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We have returned... to discuss last week's stacked UFC 286 fight card, 285 and Merab's hat. Also we have a quick recap of Jess's fightweek, the return of Jon Jones and Leon Edwards retaining his belt.
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[Music] and we're back with another episode of
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two straws what up what up we're back with our
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bi-weekly I know it's been a while it's been a few weeks it feels like longer
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than it has just because it like it's yeah it feels like it's been a month I know you guys missed us yeah I know I
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know they were fading for it they were feeding for a couple straws and they're drink to stir with not short
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with or anything like that I mean we're talking about feelings
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we get it we totally get it and we're here to oblige so there have been some
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big cards yeah since we last talked yeah there was UFC 285 yes yes my card yes um
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I lost we'll address that
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it sucks like having a show and then having to come on and talk about things
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no matter what happens like you always know you're gonna have to have that you know Circle back to what happened in the
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fight but it's always kind of like do I have to it's like a assignment you know
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like a book report it's like you know your kid gets caught like doing something funky at school and then you
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have to sit them down and have the talk yeah we don't want to have this talk but we we gotta it's important it's part of
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growth and healing and learning process exactly exactly so yes so anyone
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avoiding the talk Jessica has to have the talk today so don't avoid that [ __ ] do the thing that
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you have to do that you don't want to create a safe space vulnerability all
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that stuff it's how we learn and how we grow exactly uncomfortable as it may be yeah and it's forces it maybe
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[Laughter] it is what it is
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um and then we had a not so big card in between and then we had UFC 286 which
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was it was like medium big I mean I felt like it was pretty big but only the one fight
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yeah that's fair you know like it didn't feel like extremely big I mean we just came from
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watching Jon Jones and zero gone I know right in a huge heavyweight Clash there
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was a lot of anticipation for that one there was a lot I feel like that like they kind of blew their wad pretty early
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in the year though because like how are they gonna top that one what's next like what are you gonna I don't care I know
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right I mean Connor isn't even in the testing pool right now so oh my God can we talk about
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like what's this [ __ ] gonna get intestineful like he's not no no
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International fight week for Connor fans sorry guys I know you already booked your tickets I'm making it no no I mean
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he may be in the stands oh yeah he may be cheering cage side with uh Jake Gyllenhaal have we talked about that we
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have to talk about that oh my God we have so much there's so much to talk about so let's uh maybe let's just start
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with 285. let's start with 285. so
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take it away um we can start with my fight I lost there there is again
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no it's okay I laugh at myself conversation I've had it so many times no it's totally okay yeah you know I
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mean the the thing that's challenging about fighting which you know I love this sport but the thing that's really
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challenging about only getting to fight not very frequently only you know a
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handful of times a year if that maybe a couple is that you can only learn from
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that fight and you have a lot of time in between to figure out what worked what didn't work
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the adjustments to make and that can be really challenging especially coming off of a loss because they're not quick to book you yeah you know and you just
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thought so it's just like you kind of just gotta like sit in the waiting pool yeah it really does suck
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and if they are quick to book you you should have uh you should think about it because
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there might be a reason you know bring in to for someone else that they want
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the same thing to happen to you with um I've been in that book too but it it
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really is um tough going from A Loss to everyday
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life I feel like the transition after when is a lot smoother like you you're
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you have your fight you win you have like this kind of like celebratory week is like a birthday week
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it is so much easier walking around and going to the grocery store if you got a black eye and stitches and you won yes
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but it's a whole nother Vibe if you're walking around the grocery store the black guy after a loss yeah it doesn't
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look like a battered woman don't look it please the Hat's pulled down oh it was it was
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pulled down but I needed to get wine yeah I mean of course you gotta fill up that cup
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many times you're like hey no makeup just like ah
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like whatever ask me about it yeah I'll talk about it yes oh did you see my black eye yeah I
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got this in a cage yeah I fight people in a cage the other girl yeah totally
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she's dead yeah but
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um yeah it's totally a different vibe it really is it's also it's also like yeah
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it's just a little bit weird like time goes by a little bit more slowly yep
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um yeah I feel like that happens after I win too but it's just weird because you have all this anticipation as well
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especially in a long fight Camp which is why I swear by short nose fights because I'm like I feel weird for only a second
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as opposed to and then it's like yeah it's gone as opposed to feeling weird for like four months you know getting
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ready to fight a person but uh yeah is that start just like shut down you're
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not training anymore you're not like focusing on a certain task anymore you
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just kind of in this limbo of what do I do now yeah so that's always more harsh
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when it's lost because you kind of think about like oh what could I have done if
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I could go back what would like you know would it be different and all this stuff at least that's where my brain goes I
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try not to let myself go there a lot because I feel like
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that's that's the hardest and then that starts getting into this like cycle of just like really
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un unhelpful unproductive thoughts like yes I want to learn and grow from the
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experience but I I do my best to try and have as short of a memory as possible
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goldfish brain Ted Lassa what By the Way season three are you starting to watch so excited I love the first episode I
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saw it it was pretty good yes I'm like I need I need more though I need you to release the whole season so we can just
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take the binge that [ __ ] yeah but it's probably better for us you know because I would be
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snorting it up like everyone else wanted to store it up by two strokes episodes yes why lasso
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checked it into my butt I need that feel good energy
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uh for those of you guys who who don't know what she's talking about the fastest way to a a high sometimes is you
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know when your nose shuts down you go up the butt yeah yeah especially when you want to stream
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content totally put it in the blood stream [Laughter]
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Conor McGregor doesn't know anything about that but High digress
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um so let's talk about your fight for like two seconds okay uh how do you feel about it what are you thinking like uh
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congrats to Tabitha by the way she's this really sweet girl really hard worker like you know she's a good
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fighter um yeah she's she's an up-and-comer she brings a lot of tools and um excitement
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to the cage for me this one this one is really frustrating because she showed up
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and and I didn't and that's where I go into
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you know trying not to think about Coulda Woulda you know all these things just walking
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out I just knew that it was going to be a really rough night for me because
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I just did not feel good and in those moments I
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like I was stuck in first gear and I couldn't get out of it and that's the most frustrating because I'm fighting
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someone who is really young and hungry and is going to bring the pace and if I
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let her outpace me then I lose yeah and I was just like it's gonna be a rough one yeah and that was really hard
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because like I can't call in sick I can't be like you know you know I'll do this later I'm like you
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know today's today's not you know I don't not feeling it today now you still gotta walk out there you still gotta put
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your big girl pants on and and do it and then deal with the consequences afterwards yeah
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um well I think it was um when cowboy Cerrone fought Conor McGregor uh he
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talked about just having that feeling of just not wanting to be there or just not
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feeling like he had it in him that night you know like you might have had like an amazing Camp he might have felt
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confident up until that night but some days you just wake up you're like [ __ ] and you know it happens to the best of
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us yeah it is it is what it is it's um I hadn't felt like that walking out
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to a fight before and it was really [ __ ] hard and I got you know normally I get emotional walking out you know
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it's I'm really happy to be there I'm really excited but I got emotional for a completely different reason and that was
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really hard um and that's just you know something that I get to learn and grow and reconcile from it's it's not fun and it
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like really really hurts but you know it's it's all part of it's all part of
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my growing process and yeah you know for sure it's uh it's the name of the game
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you know like uh yeah it's just a hard one and and it's really uh I don't I don't it's hard to
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compare that to anything you know just getting out there putting yourself out there and having to be on point on a day
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where you might not feel like you're on point like that I I've when I talk to regular people I try to compare it to
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showing up for a fight like getting ready for a break a big presentation or like a big interview where a lot rides
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on this one thing that you do in your entire portfolio beforehand may have nothing to do with what happens that day
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you know you have to cram all your energy all your skill into this one thing that you're doing and sometimes it
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doesn't come off the way that you want it to and it's it's just like such a heartbreaking thing sometimes you know
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it's like yeah yeah it's a tough one but yeah hey I got your back I got you back
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rolling keep the positivity rolling um but despite right that um the card
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was pretty insane uh there were a lot of finishes on the card we had the return
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of Jon Jones um dude bro we actually shared a pretty cute
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moment with Jon Jones and it was a feel-good moment it really was it was very Ted lassilex yes it was very nice
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the hell did I just say I said Tad leso X Oh I thought you said like elastic X
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I mean I knew what you were trying to you know I knew what you were trying to convey
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Ted's gonna let it slide no we have to
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I know we're gonna so I was like you know on on our you know promo videos we
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do our little like snippet Clips I have to start putting like the the word like the subtitles because that's how I watch
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TV right I can't watch without reading it you don't know what they're saying
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exactly especially Ted lasso there's a lot of accents these accents are crazy
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you and what this thing that you said we don't say that like some weird
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colloquialism I don't know what you're talking about maybe if I read it I can kind of get it but I don't know what you
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said um so yeah what I meant to say was Ted lasso-esque
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got it but yes tell tell the John Jones Story
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please so we were um we had just arrived and we were in our dressing room and Jon
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Jones um you know walks through we had um a restroom and the usada and
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commission testing rooms or like their little offices uh you know through the
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locker room and so he went in he did his business and as he came out we're sitting on the mat and he you know says
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what's up he comes over you know says a couple words and asks if he could give us a hug and I was like I need a hug it
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was very sweet it was really sweet it was very like big brother like polar
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bear hugs and since he's so much bigger now he is like he's got like he
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encompassed us he died he got the bear hug down yeah like both of us at the
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same time if you think about it we are the size like the two of us together are
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maybe close to the size of one Jon Jones so I don't even think we make it I don't
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I think we're off by about 20 pounds I think we need a bantamweight in there yeah we need just like
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yeah two straws one feather a little cocktail but uh yeah it was a
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really sweet moment um he left he as he left he said two queens I was like oh the spin-off
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I thought that was really sweet it was just like hey welcome back um we're gonna warm up the cage for you
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and he's like yeah let's get it so yeah you could tell he was happy to be back
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like he was just like walking around like the [ __ ] King of the Court you know like every time I saw him
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um backstage talking to the people who worked there and you have to think like he hasn't been in that environment in a
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long time he's got a lot of catching up to do yeah it's got a lot of hands to shake lots of babies to kiss yeah you
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know lots of people want on you know to get their their time yeah yes yes no he's definitely
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um I feel like he's definitely more of a poster child for the UFC than than a Conor McGregor because he came up
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before him but also like he's just always been that goat like he's never
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lost he's defended his title so many times he came in super young too so I
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think still the youngest Champion to to win in the UFC um and he just kind of is a staple in
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the sport so the fact that he was always in the in the in the cut kind of saying
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that he was going to come back but it never actually happened when he finally did I think everyone was just in awe of
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the fact that it's happening like oh wow it's finally happening I wonder what's gonna happen I mean we've been talking
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about it for so long yeah I just kind of I just assumed it was never gonna happen I think it's probably never gonna happen
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yeah um but it happened and and
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magnificent effect dude it was insane how he put away Cyril gone who was so
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impressive he's so impressive he has starched so many Strikers has like uh
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been on you know the good end of every decision except for the last one against
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sanganu we knew the takedowns were probably gonna be like part of the game plan but when Jon Jones shot in and
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Cyril gone it was like the easiest thing ever like he just went blue took him
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down made him work a bed and then as he was getting up sunk in that guillotine it was just yeah it was
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effortless as as a a huge heavyweight title fight could possibly be right uh just how we
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imposed his his will his game plan on somebody who is who is you know
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number two he's good he's really really talented he's he's so good he was number
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one until that day yeah yeah it's so impressive that he was he was gone for
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as long as he was he you know went through this transformation and it's he
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came back better yeah he did not lose a beat he he gained some beat he gained
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ground like how did you do that Mike yeah some beats all right so a lot of
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people were making fun of his physique well including me I remember I was
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guilty remember every time it showed up she was like have you seen you see it
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I'm like why would they post that no it's like it's like when we're trying to
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take a cute picture and it's we don't hit the angle right you know so you look more like like a
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refrigerator instead of like a curvy Coke bottle like they set him up they
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okay so there were a few pictures where they said John Joseph these photographers have they they are cold
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blooded I have I have seen some of my pictures that they've sent me you know in the little app thing like oh the UFC
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has sent you pictures and I look and I'm like why that one why why would you do that one out of all pictures yeah why is
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the contrast so boosted what the [ __ ] is your problem what are you
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trying to do filter where's the airbrush where is Paris me yes put a Paris on it
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yeah get rid of that purple you know I don't want that pimple there why did you do that they did John Jones
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dirty they did them dirty like those photos should not have seen the light of day it was like he looked good from
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straight on but he hit the three-quarter of you and you can see the little poofa the little and not only that but he was
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probably like in between breaths yeah he was relaxed and he had just gone from like a breath hold post we reflecting
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really really hard and he relaxed and they took the picture yeah he was breathing out their dick it was like a
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little belly breathe yeah so that that uh that photo was yeah
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it was it was pretty bad it definitely um helped the Optics of Jon Jones not
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being ready maybe maybe that let Sarah gone like let his guard down a bit
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excuse me maybe that added to how quickly he was able to take him out of there I don't
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know man I don't see him taking that so seriously you cannot rely on your your
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opponent coming in out of shape especially at heavyweight like look at Derrick Lewis you know look at tattoo of
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us look at um I feel like Derek what's the original not the best Roy Nelson oh
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my God Big Country the original oh my God Ben Rothwell yes like those guys are
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explosive as [ __ ] strong [ __ ] durable sturdy good ripping [ __ ] yay yes I can't
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put Derek Lewis in that category though edges Derek Lewis can throw a head kick fifth round of fight you know like
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that's I'm gonna leave it at that a jumping switch kick at that have you seen this jumping switch cake
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it it's not like a jumping switch kick though that like a flyweight with them
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yeah it's more like a skip it thank you yeah you're exaggerating just like I was
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good skip it I never had one but that was good I was good my friend had one I
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was like but it was it's like a skip it head kick but it was still good it's still fast
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it's like when I try to do a flying knee
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actually like you get up there you have the flexibility in the hips okay
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um and then my ankles are like no wait where's the floor
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gotta be ready for that floor when you jump up oh my gosh um so yeah Jon Jones looked amazing
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um there are a few more fights on there but um Valentino shevchenko yo how the [ __ ] freaking Alexa Grosso what the hell
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uh so I was really impressed with Alexa in the first round
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um because she was putting it on her she was like stopping her with straight punches and then she had some really
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good cage control but then after the first round uh shiv Chinko started getting a rhythm so I'm finding like you
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know where to attack where to get the takedowns and stuff it should go to school in Grosso for the next two rounds
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but then in the fourth she had this moment of Brilliance her
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inner Corner they had seen in tape that shevchenko likes to throw to spin and things and they planned to take the back
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well she had thrown it like a couple times in that fight I think the
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I I don't remember how many times but I knew she threw it and she like she stuck it too yeah yeah she she she likes to
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throw that spinning cake um when they circle out when they like disengage because you know they're gonna
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come right back in and then spin kick comes out and it like it can freak you out from coming back in too hard because
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you don't want to eat that so the liver it sucks it sucks so much that one hurts
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um so she drew it out Valentina spun and she jumped on that back the timing was
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perfect it was oh my gosh beautiful and what did you think about like how she
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took the back because it was so fast from the span to Grasso jumping on the
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back she got her arm under her neck immediately and sochenko didn't even
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really fight the hands she didn't she didn't why
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I mean they're sometimes there there are moments when somebody like snatch it
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because she didn't it's not like she technically progressed she jumped on it
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I'm on your back and I'm really naked choking you right yes because this is my one and only opportunity and I've got to
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take it and I've got to put everything into it which she she had to when she did yeah and it was successful
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and it's sometimes there's just these moments when you're like when somebody
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does something that's a little bit unorthodox or kind of I don't know just not the way you're
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used to being trained with that catches you off guard yeah it really really does and it can take you out of it for for
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long enough to where like the other person can capitalize oh yeah fight the hands eyes
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too late yeah and I mean it I remember it was up
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it was more up on her face I thought I thought she thought that maybe she was getting out and maybe just the pressure
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she couldn't she couldn't wear it anymore yeah yeah my theory is that because it she jumped
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on her while she was in motion um she didn't prioritize fighting the
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hands as much as bracing on the floor because as soon as she jumped on there
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she was going face down into the floor and I think if she had like at least anticipated that this was a possibility
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she would have gone straight to like you know grabbing or grabbing her arm trying
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to fight the hands trying to like at least push the elbow up off of her face but it was a surprise like you said so
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she's like ah ah and then that's when it sunk in and a lot of times like that
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little millisecond is the difference between surviving and having to tap out
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yeah it was it was really impressive it it's hard like I'm not emotionally vested in
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either one but I I admire and respect both women and so it's like
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seeing chefchenko lose that way it's like it's kind of hard you know she has this
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like Mystique about her yes I thought that she lost a previous fight
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but she does she has this like Mystique about her you know and then you have
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Alexa Grosso who I'm like all right she kind of got this title shot kind of fast I'm not mad at it I I understand how she
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got there and why she got there I think she deserves it but it's just like this this up-and-comer so there's also like oh man I kind of I kind of wanted to get
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it but then I I want shipchanical to keep her Mystique in this like you know this like super hero kind of thing going
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on but then like oh man wouldn't that be amazing story if Alexa Grosso won yeah you know it's just kind of conflicting
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and like I would have been again not emotionally invested but bummed for the
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story you know the the end of the story um and then also really excited for
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whoever won so it's just like you you're bummed for Chef Django story I would be
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bombed for like the end of her story you know losing the belt I would have been sad for Alexa you know losing
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her opportunity her opportunity um but then also really excited for the
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storyline of of both of them to win if that makes sense yeah well like we have a storyline now because there's a
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possibility of a UFC Mexico City um they love that show because they have
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like one of the biggest Arenas in the world and people come out they sell it out every time they go to Mexico City so
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there's a possibility now because you have Alexa Grasso you have yeah Rodriguez and you have Brandon Moreno
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who could all like easily headline a three title there is no way that that's going
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to happen and there's not going to be another freaking Riot anytime so I've been a guest fighter in Monterey I've
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been a guest fighter at Mexico City and every single time it is like damn near
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terrifying yeah the amount of security that is necessary for Fighters just to
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walk around more or less in Brazil you know I've never been to UFC in Brazil
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but was anyone mugged in Mexico when you were there yes multiple this one just
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one oh there's one but they they wouldn't let us walk around with our without an arms guard yeah and like
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military escorts yeah it's insane it's definitely a thing like I I was
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surprised I thought we were just trying to get through traffic the first time I fought in Mexico City but I'm like oh
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they might kidnap me yeah that's a possibility oh okay I get
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it now um but uh you know that passion is why
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they go there because the fans are are like hyped to be there everything sells
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out they sell all the all the bootleg t-shirts and the stands next to it you know like it it really is like a big
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thing for the city when the UFC comes to town and uh even even last time I fought
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in Mexico City I fought there twice we stayed at the same hotel and I got a
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note from like or no I ran into one of the guys who were working there the
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first time I was there years later like at least I think four or five years later and he
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remembered me and he's like oh all of us Angela I remember when you came here last time I hope you enjoy your stay and
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it's it's just you can tell that the people are really excited to have you there they really appreciate Fighters
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and Mexico just has that like fighting Spirit uh like just years of history
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with boxing and now MMA so I would be stoked to go to that card if that
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happened because oh yeah it would be insane but you know if you're fighting there and you win you're not Mexican
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bring an umbrella for the beers oh my God uh but I think that would be
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insane and I think chefchenko is a down [ __ ] she would be down to go on
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to enemy territory and snatch her belt back like that that's her vibe but I do
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remember watching um re-watching the Santos versus versus
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chefchenko fight and I saw some of the same mistakes she made in that fight in the Grasso one like little moments where
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she would get a little frustrated and try to just like go for a big takedown and they're kind of those sacrifice
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takedowns where if you aren't in the right exact spot you don't have the weight loaded properly then you end up
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on your back and she ended up doing that like once or twice in the fight and it started um you know it started to feel
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like she didn't address the issues from the Santos fight because maybe she didn't feel like she needed to she felt
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like she passed that test already yeah she won the fight so she's not rematching her she's moving on to this
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girl who's a boxer she has a submission but you know she probably dropped the girl first before and she I think she
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dropped uh uh JoJo before she subbed her Grasso did so so I I definitely feel
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like ship tanker was taking her ground game not too serious seriously and now that she doesn't have the belt anymore
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she has that fire to really focus on that and get better and come back
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stronger so I would I would love to see that rematch happen in Mexico City and
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she's probably gonna get the rematch right she'll get it immediately yeah she must like such a dominant Champion
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there's there's no way that they wouldn't I mean who I mean there are
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there are girls in line but nobody I think could really like overstep that
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opportunity and it's got to be in her contract too she's an immediate rematch that she loses the belt it must be it
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must be um if not the fans would be livid um but I mean I think it's okay to jump
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ahead to yossi 286 we had kind of a similar thing with Edwards versus Usman
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man him getting that Hail Mary in the last round of their second fight the
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last one that we saw and now we got to see Leon Edwards who did you think was gonna win before last night
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I was interested to see the shape of Leon Edwards because
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he fought an altitude he doesn't necessarily train an altitude the way Kamara Usman does so I was really
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interested to see how much of a factor that could have been in the second fight and I I think he showed
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that you know it it very well could have been you know something that really dragged him down if you don't live in
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altitude and and train in altitude for a fight in altitude it is
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it's taxing it sucks go back to my first Mexico City fight you know better than
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anyone I was in the mud like it almost feels like uh one of those dreams where
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you're fighting but you can't quite throw the punch it takes everything in your body just a
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jab like that's what it feels like I've I've fought in altitude before but I got
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there right before weigh-ins I weighed in and then I fought the next day I felt
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okay I felt a little a little labored but nothing
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compared to what I felt when I was a guest fighter in Mexico City and I woke up with him I like to use the restroom
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and I thought I was gonna die oh no from the walk across the hotel room to the
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restroom back to the bed I thought I was gonna die dead it happens it is insane it's weird
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you feel like the sky is on your chest yeah like you can actually feel gravity
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up there like beating down on you it is really it's really horrible it's like
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how they say in on uh in the close in the uh planets closer to the sun your
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weight is like tripled or a million times heavier I'd beat it like 10 000
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pounds on Mercury or some [ __ ] that's what it feels like the closer I get to the altitude or to the universe what is
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that thing called the out the thing that's on the outside of the ozone yeah the closer I get to that atmosphere or
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something yeah ozone the heavier I feel so you can feel that coming down on your chest yeah like when
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you when you first get to altitude and it's funny because you either do it the way that you did it when you fought you
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come in you weigh in and then you fight the next day and you're good and you're good you like just miss it you're
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getting on the plane you're like [ __ ] I'm tired you know I'm tired good thing I'm going home or you stay for at least
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three weeks and you acclimate and that second week is [ __ ] but then third week you start to bottom out and then
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you're ready to fight so yeah it's it's really rough if you don't know that
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science yeah yeah that's a thing I'll be fine it might never matter and then
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you're in the fight like [ __ ] no no it's real but lucky for Leon he was able to
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overcome that and get that knockout in the fourth round and get a do-over and
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from the second fight it really did seem like he had usman's number he really did
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it was I I think it came down to to strategy what I saw at Usman do was he
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he knows that he's a dominant wrestler yeah you know he knows that he can you know take him down and
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and score and get a victory that way by holding him down but what I saw was Leon
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was stuffing the takedowns making it hard and Usman wasn't making the adjustments to
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just not wrestle yeah like every once in a while he would throw a punch on the break but he wasn't really
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punching Landing to get in and then mixing it up he just kept going for the
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takedown and I think they said that he was um what was it he only got three out of however many take down attempts wow
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and that's that's unlike Usman Usman gets you he's gonna get you well the the
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couple takedowns that he got looks really easy like he just got him effortlessly like I remember there was
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like a single leg it was just like Bob dump like a like yeah but yeah there
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wasn't he wasn't capitalizing with with punches and scoring so it just looks like he took him down and then Leon was
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getting up really well even when Usman did get him down with ease he rustled back up and USANA wasn't
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scoring off of it so I just I understand the scorecards I understand why they
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would give it to Leon yeah um what did you think about the point
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deduction ah I thought it was fair yeah I really
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did I did I feel like they should have started him on the
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ground without a point deduction I'm not sure I feel like maybe there should be a
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choice like the if the if the fighter who was filed against thinks that they
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could finish from that position and they don't want to go through taking them down again then they can say start me
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underground or if if they just want the point deduction if they want to know I
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won that round now I can make it a 10-8 then start on defeat
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um Usman wanted both he was like hey why aren't we starting on the ground and I
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don't think I this must be a new rule because we didn't see this until uh last
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weekend where it was Davey Grant versus uh Rafael asankao and David Grant did
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the same thing held the cage stop the takedown from happening some cow was like you know going for a Hail
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Mary takedown like this is all I got and the takedown didn't happen took a point
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from David Grant but then the sun Kyle ended up getting knocked out so or submitted sorry so um
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yeah I feel like this must be a new rule like you the fence grab has to be
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addressed immediately if it affects the fight but it's going to be a point deduction but you don't start on the
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ground and I'm not sure if that's fair because some Fighters might prefer just starting on the ground without the point
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deduction I mean I I get that I hear that I think I remember I'm pretty sure I remember
37:59
Herb Dean saying I I can't put you on the ground because I don't know where the takedown would have ended up do you
38:05
know what I'm saying yeah because it was it wasn't just one it was like hold on clock it was like trying to put a cat in
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a bathtub like he was really like it would he he grabbed the fence a lot I'm
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not mad at the the point deduction but I also understand that we don't know where he was gonna land yeah
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so it's like how do you and that could complete like yes the fence grab could completely change the
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course of a fight but so could putting somebody in a position that we don't know exactly how they would land yeah
38:37
but if you use all your energy to get them to the ground and that was like
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your last bit of gas for that how distraught are you about the fact that
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you have got it in front of them again no especially when this guy is like a better Striker than you you're like you
38:55
took everything in your power to get in and get on this leg and then they take that away
39:01
oh yeah no it's devastating it completely changes the course of the fight it you know mess with you mentally
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physically emotionally like it's it's devastating I there's it's it's hard though to to pick what's what's right in
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that situation I think the point was valid I just I understood that you can't
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necessarily dick like pick exactly where he was gonna land yeah and that's that's a hard decision to make maybe taking the
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point but starting them in that because in the same position a single leg Yeah I get that before that yeah and for that
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but to put somebody on the ground is is hard if they weren't already there yeah
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if we didn't see where he was going to land like if he didn't touch down and hit like just just even briefly I think
39:49
that's challenging but I am all for putting them in the same position that
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the the foul happened uh if that makes sense and I wonder why they didn't
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decide to do that no they didn't it seems like the easiest solution like okay yeah good point and then start back
40:06
on the leg you already used your energy to take them down and didn't happen so like you know ever It's All is fair no I
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agree with you and I think that's what used to happen right like they used to start them back in that in that whatever
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position they stop them in but I've seen it before I I just I haven't seen it in
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a while I don't think I've seen like really awful fence grabs like
40:30
normally the refs are they'll catch it and bat the hand so that they let go and then they get you know taken down it's
40:37
usually caught but um so yeah I haven't seen this situation in in a while yeah this one uh was
40:45
definitely one that swayed swayed the fight because he was swinging
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them like uh like a flag you know and Edwards just grabbed briefly but it
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definitely kept them upright so oh yeah yeah um I'm trying to find the scorecard to
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see what happened with that but uh one person scored a draw it was uh yeah it
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was a draw and then two had it what was it 48 no wait must have been 49.47
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47 48 49 47 okay I think that's what it was the two judges had at the same score
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and then one headed to draw no 47 40. okay
41:29
oh here it is it was
41:35
oh no that's not all right
41:44
I hit the button oh no not the button I hit the button no I hit an ad and then I
41:51
hit uh these things the worst oh they're the worst okay here we go
41:56
okay one judge scored 48 46
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Ben cartilage oh we know that guy another judge scored 48-46 uh Chrisley
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and then the last one 47-47. um I kind of felt like 47 47 was the
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most Fair score because of the point deduction I felt like Usman had two rounds
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in the bag and I felt like that was a fair score but um these other judges
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only gave Usman the round that he got the point deduction in didn't give them
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the second they gave Usman yeah they only were Chris Lee gave Usman
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the third round and actually wait how does this work
42:49
Ben cartilage gave Usman the oh okay mid cartilage gave Usman the
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fourth round and that's it so cartilage and Chrisley both only gave
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Usman one round I would give them two I I forget which round it was I thought
43:12
it was the second and third yeah at that second and third he Usman did his due
43:18
diligence was looking good and then Leanna Woods took it away in the last two yeah I gave Liam the First with all
43:24
those freaking left kicks my god dude oh my stomach just like ached for him ugh
43:37
that was payback for altitude you know you feel the same way oh my God altitude
43:44
basically feels like you got kicked in the liver God yeah he kicked him so many times I was like oof yeah he's trying to
43:51
take him down a notch for the rest of the fight yeah so that's really odd because I I did not see Usman winning
43:57
the fourth round but that was what big cartilage gave him yeah I didn't see that and neither of the judges gave
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Usman the second round and I thought the second round I thought the second round Usman got it yeah and I think his
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coaches did too so I get why people are saying like hey this man won that but I
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also feel like if you don't count the fence grab if you don't count the point
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deduction then it's Leon edwards's fight so maybe that's probably why Usman has
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been very respectful because he felt like he lost three out of five rounds
44:36
um but there's definitely a case for a draw I feel like yeah I just think
44:43
I don't know I never even take draws into consideration an MMA because they're just they're like the the white
44:49
whale they're the Unicorn they're like they just don't happen even though they they honestly like could and should in a
44:55
lot of situations they just don't like they don't do that yeah you're not allowed
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what's wrong with you Dave Dave latherby
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what were you thinking how could you let that happen um so I see the case with that another
45:13
close fight on uh 286 was um fatori versus
45:19
how do you say it Geo dollars DLC
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how do you say it I don't [ __ ] know I don't know either
45:31
uh the vittori fight that guy the Victoria fight it was super close though
45:37
so I'm not like mad at the split decision yeah I felt like it was a really hard fight to judge and could
45:45
have been a draw could have gone either way it is what it is what are your feelings on Marvel toy
45:53
personally or as a fighter personally whatevs I don't know him
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personally but um as a fighter I think he's kind of
46:06
inconsistent like I I think that he does the same thing and sometimes he does it
46:12
better times than other um he reminds me of kind of like a a
46:19
cartoon character like a lovable Dopey cartoon character
46:27
I like him I think you would I think he's like yeah
46:33
like like you said a lovable cartoon character I think he's just like wears
46:38
every emotion on his sleeve yeah and it's really funny
46:43
no like I don't know I think I think I think it's adorable and the fact that he's
46:51
Italian just makes it even more of a stereotype and I love it I know
46:58
we use the hands a lot and sometimes he can't understand what they're saying but because they're not articulating
47:04
anything very well it's like an Italian Biff from uh
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from uh uh [ __ ] time travel movie
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[Laughter] the name of that movie uh back to PJ
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yeah yes no he really don't even like a little bit like him yeah exactly so I I
47:30
really like him um any other fights you want to talk about yes but I think we should take a
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