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what's up everyone we are back with another episode of two straws
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it's a long time coming too because uh We've we've been to this fight week before you know what it
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um
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no need for luck or chance or whatever you're making it to
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the stage I was just talking to somebody the other day about how like okay so I've been in this sport for like over a
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decade and a half I mean yeah like 17 years of like training competing and all that kind of stuff and I'm like I feel
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like numbers wise like I just have like there's a lot more possibility of like weird [ __ ] happening so yeah yeah
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because you've shown up a million times yeah yeah that is it's just something that happens there's there's a bingo
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like list somewhere of things that can happen to you in your MMA career uh
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luckily you haven't checked the [ __ ] yourself box yet but we know many of you hey why are you gonna even put that onto
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the Universe I know I'm just saying what's your problem there are a lot of weird anomalies that happen you know and
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you've checked a bunch of boxes but luckily not the really bad ones and that was one of them and now we got that out
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the way and now it's never gonna happen it's your problem no I'm just saying that they're getting sick before getting
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sick during a wake up it happens a bunch in fact it happened to uh two people in
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the last fight card this week right so the main event at that and that's just
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the worst one because there's so much pressure on you to just do it anyway
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like just do it even though you feel like [ __ ] and you're probably gonna get your ass kicked you just want to just
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fight anyway what's worse though you know because it's like if you if you go
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ahead and you make the decision which I you and I both and many other Fighters have made the decision to fight despite
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what is going on whether it's injury health emotional like whatever it is
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we've made the decision to fight and then like once you fight you can't say
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like you can't use you can't you can't legitimately nobody wants to hear it
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even though it's completely valid yeah and it is completely like yeah it is
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it's reality but but you can never talk about it unless you win ever if you win
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you could talk about it and everyone calls you a hero like Dan Gable or something wasn't it Dan Gable who like
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broke his leg and then wrestled and got a Olympic gold medal or a belt or
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whatever yeah um it's only applauded when you win and
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when you lose you look like you're making excuses yes um even when I have won those fights I
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still haven't said it and I mean I have I mean I could have I guess you should have but
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I just felt like yeah she's just like Dan Gable she she won that fight with
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one knee yeah I missed my moment yeah what happened what's wrong with you I
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know maybe it's a gender thing but because I feel like a lot of times well I guess both genders have this but a lot
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of times we feel pressure not to complain and I think for guys it's like
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oh it's a manly thing if you don't complain but for women it's like oh you're a little [ __ ] like oh just like
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women to make excuses so we're fighting against a stereotype as well so maybe
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it's just a fighter thing we try to be tougher than than you know than a human
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is and we're all human so that part sucks but you know luckily cry love
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didn't have to fight with his foodborne illness he had the the foresight to not
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fight and not like that not check the poop yourself but because that very well
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could have happened too it could have um yeah he could have uh barfed or
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crapped or like like who knows what what could have happened you know that's
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that's an awful thing to have to fight through even just you know I mean people don't even get up and go to an office
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job when they have a foodborne illness yeah you know look at this poor guy crap get in a fight yeah someone who's been
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watching tape on you no thank you so I
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admire that I admire that because there's so many times where probably shouldn't have taken a fight you know
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myself or or other people and they've paid the price for it um so I you know I salute him for
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standing up for himself your health is most important live to find another day so I I think that's great and I think
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more you know Fighters should you know stand up and say like hey I'm not well
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it's you know we deserve to get to fight at 100 or as close to it as possible because nobody goes in at 100 ever
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um so I think it's really you know Brave and admirable and I think it's happening a little more often now I've been I've
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definitely noticed that yeah um maybe with better pay maybe people are actually able to afford to not fight
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that time when before it was like okay this is all the money you could possibly
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make in a year and it's not that much so you gotta show up you know like it's life or death or you know paying rent or
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not paying rent like that's a big difference there um but yeah yeah we all have we all
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started off making [ __ ] what did uh what did you make for your
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first fight um I think it was was it three and three
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I think it was three and three I was pretty happy with it though it was supposed to be five and five but I need to pay my opponent part of my purse to
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show up because I was at a time constraint and no one wanted to fight me because I had
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um uh 16-0 Muay Thai record but no amateur MMA records so people didn't
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really know what to expect so it was hard for me to get my first foot in the door sure so yeah it was
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three and three nice what about you uh 400 to show 200 to win and then I got a
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200 bonus for submission 800 hey and I got a free trip to uh
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Evansville Indiana in November nice so you made more than me but you lost
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your soul by going to Indiana in November it was really cold oh my God
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that was a wee little 105 Rebecca dude I feel like your bones would have snapped there were half just walking off of the
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plane yeah there was I think the worst it was for me was I was fighting at the
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Dakota Magic it was on the border of North and South Dakota and um I was fighting at 105 pounds and I
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back then I was you know pretty small but I didn't know how to cut water weight I the whole idea of water weight
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like really scared me and I didn't you know I just didn't understand it so I would I would diet like
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all the way down and um yeah I was I was freezing yeah like I
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could not step foot outside my uh my team had to go get the car turn the car
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heater on because you know you have to walk like all the way to the parking lot you're probably in the back I mean we left we left a cup of water in the car
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you know just for a very short amount of time came back and it was frozen no it
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was it was so cold oh my God there is nothing um that I missed less about living in
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New York than cutting weight I fought a couple times at 105 too and cutting
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weight and riding the Subway on those hard ass seats with no meat on your
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tailbone like that is the worst it literally a 15 minute subway ride feels
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like an hour because you feel every shake and bump on the subway I usually
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would work a shift before I go to weigh-ins so I just I don't know I was Damascus I was just like ah it's fine
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I'll just busy my mind with work and watching people eat and that that's the
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worst it was great yeah but for some reason it worked for me but that subway ride was the worst I could just fill
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every bone Shake in my body because that's literally all I was was bones yeah [Music]
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we kept joking that I should have brought one of those hernia pads so I could ride that on the subway and not be
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uncomfortable I mean it would have been a bad idea yeah yeah you know definitely ugh for a little thing so it was a
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little skinny bony ass Angela we would have been great friends bony Jess and
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boneyange the perfect duet just like now we just couldn't hug each
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other because you probably cut each other open
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oh god um but yeah so you get to come in at the
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Hefty 115 pound limit this time yes so that's always a privilege and uh let's talk
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about fight Camp a little bit like how's it gone are you sick of it do you love it are you at least a little more
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comfortable having time to prepare this time because last time you were flirting with the uh you know the short notice
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thing and then it just wasn't meant to be safe it was not meant to be yeah maybe another time we'll revisit it yeah
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um it's on your bingo list yeah I mean I've taken a really short notice fight
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before oh tell me yes seven days seven days notice and I went and fought shoot boxing in Japan oh that's sick though I
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remember you told me about that most incredible fight experience favorite fight memory of all time awesome so you
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do have good short notice fight memories yeah I've actually when I would um you know when when I was coming up like
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some fights would just you know pop up and happen but you know it's just it's different it was way way back when when
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I was you know a young young lady just Young and Crazy Little Daredevil I do
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feel like the older I get the less eager I am to jump into crazy situations like
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I understand the risk a little too much yeah
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like I remember um when I first visited you actually in
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California we went to a BJ class and I
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picked the biggest guy in the room and was just like having a crazy grapple grapple fest with them like just
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scramble all over the place and afterwards I like look at June was like ah you're like you're [ __ ] crazy what
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is your issue and I'm like what was she talking about but now I know like no because you still do it because I
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remember like months ago when we were getting ready for the first time I was supposed to fight Richie on short notice
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we go into steel to spar Muay Thai on like a Tuesday night and she picked like this hundred and like 80 90 pound like
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big dude that does not look like he knows how to like go light with women did I Inspire him you started to and
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then Adam came and got you I was like I like gave him I was like well now I don't fight Adam when he tells me
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to think ghost shadow box oh my God I was like why are you picking out these large
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humans sometimes they're easier than the girls
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as long as you use it as long as their mom raised them right I guess but geez
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you just gotta poke the bear and then run away
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getting tired and he can kick him in the butt yeah yeah I like fighting in the
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pocket way too much so yeah that's just it's never been for me yeah you don't go fire for fire with those guys you go you
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go fake fire watch on fire and then pretty much practice running the whole time yeah exactly ah you can't catch me
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cardio session if you do then It usually sucks but um yeah so how are you feeling
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no I'm feeling really good um I feel like I got to like this
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different level in this Camp it's really kind of hard to explain but I just I feel feel good I feel well prepared I
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feel um like very in the zone nice yes good yeah very good yes you look very Zen
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right now talking about how Zane you are so thank you I believe it
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sometimes I don't but today I do
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um yeah we we got to really focus on some things and yeah it might have been
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a blessing in disguise just being able to take a step back because Richie is a is a good opponent
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um is there anything that you'd want to say to like the viewers or whatever to
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get them pumped up about this fight like I don't know you know how people
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talk up their Fates and they're like it's gonna be a blood bath you know
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it's gonna be a test of skill right skill I think that this is uh you know
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potentially a really fun matchup um I think that you know it takes two to
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tango so I I hope that she is as eager you know to compete as I am
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um I think I see some you know some great opportunities to capitalize on so
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I'm I'm excited to see where it goes I don't really like going in with a set game plan I mean we talked about this
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previously I've never really gone in with the game plan because I feel like sometimes I will like stick to that way
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too much so I like going in with an idea of like Tendencies things to
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kind of watch out for things to be aware of counters to those kind of situations but I like having kind of like
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the freedom yeah because I think regular you know sparring or training can be so
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like what's the right word restrictive or constricting or whatever where the
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[ __ ] word is I'm low on carbs leave me alone yeah you know what I mean I like that
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word but I just um I like to feel free inside there and I like to you know see
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where where my body wants to go see what it wants to do you know I've I've been training for a long time and
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um sometimes like my my body will surprise me and I'll you know be in situations and I'll do something that I
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was like usually written like that yeah I was like where did this come from yeah yeah it looks like that or something
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like that it's happening um but yeah my body does what it wants to do hey so I just you know I Gotta
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Give it the freedom to do as it wants it has a mind of its own it really does I always said that you're
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you should like you don't have a nickname which is weird freaking freak I don't need one but I always said that
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your nickname should have been something like octopussy don't make that don't make that a thing I think it's not a
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nickname because your limbs just come from anywhere and you just attack your
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opponent's like little tentacle monster have you ever seen some of my earlier
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fights yeah they're like I make it funky and I think that that's um something
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that I was having an issue with going up to straw weight and competing against bigger girls because I felt like I couldn't do that because it just
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wouldn't present itself or they were too big too strong because I still feel myself as like an atom weight or an
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undersized straw weight that's how I don't know I just I haven't been able to really get past it even though I know
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I'm bigger and stronger and faster shut up but I just I still feel like I feel
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like a little out of weight a little baby yes little bony Jess is in there screaming yes
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so it's um it's it's been interesting especially since I haven't you know been able to compete very consistently in the
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past few years I really haven't um or hadn't really found my my stride
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my rhythm and I think I'm you know at a point where I'm more comfortable at straw weight more comfortable
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um with you know what I what I can do or what I want to do inside the Octagon yeah it's almost
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like uh get them put in one of those mechs right when you when you move up in
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await class um because like I said I used to fight at 105 too and for the longest I would
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just walk at 120 fight at 115. like that was it was just the way that my
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metabolism worked and I just was like well [ __ ] it I'm never gonna get bigger um and then once you finally settle into
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like a slightly bigger body you still feel like you're this tiny person yeah working working your body even though
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you do have the size and you do have like the leverage and stuff that you wouldn't have had when you were like a
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little bony thing sure so it's uh it's nice to see you kind of um fall into
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that and realize oh I can't move people I can't hit someone with my [ __ ] hamstring and it actually does something
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like it'll move them and then I can snake in my little foot and do my octopussy thing and I don't have to
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worry about just getting smashed so so that's kind of cool to see that uh that
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transition and it sucks because you have unfortunately not been able to get in there that often as a straw weight but
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now you're gonna get to fight next week you're gonna get to show off your skills
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and show like man you got some you got some [ __ ] for these girls so yeah I'm excited for you I'm excited too yay so a
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lot of fights happened since we last met um I mean it's only been two weeks but
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there's been a lot of [ __ ] going on a lot has happened yeah is there one you want to start with
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um I think we can start with uh Vegas 69
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uh on dry I know I know
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um should we leave it for the exclusive ah we can if you want to no no no let's
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start with that one of my only fans whatever hey I mean we can't put it on yours but we can put
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it on mine we could put it on all of them oh so we had just gone Raj versus uh Aaron
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blanchfield yeah uh stepping up as the main event because the previous Main
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Event fell through and the whole card was kind of like having a lot of trouble sticking together what was the previous main event do you remember
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don't put me on the spot ah [ __ ] well I'm I don't remember
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um it was I thought it was some big guys I think I could probably uh pull up that little graphic thing but that was I I
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mean I thought it was originally that so that's that's information for me no so Jessica ended up stepping in like on a
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week notice okay Talia said oh it was Marlon Vera versus Corey sandhagen yeah I'm assuming
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that was the main that was the main event and then Aaron was supposed to fight uh Talia Santos yes yeah
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um which was you know gonna be an exciting matchup but whatever happened happened Jessica Jones
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steps in and she took it about on a week notice and I was I thought it would make
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for an interesting matchup however I wasn't sure what shape Jessica would show it show up in and she was having
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some trouble in the first round finding you know her range blanchfield was using really good straight punches one twos
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and really keeping her at distance but Jessica was starting to kind of work her way in and then in the second round
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Aaron took her down passed to side control then took her back and choked her out really fast and I really was not
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expecting that to happen like that I could have seen maybe you know it going
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into the later rounds because she wasn't in shape and you know all these other
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you know factors kind of worked in um I know that some people have said that you know oh just because uh 115 or
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no she fought at bantamweight yeah she's ever she's she has a little box of
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muscle that will show up at whatever weight you want and she can be yeah and
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she can well I was just gonna say and she's ranked number two in flyweight yeah so
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don't don't give me so you can't you can't downplay her if there's no one better than her at Flyway she's a
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strolling you know like no stop stop it and she was I mean she was like kind of
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50 50. I forget what the term is but she's kind of 50 50 at bantamweight she
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was undersized but she still had success but it was you know kind of hit or miss with her yeah the size was an issue at
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bandwidth I think at FlyAway uh her tenacity and the fact that she isn't
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super undecised she can kind of use her shortness like a little Mike Tyson and use it to get in use it to get to that
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uncomfortable range where you can't really you can't really punch the shorter person without your punches
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getting crushed yeah uh she does that really well at flyweight um so I was really impressed with
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Blanche Philly despite the fact that uh and Rod showed up on a week's notice
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she still looked pretty sharp she didn't look like her cardio was fading her at all when the fight finally got stopped
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in the second round like if anything if it had gone five rounds and maybe you'd see that but it didn't start affecting
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her yet yeah so the first round was bananas yeah like like you were saying the straight punches were getting her
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but she was throwing too like it was it was kind of a Rock'em sock'em robot kind
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of first round yeah where they were both eating a lot but it looked like androd was eating a bit more so it definitely
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did that was the big question mark in my head for Aaron blanchfield is what does her striking look like because she
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usually takes people down too fast to actually see what it looks like yeah and
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um in this fight she proved hey I could stand on the feet I cannot take too much damage and give my own while I'm setting
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up that takedown no she looked she looked really good we didn't get to see you know too much of it in her last time
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out with with Molly yeah so it was definitely like up until this point it was a question mark for me literally
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with Molly it was like Bell rung shot you know she made a gloved tap first
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yeah but the shot came before any punches were thrown so we had no idea
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after that fight and um and then do you want to mention we have to we have to okay so what so
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right after the fight um Jessica and George mentioned that she you know gave
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up the takedown because she was so distracted because her sports bra slipped down but I was like you know
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what I know what that material looks like it feels like I was like it's so high I don't know if it would slip down
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but I did watch it in slow motion and there is a moment where it actually slips up it slips and I saw it under
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boob yeah I saw complete underboob by the time she hit the canvas it was down but I understand how that could be a
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little bit distracting just a little bit it um and then I'm
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totally gonna get distracted but I remember Leslie Smith in Invicta yes she
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wore a Lululemon sports bra which has no business being in any kind of combat or competitive sport or anything other than
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like maybe doing yoga and taking cute pictures it says low impact it says it on minimal I have that bra
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and I was like girl I remember thinking backstage I was like why are you wearing that bra I would never wear that yeah it says low impact on the label anyways her
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bra her bra came completely up but it did not stop her she was still she was
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still throwing those freaking Haymakers at her opponent and um I remember the
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commentary desk it was like right in front of them they're like oh my the best part about Leslie Smith's
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little boob moment was that she wasn't the person against defense no she was
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the person pushing the girl against the fence so at any point she could have backed off and pulled her bra yeah but
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she did not she was like nope nope you're gonna look at these titties as I'm [ __ ] you up and there's nothing
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you can do about it that is a salute to Leslie Smith that is
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like what a stud that is the most G thing she's done aside from having her
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ears split open and begging to continue to fight like that she she is crazy like
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legit crazy legitagy um so yeah it does for most people
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though who aren't Leslie Smith it will give you a second to pause like
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I I talked about that moment where I got yelled at uh for grabbing the cage and it made me pause and then I was like oh
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[ __ ] I'm getting choked you know so they're they're little brief moments like that in the fight feel like
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minutes you know like a second will feel like a full minute of you just going my
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boob oh no I'm going down and I totally get why that was like a big moment in
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her head even though on the replay it's literally a millisecond that it kind of pops out and then goes back in yeah so I
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get why she would say that but her boob being out didn't cause her to get her guard passed didn't cause her to
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give up her back and didn't cause her to get choked out so we can't take that away from blanchfield either no you know
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maybe you maybe it would have taken her a little longer to get the takedown maybe would have taken her an extra step
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she hit a really nice inside trip maybe she would have had to hit a second inside trip if uh indrad wasn't
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distracted or a hip bump or something like that but it you can tell that the
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takedown eventually probably would have happened and after the takedown happened
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everything else was with boobin yeah so yeah but I get it I get why you would
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mention that because it's a thing that happens and little moments like that can sway
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they can change the course of the fight they really can you just you never know and the question mark is the thing that
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frustrates a fighter the most when they're on the losing end is like what if what if that thing didn't happen
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absolutely um another person had a boob moment
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um and I might be jumping ahead but Tatiana Suarez had made a big comeback
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she fought a 125 versus uh um what is her name Monta LaRosa uh
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Montana LaRosa Montana LaRosa I like Montella Rosa better that was very
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fantastic I had to process that for a second I was like oh I actually first name I was like
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that's so cool I don't think that's really cool I just mashed their names together it was like what's her first
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name you know that girl uh something Angela
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um Montana De la Rosa she had a similar moment where her boob popped out and it
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was while she was fighting off like a takedown or something she was up against the fence and Suarez was underneath her
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chest and kind of pushing the boob up and she complained that that might have
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had something to do with her performance um so yeah it's it's a thing that people
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are going to now um listen I bought I don't know I get how it can be a thing but honestly I've
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like that reason I have always worn two sports bras yeah always yeah because I
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don't I don't want to have to worry about that and so I you know I would invite you know anyone moving forward
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who has to wear a sports bra while they compete double it up where to and I hate that
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restriction on the chest so I get a size bigger like two size bigger because it is that sports bra is so uncomfortable
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and I'm maybe that's why it was so loose on Android or like loose on the other girls is because it is so uncomfortable
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it's not an actual sports bra it like restricts like you from breathing your
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rib cage cannot cannot move so I get like two sides bigger I wear like a size
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extra large or something like yeah size large and I am a small oh but I yeah
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it's just they're so uncomfortable yeah I hate wearing sports bras um I'll I'll bring pasties
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I usually never wear them because I'll try on the bra and I'm like okay I don't think this is I don't think I need to
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worry about it but every now and then they change the design like when they went from Reebok to Venom a few times
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during the Reebok era they would change the the um the elastic on there so I always
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brought pasties just in case yeah um but when I don't wear anything underneath
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I'm like all right and I know this could happen don't don't Flinch you know if it
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happens protect yourself and protect yourself at all times and then put your boob away and hope and pray that the
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censored people get in there in time yeah I just blow that thing up play that
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sucker out I don't care the people in the arena see I don't care if uh my opponent ends up accidentally sucking on
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a tit you know like I don't care I don't care I just as long as I can breathe I'm
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good so you kind of have to make that uh you kind of have to realize that going in there like if you're not gonna double
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up you got to be prepared for a little lewd action it's a possibility yeah guys
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have to deal with it too Ball's hanging out yeah it's a the guys who wear the short
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shorts your ball can slip right out of there especially if you wear the short short
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um there were cups that cradle them yeah but you both could still slip out some guys don't fight in a cup
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really yeah they say you were in a cup and they go and they tap their uh
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they're not pelvic bones what is this yeah what's right there they'll be like yep and then they send
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them in there interesting yeah I think it's more Jiu Jitsu guys on than anything I was gonna say I'm pretty sure
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you have to wear a cup in no and I know at least a handful of guys I can't remember exactly or maybe a soft cup or
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something like that yeah no I know people who don't fight in cups they're crazy that's wild they're insane that's
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wild I think it's stupid the way I see people react when they do wear a cup and they get their balls kicked dude fights
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have been stopped yeah fights have been stopped yeah because they cannot recover
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from that yeah and imagine you get kicked in the nuts and then you're not falls out of your pants
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they can't find it I don't know we're off the rails just
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rolls away like a freaking marble is that how it works oh God wasn't there a fight where a guy's eyeball fell out I
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think he had a glass eye no I've seen the video before stop it it was it was
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one of these like Cali cage Wars like chicken coop fights where a guy had a glass eyeball and it rolled out I was
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like what commission would distinction that fight license what there was no commission okay there was a guy with a
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striped shirt on he said fight and that's it that was the
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commission you got it from the Halloween section oh God ugh but yeah so
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um back to UFC 69 that was a really impressive win for Aaron blanchfield
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um who do you think she gets next um maybe one more and then a title shot
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maybe like maybe Talia yeah I mean I think that that should be an elimination if I think that's what it probably was
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initially um I went over and drawed is is huge so I mean I could see them giving her
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one more fight or pushing her forward after you know after this one um after 285 my card when Valentina
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takes on Alexa Grosso yeah so I could see you know that happening yeah
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interesting stuff um any other fights from that card jump out on you no I think we can fast
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forward I just you know I like covering the girls yeah let me let me just check
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um yes I am also good for fast forwarding so let's do that
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I mean we did mention Tatiana Suarez and her comeback fight briefly but we didn't
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talk about you know what kind of a big deal it is that um you know these UFC made it coming back because she was out
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for what near uh three years three years yeah three years uh with back-to-back
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injuries she had to pull out of her last fight like right before she was supposed to fight because of it ACL tear I
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believe it was so I mean she's just she's had a lot of injuries a lot of setbacks uh health
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issues mostly and it's you know it was exciting that you know the Ultimate Fighter winner
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you know could come back and perform well she came back at 125 pounds and you
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know also made the statement that she would like to go back down to 115. I personally think that she's a 125er I
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think she's well sized uh but I did see you know I I do know that Montana is actually like a pretty good sized 125 or
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she cuts a lot of weight so I think it would maybe be a little bit more of an adjustment for her to stay at 125 than
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she's wanting to make and I think maybe it's just easier to cut the weight and go down to 115. yeah
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yeah I mean you go you get the former Adam weight well I I S I understand I feel like you
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understand more so because of that yeah yeah I do
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um but if I could go back down to 120 or 105 I would I would suck all that weight
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because I feel that I am bigger stronger faster and you know better and I have
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better utilization of my skills at 105 whereas I'm going up a weight class to 115 and I'm competing against people who
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are you know sometimes 125ers and they're sucking a lot of weight to get down at 115 because they want that Advantage so I I would love to have that
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Advantage I understand why people cut so much weight because it does make a difference yeah but when you're riddled
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with injuries then it can do more harm than good for sure uh cutting that
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weight like uh we've seen with uh a lot of people most of the cast of uh of our
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tough that are still active are at 125. yeah so a lot of those girls they either
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hit like a growth spurt or you put on a certain amount of muscle or you just body gets tired of cutting that weight
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and it lashes out in different ways so it could be during hard training during
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fight Camp when your body's at your most brittle when you're trying to cut that weight you don't have the cushion you
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don't have the extra like meat anger or the extra muscle in your body to support your ACL to support your ligaments to
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support like you know your your rib cage and [ __ ] like I feel like a lot of random injuries happen when you cut too
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much weight for sure so I do think that she'd probably be healthier at 125 but
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she has to make that journey to figure it out and hopefully
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when she does make that Journey it doesn't lead her to another huge long layoff because those injuries are a big
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deal like I think the first one was her back it was her back her neck I think it was her neck yeah like similar to algel
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and then the next one was her ACL um you know uh she's she's probably the
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most resilient mentally person uh you know with her backstory just because you
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know uh coming back from cancer to being a wrestler there's a there's a lot that she's overcome
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um so I get the I get that she feels like she can do it I'm just hoping that you know knock on wood it doesn't lead
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to more injuries because that's the pattern that we've seen with a lot of people who cut a lot of weight and she's not small no like she's no she's a good
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size yeah she's a she's good she looks Hefty yeah she looks Hefty but you know
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I I also feel like there's a lot of huge huge straw weights out there that are still doing well so you know maybe maybe
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that's uh what she's gonna have to figure out for herself for sure but also
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the flyweight weight class is a much shorter ladder to climb and it's crazy because I feel like flyweight is just
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such um it should be a deeper weight class than what it is because it's
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I don't know it's like the size of normal females yeah no I get you like
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when you see a bantamweight in person she looks like an Amazon yeah usually because they're they're so big and then
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they cut down to 135 but they also have like zero percent body fat so think of
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any woman that you know is zero percent fat body fat they're usually on the smaller side
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um but these women are 135. uh if I could fight at 125 I would love to
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because I feel like it's it's just easier to be competitive the for
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whatever reason maybe because they were the last weight class to be brought into the UFC the talent pool isn't as deep so
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if you're exceptional at 125 you shoot right to the top of the list I mean that case in point is Alexa Grosso who is you
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know fighting um Valentino shevchenko on my card yeah
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exactly it's my card it's not their card it's it's your card you're everyone's coming to see you
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[Music] but yeah I mean I mean that that's a perfect example of it and another
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example of somebody who was you know forcing themselves to try and be at 115
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and their body didn't want to be there anymore and luckily she you know didn't stay in that space of trying to like
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make it work for too long although she she did Miss weight she did have some you know difficulties but she went up to
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125 and it's you know one or two fights and she's in title contention it's just
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that's how it is in that weight class it's a little bit shorter of a road but I mean there are other you know other
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challenges with it but it is a little bit faster of a track yeah to
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get to the title yeah and now that we've seen um shipchenko actually have some
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uh uh you know have some pushback in there she's not just smashing people it
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definitely seems like uh more achievable version of getting that belt than 115
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just because of all the people you have to take out on the way to the top yeah so
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we see you Tatiana but maybe stay up there because we don't want to deal with you
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just saying maybe it'll be better for you [Applause]
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um we have some other fights on that but that was that was kind of my main event right there
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um Augusto Sakai did you watch that fight no I didn't either I thought maybe you did
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um one fight that you did watch that I didn't watch but I'm gonna let you take it away is you watch the Jake Paul
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versus don't get me started Tommy Fury but I have never been so like um
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watching this fight I I was not emotionally invested in in anyone however when that fight started I was
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like in it oh I was getting like really heated and frustrated dude I was
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screaming at the screen ah nice I was and it's like um
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I I appreciate and I can respect what Jake Paul has done for himself
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he has you know had a lot of success in a you know kind of a short window and he
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has you know created this like pathway for himself and he's had success I just
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don't appreciate that he has done it on the backs of my fellow MMA comrades
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um that's that's where I take issue with it but that's neither here nor there or we could we can get into it if we want
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to but um the fight uh the fight itself so uh Jake Paul
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fought in Saudi Arabia against Tommy Fury who is a
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he doesn't have a crazy record what I mean by that is he
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hasn't fought people that are super battle tested he has definitely paved
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his way the way that you know certain people do in boxing or MMA he has had
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you know careful matchups just like Jake Paul has so I feel like you know looking at it objectively it was a good fight
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okay I saw some highlights you saw some
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highlights I saw some highlights um I I only looked after he told me that
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he lost yeah yeah you're better I'm better no I
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like I get it I know for a fact that MMA fighters have good boxing and I refuse
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to accept even though he's done it more than once I refuse to accept that
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someone could just get off the couch and become a better fighter than someone who's been a lifelong MMA fighter and
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has good hands like an Anderson Silva like I refuse to accept that so I get
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that it was really hard for me to watch it happen and now I refuse to watch
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unless he loses then you watch the playback
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the playback the highlights so looking at it objectively like we have two
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fighters that are kind of in the same position in their career um with you know who they fought what
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caliber of Fighters they fought in the caliber of fighter that they are I thought that it was a good matchup it
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was a competitive fight I definitely thought Fury won hands down but if you
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listen to the commentary or you saw any of like the highlights in between rounds you'd be like oh my God there's yeah
43:37
Jake Paul totally won because I have never heard more of a bias commentary
43:44
in a fight oh my God it was just um it was really hard to listen to
43:50
and not you know just wonder what the scorecards were gonna read yeah I I feel like a lot of
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people felt that way like from the comments that I was reading and stuff a lot of people were just like wow this
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this guy is really reading from a script so it was um Ray Flores he was doing commentary I
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believe it's the same guy that was doing commentary for the Anderson Silva fight when he fought Anderson Silva and I was
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just listening to him and I was like oh my God what are you talking about and in this fight the same thing
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um everything was just it just seemed very one-sided and I
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worried that the judges would do the same yeah but they didn't they they got
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it right in my opinion I am no like boxing judge I'm not like huge in the boxing world but
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I believe they got it right yeah thankfully good I'm I'm happy about that
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um the the problem that I have with watching a Jake Paul fight is that it
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never looks nice you know like it never like looks clean
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and and Technical and part of watching boxing is that these guys they usually
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have at least 100 fights under the belt before they go pro and then you watch a Jake Paul fight and
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you see that he didn't go through that like do through that process of of cleaning everything up learning how to
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stay balanced learning footwork and and you know angle changes and everything like when you're watching a Jake Paul
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fight it looks like you know he he knows a little bit how to box but that's it he doesn't look like a pro boxer so I think
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that's where my disbelief comes from because I'm like he there's obviously places where Jake
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Paul can be getting counted that he's not getting counted so that's why where I get the foil hat like when we were
45:48
watching the Anderson Silva fight and I'm like why isn't he hitting him you know and then that thing started
45:54
circulating with the script did you see that post I always sent it to him yeah I did yeah with the script and I didn't
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believe that it was an actual thing that somebody found but it does illustrate how a lot of people felt the the fights
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were actually going like these Jake Paul and his team say okay we're gonna pay you this much but this is what you have
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to do and I wouldn't be surprised if that's how he got most of his wins up
46:22
until this point so I mean it does raise an eyebrow I don't I think that that was
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fabricated or like I I immediately thought I was like oh maybe that's one of his manifestation papers yeah I don't
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I don't think that it was real no but it's the reason that it exists is
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because that's what is on most people's minds yeah most people think that his opponents are throwing the fights you
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know um and uh it wouldn't be the first time it happened in history and if anyone a
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prankster would be expected to do something like that sure so why if I'm
46:56
gonna watch pro wrestling I'm gonna watch pro wrestling I don't like pro wrestling sorry
47:02
like I can't I can't do it oh and I just can't sit down and watch it I would love to be one I'd love to be a pro wrestler
47:09
but I don't think I could ever watch my matches
47:15
I feel like if you watch like watching yourself I don't know Sing Act or
47:20
something just yeah it feels weird but um yeah just I I don't like being lied
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to and that's how I feel when I watch a Jake Paul fight and in this fight at least
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um in the highlights you can see him getting caught by uh by those counters
47:36
and combinations that I expected and they're still gonna throw when he would when Jake Paul would like over off
47:43
balance himself just like over commit to punches and stuff like that like he does he does have a lot of power but a lot of
47:50
times he doesn't know where to put it it's kind of like those 180 guys that I tried Aspire in this
47:56
like yeah you could you could hurt me but you gotta hit me first you know like I I wait I was waiting for someone to
48:03
kind of style on him and it hadn't happened and all the Jake Paul fights that I watched so
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um in the highlights it did look like Tommy Fury had his number I didn't have a lot of Hope for him because his boxing
48:16
wreck uh the guys that he's fought were like 10 and a hundred
48:23
oh and nine stuff like that and I'm just like here we go again but hey this time
48:32
real boxing one yep and um immediately after the fight
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uh Jake Paul was humble for a second oh
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and then he was like yeah I'm definitely going to execute the rematch clause that
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only he had so if if he won there was no rematch clause but if he lost there was
48:57
an immediate rematch clause so he is going to execute that okay as per his contract and then he uh
49:03
right after that followed up with saying that he felt flat because he was sick
49:10
for baby well now he knows you should pull out instead of showing up sick on fight
49:16
night because otherwise you don't talk about it now you sound like you're making excuses yes well
49:23
this feels like a good time to break and then we'll come back with our exclusive 15.
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um you want to just talk more [ __ ] about Jake Paul
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attractive yeah we're just getting sad about the
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direction that humanity is going we'll see you in a sec
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