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Two Straws on Fightpass! Episode 36: UFC Vegas 86 and fighting training partners
Nov 6, 2024
UFC Fight NIght: Hermansson vs. Pyfer was a sneakily good fight card with some stellar performances. We talk it over and also:
-Fighting people you've been in a training room with: yay or nay? Sometimes it's not a choice.
-Angela's first post-USADA drug test visit
-Grappling tourneys
-Poker tourneys
...and much more!
Catch the second half of this episode exclusively on UFC Fightpass.
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taste for my taste I'm drinking wine I know but you know to make samp the wine
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for a real a real wine and not like a wine that you turn your nose up to I
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have very expensive taste and oh God don't you dare white SEL oh
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my God all the black people
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hits hey hey welcome back to another episode of t t what's up um a lot yeah it's been a
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busy week it's been really busy what have you been up to [ __ ] [ __ ] out and choking [ __ ]
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out [ __ ] them up yeah I've been uh doing a little Jiu-Jitsu in my free time
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you know on a Jiu-Jitsu tour yeah usually Saturday is my off day but I've been using it to choke [ __ ] out I mean
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that's not a bad way to spend your Saturday hey it's pretty fun I actually met a lot of uh nice girls at the
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tournament they were all very thrilled to you know get CH out by a UFC fire
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yeah exactly exactly but you know um we were talking to uh we were talking to
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Eric Anders the other day and I really share his sentiment with the fact that
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I'm going in there into their territory and everyone knows who you are like everyone knows like oh it's UFC fighter
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so when you win it's like okay you're supposed to and then when you lose it's
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like oh I beat a UFC fighter so there's a lot of pressure on you doing stuff like that yeah for sure I feel that I
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mean I I kind of feel that when people come in and train for sure they're always there's always kind of a a Target
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on your back when you know you've you've made it to the UFC like oh a superstar
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like doing the thing the dream she's I want I want to test my my metal is that
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what people say uh yeah metal like M TT l e is that how you spell
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it like m e t l oh yeah that's probably
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it well there there is a saying that uh where you know you just like you test yourself to see where you're at in
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comparison to where you want to be right and what better marker for that is to you know test yourself a against you up
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SE fighter so yeah that's always like bragging rights no exactly so good job [ __ ]
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and the ghee that beat me by referee's decision oh but she was actually really nice and she's a dancer she's a pro
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dancer so it felt a little better Pole or like ballet um ballet but I wouldn't
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be surprised she jumped on me like a pole oh she legit
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did she was a guard jumper she could she she jumped on the pole and was able to
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hold with just her legs how was that leg strength was that leg it was good I was I was pushing her down and then she just
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like hop back up like she was climbing climbing a ladder the PO I know where
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your dancing credentials came from I see you sis we need to go back to classes we do
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it's been a minute it has it's been too long yeah especially if I do another
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grappling tournament I feel like that's definitely going to give me an edge definitely help you with your like your
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guard your leg locks like all of that stuff yeah yeah so I'm definitely going
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to jump on that but I did get gold and noi so I was happy about that um purple
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belt butal a metal working my way up there and I think I'm going to do
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ADCC trials this year so they added a weight class right yeah they have the
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little chicks so I feel a lot more comfortable going up against like that one and his day before weigh-in so it's
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going to be kind of similar to the weight that I'll be fighting at so I'm
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excited [ __ ] yeah yeah we'll see what happens how was your week um oh my god
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I've we've already talked about Tulum we've talked about Florida um I just got
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back from Vegas so I've been traveling non-stop since the New Year even before the new year I've been traveling a lot
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yeah what the [ __ ] sit your ass down you know what I'm just like I'm sad I can't train I'm trying to like do things you
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know to keep me busy and not sad cuz quite frankly I'm getting really
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tired of lifting me I mean at least I can do something you know that's definitely a positive I can I can do
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some sort of physical activity but it's not the kind of physical activity that I want to do um but I've been trying to
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like really immerse myself in the lifting thing um but I just got back from Vegas I was invited to the second
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celebrity Poker Tour Tournament oh and it was super fun saw our friend Al
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Jamaine oh and then there was uh big country was also there representing for
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the MMA fighters lots of football players and um some baseball players and
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other like um YouTube and Instagram Tik Tok like influencer type people who is the biggest like celebrity for you that
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you met like the person you were like oh my God I I nobody they they they didn't
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get it wasn't my demographic it definitely wasn't but I was really happy to see Alaine it's always really nice
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seeing him he's you know he's a sweetheart he is he's such a gentleman yeah it was really nice seeing him I met
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uh big country's wife in the bathroom she was a sweetheart oh cool I all bad cuz I like just got done washing my
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hands and I couldn't like sh you do the like I'm so happy to meet you the
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fingertip hug yeah um but yeah it was it
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was really nice um I did fairly well for it only being my second time playing
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poker I I got some you know tips and tricks to kind of like stick to and I
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stocked in for a little bit and then I started drinking a little bit and then I got a little loose oh no and I started
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gambling instead of you know playing poker and strategizing ah what's the
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difference um just being like more intentional and sticking to like you
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play and what you fold okay and then so um once I got to like the second table
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you know where a lot of people were dropping out and they started like mixing and matching people at different tables um you know just to mix things up
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um I started playing with people who like really knew how to
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play and I was falling for stuff just because I was like no they've got to be
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bluffing or I was trying to like go in too hard on bets with um with like a low
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pair instead of sticking to like the blackjack rules where like if you have um a 10 or higher you go ahead and like
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play with those but I was like oh I have a pair of twos maybe I can get a pair you know uh uh three of a kind or you
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know something else and which one time I did so I once was like oh I'm going to do that again and it never like works the second time yeah um so it was a
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really good learning experience I had a lot of fun I'll definitely go back again if you know I get the call back um I was
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also like really surprised so there it's you know Super Bowl weekend in Vegas and
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there's ton of you know football players that are at this event you know um
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previous or or current players and I was really
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surprised how bad they were at taking like [ __ ] talking really did you talk
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[ __ ] to them I did and they were sad why you about it I was
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miring energy wait because there well what did they what did you say I was
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just talking [ __ ] was was Ian Gary there was he one of them no he wasn't but he I would have made him cry to be honest um
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no there was just I was trying to like Heckle and you know have fun and get the table talking and they were like why are
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you so aggressive I was like I fight people in a cage that's kind of my thing wait have to give me an example of what
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you said because I can see both sides of this story I can see
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it being the Jess version or I can see it being the real version so I'd like to
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see can you reenact what you actually one of the things you said I can't even remember I just remember seeing the
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shocked faces like why are you coming at me this way I was like you just came at me so I was giving it back you just
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remember the drinks you feeling it so yes you were
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like and everyone cried no I made friends at the table but
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there was one person in particular that was just like who was it it was a baseball player apparently they are not
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as tough as football players well yeah they don't get hit on purpose true true
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if they get hit they get to walk to the next Bas so I have like the mindset I
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was like listen locker rooms are extreme hostile places and there's no way
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anything I say to these people is going to shake them because they've hurt at all not the case girls aren't allowed in
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the Rock logger room for good reason yeah you cut too deep you cut too deep
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man that's the problem you know all the buttons to push I was like really I expected more
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that's so funny well it it is hard because we're around Fighters too and
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Fighters are some of the hardest nosed people athletes on the planet yeah
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especially MMA fighters so we get used to talking [ __ ] to them yeah and then we
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take it out into the regular public and it doesn't go over as easily people are
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clutching their pearls even big big scary football
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players really why is this giant so afraid of me what am I a mouse he an
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elephant that's funny no it was just really funny so well I'm glad you made friends and you didn't traumatize
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everyone I made some friends some not so friends uh I'll do better next time yeah how's
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the poker face it was amazing yeah let's see it winning hand or losing hand I can't
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tell I can't tell uh I fold nice yeah it was a lot of fun
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though I'll I'll definitely do it again very very cool very cool do you know when the next one is um they've been
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doing it every well I mean this is their second one but the last one was I think around August oh okay so it's like a
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seasonal thing kind of it should be uh two more this year and I'll definitely
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put your name in in the basket because they like personalities oh and I'm a big
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loser at poer so I won't hurt anyone's feelings too much when they take all my
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money uh all right well did you get time to check out the fights this weekend I
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was at the tournament but I got to like kind of you know how you're like just glancing at stuff when you're in public
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that's kind of what we do nowadays you have like a an important event to go to
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you're like the dad with the football playing on the radio I have no shame about it like there yeah if fights are
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on I'm I'm watching them I mean even even if it's only like half watching I'm still I'm connected I want to I want to
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fill the you know the live stuff that happens you know it's it's not as
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exciting when it's not happening live so when I'm looking at my phone just even if I'm glancing at it in between matches
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and then I see someone sinking in a choke I'm like oh oh it's about oh he tapped and you know it just happened I
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don't know for some reason that's way more exciting it's like being back in you know the warmup room before a fight
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watching the fights be beforeand sometimes that like stresses me out a little bit but for the most part I'm just like you know I can like pull from
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that energy and get myself excited but sometimes it gets a little nervous you just got to be careful where you um
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fantasize yourself being true because a lot of times absolutely a lot of times I'll be
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backstage and I'm watching a typical Striker versus Grappler fight and if the
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Striker's doing well I'm like oh yeah that's what I'm going to do but if the grappler is doing well I'm like oh
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no what if that happens to me and it's such an unnerving feeling but you just
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have to put yourself in the winner situation um for instance oh yeah I was
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working at choke yesterday so I can possibly get that choke right now and that's kind of what I was doing with
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when I was watching the fights I was like oh I'm GNA go for that head and arm when I get this next match but it was
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cool to jump back and watch everything after it unfolded and it was a pretty
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good night of fights you know what I was kind of a jerk and I was like oh it's an apex card Super Bowl weekend it's like
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you know it's not usfc 298 that I've been looking forward to but it was a good card it was and then the uh the
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final fight everyone you know the main event everyone wrote off Jack Hermanson
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I did too it's easy to do that I mean Piper I keep wanting to call him Fifer
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but Piper Piper he has some crazy knockouts on his highlight Rail and we
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know Hermanson gets has gotten knocked out before he's taken a lot of damage in the fights that he's won so it was kind
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of one of those things where this is that Crossroads in in the guy's career he beats her Manon he's getting a quick
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shot to the title if not he knows he has some work to do before he gets that shot and that's kind of what happened he he
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lost it was competitive if it were three rounds that's what I was just going to say if it were three rounds it would be
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a different story he'd be moving on to the next guy but now he has to take a step back yeah it was um it was
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interesting like listening to a story talking about you know him just like really having to immerse himself in MMA
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because he felt like he really didn't have anything like going for himself which you know I I can understand so
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it's really cool to see what he's done in such a short amount of time in the sport and I think that this type of
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fight will only Elevate him or give him the opportunity to elevate himself because it'll definitely it'll
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definitely give him a lot of feedback and answerers some questions as to what
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he needs to do to move forward and and keep growing in the division um the way
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he came out in the first two rounds was how I thought the fight was going to go and then he started getting taxed it
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it's really hard to keep that kind of power output up for five rounds and I
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don't know that he managed his his power uh for that five rounder and I've also
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got to say I was really impr impressed with uh Hermanson and his his takedowns like and just showing his his veteran
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status and experience yeah I think uh the tide really turned in that third
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round where Hermanson just came out jabbing out of nowhere and it felt like
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one of those moments where your coach is telling you you got to throw the jab you got to throw the jab you're like okay
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jab jab sure sure jab will work and then you finally throw it and you go
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oh he was right and then you can't stop throwing it and that's kind of what
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happened he was throwing this really fast jab CF kit combination and it was
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working perfectly for him especially the way that Piper was coming in he was slowing down he was easier to tag he was
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easier to just kind of make mess and then hit the leg at when there's weight on it and um that was really the moment
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where you started seeing Piper like hesitate you started seeing him second
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guess himself started seeing him getting hurt there was one moment where her Manson jabbed him and he flinched real
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hard like there was like a you know that that face people make when something gets broken or feels like it got broken
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like it's it's not an eye poke it's just like oh what the hell um he made that
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face a few times so I think Hermanson surprised a lot of people with his
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boxing and then everything else that he does well just flowed together perfectly because he started throwing on that jab
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and putting that calf kick in there and I think Piper even um afterwards was
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crediting the calf kick to the reason why he just couldn't get things going after after the second
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round it's as somebody sorry I sto talking as you drank I was like I was
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like oh no I need a
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breath we both needed a breath hey cheers for that good job
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Jack yeah I do love an upset though especially
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when it's one of those old eat or young eats the old type of fights I love it
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when the old eats the young sit down junior it's kind of
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gruesome and let me teach you something like something you'd see on National Geographic the male lion comes from
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another pride and you kills all the Cubs from the from the other mail line or
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something but it feels like that you know you you humble the Next Generation
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you let them know there's a lot more they need to learn because MMA is so
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much there's so many skills that you have to uh get a grasp of and it's it
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amazes me every time I learn something new because we've been doing it for so long like we're coming close to how many
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years two decades we're coming oh you're coming close to two decades I was just talking about tough uh when like 10
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years ago it's we're coming close to 10 years next next year or or will it be
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this summer yep I think it's going to be this summer it's going to be 10 years at
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since tough since we first got into UFC and we're still learning new [ __ ] every
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day so it's it it always amazes me and then when you're able to still be
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athletic and still be fast you can really put that experience to use against the younger generation so that's
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what Hermanson did and uh it was awesome to see yeah I'm definitely a fan of it
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as well yeah but I think we like the five rounders the older the older
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generation we'll let him wear himself out for two round they're going to do it they don't manage output an energy come
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at me oh you almost got me you almost got me gotta be quicker than that then
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when they're tired bam get them put them in place put them on my lap and whoop them
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um yeah there was a there a lot of good fights though like that one was really cool um I got to look at my and pH the
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and I got to talk about that not just the fight but kind of like the backstory about it too yes so we had so we we interviewed
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um oh my God Lon Lon and he was supposed to take on Dan eay yes and Andre fely
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stepped in on kind of short notice but he had fought about eight weeks ago coming off a victory and he stepped up
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and so the the backstory with it which I didn't realize but he took the fight
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with eay because well they had trained together they had been training together and they were talking about this on the
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broadcast and it just you know put a lot of things you know in my mind
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because what what eay was saying was like listen like I'm nice to my training Partners I I know the power that I have
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and I get beat up in training he's like I don't I don't train with ego I'm trying to be a good partner I'm trying
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to learn and he was you know he took it personal that Andre fely stepped in and
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not only like answered the call but like made the call was like Hey I want this
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fight you know he was looking to get back in the rankings and he was looking to oh I didn't know he made the call and
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as that's what was said okay that's what they were talking about um uh during the
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interviews that that eay had during that came up right during fight week and um
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he was saying you know yeah he probably made that call because he was beating me up in training because Danny gay is
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trying to learn and grow and take care of his training Partners which is really important so it it made me feel a little
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bit and I understood why he would be emotional emotional and take it personal
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because he's a pretty like even killed guy very respectful in there and it just
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made me feel kind of a you know a certain type of way about somebody stepping in like that yeah it's like um
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the training room can be hostile but it should be kind of a safe space like for
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for a fighter for myself to to learn and grow make mistakes and not be punished
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for them you know what I mean yeah um so when you have somebody that like trains
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with you and then takes that information and then goes around and
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tries to take a fight with you like that's I feel like that's crossing a line I I
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understand you guys aren't teammates I understand you know you're not at the same gym you know your casual training
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Partners but still I just feel very strongly about that that that's something that you just really shouldn't
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do yeah I I agree and we have our little sparring group and a lot of times I'll
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be telling people the same thing especially in the lower ranks when it
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doesn't really mean as much like on the regional scenes and stuff um I'll tell
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our teammates hey she's a better teammate than an opponent yes and if you
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guys fight right now there might be all sorts of drama coming out um afterwards
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and it's not going to be worth it it's it's different when you're not at the
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same gy so I get where both of them are coming from like touchy Philly he's at
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team alphamale and if they were training together a lot I feel like that would be
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kind of annoy Nob brainer we're we're not going to fight each other and I think you also have to talk about that
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too and you've welcome somebody into your gym and you guys are training a lot you have to be like hey these are my
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boundaries like I'm not I don't want you calling me out we're not fighting together if we're going to be putting
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this much work in together as teammates and if you don't have that conversation then it's kind of up in the air yeah you
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can't really rely on somebody to act as you would or or hope that they act there
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definitely has to be a conversation but I also think that if you're doing cross trainining I feel like there is a bit of
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an Unwritten rule that like hey you're coming to me like we're helping each
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other you're coming into my gym I can go into your gym it's kind of a a mutual
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respect an an Unwritten rule that that sort of thing should happen and I saw you know phy on the stool after the
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fight and he apologized or just like acknowledged like hey you know I was
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trying to do this this and that like I'm sorry kind of thing which which was you know and I want to know what he
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said because it sounded like it sounded like he said something along the lines of oh I didn't want to take the fight
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but blah blah blah blah and then and then eay says I know so I'm wondering
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what he said I'm not exactly clear on what he said because if he said what you said during the interviews then that's a
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totally different story from what I thought he said on the stool it sounded a little a little bit like like hey I
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you know had to take this opportunity like he was on the chopping block and a lot of times that happens too where
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you're on the choing chopping block if you do a favor for the UFC then you can
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save yourself another another contract sure or another you can end your
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contract at least if they're looking to cut people and I know they've been pretty willy-nilly with the cutting lately so I
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can I can see that too your back's against the wall you have to fight your friend a lot of people are going to
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choose to fight their friend it's true it's the truth like a
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lot of people are going to choose that even though it's an individual sport you
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have a team that gets you there yeah and and that's you know my point of view it
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is it's more valuable as you were seeing before it's more valuable to have good
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training Partners than to use them as a stepping stool to get where you want
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because you know eventually you're G to you're going to get where you want to go you're going to you know reach those goals and you don't necessarily have to
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go that route I just think there's a better way and I think Philly learned that
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because he ate that second punch and he didn't need to there was a lot of emotion in that second punch punch and
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eay is not that kind of guy no but he like he put a stamp on it he was going to let Bryce Mitchell pray with
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him the end of their fight he was that nice he was gonna he was gonna do it
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Michael bising put a stop to it but he was gonna do it he's not that type of guy he's very humble he's very um he's
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very religious you know he's he's very um softspoken he likes to talk with his
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power with his hands and the cage not outside of it so it was cool to see him
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get that redeeming moment kind of like after you felt you got stabbed in the
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back hey you got to stab him in the face you know that that's the greatest SLE it
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it had to it had to feel good he's a he's a a Christian but that had to feel
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good Jesus forgave him I mean God is the most vengeful character in The Great
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book so he smited him it's all about it he smited him right there with that second
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punch um but yeah I agree I don't like the idea of people working together and
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then fighting each other and then it's hard enough out there you know someone's going to catch feelings and there always
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a tough one out but um yeah I don't I don't blame Philly for going for it because a lot of times your back is
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against the wall and there's not as many options out there out outside of the UFC
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as there used to be no and for a while it seemed that there there were but like
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I'm hearing Shady stuff about 1fc and then you know Bellator being dissolved into pfl it's like and Kate I heard
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stuff about them too like always heard stuff about I mean everyone's heard stuff about
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K so the the the the what do you call it the pool of just promotions is getting
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smaller more condensed and you don't really want to go out there into the
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wild if you don't have to you know I was thinking about it I'm like I've been you
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know recently I've been to some like you know local shows smaller shows uh or you
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know smaller circuit shows and I'm just like man I feel really thankful like super thankful I mean like man you don't
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you really don't have to worry about like a lot of like Logistics you don't have to worry about anything and like
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being out in in the wild as you put it in The Fray wild yeah it's crazy out
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there [ __ ] is crazy I mean you know there's just like nobody's checking and balancing things stuff gets like lost
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all the time like it's just it's kind of crazy so I'm very thankful that I've had the opportunity to fight for this you
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know pristine well-oiled machine even though you know there are pros and cons to everything I'm just I'm very thank
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to be here yeah as soon as you go outside of the UFC you realize what you're you realize what you're missing
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out on and like for me I got cut and went to Invicta and Invicta was also a
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well well oiled machine at the time but there were a lot of things that I kind
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of took for granted because my second fight was in MMA was in the UFC so I was
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like oh man everything is like my first fight everything is like that country uh
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fight promotion that I fought on in the middle of nowhere in North Carolina like that's what most of outside of the UFC
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is like and you have better and worse versions of that but you're never going
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to get the pi you're never going to get uh a full set of clothes which people
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were annoyed with at the time but now it's kind of convenient um you're never going to get nutritionists and and
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doctors checking in on you during your weight cut and there's just a lot of things that uh the UFC does that makes
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it more professional and more of an actual organization than a lot of the
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other ones out there so you can see why someone if their back was against the wall like uh uh every now and then I'll
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talk to a fighter and I'm like man you took that fight like that's crazy why would you take that fight not to be not
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to be rude but that was crazy that you took that fight Kudos see you have some balls on you and they say hey
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I had to you got to be a company like a company player sometimes yeah
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and it is what it is poor Philly like he ate a he ate a few punches for the
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company but I bet they'll call him again you know for sure I don't think he was
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going anywhere honestly he was coming like he was really turning himself around he had like really reinvented
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himself so he was you know coming from he he just won right um let me check I'm
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pretty sure he was on like two win two fight win streak so I don't necessarily
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think that he was on The Chopping Block I think he was just trying to break into the rankings exactly and the thing is if
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you're if your contract is almost up then there's always a chance that you
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could not be getting called back you know like there's always that chance
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especially um in a stacked division like the featherweight division so he he
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won his last one he lost he won he's been yeah he's been kind of like odd and
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even on everything and like honestly that's the type of record that gets cut um
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it's the fact that I've done a lot of favors with the UFC I feel like that has
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a lot to do with me sticking around and and not getting cut when the contract comes up to question and I think a lot
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of people end up doing favors like that just to stay in the good graces of the
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UFC roster Gods yeah absolutely so um unfortunate that it had
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to end with drama but I feel like they squashed it after that and they're good you can always count on dudes to like
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punch it out yeah and go get a beer afterwards yeah like it seemed like they squashed it um but I really I really do
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love the way eay fights he fights like a little tank it's um it the justos of his
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Style versus Philly you can see how he kind of tries to touchy Philly kind of
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tries to move out of the way of danger and be more loose and fluid and then e just comes in like like this battle tank
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like a battle Toad and then when the punches come out they're so sharp they're so fast it's it's really scary
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and really cool to watch it's that that body type matchup like me being like
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kind of a a long linky gangly fighter it you know I don't have that power that
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like a shorter stockier like tank body type you know does so it's um
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sometimes that can be a really tough matchup uh if you have that kind of um
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striking Style versus striking style that body type versus that body type I feel like there's a lot of times where
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where the shorter stalker stockier lower Center gravity Fighter um has has that
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edge there there's a very specific way to fight somebody like that yeah yeah he he did a good job um and I felt like
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that camp too if you come in short notice against like uh someone from that
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camp then you're going to have your work cut out for you because they have so many fighters so many highlevel fighters
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coming through building game plans with uh Eric nixi that you're always going to be kind of at a disadvantage because
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they have so much experience just creating game plans for different body types for different styles for different
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techniques and stuff like that so he's uh it's a tough one he's definitely like
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making a name for himself putting a stamp on that camp just because of like
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the Readiness of the fighters yeah he's always got to Ace up his sleeve when it comes to uh quick
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like quick uh adjustments during the fight yeah so another fight I was super
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excited about tell me was rodol oh my goodness Robo oh not
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rodol Robocop Robocop is so cool that [ __ ] Cuts so much weight see I
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look I look at him and I'm just like it's not fair so I I mixed them up
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because they have the same arms have you rodo and RoboCop have the same exact
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arms they're only different colors but they have so many veins it both of their
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arms look like that like bro handshake that Arie did in Predator with the with
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homeboy like that's what their biceps look like and so are you talking about RoboCop or rodulfo I I'm saying they
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have the same arm okay I'm talking about both of them okay you not listen to me
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I'm sorry I was trying to catch up but uh yeah no RoboCop is the one I'm
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more of a fan of rodao grew on me he uh he kind of had a rough start in the UFC
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he getting too much weight gassing out in fights and then getting tapped by what like a a blue belt or purple belt
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something belt it was he shouldn't have gotten tapped by that guy basically on paper but this guy was an MMA fighter
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and he was coming in as more of a Jiu-Jitsu guy and uh he lost a fight to
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Chris Curtis I think after that but then he's won a few and this one was a real
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nice finish like that head and arm trying or head and arm choke was just
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super slick the way he like hopped over the mount got in there laid flat didn't
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have to pass he just stayed in that mount position and got the choke like money and then I was laughing because at
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the end they're doing the postf fight speech and he's going oh I squee S I
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squeezed until I couldn't see anymore like what the [ __ ] and then I
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look at his arm and you can see every vein in this guy's arm his biceps are as
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big as his head he looks insane like it's not fair a lot of asai in his so
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much asai competition days him and RoboCop oh my God there aai is off the
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charts somebody call you s they I mean they're gone oh yeah I actually I actually got a
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visit while I was at my jiu-jitsu tournament stop it the one day they come
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the one day I'm not in in like s an hour away from my house they came yesterday
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what I know and I'm talking to her through the ring and I'm like oh wait she's being kind of pressed like she
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might be someone I need to talk to so I answered it she's like hello I'm here with the U uh the UFC anti-doping
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commission I'm like [ __ ] so I updated my whereabouts real quick I like sorry not
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here but yeah it's just my luck hopefully I don't have a strike against me this is the only assai I
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take my liquid Carriage to help me and I don't do that you know in competition
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time so could you imagine it might be easier I feel like fight a little
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tipsy I don't know I'm not sure I think it depends on how long the fight goes
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cuz you could easily get drunk and knock someone the [ __ ] out it would definitely give me some like courage yeah that's
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what I'm saying look what courage it's a thing it's a thing I think I think if it was one minute
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rounds one minute rounds two- minute break I get to rehydrate and then have a
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beer and then go back out there for another round I could totally fight someone
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drunk I mean I feel like I try to F people I I always postrate though I
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never actually do anything but I always feel like Scrappy Doo little bit little
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bit feistier than normal just a tiny bit I'm just like little angsty an I get
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you it makes me happy it's not even even that it takes my angst away it's not
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even that threatening I'm just [Music] like come here let me at her and then
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she gets really sleepy and then I fall asleep yes I found I didn't find but on
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my time hop today or was it yesterday no it was today um oh yeah I I got time
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hopped a video of sleepy drunk an you love that video you sent it to me like
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20 times because it's hilarious cuz we are literally cuz it comes up every year
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okay it comes up every year so to other ones but I think that one was the funniest why though it's just like me
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sleeping but we were at a gym fight party at a fight viewing party it's hilarious I've fallen asleep well I
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wasn't drunk but I've fallen asleep at a metal concert before like we were at a Slayer concert and they're playing like
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I forget who was opening up for him but some band was opening up for him and and it's
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like and I'm sitting there I found a seat yes it was to that was that noise
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you know that that uh mimics the uterus noise yes what what is that called it was just White Noise for me yeah the am
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ASMR whatever that is something like that yeah it it put me right to sleep I was sick though that was my excuse I
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wasn't drunk I was sick that's amazing uh but we digress we digress um
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RoboCop's fight was insane um he's just like so strong and I
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I hate that he had to fight Brad tavarus because I feel like he gets the the scariest of the scary he really does you
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know and I mean he I mean I chop it up to like he you know company man but he
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also believes in himself and he's he's a tough fighter he's very skilled he's a hard hitter he can put you out with one
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punch but he does seem to get some really tough fights he's gotten the
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toughest recently and um you know he he still gives them trouble you know but
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this fight especially um was kind of a showcase fight for RoboCop he he was
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just able to pressure really good like right off the bat push him up against the fence make him uh run for a second
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you know not like run like Conor McGregor but just kind of skirt the side of the fence and really try to get away
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from his pressure and then those turbo combos that he landed looked straight
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out of a video game it's again it it's really hard for me on on these
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kinds of MMA fighters that cut a ton of weight this is what you know this is why
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we have anti-doping because or you know this is why we monitor the weight cutting and the the pre and post-weight
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so that it evens the playing field and I just I literally look at these guys that cut so much weight and I'm like you have
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a really unfair Advantage like it's not [ __ ] fair I I just have a hard time with it and it partially because I've
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come up a weight class and seeing people cut down like 125s uh you know 135s that are now 11
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15ers it's just like I just have a hard time with it you do lose something
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though when you cut weight like sure you just have to avoid the barrage that
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happens before that that's where you get to the elite level like the top 10 or
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the top five and that's when you actually see what you have is that
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weight cut going to benefit you or are you going to have to start sizing down so you have that endurance and you're
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able to handle a five round fight because we saw for uh pyer it didn't work out you know we see that for a lot
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of guys who are used to getting those first round finishes that once it goes to decision it doesn't work out you know
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especially once you get a higher ranked opponent but sometimes it really does and you shut your opponent out because
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you have such a power and strength advantage and you get off on it first but who is at the very top that's doing
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that that's like having a crazy weight cut right now right now I think a lot of
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people are oh I mean I can't name it off the bat because I don't have it written down but there are Fighters I mean you
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look it undraw you look at her having a really big run for a long time now maybe
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the weight Cuts cting up with her now maybe the the fight links the amount of damage that she sustained is finally
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catching up with her but it did it served her well for a long time yeah and
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then you have you know other girls in the weight class where it's benefited them you have male Fighters like the
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RoboCop's that you know maybe he's not you know top five but he's still doing
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really well and he does have a huge size advantage and strength advantage and power Advantage as I think the only
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person who has really used that to his benefit is Pera and that's because he didn't have to fight that muchh at the
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weight class where he had a huge size Advantage if he had to continue to fight at that weight class I think a lot of
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people would have figured him out sure but that's what happened with andrad a lot of people figured her out like she
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went on a four-fight loose streak recently and I I I just feel like you
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know whatever you whatever Advantage you get from cutting a ton of weight
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eventually it comes back to bite you in the ass eventually it's it's like steroids eventually you might have a
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heart attack EV eventually like something horrible might happen healthwise that will affect you
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eventually so you know there's there are uh checks and or not checks and balances
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but uh pluses and minuses to every type of Advantage you try to do it's like do you want to do it the healthy way or do
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you want to do it the way that gets you the fastest benefits first it is a tradeoff and I think that
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just from what I've seen that it gets people far and then but eventually I
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don't know how the time frame that it'll start picking up and start like taking
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its toll but it is an advantage that I've seen that I've experienced and I
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think that the whole purpose for anti-doping was and like the weight cut
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check is to prevent that but people are still finding a way around it because still having that size and strength Advantage
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is the best Advantage you can have for a time well wild the weight cut thing only really happens with California now right
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and it's kind of crazy that California uh they're they're big on the
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weight cut thing like making sure you don't rehydrate too big when you fight
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but now they're trying to add that grounded opponent rule too so they're just like kind of let's just mix things
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up let's make our own League you know I feel like there yeah it's great that you're you know focused on this one rule
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that you know may or may not need to be changed but there's a lot of other [ __ ] that you need to be focused
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on as far as rules and judging and the commission and I feel like it's just a
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little like carrot dangled up to be like oh look we're really focused on this
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when it's like we have other like we have bigger issues to be honest like what like
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all right I just blinked out well they're trying to fix fighter pay but the the move that they made
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isn't really going to affect anyone well like the judging yeah like the the judging across the board the the
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commissions being involved um and and not being held accountable I think that's a way more
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pressing issue than like one hand down and posting weight on yeah you say I'm totally down for that but I feel like I
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would need less judges if I could take advantage of that rule if you took away
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that rule like which fight was it um which it was the the RoboCop fight where
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they were he was playing the game and that fight would have been over immediately if that rule wasn't in play
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um same with the Alo fight we would have had Pon as a champion because he was
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kind of like relying on the fact that pon couldn't hit him because he was on
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one knee and he went boom you know he went for it he was like hey
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you're open I'm going to KNE it so it it really would change
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the just the flow of a lot of fights if you allowed that rule and I feel like it
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is a weird one where you're literally trusting your opponent not to foul you
47:51
in order to stay safe I think that it's definitely a rule that needs to be changed but I think that there are other
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issues that need to go and I feel like that's the judging I feel like across the board people need to unite with
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their judging criteria um I feel like people just need
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to be more uniformed across the commissions not just like oh this is our rules for this commission this is our
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rule in Vegas this is our rule in Florida um because there are a lot of people that are again they're getting
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licensed as well in certain States because the commissions are way more lenient and so they go to these states
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they only fight in those States um there are less stringent rules with uh doping
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testing in certain States so people tend to have fights there only fight there
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there's just a lot of things across the board that I think need to be more uniform I I think that that's a really
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you know good place to start I guess or you know something that needs to be
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changed but I just think that there are more pressing issues it seems like it's the easiest one to attack right now
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because those uh commissions are all with people who are grandfathered and
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they all have connections with certain people and it's like it took so much to get Douglas Crosby out of there so much
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so many violations so many people complaining about them uh Al jooe's
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whole Camp complained about him and he was still judging for years you know so it it really does seem like the
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commissions are like these da these Godfathers and it's hard for the states
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to attack the commissions but they're like okay maybe we could change this rule maybe that'll give us some some
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leeway into making further actions but I agree I would love for them to change judging because it doesn't make any
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sense no you even had um what was it there was uh tiimo Lopez fought a boxing
49:49
match and I his opponent's name was escaping me but again people were commenting on the crazy judging like
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craziness in boxing and I think one of um I mean he won the fight it was and that's where their grandfathered in from
50:03
boxing and and somebody made the comment one of one of the guys made a comment
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like um like the sport was less crooked when the mob was running in it was a
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quote like that basically and uh because one of like uh two judges had it one way
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and then one judge had it like 117 to 111 which was it insane and completely
50:27
out a left field as far as the other judges had scored it they were they in alignment and this one was just kind of
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out of left field so it's um yeah it just everything across the board needs
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revamping yeah yeah for sure I say throw them all out yes out with the with the
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them burn them the young eats the old let get a bunch of ticktockers to judge
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fights oh my God stop it well I think it's time for our uh exclusive part we
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have so much to talk about I think I want to talk about a couple fights on the prelims that really tickled my fancy
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um and then you had some questions you want to answer right I did we had some people uh give me some questions that
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they W answered on Instagram post so we'll be discussing those ones we'll see
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