Meow, meow, meow. All right
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Moving on. Anyway. so yeah exciting stuff exciting stuff happening uh we shall see what is next for everyone and then
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um we also had a pretty dope uh uh fly no bantamweight fight she used to be at flyweight
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um testing the waters at bantamweight and they gave her a great opponent because she's still
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I thought she was kind of small for flyweight, to be honest
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Did you? Yeah. Nah, that girl's a big girl. She's young, though
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She doesn't have, like, the woman muscles on her yet. Yeah, but she's still thick
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Like, who is the girl who fought Irene Aldana? And she kind of has that similar build
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Who, Dumont? No. They are not the same. No, no, no. But, yeah, I'll figure it out
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But there's a few girls who just are big boned. Like even though they don't have the musculature of like, you know, a dude, they're still big and they can't like really make the weight easily at lower weight classes
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But yeah, she does look like, you know, just a big kid. Carol Rosa
39:32
She looks huge. Yeah, but she's like when she fights, there's a lot of fluff on her, you know, like there's like her muscles are covered by like some nice big bits
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And then you have Aileen Perez, too, who is just like, oh, jiggle
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Oh, jiggle, but a lot of pow behind it. Yeah. So there's certain body types where, you know, even though they have seemingly a lot to lose, they don't
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Like it's a woman. Bodies are different. So you get that more often
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And I think it was a smart move for her to go up a weight class because she she would complain every time she made flyweight
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Like I think she was doing extra extra work in the P.I. and stuff in order to keep making it
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And just like, you know, as well as the fact that she's young, she probably just hit a little growth spurt
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And for sure, it wasn't easy to do without like tons of planning
40:30
But yeah, I think it's a good weight class for her. I also feel like if you have the skills to fight people at a higher weight class
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like the grappling skills or whatever, then it makes a lot faster climb to the top
40:45
And that's what she said that she was looking to do. She wanted to test the waters, maybe one more fight
40:50
just see how it feels at bantamweight when she was talking in her post-fight speech
40:54
Just saying that it's a lot quicker path to success to the title
40:59
so it makes sense yeah so she just uh schooled this girl like the uh she fought um
41:08
tainara lisboa i don't remember seeing her fight before i don't remember seeing her fight either
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did she they just brought her in she fought uh ravenna oliveira i don't remember seeing her
41:24
fight either um and then she also fought jesse jess and submit oh wait yeah she submitted jesse
41:33
back in 2023 um so the girls got ground game but santos is on another level i remember uh when
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jenna fought her at flyweight before she got into the ufc it was it was a pretty back and forth fight
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So I remember one of our followers mentioning that anytime a girl gets out of a Jenna Bishop fight without getting subbed
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they bet on her to have the better ground game than the other opponent. That's fair enough
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Yeah, because if you cannot get subbed by Jenna, you got some good ground game on you
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So yeah, this Luana Santos, I'm excited about her move to Bantamweight
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I'm wondering, you know, how far can it go? can she start taking out some of the more well-known UFC names at Bantamweight and yeah
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see what happens with her. Yeah, well, it is a quick climb, so it's a good decision for her and some, you know
42:30
fun potential matchups. You could. Yeah, Chelsea Chandler is still ranked number 15, so that's how quick the climb is
42:38
I think there's only five below her. Oh, is that going to be her next fight? I bet it is
42:42
It could be, or even a Jocelyn Edwards would be exciting. So yeah, we'll see how that goes
42:50
Yeah. Yeah. I think they want to give her someone who she can sub really easily
42:56
They want to see more TikTok dances. Yes, and that too. Feed her Chandler
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See if she runs from her. Oh man. Well, any other fights you want to talk about
43:10
I just wanted to say that Jared Gordon looked on fire. Yeah, where did that come from
43:19
You know, it sounded like he just felt like he needed to bite down on that mouthpiece and throw
43:26
Especially, I think he's still upset about the Patty Pimlet decision. And I think he's just had a little bit of frustration the last year with his inactivity and the bad decision
43:38
And so he had he had a great great performance quick work with that started with an overhand right and followed to the ground with beautiful ground and pound And I also loved his statement He always trying to support other people through his past experiences He shows a lot of humility and vulnerability Every single time that he promoting his fight he always steps up and you know speaks about his experiences with his battles with addiction and you know used his platform to support others
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So I loved his message afterwards. He has a, uh, he's partnered up with fight story, um, and Angela Lee to help combat athletes
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uh, through the organization to help people with mental health and addiction. Oh, that's cool
44:27
Yeah. I think he's awesome. Nice. Um, yeah, he, he has that crazy story where he came back from addiction and, um, it's
44:35
a real good, feel good story to hear. And, you know, going back to his opponent, like this guy has a win over Costa, who we were just talking about being on a tear
44:48
So it's a big win for him. Big win for Jared Gordon
44:52
We'll see what that does for him going forward. But, yeah, I'm happy for him
45:00
Like the Patty Plumlet fight, it was such a blip. And it's one of those moments, like I always go back
45:05
It's one of those moments that's hard to let go. Like I always go back to the Limos fight and the Gedalia fight
45:12
and the Watterson fight in my career. And I'm like, dude, if I just, you know, was able to finish
45:19
in the moments that I felt like I could have. Like these were pivotal moments where it's like, yeah, the judges
45:24
like they got it wrong. And that could have been a totally different career trajectory
45:31
Like imagine if Jared Gordon was able to beat Patty Pemlitt in that fight
45:36
That could have meant all these other things, a fight with Michael Chandler, a fight to get into the top five
45:43
It's one of those things where you can kick yourself about it or you can figure out ways to move on and get better and take it out of the judge's hands
45:53
And that's what he was able to do. So kudos to him
45:58
And hopefully we see him fighting higher on his next one. Absolutely
46:05
All right. Well, next week, what do we have? Oh, we have the ladies
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Oh, we have Aaron Blanchfield and Macy Barber and the main event
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Nice. Yes. Who you got? I'm going to watch a little bit of footage
46:25
I, oh, Macy Barber tends to be a lot for people. And the way she fights, I think the judges really like it
46:32
But if anybody can combat that, it's Aaron Blanchfield. I think she can press forward
46:37
She's been looking really great in the striking area. She's definitely filling in that gap
46:43
She is dominant on the ground. And we haven't seen much of Barber's ground game off of her back
46:50
So people have had, you know, a little bit of challenges getting her down
46:54
So I'm excited for this one. I think it's a really good matchup. And I think that the winner of it puts himself right in line
47:01
Yeah, I think I got Blanche filled for this. Like, if anything, she knows how to deal with a heavy striker
47:07
Like, her fight with Manon Fjord, like, she has a tough chin. She's able to take damage, but she's also able to just get people to back off
47:16
with the threat of the ground game. Like, she has that, like, ground game boogeyman, like, thing going for her
47:24
So people run away from her. And even someone who hits as hard as Macy Barber won't stay in the pocket too long
47:31
before she tries to retreat and get out of the danger of getting her leg grabbed
47:36
and getting taken down. Blanchfield has done a great job of taking most people down
47:43
It was tough for her to take down Manon Fiorit, but it was also tough for Shevchenko to take her down
47:50
So I think with someone like Macy Barber, who has been taken down in the past, who has been out grappled
47:56
I feel like Blanchfield is going to be too much for her in that category
48:00
But she has to close the distance. So I got Blanche filled in this one
48:06
I think I think she's going to be able to close that distance
48:10
I think if she keeps throwing that random ass like high kick, she has the most random high kick
48:18
Look at this. It's like third round every fight. Oh, yeah, I know how to throw this
48:25
It rocks the person. I think if she adds that into her arsenal of like the takedowns and everything, I think she could get it to the ground and get a big finish
48:33
No, I think so. I think she's I think that's the game plan for her. Macy Barber, I see her playing a little bit more like Manon in the sense that she's going to be on her bike
48:44
She's going to be sticking and moving and just really trying to stay off the cage or press forward and make it hard for Blanchfield to take down and be dominant in that position
48:53
For sure. All right. Well, I'm excited about that one. Who else is on that card
48:58
We have Gamrot and Klein. Oh. Gamrot, I love watching this guy's grappling
49:06
His wrestling takedowns are really impressive. I don't know a ton about Klein, so I'll have to look at that
49:12
But if you ask me just to pick one based off of namesake, I'm going for Gamrot
49:19
Yeah. So unfortunately, Klein, he's climbing and he's got a lot of big wins
49:25
but you don't know his name. And I think that's the same for most people watching this channel
49:30
You're not going to be super familiar with him, but every time I'm looking up a fighter and I'm like
49:37
oh, let me see who he's won and lost against. A lot of times Klein is on this list of people that beat him
49:43
So I'm like, okay, like he's one of those fighters that are under the radar
49:48
that keep beating your favorite fighter. So I'm excited for that one too
49:54
We'll see if he can keep it on the feet. I think he's a striker by nature
49:58
and Gamrod is definitely going to be going for that takedown. So, yeah, I'm not going to pick one yet
50:04
I'm going to look at some tape too, but who else we got on this card? We have a lot of people that I'm going to have to watch a lot of footage on
50:11
Just on this main card. Let me check the preliminary card. There's, oh, Jeremiah Wells
50:18
who's power, power puncher against Andreas Gustafsson. I've called a few of Jeremiah's fights at CFFC previously
50:28
Ketlin Vieira is taking on Macy Kieson. Why is this on the preliminary card
50:32
What a fight. Aren't they both ranked? Why is this on the preliminary
50:37
They must be if Chelsea, too. Poor Chelsea. She keeps catching strays from me
50:41
I need to stop. And you say, I'm shady. It just I don know I can see It just surprises me how you know the top 15 for Bantamweight is such a short list
50:55
It's like the top 15 out of 16, you know. I say out of 20, but yes
51:00
Potato, potato. So, Kathleen Vieira is ranked number three. And Macy Chieson is ranked number five
51:08
Why the funk is that on the prelims? And it's not even the main of the prelims
51:16
Yeah, what the heck? Maybe the lineup isn't the same. You know, sometimes the lineup switches on fight week
51:22
Who do we talk to? Mick. Call Mick right now. Who does this
51:28
I am texting him. As soon as my phone is not recording
51:32
I know, right? On a female main event, you need a female main prelim event
51:39
Damn straight. Especially if they're ranked. My goodness. so I'm excited about this one
51:44
I think Macy Chiesa has got something going right now she's got momentum
51:49
she did not look like super impressive when she first burst onto the scene
51:54
she found herself yeah she closed her gaps I think she was wasn't she fighting a little
51:58
like either higher or lower and then she figured I think she was at
52:04
featherweight maybe I think maybe she was at featherweight yeah for a little bit
52:10
And it just always seemed like a struggle for her to make weight and show up or show up fight week
52:19
From what I remember, I'm like thinking vague memories. But every time I see her in the last couple of years, she comes out and does some nasty, nasty stuff to people
52:29
Like creates like highlight reel knockouts or TKO, slices people's faces open
52:34
So I'm excited to see Macy fight. And then you have the new roles that are active right now, too
52:42
We haven't seen her fight under the new roles yet. So Macy Chasson throwing 12 to 6 elbows
52:50
I'm scared. She would, too. I'm scared. She would. She's got to
52:54
Like, you remember what she did to Myra Buena Silva, right? Oh, yeah. Her skin hanging off of her skull
53:01
Oh, yes. That was nasty. It was so nasty. So, yeah, I'm excited about this one
53:05
This is a good fight, and it means a lot for the band of weight title contention, perhaps
53:11
Yeah, that's going to be a good one. And then we also have the women's strawweight opening the card
53:17
We have Randos Santos versus our girl Alice Ardeline. Yeah. I never say that right
53:25
I think it's supposed to say it differently, but. Ardeline, I think
53:29
Yeah. Yeah, this is going to be an interesting one. This is the new guard of straw weights
53:37
You have Rayanne Dos Santos who just can't get a win no matter how much she wins the fight
53:43
She got robbed twice in a row, I feel like. And she's fighting Alice Ardeline who I'm not sure
53:52
Did she win her last one? No, she didn't. Okay, she lost to Melissa Martinez and Shawna Bannon
53:59
Yeah, I remember that now. So these girls are fighting for a win, fighting for their first win in the UFC, I believe
54:07
And it should be a good one. It's a scrap. Like, even though they've lost their first two, they scrap
54:12
Like, they get after it. So I'm excited for this one. I can't pick a winner, really
54:16
But I know for whatever reason, they don't like Dos Santos on the scorecards
54:21
I don't know. I don't know if she, like, said something mean to them or looked at the judges funny
54:27
But they just don't like her. So I know that plays a role in my fight odds
54:35
People are like, well, we know the judges hate that . So we're going to hedge our bets and say if it goes to the decision, Angela loses
54:47
But yeah, so we'll see how that one goes too. But yeah, it should be a good night of fights
54:52
I love it when they have a handful of girl fights on the card. Yeah, I love it
54:56
I mean, there's so much fun anytime you put a female fight on a card because they always got that it
55:05
We scrap. Yes. We all give a . Yeah. We're like the men let us out the kitchen
55:12
Hold my apron. Yeah. We're not going back. Make me a sandwich
55:16
Yeah. I need to rehydrate. Give me some bread, . it looks like I have some homework to do before my weekly penne's picks oh penne's picks on uh
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of live yes get that in make sure you check it out because jess has been killing it on there
55:37
with her picks at least 70 to 30 with right picks so yeah if you guys know how to bet on stuff
55:44
definitely take her advice and uh we'll probably do a dual bits video at some point
55:50
every week you'll see my picks whether they're right or not is to be uh you know determined somebody's got to pick them
56:01
somebody's got to say you know i just hate it because i always have to pick either for or
56:06
against my friends and i just feel like a tool you know it's hard it sucks like it hurt my heart
56:12
saying picking against gilbert like it hurt me to the core but at least i got it right
56:19
but no um it's gonna be an exciting night of fights uh they're in jersey right this is the
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jersey oh wait no no no that's uh what's his name where are they i didn't apex sorry
56:34
apex yeah what are you talking about i was like blanchfield is from
56:39
i think i kept saying like man this fight should have been on the jersey card
56:46
I think that's where my mind And we actually talked to Blanche
56:50
After her win In Jersey so make sure to check out That video too
56:56
On our YouTube page But yeah I guess that's it right? Did you want to talk about anything else
57:04
No I think that's it Alright this has been enough to stress
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