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though we talk [ __ ] about your phone um we got more questions by the way oh we have a lot more questions yeah from our
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phones I don't know where my phone is oh well oh there it is that's a common
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problem where's my phone all right what rules would you
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change in UFC MMA if you had the power love the podcast by the way thank you
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thank you Shadow King 2477 Shadow King yes uh yeah so what rules well I I
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think that they the new rule changes I think are exciting and very necessary I
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think those were rules that have needed to be changed for a really long time I can't wait to use
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them I can't I'm so excited about using those new rules I think I would have
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even though like I think we came to a comfortable Middle Ground um but I would have loved if they brought back like
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Soccer Kicks like Pride yeah but I think the the new rules version is a good
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middle ground where no one's going to get [ __ ] up to the point where they're in a coma for me as a bottom player for
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life it's not going to change guys Everyone likes that everyone loves a bottom player
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there's a lot of tops in this world uh put your coffee down oh my god um
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almost ruined my roadcast I've always wanted to be able to like kick somebody from my back you
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know while they're like technically as a d that's something that I've always wanted to do there was this amazing fight I think it was um Anderson Silva
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was fighting Okami I think in Pride that was his one loss right
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yeah all the other losses yeah so he was playing guard and he grabbed okami's
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hands and up kicked him kicked him straight in the face and it seemed perfectly legal to like an innocent
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bystander who would just be like yeah he was on top of him yeah why couldn't he kick him in the face I should be able to
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do that I always wanted to do that I think that would play so well into my game I'm here for it yeah I uh I
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allegedly did it to Michelle Waterson when we fought I it was the neck it was a push to the neck and it slid up to her
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face but it was the connection the impact was here and then it slid up but
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uh you know they were really mad at me for doing that and so I was like sorry
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but I always felt like that is one of those moves that should be allowed because it's like okay if they're on top
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of me and they're trying to jump on top of me and punch my head into the ground I should be able to launch them with my
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feet yeah wherever I choose yeah can kick anywhere else um but anywhere from
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the chin up is a no no zone so yeah I agree I'm for it I love that rule change
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um I'm trying to think what else I think the point deduction after missing weight
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is a good one oh like you start at complete deficit that's interesting yeah
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so um they actually do this in the pfl yeah yeah yeah where and I think it happened to Liz CaRu she missed weight
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and she in her NE in the fight that she missed wa for she was deducted a point from the scorecard and she fought this
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the fight and I think the point deduction uh led her
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to win lose I don't know anyway it made it more even it definitely made the
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fight more even because she um had that point deduction fight and then you see
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in a lot of fights like uh Randy Brown versus uh versus uh your boy um Brian
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battle a lot of fights where it's super close that little Point deduction can
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make a world difference I think I like the idea of the replay being used without stopping
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the fight yeah I would really like to see that because I think it could be I thought that was a rule that they used
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but then it stops the fight no they usually use the replay like they Ed a replay to figure out if a
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foul happened but the fight has to keep going like that's what so they use that little
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uh they do this with a hand so whenever you're watching um fights and something weird happens like a needed a face but
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the fight fighters keep fighting they'll do this and uh and that's a cue for the
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people in the like room to get a bunch of angles from that moment to make sure that it was legal or not okay so they do
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that but they I feel like there's something weird with the rules where yeah like
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stops the fight when the fight stops you you should be able to restart it like if
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the fight stops then there's no restarting the fight yeah that's what I want to be able to do I think that we
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should be able to see if it was a foul or or whatever we're trying to look at and after we figure it out we can keep
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going well that that actually happens I think it's when the person can't continue anymore or they're saying they
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can't continue that the fight actually ends at that moment but if it's a foul
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and the fight was stopped and the person can't go or they can go then the fight
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restarts like we've seen that recently where the person can continue fighting
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and they pause the action because of what happened was really bad and if it was a foul it restarts if it wasn't a
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foul it's done yeah like if it was legal and the person milks it then it's done
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yeah so yeah I feel like there's a little bit more that could go on with that one so
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like if it's a legal strike and they stop it because the person cowers and
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covers up as if they got knocked out do you think that that fight should
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continue or do you think that's a knockout I think it should continue yeah even if it's like a punch to the face um
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they're basically knocked out because they stop fighting and they're like H
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and the ref jumps in because they stopped fighting and then you look at the replay and it was a legitimate punch
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in the face not a eye poke not no that can happen like I get that but there there have been some like Taps where it
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wasn't a tap or taps okay that that's different yeah and and like replay isn't
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used on that and like somebody immediately complains yeah like no this didn't happen this didn't happen like
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why can't we use Replay for that okay that's why I'm so confused because like
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with the strikes it's pretty they have it pretty uh good now where with strikes it's like
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okay if you hit him in the grin this fight is is a no contest because this person can't fight anymore or the fight
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keeps going if the person says they can keep fighting but you're going to get a warning or you're going to get a point
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deducted or something but uh yeah if it's not a groin hit then it's a KO or
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it should be a Koo sometimes they restart the fight when it's not a foul and I'm like that's a that's a KO
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because they hit him in the lever technically like uh uh our girl uh Elise ellene remember she um she got kicked
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right in the or oh in the wait what happened she yeah that should have been it wasn't
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but it should have been yeah she got hit right in the liver she grabbed her crotch and fell over and uh and they let
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the fight continue where it's like no that should be a TKO so it's they're not always going the way that I feel like
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the rules are written that they should go um and it's it's weird weird yeah it is definitely a great area I feel like
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it should be utilized a little bit more especially with when people are like I
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was fine I didn't tap I didn't do this I didn't do this why can't we look at the
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replay and then restart the fight yeah um who was it
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um who was it uh who uh famously didn't tap to uh what's his name he famously
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didn't tap to homeboy that need in the face by masvidal by masal oh
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um Hooper's Dad yeah Asen yes Ben Asen
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was fighting uh Robbie Lawler and he didn't tap he didn't even move he didn't
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FL he was he was like giving a thumbs up even and Herb didn't see the thumbs up and he broke them and immediately he's
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just like you should be able to restart that yes you should be able to restart it I don't know what position you can
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restart that in um in Jiu-Jitsu they have this weird thing where it's like if you're deep in a submission and you roll
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out of bounds then you get two points but they can't restart you in the submission because you're either going
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to tap them immediately or it's not going to be the same bite but uh you
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should you should definitely restart them in that position I'm just not sure how you how you make it so it's fair to
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the person who has the submission in so deep you know what I mean do you just give them the position again
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I feel like you could give them somewhat of the starting position again but maybe it's in a more
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neutral way so if you were on bottom and
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you had something locked in maybe you can choose to just start standing maybe you can choose to have like a similar
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position as as close to possible as you can right um like they restart you in Jiu-Jitsu sometimes they try to like
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emulate the position yeah but uh if it's like deep in a submission to the point where you think
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they're tapping it's uh yeah I guess you're just going to have to or you could just like wave it and
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just be like listen you guys start a neutral position again yeah but I just want the fight to be able to continue because there are so many like bad ref
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calls that could easily you could just go back and look and be like oh yeah they didn't they didn't tap oh they were
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actually fine they were actually waving it off or they were doing this and doing that I just think that there could be
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more utilization and I know it gets more complex than just saying like hey we should use we play and like you know
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have the fight continue I understand that but I think it's something that could really change the landscape of
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people's fights and careers no for sure um I think uh the guy that chase Hooper
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fought um he would have lovesy or uh what was his name laava Claus I was way
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off um yeah but he he's you know that one stuck out in my mind because we just
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interviewed Chase and you know we were talking about that so I feel like that
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would you know be a candidate for that yeah for sure imagine imagine if they
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stopped Brian Ortega fight uh versus volkanovski in that moment because he
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was gurgling they they talk about verbal submissions he was gurgling you know
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trying he was in danger he was in danger he was getting choked the [ __ ] out and then he was able to you know uses
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extreme traps to pop himself out of he's probably the only guy who can ense his
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neck in order to get out of a guillotine
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yeah yeah that was amazing yeah if they they could have stopped that and it
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would have gone the same way as a lot of people's fights who have been mistakenly
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submitted when they actually weren't so I I totally agree with that I just was thinking about a totally different set
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situations but I totally agree you should be able to restart it I wouldn't mind like especially if I was getting
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submitted and they restarted the person in the submission that they had I kind
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of wouldn't mind it because it still gives me an inch of breath sure you know what I mean like if I'm stuck in that
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Dar and they stop it and I'm like what are you doing and then they restart me
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right back in that Dar at least I had a few moments to complain to get the blood
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back to my head so I'm kind of happy as the bottom person because I get another chance of survival I was probably about
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to go out I probably had my hand hovering and for them to give me that little second to breathe and get the
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blood back to my brain I'll probably end up getting out I just feel B bad for the top person but at least they're still in
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that top position where they can just think about the next move now so I think it's fair I think we should do that I uh
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hereby pledge for that rule to be brought in to
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202's MMA Rules meeting let's go I decree that we should be able to
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restart fights that we're mistakenly I feel like when we actually retire it's going to be really
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obnoxious we're not going to shut up cuz there's no consequence of star actions and we're going to be so
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bored we got time Jess did you call your uh
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Congressman yet I'm on it on it I already left 20
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[Laughter] messages oh man yeah it's going to be great we're going make a lot of
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changes maybe or there just block our numbers but I got I got different lines
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honey I got business line we got a freaking land line I don't care you got Alabama lines exactly exactly I got I
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got a land line in Alabama yeah let's go nobody's answering but it's there
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that's great well yeah I think those some good Rule changes I think so all
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right uh moving on we have uh Freddy Mack 327 the athletic commission annoys
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me hey me too her too uh we could start a support group does yeah so the
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athletic commission annoys me with their un unwillingness to correct or rule no
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contest on obvious referee airs I think a review board consisting entirely of referees should be created to make final
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decisions on challenged decisions from judges or referees heirs um as Fighters what impact do you think something like
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that would have on the sport of MMA pros and cons that's amazing I feel like he just was sitting here listening to our
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conversation and came up with that question I thought it was a nice segue yeah good job good job good job Mac and
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Jess um I I think that's a great idea um the the only con I could of that is you
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know referees sticking up for one another I think it would be really hard to throw one of
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your uh I don't know what you call them one of your colleagues under the bus and
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it's very much a like point at this guy and reprimand him for the bad decision he made kind of thing I think if there
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was a way to make it so that that referee didn't didn't get the book
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thrown at them for being accused of not doing something the way that they should have because it is a it is a a tough job
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to do like they're just as hard as it is for us to make the right decision when
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trying to beat someone up it's hard for them to make the right decision on is this person concussed is this person
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unable to fight back are they tapping are can they not tap because their arms are being controlled are they yelling at
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me that they're tapping like there's a lot going on it's really loud in there it's their job to know what's happening
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but human era is a very human thing so I don't think that it's right to just like
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like the herb D Dean one that I mentioned earlier I don't think that Herb Dean should stop rafine because of
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that one mistake or all the other mistakes that he's made I just think that there's a way I think it would make
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it more comfortable for them to make these decisions if there was a way to
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not make it permanent mm you know what I mean like uh when a ref stops a fight
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like you were saying especially in the past with strikes too when a ref stops the fight then it's permanently stopped
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there's no restarting that fight now we have the replays and stuff so we can restart it with strikes and with uh foul
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shots but with the tapping thing there's still that issue where if they stop the fight because of uh a tap that didn't
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happen the fight still stopped so I think uh it would take the pressure off
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a little bit if there was a way to call that fight a no contest as opposed to a
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loss for this fighter that they probably respect a lot and they thought they were helping them out by saving them from you
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know permanent brain damage from being being you know unconscious for a long time we sign a waiver we sign a waiver
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we sign a waiver that says we're okay if we die it's literally in the contract I mean so let us fight to the death I do
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get chills down my spine though when I see these videos of people getting choked out unconscious and then people
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don't realize that they're unconscious and then their body starts convulsing and you're watching someone die yeah so
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there's a lot of stress when it comes to the person who's in charge of saying is this person dying yet you
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know I don't think so I think there's still a very it's a very high stress job
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and they take it seriously and I I do appreciate that they take it so seriously and they do get into re action
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at times because they care so much about a fighter safety I think that's that's something that we need because we're in
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a very dangerous line of work um however the the Human air thing the emotions the
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the reactions can change the course of somebody's career yeah so I I think a board would definitely be helpful um a
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board for everyone a board for the judges especially we've talked about this and I think that you know every
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every six months I know we've talked about this before every six months you know you go into review you have to take a test you have to watch some fights and
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you basically take quizzes just to keep your skills sharp yeah take a driver's test only driving a fight card a fight
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scorecard how do you know oh you ran into all the cones you can't parallel
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park for [ __ ] [ __ ] you're out of here grandma s see in
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six months yeah leave your license at the door so we can cut it up in front of you yeah they like the judges especially
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I feel like the refs do less harm than the judges right now in MMA um every now
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and then you get the refs kind of getting in the way or or being a little too visible when there isn't much
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happening or not doing enough not taking a point away not controlling the fight I
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think a good example of a good ref is um when cop was fighting MV and he had to
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literally yell at them like little kids like not cop but uh MV was just doing
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all the all these things just to be a dick you know pulling his pants down F not stopping when he would tell him off
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uh not looking at him and listening to him was that beltron yeah it was beltron could you imagine getting scolded by
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beltron dude and he's the nicest guy ever but inside there he is an imposing
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figure he is like makave makv is undefeated but he's all of 4 foot tall
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he you could tell when he when he finally looked belron in the eyes he was
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like oh [ __ ] okay sir sorry sorry sir the only thing he didn't do that I
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would have wanted him to do is take a point away but aside from that I feel like that you have to demand respect in
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there because it's uh you know you're in contr you're in control and in charge of
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each fighter safety so uh I think a lot of times referees can be intimidated by
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the fighters and let things go on too long or let let Riff Raff happen that if
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they don't nip it in the bud right away is going to be the whole tale of the entire fight so yeah I like uh I like
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having a board of refs um but I think judging definitely has done more damage
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for people's career recently than the referee in has and I would like a board
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for the judges as well as the referees yes every everybody a board for you and a board for you everyone needs a board
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yeah all right our next question from Marcus mustard
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8285 um how is it recovering after a tough fight I would take vikin in for a
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week straight you wouldn't [ __ ] you wouldn't poop for two months
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yeah don't forget the stool softener with that true story seriously don't
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tell me tell me your story oh man oh you have a good one I've never
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actually taken vikin in but I I actually don't like medication yeah me neither um
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I've I've had surgeries and not taken a pill whatsoever damn but the first um
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the first time I I had my nose fixed it was um um rhino and septoplasty oo and
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the first day um of recovery my my dad was taking care of me I was at his house
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um I surgery up in Beverly Hills and he he like begged me just to take the
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medicine he said listen what were you doing to him I don't need it Dad I
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don't no he's like you just need to be able to chill out and go to sleep you know so I I took um a vikin in her or
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whatever it was and I did not go to the bathroom for
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several days oh and I had only taken one and I you know I was I was eating very
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like mushy food and and you know drinking plenty of water and like I got super backed up and I woke up in the
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middle of the night in hot sweats like my body was like in toxic shock like I
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was having the worst time and I can't believe I'm going to say this on film
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let's hear it but I I had to like I stumbled to the bathroom like I I was really kind of scared that how my body
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was reacting um I like I was sweating puddles and my body is shaking and so I'm like sitting
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on the toilet and I'm like trying to like get the stuff out of me I had to
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help it out yeah no I almost I was almost going to call
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like an ambulance like I was not okay I was like I can laugh at this now because
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it's been almost 10 years but it was really [ __ ] scary that's horrible I was in a lot of pain and I was very very
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scared and it was the middle of the night and I was all alone and I didn't want to bother anyone because Dad can
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you stick your hand on my butt yeah man it was it was pretty scary damn yeah so
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uh the only reason I know that is because Adam had surgery on his elbow and that was the first time he had had
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surgery so he took a bike it in too because they're like oh everyone talks about this being great so yeah take a
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bike and and and the same thing happened to him and he was just like backed up for days and and it's the same thing
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like eventually your body has to get rid of it otherwise you feel like you're going to die my body was sending out the
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alerts oh that sounds horrible it was red alert I I have been like happy not
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to take anything ever since seeing that seeing someone go through that but yeah
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that's sucks but you have to use like a a wooden spoon or something no well I'm sitting on the
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toilet and and there were there were wipes so I just grabbed some whites and
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started digging in no I'm not kidding you I'm not kidding you I was traumatized
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horrible thing I'm sorry you went through that thank you [ __ ] it was
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really rough it was very traumatic um I was very scared and then you know the the next morning after you know I I woke
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up thank God I woke up alive thought I was going to die like just poison the
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inside poop coming out of your ears and nose cuz it couldn't find anywhere else to go yeah and I was I was telling um I
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was telling my dad about it and he's like why didn't you like yell for me why didn't you call for me I'm like
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really no a that sucks man yeah yeah well next
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time you'll know next time I'll know he'll be okay with a little poop as long as his daughter is alive when he wakes
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up it's like w be the first time you wiped your
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ass probably the last but not the first recovering from a fight can be
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pretty brutal oh God yeah it it can be um it can be a
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little lonely a little sad a little um anticlimactic you know you want to go celebrate after a fight whether you win
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or lose like there is a celebration because you just went through something like really challenging you put in a lot of effort and there's a lot to be like
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grateful for and celebr and if you're [ __ ] up after a fight it kind of kind of takes the the wind out
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of your sales a little bit it does for for me at least it does I don't know about for other people some people are like yeah look at me I just fought yeah
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right you should see the other girl everyone thought she won cuz I'm really [ __ ]
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up no it's definitely it definitely feels like that I I don't know I think um I think the biggest surprise for me
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was like the post-win funk that you get is like you win the fight and you're
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like oh everything's going to be different and this is going to happen and that's going to happen it's like no
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same [ __ ] same [ __ ] different day yeah you're just a little happier when you see photos from your fight as opposed to
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if you lost yeah and you go back to the gym you get a couple like handshakes high fives and hugs and then it's you're
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a normal person again yeah so it's really tough dealing with the mental part for sure um but physically I think
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um my recovery is like anti- recovery like I eat like [ __ ] I drink a lot
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usually usually I'll be like sober for at least a month before my fight so right afterwards I I have a beer in my
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hand a whiskey I'm eating I swell up because you know you're BR putting all
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this salt and alcohol in your body that you haven't really had in a long time and so I don't know if that helps or
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hurts but once I get back to the gym Everything feels a little more stiff a
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little more rickety your ligaments are a little tighter it's tough yeah you you
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definitely need to take time off every now and then you'll get in a fight and uh you'll be lucky enough to just have a
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couple bumps from like hitting a person you're fine you know like win or lose a
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lot of times this happen with me and you're able to jump into the gym right away but uh yeah those rough ones I
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think I think uh when you get hit in the face a lot too that part can be tough
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for a girl because when people see a guy with a black eye they're like eh you
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don't have like an emotional reaction to it but when you see a woman like in a
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grocery store with a black eye a lot of reactions a lot of yeah there's just
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it's a different it it makes me feel like I don't want to leave the house yeah you win or lose if my face is
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bruised I just hibernate yeah you don't want people looking at you creating
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stories you know how people always go like oh the cute couple and in the romantic comedy they're like what do you
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think that woman story is and it's like if it was me after a fight they' be like
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that [ __ ] is getting abused she didn't wash the dishes she her sandwiches suck
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[Music] like that's her story that's the only story it could be cuz she can't possibly
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be a fighter you know and uh that's just kind of how it goes there was did I ever tell you about uh the cute little young
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kids um walking or walking past me and Adam after a fight once I'm not sure
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remind me oh we were in well when I first started fighting um I lived in New York and Adam worked in Brooklyn he
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worked at his restaurant in Brooklyn so um I had just won a fight so I was all like proudly brandishing my black eye
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and I'm walking Adam to his job and these like young like black kids like
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these little boys they were walking the opposite way and they see me and Adam walking and so on my way back to the
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subway station they're like heyo ma ma and I'm like here we
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go cuz you know I was a young hot thing then I'm like here we go and he Yo Ma
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you all right Ma and I was like oh my God they cared they care they want to
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make sure the white man wasn't beating me up oh Plus's their heart there's so
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so sweet and I was like oh I'm fine I I I fought someone yesterday and they're like oh okay they're like oh you win and
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I was like yeah and that's the thing that sucks too if you can't use that explanation when you lost cuz you know
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they're going to ask did you win ran into a wall yes I got in a car accident it was
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a door knob we don't talk about it if we lose yeah no I'm not going to tell you I got
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in a fight or or they say do you win and I'm like what walk away oh I got a phone
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call bye they don't need to know anyway I
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thought that was really sweet but yeah it's different for women after a fight it is there's yeah just people um people
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people look and make assumptions and then it creates this energy of just un
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uncomfortableness yeah I do it too even though I know plenty of girls
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with black eyes often is like if they're not in the gym then I'm like what happened even like when I when
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I get to the uh get to Alliance you know I'm going to grappling and one of the Jiu-Jitsu girls have a black eye I'm
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like who did that to you no what happen you shouldn't be getting black eyes you
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roll doesn't make sense it can happen there too it it it happens more often there for you by your own knee
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yeah or by the person you weren't even rolling with yeah just catch catch a heel to the
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face that happens way too often some spunky purple belts taking up all the matte space damn purple belts well uh
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let's do one more question before we leave our our uh lovely listeners with
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their families for the rest of the holiday season oh my God excuse me sir thank you thank you very much buter do
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you want to pick a question do you want to pick a question for you want to pick a question
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what okay um Astro K who is a member than
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girl um what's more stressful needing to win fights EOC politics physical demands
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of the sport promoting yourself or the mental demands of the sport gez Jesus Christ all of them yeah definitely e all
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of the above all of the above uh because one one thing can affect everything it's
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a it's a domino effect so yeah a lot of things have to be in order for things to
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go right sometimes um and I mean yeah we most importantly we need to win the
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fight um sometimes you have to be a politician you have to uh get healthy or
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you have to be healthy you know to do well in fights usually uh you have to promote yourself to get the big fights
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then you need to win them um it's just it's it's all-encompassing and it's very
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challenging and I don't necessarily know that there any like right or wrong way
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to do it it's just what works best for that person and and where they're at and you know what's what's happening it's
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just it's a lot what I like about that question is that you understand 90% of
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the stresses that go into being an MMA fighter especially at that level and uh
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the politics is a huge part of it too I I found myself really um distracted by
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the politics when I first got into the UFC and I feel like that might have hindered me a bit in my performance es
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because I would be looking at the opportunities other people got who are at the same level as me or or looking at
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uh you know like why why did this person get cut and I didn't you know and there was it can be distracting when
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ultimately if you win then something good will happen so I think the thing
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that should stress you out but not really stress you out but should be the priority on that list is winning yeah
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and like look at someone like Harris you know she won so much in a promotion
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where people thought she was going to ride away in it that she was able to leave that promotion and go to the UFC
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and now she's on her way to fighting a title fight and this is after losing too so I think the biggest uh especially as
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a young athlete the biggest concern should be doing everything that you can do to win consistently and uh eventually
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all that other stuff will fall into place um a lot of people do this by different
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ways though like some people pick their fights better you know some people are
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able to uh some people have the I guess the privilege to pick their
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fights some people are managed by the promotion owner yes that's very helpful
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good job yeah and good job well done these things lead to you winning the fights and that goes back to my theory
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that winning the fights should be the top of the priority and then everything else will fall into place but like yeah
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all that stuff is such a distraction I feel like it is that's that's the word right there it's a distraction because
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the most important thing as you just said is winning a fight but all of those things can blur and skew things in a way
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that will distract you from winning a fight yeah it can really take you out of your game yeah and stress is like the
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last thing you want to Harbor you know you don't want to allow the stress to
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affect things in a negative way so I think uh putting weight on prioritizing
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winning has helped me in in uh in more recent times but like before um I think
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it it could definitely get in the way and and make situations seem a lot more stressful than they actually are so it's
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it's a it's a tough one being a fighter because fighting in itself is so emotional you know like you're think
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about any time as a regular person that you felt like you were about to get in a
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fight you were probably like you know you're not going to get in a fight for fun we we are not Brad Pit you know like
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we're not like in Fight Club like let's get in a fight it'll be fun like anytime you're about to get in a fight on the
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streets because there is a lot of emotional things happening emotional stressors that led you to that
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conclusion so getting yourself there without that is tough like that being
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the sport is really tough and being able to control every other thing that
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stresses you out about fighting um I don't know it just I I feel like it just exasperates it yeah so thank you Astro k
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for being a member asking a very educated question you are on the top of
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Santa's good girl list or guy I don't I'm not sure I feel like that's a she's
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lady yes that's we're very glass of wine my girl
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yeah all right well this has been another two straws um we're going to be
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back in the new year to talk about all the fights coming up first card of the
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yearo led by the women talk about woke UFC
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yeah ufw WFC
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oh I love it uh we'll be back to talk about that card give you our predictions
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and uh yeah can't wait for it see you in the new year