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Erin Blanchfield on Namajunas win and whats next w/ UFC vets Jessica Penne and Angela Hill
Nov 15, 2024
Heyooo! Ask and you shall recieve. We linked up with the prodigy Erin "Cold Blooded" Blanchfield after her huge win at UFC Edmonton against Rose Namajunas a few weeks ago. We talked about who she's looking at next after Grasso's injury, getting booed at MSG, her favorite grappling positions and much more. Even though she made us feel old we're fans of the kid.
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00:22 big win feels?
02:00 realizing when she wanted to be a fighter (get ready to feel old)
08:19 improvements focused on after first loss
11:00 how she deals with disrespectful fans
14:04 Erin’s views on UFC adding an atomweight division
15:20 Dream super fight? (You'll never guess who)
19:50 why the Alexa Grasso callout?
24:30 Erin’s favorite techniques on the ground
28:10 Who would Erin prefer to fight for the title Manon Fiorot or Valentina Shevchenko?
30:41 how long is she planning on staying active?
32:53 UFC 309 predictions! Also reminiscing getting Boo'ed during her fight at MSG vs Molly McCann.
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all right did you want to do like the bring in thing and then or just do it
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like this well we can just start now okay I put I'll put Aron in the middle
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yes an Aon yes thank you so much for joining us
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Aaron it's amazing to have you congratulations on your win against Ros nunas how you feeling thank you uh I
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feel really good um yeah that was a really big win for me I was happy to get back like in the win column especially
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against someone like rose uh so super happy about it nice have you talked to anybody um I
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know that you called out Alexa Gro after your fight um have they talked to you at
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all about when you'll be next no I haven't heard anything um about when we
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when I'll be fighting next I know Alexa just posted about like hurting her like breaking her leg or something like that
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so that's definitely a little bit of bummer but um yeah I haven't really heard anything yet um is there anybody
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else that you'd like to fight since Gro might potentially be out for a while uh I don't really know I haven't
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really thought about it uh that much um because obviously you're always trying to like work up the ladder so I would
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have ideally liked to fight her um yeah I'm not I'm not really sure I guess we'll see how see how it kind of shakes
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out we were uh going through all year old fights and and we realized that you
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fought Tracy Cortez before you got into the UFC uh would there ever be an interest in fighting her again yeah I
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definitely would fight her again um you know I think it just hasn't happened I guess with how the rankings are um I
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think after I fought like on J like a year or two ago I kind of got pushed up to like top of the rankings like right
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away so it just hasn't really worked out that way um but yeah I mean if she's ever I guess somebody's kind of like in
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my way again then I'd definitely take that fight yeah out of here I love that I feel like you're someone who you don't
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want to be in the way of like the way that you go for takedowns you really just bulldoze people over and um I'm
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wondering like how I guess when did you start wanting to transition into doing MMA because I saw like when you're a kid
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you started with jiu-jitsu then you started getting into like kickboxing all these other things but uh when did you
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start putting everything together and deciding I want to beat girls up
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yeah so um I mean I started training when I was super young I was only like seven um because my little brother was
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actually training at the time and I went to go watch him and then I started training um so at first it was just like
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fun I liked my parents put me into Computing right away um and I kind of naturally I guess gravitated more more
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towards JSU uh I feel like I did really well in that and there was more I guess opportunities at the time for that and
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then you can't do May till you're till you're older till you're like 18 so I did a lot of Jitsu growing up um um but
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then when I saw like Ronda Rousey and Mesa Tate and them fighting then when I was like 121 13 I
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yeah like so oh my so
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old I'm like I'm like what songs were out back then like that really like yeah
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it's probably like Kesha and St like that oh my gosh
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yeah I remember watching them um and my dad has always been a big of May fan so I was always he was always watching it
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so then when I started when he watched Strike Force watched them fight and then when the UFC had women fighting we would
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watch indicta um so I kind of grew up like watching it and as I got older um I
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guess I saw like the pths and like the opportunities there were for that I didn't when I was like a kid I didn't even know like girl like when I first
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walked in the gym I didn't even know girls like did that I was like oh girls can do like karate I remember going to my dad and he's like of course they can
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you can do whatever you want so I remember like literally have like talking to about that and being like wow
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I didn't even realize so as I got older like seeing that and seeing that opportunity I I think that really that
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really intrigued me um but I Al I continued doing like JC competitions um
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and then I had the opportunity to do ebi uh and then I I really want to do that because that was a really big thing
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at the time um and I was able to win that and I knew right after that I kind of wanted to use that to like get myself
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into MMA kind of have like at least a little bit of a platform um yeah so I feel like it was kind of like a journey
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that kind of built up along the way I me you've had a pretty incredible journey you've on all big shows as well it
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doesn't look like there's any amateur experience uh besides the grappling tournaments potentially but it's pretty
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impressive you've been in cffc in Victa and now the UFC um how does that make you feel I mean it's it's a pretty
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incredible quick Journey to the top yeah I feel like I feel like like in
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some ways I'm almost like a young veteran in that sense like I fought a lot like within like all those organizations um and yeah I mean it's
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kind of I guess it's been a little bit of a worldwind especially like once I was in the UFC I felt like it the
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getting up to the top kind of happened quick because I only had like a couple fights and then uh right after I fought
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Molly that's when I got like the the fight with andr and that moved me up quick um but you know I mean I guess I
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got into it to like I wanted to always be the best and and the only way to do that is to fight the best so I've been
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taking it fight by fight and I've been enjoying it I love that mentality props be a dad too like what a
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great girl dad to just be like yeah you could fight people I have no issues with that oh
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yeah no he's he's always loved it like my mom too I mean she she came out to Canada for this last one um but they
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right away yeah yeah like because they wanted me to like learn how to like defend myself initially like I was doing
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dance like before that like my mom put me at like it's to as a kid uh but I was kind of getting bored with that so I
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remember quitting that and then uh my brother was already training so I remember going to watch and oh there was
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there was like a girl black belt like on the mat I remember and I was like I didn't even like I had no idea that was like a thing and then my parents were
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like I think they almost like felt bad that I didn't know and they were like of course you could do that I started
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training from there yeah that's great how did your mom like
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uh being at the fights was it was it her first time or does she come to fights a lot
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uh no it wasn't her first time she she's come to a couple of my fights I'm not all of them in the UFC because I fought like kind of all over um but no she she
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loves com me she always gets nervous but she she loves being there I can hear her sometimes
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nice oh I'm professional oh my good oh sorry it's like it sounds like you're
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alarmed to get ready for the show right it probably was i s for everything
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D so my mom she has kind of a LoveHate relationship with watching me fight too
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and her solution is to tell everyone she's sitting around my daughter's about to fight just so she doesn't have to
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deal with you know the crowd like uh heckling and screaming kick her in
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the dick and that sort of thing have your parents ever had like any weird stories like that going to your
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fights I I know my mom has like almost like I guess not fight people in the crowd
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but having like yelling matches with them the JY came out yes yeah yeah she's
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she's Puerto Rican so she has like that that attitude I love it and she'll she'll snap back at them she be like
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that's my daughter you're talking because I know I remember even at evicta I think they were saying something like
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I don't know something provocative and she was like yelling at them and I know she's yelled at them at the UFC so she
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she doesn't have problems yelling at people when they when they get out of line I love that is that where you got your
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feistiness from like you're like honestly I I think so I think like my M
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because my funny my mom whenever she gets mad at she's like oh I wish I could just punch them in the face or something and I'm like I feel like that's like
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kind of became my job now she definitely has that in her nice
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nice yeah well after um you made such a big leap that I noticed from your fight
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with uh fat and then going into this fight with rose you look like a completely different fighter uh what do
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you attribute that to and what um what were you focused on most oh thank you um yeah I I feel like
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after the fight withn um you know that was tough It's My was my first loss in UFC the first time I've lost in a while
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um so I really want to sharpen some things up I I focused a lot on um like my boxing I got a new boxing coach and
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really just tried working on staying tight um and kind of just sharpening up my like everything overall but
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definitely obviously keeping like my my hands Tighter and my elbows tighter to get more like power off my strikes not
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get hit as much so I was really focusing a lot on that like all in like before I
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even had a fight so I really was able to focus on that without having like the pressures of a camp and then I feel like
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that really helped uh leading into Camp it was it was a little more natural and and something I Implement into my
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fight yeah no it looked good and uh I think I think because you get these
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spectacular submission finishes people don't see how much your striking has
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improved like even going back to inrad fight you were landing on her like nasty
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and I think a lot of times people forget about that uh does it ever frustrate you
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uh just like hearing the criticisms or we were talking about uh last week how
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one guy was getting upset about Michael bisbing not uh not respecting his
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grapplings calling him a striker when he has like all these crazy submission wins so does that part ever frustrate you at
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all when people don't see those Leaps and Bounds you've made in in the gym yeah I guess um it almost more it
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almost shows how much it's hard to I guess rewire how people look at you like people pin like pin me as like a
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Grappler and a wrestler um so then even it's funny I remember rewatching my
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fight with rose and even in the fourth round I felt like I won that round like striking I didn't even get a take down
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that rounde and I I felt like I was finding my strikes a lot better and I wanted on the scorecards um and when
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remember the the commentators were like oh it's a lot better round for Rose she didn't get taken down and I was like I knew I won that round so it's almost
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like I feel like when you're pinned as something they kind of disregard anything else that maybe you do well
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because it's just not what they're pinning you as so sometimes it's it's almost kind of like humorous watching
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that um but uh I guess I don't I don't get frustrated with it it's just kind of
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it just shows I guess maybe some bias that people have when they're commentating yeah um
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so besides commentating what's kind of like the weirdest wildest thing you've gotten from fans because it is it is
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hard to tune that out completely and um fans of MMA can be very very outspoken
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and and trollish so how do you handle that and what's the wildest thing you've had to deal with so far I remember literally when I was
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walking out for this fight um somebody was yelling something at me they were like oh Erin if you lose this one I'm
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gonna blah blah blah and I I don't I don't remember exactly what they said but ever in the moment it kind of like
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got me a little fired up because I was already ready to walk out um uh you know I feel like Mo I mean
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obviously like after losing a fight you get a lot of like comments like oh you should retire this and that I was like
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I'm 25 years old fighting top five in the world I was like I'm already a lot further than most people um so I always
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kind of just remember that they there the people that are commenting those kind of things could never like do what
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you're doing you know in anything like in any sport or uh not even just me just with anybody in general because anyone
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that would comment that kind of stuff they're just doing it to get the reaction you know um so I feel like I
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always just try to remember that and uh you know try to try to look at the good comments that you get man' we uh I went
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to um the Apex shows last weekend and we sat behind some of the most annoying
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people and it's it's always I don't know if people just don't expect that you can hear them because they're
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just trying to speak loud to impress their friends or make their friends laugh but especially in the Apex you can
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hear just about every conversation going on in there so it is funny being on the other side and not in the fight but you
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always wonder like why why say this why say this out loud like what made you
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think that was going to be the thing but it also reminds you that this is an entertainment sport so it's it's like
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this almost the same as being a comedian even though you're there to entertain everyone else there's going to be
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someone in the crowd that thinks that they're funnier than the comedians so it's kind of weird like that yeah I
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guess it I guess it would be hard for like like any of us to understand because we're people that have like competed so it's like you have that
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respect for somebody else that's in there doing it um I guess it's like anything in general like if you see anyone performing something you're like
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well I've been there like doing my own thing performing so you kind of have like I guess another level of respect
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for that um I guess versus people that never have been in that position like I'm sure if you put them up on the stage
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or put them in the cage' be having like a heart attack but then they'll say all this stuff when they're sitting like on the sidelines so yeah I don't know I it
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does show that it's entertainment but uh I think it also just shows that people are they're not used to being in that kind of like position themselves you
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know I love that it must be hard to be a normal
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person a regular guy you would never know how that
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feels so you had some uh really big wins um against some former straw weights and
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I wonder what your thoughts are on adding another weight class they've been
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kind of talking about adding an Adam weight division every now and then and even though it won't like technically
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affect you if you did what do you have any thoughts on that at all like what what that would look like or if there's
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even room for it yeah I mean I think it' be cool um I mean fighting like an Invicta I knew a
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bunch of like the Adam weights that were fighting there and got to see them fight and I always thought there was like a lot of good fun fights there um I think
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it just kind of opens up a whole another you know obviously a whole another division for females and kind of just I
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guess adds more diversity with especially moving up like 10 pounds is a lot so if somebody's really a natural 105 or fighting at 115 is just never
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gonna you know feel the same um so I would totally be behind that I think there are a lot of fun fights I feel
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like they're it's almost like male like uh fly weights like they're super fast and athletic and uh exciting I think
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that's what like female like Adam weights would be like yeah for sure yeah uh we we've been trying to campaign for
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this for a while so we're gonna add your sound clip basically just sign a petition
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whether you know it or not yeah I'm good with it um so speaking of
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other weight classes um there have been a lot of um you know people going up and down
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especially in the well specifically in the men's divisions is there anyone above or below that you would like to
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get matched up with if you had like a dream super fight oh you know someone I guess uh I
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guess this wouldn't necessarily count because I know she fought at 25 but um usually fought at 35 when Mesa Tate came
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back I definitely wanted to fight her yeah I like that yeah I thought that'd be so much fun um because she came back
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a little while ago I think right like right when I got into the UFC or maybe like a year in or so um but yeah she
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someone always looked up to and I thought that'd be really fun yeah she had pretty awesome fight against uh who
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was it was it klin yeah forgot was that her most recent fight I think that was the fight
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she came back on or I think that's she fought in Long Island she was on my card oh wait no it was it was um ah I can't
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think of it oh I know who you're thinking of Lauren yeah was it Lauren yes she fought Lauren Murphy she
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fought klin and she fought one more person that she beat um but uh yeah that
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would be an awesome fight I mean that would be really cool kind of like a Bandon weight now I think I think she
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had a lot of trouble fighting or getting down to 125 it just didn't feel right
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but would you go up to fight someone like that um you know I don't know about
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right I guess it would have to be right now because depends how long she fights for um but uh I guess I wouldn't be
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opposed that I think that would be a really really fun fight so I think for that one it'd be worth it yeah for sure
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what would your approach be to that fight um you know I I feel like I haven't I
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feel like I've only watched her really as a fan I'd have to like watch her to like break her when you were 12 yeah
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yeah for real I've been watching it for like 10 years and I'm like I don't have any game plan
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but uh you know I feel I mean she's well around and you know she definitely uh is more of a wrestler and always looks for
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that and you can and see that's where she's comfortable so I feel like I try to take her where she's not as comfortable maybe keep it striking until
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I can find my own takedowns um feel like that's always a big key like not engaging people want to engage like
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engage like on your time so I think that's what I I try to do with her than nice well one thing I want to
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know about um you mentioned uh fighting Alexa Gro but then
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in the press conference they said oh maybe in Mexico City and even though it's probably not going to happen now
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that her leg leg is broken you didn't seem really excited about fighting in Mexico why was that uh I I don't know I
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guess I um obviously like fighting in someone's Hometown is not ever like
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ideal um so just I guess for those reasons um I mean I'd love if it was
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like in Vegas or something like that or maybe somewhere a little bit maybe more neutral um and just for the fans too I I
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know that if I was fighting Alexa in Mexico that might be might be a little rough
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no people do you remember when Jeremy Stevens fought there and they were thrown bottles right right like almost
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like like aggressive like a little dangerous so I was like maybe not there yeah I was a guest fighter in uh
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Monterey and Mexico City at one point and we had armed guards everywhere it's just literally going into enemy
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territory yeah yeah that's that's why I was like maybe not there it was kind of
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like a fun adventure though you felt like you were in one of those like cartel mov movies or
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something Netflix special and it's funny because uh Brazil kind of had that reputation for a while is being the
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place that you don't want to fight if you're not the Brazilian fighter but I definitely feel like after doing both I
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feel like Mexico City is a much more rowdy crowd oh really that's funny yeah I never yeah okay I never fought in um
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you know obviously never Mexico never Brazil the furthest place I fought was Singapore but that was actually really
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they had their crowd was like awesome um I mean I wasn't fighting someone from there so that might be different that's
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that but I loved it there that was really cool so you're fighting Alexa Grasso in Singapore now it's it's
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happening I'd rather do somebody call Mick right
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now uh well we were kind of uh wondering why you called out Grasso as opposed to
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the winner of Pur and uh and chevchenko and um I think you answered it in other
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interviews but just after mulling it over for for a little bit of time are you still feeling that same way like you
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would rather fight her than the winner of the title match uh you know I mean if if they gave like if I had a wait and I
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got the winner of the title match I would I would love that too um I just know they haven't like booked the the
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title match yet and I knew Alexa at the time I mean wasn't injured and didn't have a fight uh so I felt like the
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timing wise like if we even if we ended up fighting on the same card or something like that I think it would just be nice to to stay active um and
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gain like more experience against someone that's also been a a former champ like in the weight class um so for
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those are like the reasons I I wanted that fight and it would still be nice if that if that was uh possible um but you
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know if I if I end up like not having a fight and they offer me like the winner of the title match I would take that too
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nice yeah did you see the drama yeah I've seen the the
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drama loser goes home yeah what what do you think that's about
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I I haven't research it at all but I just saw the headlines on Instagram and stuff um I don't know I just I I thought
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it was a little funny I mean not to be like too rude but I was like the fact that she was like oh I'll beat you and you retire I'm like I know you're not
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that much younger than her kind of like that's why when she was like you retire it's kind of like yeah
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it's kind of just like you're just bickering at each other like who can retire first um I kind of found that a
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little funny yeah that's pretty great I mean you you being a 25-year-old it must be
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really funny and cute to you like knowing you have at least my perspective
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I was like um that doesn't really make sense I was like you can trash talk but I don't know it should make more sense
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than that so I'm wondering what's going on with that fight has that been booked yet or have you heard anything about
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that uh not that I know of I mean I haven't really like asked like my manager or anything yet if he's heard
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anything but uh I haven't seen anything booked about that um yeah I don't know the only things I seen is like Valentina
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looks like she's like on vacation right now so maybe she some time I don't know
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um I mean I know she's I mean obviously fighting five routes is always rough so maybe she's healing from you know maybe
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think she hasn't mentioned or anything like that but uh uh yeah I don't know hopefully they get that scheduled like
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early next year though that that'd be cool she probably had a belly dance and
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Retreat yeah I guess it keeps her in shape she always looks like in good shape
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to I think pretty close to walk uh to fight weight honestly yeah yeah yeah
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yeah she doesn't look like she cuts much weight which is kind of surprising considering yeah I know considering how
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dominant she's been you know I think that's gonna be a big factor especially with her fight with like manone especially I think mino's a pretty a
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pretty big girl and definitely cuts a good amount of weight um you looked very on the scale against you yeah yeah no I
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remember she looked she looked pretty pretty sucked out and I mean she's just tall and she's like pretty filled out so
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she I'm curious like what she what she walks around actually she's a pretty big girl um and I guess how she can kind of
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use that against someone like Valentina who's definitely like on the smaller end for the weight
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class do you how do you feel like you size up against um people in division you're five4 which is kind of average
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height or maybe even a little bit shorter more like a straw weight height but how do you feel like your size
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matches up in the division do you think that in the future um you see yourself like growing into another
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division uh you know I feel like my height is obviously I'm like like you said I'm like a little maybe on the shorter end especially for flyweights
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some some of them get pretty tall I mean I feel like uh up until manone I had a
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bunch of girls that were probably like around my height even I mean onra is obviously even shorter um but uh I feel
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like I I'm like short and like built thicker so so I know like I I have like that size behind me um and I feel like I
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have good strength in there um I I I feel like as I get older I definitely
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kind of want to like fill out a little bit more especially fighting I guess now having fought a bunch of girls that are
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like in there like early 30s I could kind of feel maybe a little bit that
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strength difference um and that's something I think that's just going to take like kind of time to build um but I
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think it's something I can definitely like fill into and and kind of use my uh
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my technique to to kind of bridge the gap between that and yeah yeah speaking of technique is like
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Gary Goodridge your favorite fighter because you love getting to that crucifix position and just beating
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people up from there is that something that just kind of happens in fights on
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just because the opportunity is there or is that one of you're like go two positions yeah you know I think I
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actually used to use that even in Jitsu a lot because I would like to just to isolate the arms like isolate one arm so
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I'd be able to attack the other because I always loved going after like koras or or arm bars from there so then when I
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started fighting MMA it just kind of transferred really well um and I was able to use it to like ground and pound from there um yeah I just I've always
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like I feel like it's such a I feel like almost almost even more dominant than Mount sometimes because they can't scramble out of it as easy um so I think
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that's why I really like using it it sucks I hate getting Stu
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there yeah secure position especially when you don't have like one of those
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like really bendy flexible backs like JZ and you can't just like whoop you know like throw your legs up and roll out of
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it somehow pull it out yeah yeah yeah it sucks man what did you need to break
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down how the quickest way to the crucifix I feel like that would be a really popular video because you're able
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to do it so well yeah um so I feel like from saol what I usually try to think I
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just have like my underhook on the on the near side with my head and then usually instead of trying to because
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like they they'll know you're going to be trying to grab the arm you just start like hitting and when they go to grab your wrist and like stop the H just
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slide your knee in between uh like their arm break that grip and then you can triangle the arm um and then continue
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hitting but I think uh that set up like just going to hit right away yeah and then letting them grab to try to defend
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it sets it up a lot easier nice we got sparing tomorrow too I'm like
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okay thanks coach
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uh would you say that that's your favorite position and what is your dream since you're a Grappler what is your
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dream submission in a fight um yeah I would say uh yeah that
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position I I love that position a lot I feel like if I could always if I can get to there in every fight I would it's
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definitely um super solid and gets you a lot of finishes uh you know once
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submission I have one to hit that I feel like I've been hitting when I roll a lot I wish I could have done it in this fight is like a back triangle uh kind of
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like the same one that um Fon Davies hit on like McKenzie D that that one's like
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yeah I feel like that's like super slick um and there's like basically no escaping getting choked out or like your
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arms getting broken yeah no we were doing that one with uh with Johnny a bunch when you like kind of trap that
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arm and it feel it almost feels like you're getting uh Maric on the way
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getting choked yeah yeah no you can yeah you Bally can use like the back tap to to set up the triangle and there's like
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basic like like a shoulder lock finish from there like if you go to do that and they go to extend then you can arm bar
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off of that or just adjust and get the triangle so I feel like there's so many options from there um and it looks like
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it looks fancy man it's like I almost want you to fight down just so you can pull that off you for a
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title or just do it title fight yeah there you
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go is there um a preference of who you'd want to fight I know before you were
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kind of like uh well actually I don't remember what you were saying before but now after seeing your performance after
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like you know having some time to think it over is there a preference of who you'd like to fight for the title oh who
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I'd like to fight for the title if if you get that fight next yeah yeah
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um that's that's hard you know I feel like I would I still would love to fight both of them because obviously I'd want
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to fight my no to get that get that win back over her um but then Valentine is someone I've been watching forever um
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and someone that's been so dominant in the weight class that it's that that would be an awesome fight too um yeah I
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don't have a preference I would definitely like to fight both of them if I if I can both of them same night on
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the same night at the same time e rolles
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would you ever do uh get back into the Jiu-Jitsu circuit again like now that they have all these big shows happening
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on Fight Pass and all this other stuff Craig Jones Invitational ADCC would you
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ever do something like that while you're waiting to get that next fight I don't know I feel like I've I
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really do like kind of you know focusing on my training uh between fights especially with all the big fights that
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I have like possibly coming up um and have haven't come up like in the last couple years um yeah I don't know I feel
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like that's so hard cuz you're especially if you're going against like other like actual Grapplers it's like you're training like a whole another
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sport like they're focusing primarily on that all the time so it's pretty hard to just like go in and and compete and and
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I know I know if I did do it I'd be so tight if I lost so I would have to really on it I feel like that gets me
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too I'm like oh I'd be like oh I knew if I just focused on that I'd be able to win um so I don't know I wouldn't
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totally write it off but I I would need to like I know myself and I'd want to like trade for it the right
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way yeah I get that um so not grappling but outside of fighting like if you
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weren't fighting now what do you think you would be
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doing I don't know I feel like I don't know if I would actually do this but I feel like uh I always think
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I'd probably be like a chef or something I feel like I've always liked cooking I feel like I couldn't do like an office
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job I don't know so maybe maybe something with cooking what's your favorite thing to
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cook um well my favorite thing yeah I like making chicken parm that's like my
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favorite thing to eat oh
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okay I like that and then how long do you see yourself finding for I know that you're young and you're not talking about retirement but um you started so
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young and you've already have achieved so much do you ever think about what that end goal is or what that end date
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would be like H you know I'm not completely sure
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um yeah I I haven't thought of it too much I mean probably like early mid 30s
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or so I guess I'd have to see how like my body feels or where I am at life you know what I mean um so I don't really
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have like a a strict cut off for that how's your body feeling I feel good right
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now time D I know some people who are mad young and and just are riddled with
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injuries and just had so many surgeries more surgeries than they should have
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been able to have like more surgeries than their age so so that's awesome that
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you still like you feel good after starting so young you still feel good and fresh and that's a good sign for the
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future for sure yeah no I've been I've been lucky I haven't had any surgeries
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um or anything like that I've only like bumsters I mean I did like crack my nose but that was really it so nothing
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nothing like too bad that's actually like kept me off the mats for like that long um so yeah pretty lucky with that I'm
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like knock on wood we're we're all knocking on
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wood um so big fights over at Madison Square gon this weekend do you have any
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predictions for the main card uh can you remind me who's on the
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main card are you going are you go I know
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it's pretty close to you I I did actually my manager and get me tickets I'm still still waiting to
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see tell you like a few days before yeah your
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ticket it's not too far for me so hopefully I do uh so inh the main event we have Jon
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Jones fighting St miic then we have Charles Olivera fighting Michael Chandler and then Bo nickel taking on
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Paul Craig for the main card okay um I
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mean I'm probably I'm gonna go bone Nick I feel like he's always pretty solid um
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oh then Charles Olivera I've always been a huge fan of him and I know he's already fought Chandler too so I feel
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like he can definitely get that win again too um and then the main car I'm gonna go with Jon
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Jones gotta solid pick I feel like everyone's kind of picking the same like most people are kind of going with the
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same lines um you fought a Madison Square Garden against Molly right how
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was that that is on my bucket list and I'm so mad you got to do it when you were like what like 18
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20 I think I was I was 23 23 oh so ancient you were ancient how was that
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what how was the energy like just watching it it it sounded loud in there
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like was that like a a different experience from the other fights or did it kind of feel the same you get that
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tunnel vision and go for it uh yeah it was it was definitely different um you know I always wanted to fight at MSG and
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I I liveed close to there um and then fighting Molly it was almost it's funny that I wanted to fight there so bad
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because then it got totally flipped on me and I was getting food like crazy like I knew it was gonna be bad yeah that was crazy yeah it was it was pretty
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intense like I guess I didn't realize what it was going to be like until um the ceremonial weigh-ins when I was
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walking out and like the second they like announced my name they just started like booing like
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crazy um but then I remember my because like my family was like right there in like the front part with like the VIP
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family tickets I was able to see them and they were all like cheering they were going crazy trying to like all the
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all the booze Stadium yeah and then I remember she
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like Molly said something like during the face off she was like trying to get in my face um what did she say what did
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she say oh she said I think she was like oh isn't this supposed to be your hometown or something like that and she
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like got in my face and I was like yeah it is she's like oh it doesn't sound like it I'm like oh we just like had like a little back
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and forth real quick we were like so close I couldn't even like see her it just gets like
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Blurry oh my God Molly nice I can't believe her I
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know um and then again like on like fight day when I was walking out it was just like Boo like crazy and then I
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remember during the fight like when I got into the crucifix first it went silent like dead silent I like never
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heard like a crowd get that quiet before and then I remember she like got her arm out for like a second and they started
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cheering and then I got her back and then like once I then once I finished her then I think I heard some cheers
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with some booze and I just remember being so like it's the first time I probably was actually like kind of pissed after winning I was like oh like
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whatever you guys um but but then she then she was like nice afterwards
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she like picked me up and she's like oh good fight I was like thanks
35:59
I guess I didn't know how to feel after that because I never really had someone like talk to me like that before so that I was still kind of annoyed I was like you weren't saying that
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yesterday um uh yeah but I mean I would definitely love to fight it like MSG
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again um and maybe get like a whole another experience this time because I feel like it it would definitely be
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different listen you get one you get one yeah leave it for hey man your girl
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Carolina fought like five times and she's and she's not from there at all
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yeah so weird I love her so weird yeah but uh yeah that's so funny I was wondering did you hear your mom when the
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crowd went silent I feel like your mom just be like yes I didn't
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hear oh that's amazing telling like I was like I was the only one screaming when the crowd
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went silent um but uh yeah hopefully next time I can hear that's great well yeah I hope you
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get that fight again because that does suck when you're fighting in your hometown somebody tried to do that to me
37:08
when I uh fought lupy she was like oh you know I'm from Canada but uh San
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Diego is a lot it's a huge Mexican crowd and I'm Mexican so they're G to be louder for me than they are for Angela
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and I was like that and she's super nice too you know
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but like at the time that got into my skin but I was happy because uh San Diego went crazy because they said and
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representing San Diego and then it didn't matter what name they said afterwards everyone
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just so yeah I I lucked out on that one you should have said you should have made them say representing New York and
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New Jersey I should have just changed it to New York City for that one exactly no
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Jersey would disown you you can never do that yeah yeah don't do that
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just say the East Coast yeah yeah representing the East Coast have you
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ever fought in Jersey at all uh yeah when I when I fought myone um that was
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yeah that that was that was fun that was obviously the crowd was on my side of that one and even it was kind of nice
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because even losing that fight like the whole crowd when I was leaving they're like we still love you and I was like oh I remember like almost like wanting to
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cry because I was already like upset with losing but it that that was really nice I I liked fighting and
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nice that's awesome yeah well thank you so much for all your time it's been an absolute pleasure and
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um it's been awesome watching you know you grow in the sport and everything that you're doing in the UFC so uh you
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have two fans that are going to be cheering for you your next time out no matter who it is uh but yeah thank you
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so much for your time yeah of course thanks for having me yay
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