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Two Straws Episode 5: UFC 224 Breakdown
Nov 7, 2024
Jessica Penne and Angela Hill soar over the mountains of Rio De Janeiro clinching their beverages tight as they break down UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington. They reminisce on the old days of UFC, answer a few questions from their billions of Two Straws fans, and Ange pays up for losing last week's bet.
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hello and welcome to another episode of
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two straws this is from Angela Hill and
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I am Jessica penny and we are here to
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break down UFC 224 in Brazil featuring a
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man and Nunez and Raquel Pennington oh
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wait what this oh that's the that's the
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card we're talking about we haven't
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heard anything about this card yeah me
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either
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well we're gonna talk about it so you're
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gonna hear about it now yeah you've done
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your homework clearly maybe you haven't
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let me you know usually when I pays 60
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bucks to watch two lesbians go at it you
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expect something a little different you
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know how the UFC used to have titles you
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know for their fights think UFC heavy
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artillery
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Oh UFC heavy hitters yeah yeah well it's
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hard be UFC I'm gonna watch at a bar
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with no cover UFC my stack this card
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with Brazilians you've see I'm not
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buying that
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UFC 224 the one before 225 UFC I can't
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believe it's not Balladur UFC me it just
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feel like the emoticon late the struggle
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but again you'll see 224 Brazilians are
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gonna buy it anyway
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UFC 224 we saved 225 for CM Punk EFC 224
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dirt versus Cooper UFC let's lead the
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marketing to the interns on this one
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it'll be a great learning experience yes
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they're all gonna win as long as you're
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Brazilian UFC fight night
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I mean pay-per-view let's go ahead and
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dive right into the main card first up
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we have an interesting matchup between
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Vitor Belfort and lyoto machida oh two
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Brazilians we might actually have a
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legit decision in this card if it goes
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that far no favoritism here hey old man
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vs. old man old man old legend vs. old
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legend
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okay the the master's class okay uh UFC
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fights in BJJ it would be adult
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Adal adults okay yeah let's get into it
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what do we think about Vitor Belfort
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versus we have a Machida um well I'm
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definitely happy that the that they're
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fighting each other as opposed to a lot
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of the young up-and-coming fighters that
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they've been fighting I know I was
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really sad when Machida fought Brunson
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like it just sucks to see like a veteran
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fighter who's just trying to get back
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into the game and getting pretty much
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smoked by a younger faster stronger and
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more aggressive fighter that was
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definitely a tall order to take he was
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off for about two years when the you saw
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his suspension and he came in and
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fighting Derek Brunson and and that's
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that's a really tall order mm-hmm
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so I'm definitely happy they're fighting
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each other I think that mashita actually
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has the upper hand in this just because
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I feel like his chin is a little less
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messed up than Vito's uh but you know
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it's it's kind of like a coin toss
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pizzas he's known for his knockout power
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like he he could end it in the first
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round so I think if it goes past the
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first round
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I think Machida has it I definitely
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think Vitor has you know that that
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aggression that coming forward but in
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lyoto machida
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he definitely has the the good matchup
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against that style of fighting he's very
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elusive he waits he lulls his opponents
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into a dangerous zone and then WHAM you
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get a big knockout it's the kind of
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thing we're like you sit there the whole
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fight and you're like sure nothing's
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gonna happen so you get up and go to the
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bathroom and as soon as you get into the
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stall you hear the crowd going yeah I'm
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pretty sure like all the Machida's
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knockouts I've been on the toilet what
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happened I mean you regretted it yeah
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even before I was watching fights next
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up on the main card we have an
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interesting matchup between John Lennon
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and Brian Kelleher now Kelleher is
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coming off a pretty impressive win
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or former bantamweight champion Henin
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brow and linacre is an always exciting
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matchup I mean this guy comes to fight
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I'm in pretty much no game plan
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whatsoever just goes in and brawls and
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he either wins or loses in impressive
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fashion this fight to me on paper seems
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like it has a fight of the night
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potential I'm pretty sure people are
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expecting just hook after hook after
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hook Linacre is so aggressive and so
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crazy with his striking so aggressive of
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his hooks like I mean even if it goes to
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the ground and this corner tells him the
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sink is hooks in he's just throwing more
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hooks he's not thinking about the speed
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enough like he's just hook machine was
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listening yeah he's kind of you know
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what they say about Linna guy what he's
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got more hooks than a tackle shop Oh
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Kelleher he he has really nice boxing
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when he takes his time but he's not
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afraid to get in a brawl like if you get
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someone hurt like we saw on the bra fake
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he goes for it he stands he bangs he
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takes some on the forehead just to give
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his own so so yeah I'm really excited
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for this fight they both have a lot of
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forward pressure they both want to take
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the center of the cage and you know I'm
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wondering who's gonna win that pressure
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battle so yeah it'll be good to see I
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think Kelleher might have an advantage
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when it comes to the wrestling
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department but linacre has just been in
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there so many times against so many
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different people that I feel like you
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know that experience just might give him
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the upper hand in this fight yeah
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linacre definitely makes you play his
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game I mean he's he's gonna brawl and
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he's gonna make you brawl he comes
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forward throwing aggressive hooks every
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shot is a power shot this is why he's
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you know always on the main card he's
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guaranteed to have an exciting fight and
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and Kelleher I I've seen hints of a
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really intelligent fighter but I've also
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seen that like that brawler instinct is
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always in him but if you just wanna go
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so I'm definitely excited to see which
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kind of version do we see the smart guy
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or do we see the brawler for me if if I
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were if I were Kelleher I would really
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try and like close
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distancing and just kind of stifle
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Linacre and and take his power shots
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away for me I want to see the brawling
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love you and on the main card we have a
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McKenzie Dern and Amy C so that's
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happening no we're talking about the
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main card no it's on the main card yeah
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middleweight fight coming up we have an
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auto Jacquerie so done okay versus
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Kelvin Gastelum so interesting matchup
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between Kelvin Gastelum mr. marijuana
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who is a very you know seasoned fighter
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he's coming up a weight class hmm
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because he can't make a hundred seventy
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pounds consistently too many munchies he
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does like the munchies hey Jeff ask you
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solder releases a short suspension and
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we have Brazilian BJJ phenomenon called
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Oh chuckles oh yeah great jaggery I
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really love jakhary I think you I hate
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that I like there innit I know he looks
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like a [ __ ] crocodile to alligator
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and I mean he was like he has like that
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strong jaw and like you just feel like
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he could like bite you and then spin
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around really quick like a like a you
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know like a crocodile he shot her like a
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Jacaranda really sucks that he's been
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kind of put in this position where he's
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testing out the the title contenders you
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know also it was like everyone who ends
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up beating Jacare gets a title shot if
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jacory beats them he doesn't get a title
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shot so it's such that he's been kind of
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he did you know a little weird Keystone
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fighter
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yeah there's to this position because
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like he's definitely earned the title
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shot more than once
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absolutely I agree and this is kind of a
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weird thing that happens when you want
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to fight but somebody's already
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scheduled for the title contention and
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it's and it's right like on the horizon
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and you decide you taking on the fight
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and it could completely put a wrench in
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the works sometimes you just have to ask
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yourself is it worth holding out for to
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see how the landscape changes or do you
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just you just take a fight we know many
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fighters Wilson Hayes is one of them our
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teammate over at Alliance these things
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just happen has happened to countless
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fighters that that one fight that you
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know you take just in the meantime just
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to keep busy just to keep busy just to
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keep experienced it ends up completely
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throwing a wrench in the works and
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drilling your entire momentum where you
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could have just waited a few months and
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definitely I feel like Jacare in this
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fight though I feel very very confident
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in him I think we're gonna see you know
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a new kind of more developed Jacquerie
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since he's moved to the US and he's now
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training stateside and he's getting all
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of the different looks that he wasn't
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getting in Brazil and you know he's
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taking a lot better care of himself and
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we have Gaslamp who is like you know
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capable of having devastating knockouts
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I do think that this will make for a
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great fight hmm I think that jacory is
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definitely more experienced on the
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ground
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I think he's it's impressive how a BJJ
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black belt somebody who is known for
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their grappling has really developed a
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great striking Graeme great takedown
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game and has really filled in those
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holes that a lot of BJJ artists don't
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necessarily do mm-hmm I actually first
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knew jacory as a nasty striker before I
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realized he was actually just as sick on
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the ground so I think that's um one
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thing he has over like most of the
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people in the division he's so scary in
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both places that you just kind of don't
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want to be in the on the ground or
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underwater with the with the jacket he's
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just gonna kill you everywhere it sucks
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but that being said you cannot count
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Kelvin Gastelum out he he really is an
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extremely crisp sharp boxer he does have
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grappling um he he likes to keep it on
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the feet and he is used to fighting you
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know slightly larger
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stronger fighters and he he has
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devastating knockouts to to his credit
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so this is definitely gonna be an
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interesting matchup and possibly title
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contention matchup so it'll definitely
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mix up the middleweight division and I'm
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excited to see how it goes
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yet I got Jacare now I'm you know I love
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BJJ and I gotta go for the BJJ black
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belt he's a legend cool and in the main
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event the fight that we've all been
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waiting for we have Amanda Nunez the
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bantamweight champion taking on Raquel
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Pennington
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yes I'm probably during this fight their
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girlfriends are gonna get in a fight
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with each other because they're both
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strong weak I don't know why they didn't
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book that fight on this card as well
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exactly I would imagine a [ __ ] what's
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wrong do you mix Shelby get your [ __ ]
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together
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oh man [ __ ] yeah you totally missed
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the opportunity the bug t-shirt versus
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answer off as the Cole main to Nunez
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versus Pennington I mean Galan one thing
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I can say about Raquel Pennington and
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tecia Torres is that they are glued
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together I mean that everywhere they go
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they hold hands I'm gonna be surprised
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if they don't hold hands while she walks
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out to the cage so once I was walking
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through the hallway in there in the
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hallway holding hands deep Dee Dee and I
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literally had the limbo under their
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heads it was a really narrow hallway
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limbo I didn't know what else to do
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under their grip they wouldn't let go
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for a second so I can pass so walking
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down a hallway
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Nina answer off Amanda Nunez and on the
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other side Raquel Pennington and tecia
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Torres pull the hands
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I see like like a Warriors meats like
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gangs of new york meets West Side Story
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like fight dancing who wins man you know
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I don't think in South African dance
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I think she would outwork her yeah so
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the champion Amanda nuda is coming off
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of back-to-back like amazing fights she
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seems pretty dominant in this position
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and Raquel Pennington brings an
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interesting matchup to it because she
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has very sharp boxing
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she has great head movement she cuts off
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the ring and she seems pretty physically
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strong a mananitas is one of the larger
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girls in this weight division and it
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likes to come in super aggressive so
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it'll be interesting to see how Raquel
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counters and comes back and forth with
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that yeah I think a lot of people are
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writing rappel off I mean she is coming
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off of a like almost two year layoff she
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got injured getting ready for a fight
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like beforehand so um so yeah last time
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she fought was also the last time Conor
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McGregor fought UFC 2 o 5 it's gonna be
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really interesting seeing how she comes
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back I mean first fight back and it
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being a five rounder that's that's a
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pretty leg tall order for anyone that's
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extremely impressive to come off after a
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two-year layoff and step into the cage
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for for a title match mm-hmm
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the pressure she's on you know hometown
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grounds
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she is also fighting five rounds and who
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knows how her cardio is after such a
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long time off so there's a lot of things
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playing against Raquel but actually
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think that she has the skills to at
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least put Nunez on her toes for a few
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rounds but you could see in her fight
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with Shevchenko all of her success came
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from stringing together more than two or
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three strikes so she would chase Nunez
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down and every time that Nunez would
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fade out she'd kind of fade out in the
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same way and I feel like what I've seen
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from Raquel is that she's able to
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capitalize on people who kind of just go
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forward and back like she's able to like
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hit and then slip and then throw three
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punches throw four punches and
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you know just really add up on the score
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count I think she has what it takes for
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the fight to look competitive um but you
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know with all those things against her I
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don't think she's gonna take it
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especially not in Brazil it is it is
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really difficult going to somebody
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else's hometown somebody else's country
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and you have not only the pressure of
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the belts against you you have the
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pressure of an entire country against
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you I'm feeling the pressure the belt
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right now please be done eating you're
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getting really heavy to lift in training
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hurting my back it's good for you
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wrestling you're gonna pay for my
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physical therapy and yeah that's gonna
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look even more amazing than it already
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does so no shade but I'm kind of
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interested and intrigued as to why
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Marwan L was not like a possible like
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person to fight for the title Raquel
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Pennington
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no disrespect is coming off of a two
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year layoff with an injury and yes she
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had you know impressive win in her past
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but Mauro Ranallo has has been competing
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and she is on a win streak she had you
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know kind of a weird draw thing versus
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better magic oh hey and you know but we
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gotta leave it here whether it was
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enough said
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and their fight with Ashlee evans-smith
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I mean like I really thought that
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Renault took that fight that was her
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most recent loss she's on a four-fight
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one street fight we draw you know it's
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it just yeah it doesn't make sense to me
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either like she's definitely one of the
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more successful Bantam weights
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in their last five fights III definitely
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would like to see her just kind of in
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the mix or even like part of the
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conversation to be having in the title
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contention I'm she's she's consistently
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impressed she's dangerous everywhere on
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her back standing she she dropped
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ceramic man in her last fight I'm a she
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faced adversity with Sara McMann in the
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first round and came back to win the
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fight in impressive fashion
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I am always impressed and and really
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admire Maura now and I I'm just kind of
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curious as to what matchmakers were
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thinking it's because she's old she's
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not old she looks like she's thirty yes
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she looks younger than everyone she's
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fought even though they've all been
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younger than her
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I just I don't think age should be a
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thing either it should be based on her
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performance and her performance speaks
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volumes so you know wow this is still a
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new sport you have the veterans you have
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the the women coming up you have you
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know the newbies but just because
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somebody's older I really don't don't
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think that that should be an issue yeah
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I think if her momentum continues does
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at one at some point yeah like you can't
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deny it
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she's always able to impress in her wins
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so you know I'm gonna start my campaign
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Mara now for a title contender
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hey there's my sign I'm gonna go make a
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sign I'm gonna stand outside the UFC
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office I think she should get a title
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shot or at least at the very least to be
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part of the conversation to bet she's
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hiding cash and then she's gonna draw it
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back down to the heat because after that
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I mean that could potentially set up the
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next contention fight for for taking on
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the champion yeah so that's a big fight
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definitely definitely now that we
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pointed that out I can kind of see it
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going in that direction although I do
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think that she's a little bit more
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deserving than Pennington I could have
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put Pennington with Kat although she's
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already beat her
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okay second time's a charm I want to try
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a little something news I have a
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computer yeah um I asked people online
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on Twitter if they had any good
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questions for us any interesting
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questions for us and then maybe we'll
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answer some so I'm gonna quiz Jessica
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penne on some of your questions have you
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ever used any grappling moves in the
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bedroom
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yes which ones all of them there you go
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knock Boykin yes if you could fight any
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celebrity who would it be
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Kanye West oh yeah you got your ass beat
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that sounds like a choice cosmic creator
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ass if you have a street fighter as
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super ultra what would it be called it
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would have to be something along the
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lines of our bf fatality
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yeah just like freezes image em and I
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walk over and slap them in the majors
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crumble path of virtue ask what are your
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thoughts on cage sizes in the impact on
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faints well cage size does impact fights
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quite a bit if you have a smaller cage
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there's less room to move around so
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you're gonna have more of a brawl in
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your face kind of fight and the bigger
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the cage the more room you have to move
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around and run from your opponent so I'd
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like a medium sized cage just like you
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know Goldilocks and the three bears
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I want one that's just right I like
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small cages I like being a forest
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running like a [ __ ] Daniel Taylor
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alright guys so that's all we have for
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you this week my name
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Angela you're forgetting something in
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our previous episode we discussed a
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matter of a bet he gonna do that now
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yeah we say that last week that we were
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talking about it this week we have to
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keep our promises you know promises are
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very important all right fine
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so what am I done well my feet are kind
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of tired can you give them a little
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massage adorable hey whatever I'm gonna
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do it I'm gonna do it right
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don't forget the arches
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oh you're good at that oh yeah you do
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this for your husband all the time don't
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you not a punching bag Angela
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yeah well thank you so much for joining
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us on another episode of two straws
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this is Angela hello I'm Jessica penne
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and don't miss out on UFC 224 Brasil
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Nunez versus Pennington hi hey hey hey
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hey ooh ha whoa hey
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