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three two one happy happy New Year
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hello we're back what's up Jess what's up long time I know feels good to be
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back yes we're back ready for action I'm so happy you made it back in the country
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you've been gone everywhere dude I feel like I was in limbo until like the 5th
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of January I was just floating in space nothing made sense I was waking up at
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like 4 a.m falling asleep at 4 P.M you know it was it was a really weird time
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but back where everything makes sense everyone speaks normal not like all oh
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hello hello uh what what's good bro you know oh you've improved on your accents
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I think we need to do another skit pretty so I know who should I do next time Molly
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yes get some scowser yes not uh
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sorceress according to Cody Gardner
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oh my gosh yeah uh I didn't get to go to Liverpool or Liverpool wait that's not
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even how they say it but they say it in a weird way I just can't remember how they say it but I didn't get to go there
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while I was in London but I did get to go to Great Britain top team and get some training then and then we did cage
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warriors with Wilson Hayes he won his fight and then we partied until 2 A.M
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which was probably like 7 P.M here so
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so I felt like I was young even though I probably would have been falling asleep
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about the same time that's so nice I ended up getting accidentally drunk on New Year's Eve oh nice and I stayed up
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past the ball dropping which normally I am in bed way before that drops and I wake up and I was like oh it's a new
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year a new me yeah but that was not the case I spent the whole day feeling really crappy oh in bed gorgeous it's
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it's because I'm you know I'm getting getting older I know you tried to party like a rock star accidentally that was
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not my intention but it happened um you know I just
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can't be letting that happen it was awful we have to be careful you know like the older we get we have the more
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carefully we have to plan out our party nights when I was a kid I could drink
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all I wanted I would rehydrate with beer after Muay Thai you know like I do like
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four hours of Muay Thai which I cannot do now but after like four hours of voice I hit a
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pad sparring a clinch class and then we go down to a beer or go down to the bar
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afterwards and rehydrate with a pint or a few or a pitcher and then I'd be up
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bright and bushy-tailed the next morning like let's do it again go to my job go drink or GO train and then go drink
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and then wash rinse repeat but now I have to plan that [ __ ] out I can't have more than two
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drinks a night without properly hydrating afterwards with water yeah not
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beer um eating my vegetables my making sure that I have my carbs as well so I don't
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get drunk off the first two drinks and yeah it's a lot yeah it's a lot that's
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why I was a little bit perturbed with Adam when he when he hit me up you know for your your birthday celebration he
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wanted us to meet at a bar at 9 00 pm on a Sunday on a Sunday
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and I was actually sick the day before I'm sorry on Thursday on a Thursday yeah in the middle of the week yeah right day
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before sparring that's the kicker he just wanted me to feel good about myself he's like I know
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that's okay [Music] I took a punch hung over a Jess in the head and felt good about her so
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what are you doing to me I told him afterwards I was like may I request next time that we meet at five o'clock
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like adults yes five o'clock is a good drinking day it's almost like you're day drinking but then you go home and you
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can just fall asleep you don't have to continue your day afterwards yeah it's amazing yeah it's perfect time to start
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drinking that's why that's why happy hour exists at that time I get it now I didn't you just made the connection I
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get it damn that makes sense yeah it makes total sense yeah yeah it does man
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so also I had a birthday yeah absolutely take these off because oh yeah now we're
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talking about me it's my birthday well it was on the 12th so I just turned and
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I don't like saying this but I just turned the big three eight my God I know
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I'm an old old lady old old easy easy
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old old easy I'm an old mayor ready to
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be sent to the glue factory then what the [ __ ] does that make me I
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don't know I'm joking listen I just keep getting better yeah I
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can find mine I feel like getting better exactly you get you've gotten curvier
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you've gotten uh more confident yes you've gotten uh better as a fighter you
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know true true um yeah you might not have that angst that
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got you into the cage in the first place but you don't need it anymore because I
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experienced some events yeah you don't need Moxie anymore you get you've been had that yeah
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now you can just relax and be in there you don't have to be angry at the person you're fighting so angry yeah
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I mean I'm still I'm still a little angry but you know it's for the most part I've done enough work to like you
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know be centered and balanced and you know still every once in a while a little like yeah
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I see it when uh when you get close to submission you're like three steps away
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from finishing it in your face goes from
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I just get really excited smile I get really excited and then like
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the more that somebody like kind of like falls into the Trap it yeah I get even more excited and then when they like
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kind of struggle but I know it's not gonna work it's like like it's already over just let it happen yeah
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just stop it you're being silly this is gonna happen it's gonna happen I love it
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I call that wisdom you just know you're just like
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gotcha [ __ ] it's a great feeling it is it is you
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need it in spurts but you don't need it the whole fight and I think that's what you get better at managing the longer in
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the sport is when to bring out that like final blow kind of energy and went to
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cruise and relax and pick your shots and uh set the traps that you're eventually
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gonna go to you know so yeah it's not it's not a death
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sentence to be an older fighter it's not uh something to be ashamed of as much as
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I feel like it used to be I think it was more of a stigma before man I feel like I feel like sometimes that commentary
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booth well they just have they have their talking points right and one thing that
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they love to talk about is how old a fighter is or how young a fighter is and there's no one between you're either old
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or young or they just don't say [ __ ] about your age you know and I've I've used to be I was very recently in the
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area where they don't say [ __ ] about my age this year they're gonna talk about no like they're gonna talk about it
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since I turned like 32 they've been talking about well you know she's she's pretty old to be coming back into the
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like since I got back into the UFC they've been saying that and that was a long ass time ago so it's it's really
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rough but I think I've lived through people being okay with older Fighters
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out there so now I I finally crossed over into that okay yet like before we
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were being rude but now you're actually old now we're justified in judging you
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[Laughter] I mean
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like it's all the projection it is you're only as old as you feel and I feel uh
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uh like a spratly 25 year old oh wow that's impressive I mean I I feel like
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if I'm early I mean my back feels like it's in its 60s but you know oh I'm not talking about when I wake up okay okay
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yeah otherwise I feel like you know I feel like I just hit 30. yeah I'm
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talking I feel like 25 after the first warm-up round after I did my stretches put some Ben Gay on you know the Tiger
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Bomb is everywhere you know I'm feeling the heat of that blood rushing through
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my veins then then I feel like a sprightly 25 year old yeah I recently
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discovered that I'm taking like really hot showers before I go to train is very
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helpful because otherwise it takes me a long time to warm up dude I do that every day and I never why didn't you
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ever tell me this well because I I just hate being cold like yes that's I just
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thought it was a black person thing because we're not made for this CL for climates
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that are colder like right now it's freezing in San Diego I'm so mad it is like 60 degrees and it's raining ah it's
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the worst it's raining yeah dangerous not in the streets I saw two accidents on my way home from open map today oh no
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like right in front of me no yeah dude I'm not surprised though because whenever I go somewhere in the rain
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there'll be one pocket where everything's backed up and then you see somebody got in like a nasty little
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fender bender or something on the side of the road every time San Diego just cannot handle weather at all
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and instead of driving slower and more cautiously they're like I just gotta get home man so they drive even faster I'm
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like you you idiot now you're on the embankment and oh now we're calling an ambulance
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yeah they never got the hydroplaning discussion that we got before we got our
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licenses because that was a thing like when is it most dangerous uh when you're in a rainstorm and uh you have to know
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it's when it just coats the the concrete and everything's really slick and I
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think Sandy Higgins they see the clouds and they see like drizzle and they're like all right let's go
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let's get home fast get home where it's safe yeah and then they spin out and crash it's very sad
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it was it was a stressful drive home yeah well be careful out there I know you're in Camp we need you to get to the
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skills and everything healthily no bumps and bruises from these stupid drivers or
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whatnot only from training Partners yeah that's my job you do a great job at that thanks I
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think every Camp you have you have gotten me pretty good I think um my best
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weapon is my hip bone you're a dick with that hip bone dude my
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hip bone is so sharp like when I hit that sprawl like I'm like why are you doing that that's right and I'm not
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trying to it's just there it's it's in a good spot height wise I think I think my legs
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are just long enough that I hit right on the forehead of people who are shooting on me like uh it must be like like
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biological or something because everyone complains about my hip bone yeah if
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you've noticed I don't really go for takedowns against you I just wait till you try and take me down okay it's we're
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here yeah thank you it's just too risky thank you for starting the grapple like
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just I mean we both want to be there yeah just you please I insist
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I insist I will not brandish my hip bone
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foreign in front of your face because I care
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oh man oh man so yeah that's that's my favorite weapon um but how is fight Camp been going
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we've got update everyone on that you I think you announced your fight uh
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episode or two ago but remind everyone what's happening next so I'll be
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fighting on March 4th um it's a pay-per-view card UFC
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285. I think so six double check yeah double check for me because yeah I'm not
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great at that and um I got rescheduled to fight Tabitha Ricci a little baby
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shark yes um yeah so I'm excited Camp's going well I'm doing some good stuff and I'm
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already in shape and um my education shape is really nice instead of having to like work really hard and like die
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and you know deal with all of the ups and downs and the emotions and stuff like that of trying to get in shape but
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um yeah so I'm very very excited I'm guessing you're no longer part of Team
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uh short notice fight you know what I was really I was excited
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about it and then I got sick and I was like this is stupid yeah well it's a lot
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of stress on your body to get in shape that fast yeah and a lot of times people
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do get sick from just trying to rush camp and hate your Sprints and get that
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hard pad working and get the hard spars in and get ready and you only have like
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two or three weeks to do all that and that's normally when like the immune system kind of takes a dive so two weeks
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into Camp after you know you start pushing the intensity I have always had the mindset because of that reason is to
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um kind of back off after two weeks and just make sure that I'm really taking care of myself and kind of like pump the
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brakes just a little bit because you know the immune system and the body all that kind of stuff is just kind of um
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being like thrown out of whack yeah with the intensity so it's hard it's definitely hard to do yeah it's a lot
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it's a lot so um this time you have more than enough time maybe almost too much
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time was it hard not freaking out just by looking at how far down that date was
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when you first got the match-up it actually it kind of was and I tried not to like fixate on that plus it was
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during the holidays when I found out so everybody's gone I mean nobody nobody is
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training hard during the holidays like there's there's no fights book like the UFC was not like they were all on
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vacation everybody was like we're not working we're not doing this nothing so there was just there weren't a lot of
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like bodies everybody's traveling home for the holidays and just you know different kind of mindset yeah and so I
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just tried to focus on what I could personally do you know for myself and so
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that was starting to push the cardio and you know pad work and just do what I could nice and now you're in shape and
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I'm in shape yeah look at that you take a bunch
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as much as you want now good job so uh it is UFC 285 it's going to be in Vegas
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I believe and we just got a big fight announced on your card yeah [ __ ] it do
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you want to say it or should I you say you're so excited I'm so excited Jon Jones versus Cyril Gunn at heavyweight
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Jon Jones is finally coming back yo he finally got his stuff together it's not
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gonna I mean not I'm just tired oh my God Jessica it was a joke Jessica
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okay you do that I do what did I do can't have let anyone else have shine
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during your card it has to be about Jessica uh yeah that's gonna be nuts so it's
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finally happened but um it's bittersweet because Francis and gotta got let go
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I feel like it was his decision though it was his decision yes but I just I'm
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sad to see him go I just had to see him go too he was um so I gotta say like
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sometimes with heavy not sometimes a lot of times with heavy weights
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um you know they have that one punch knockout power and they don't necessarily
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um try to like harness or refine their skills because they can always rely on one punch that'll win them the fight and
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um I mean not not always in all cases but that's just a trend that I've seen and ningano I was really impressed with
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him he was starting to do like learning groundwork and he was really starting to refine his skills because he didn't have a ton of MMA experience yeah when he got
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thrown to the vision but he's just so big and powerful such a presence that he was you know he claimed the belt through
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that so you know I I was just starting to you know get a sense of who he was as a
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fighter and who he was becoming so it's sad to see him go same and I just I'm
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really curious about what the UFC deal was that he turned down yes I want to
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know those numbers I think I'm not sure if people picked up
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on it but Dana used some clever wording he did not say we offered him the
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biggest payday out of all our Champions he said we offered him the biggest
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payday out of all of our heavyweights yeah our heavyweight champions including
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Chuck Liddell like that was a long time ago Dana that was a long time ago yo come on so he PR
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wise he made it seem like it was a big deal that he passed up but I wouldn't be
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surprised if uh Ghana was just asking for Conor McGregor money and that got
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turned down because I think there's a big gap between Conor McGregor and Chuck Liddell
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for sure yeah absolutely so I think um you know angano's gonna go
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out and he had all those uh boxing matches that he was thinking about doing that should have been that should map
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out to be bigger paydays so I'm hoping that he's able to do that and be lucrative with that but like he said
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seeing him evolve and get better at wrestling um he did things that no one was able to
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do against Sarah God like no one was able to do that yeah and I don't know if it was because Cyril had to be so aware
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of of angano's striking of his power that he didn't even think about the
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takedown but it really worked out for him so I love seeing him put everything
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together and it's I'm just sad to see him go to something like boxing where
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you're not going to see any of that hard work that he put in I
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I don't I understand that there's really good money in boxing
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however and he does he does have that like one punch knockout power but boxing is hard
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it's hard for MMA fighters to go into boxes is a really challenging transition
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yeah and I'm I'm curious to see how he's gonna do because he has not
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like I haven't seen that kind of like boxing like uh striking IQ from him so
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it's really it'll be really interesting but I know that they can probably make big fights I just wanna I'm curious to
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see how well he's gonna do yeah because it's completely different and I wonder if they're just gonna give him the big fight like honor or are they going to
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let him work his way up like a Jake Paul type like what's gonna happen with his
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career is it gonna be a career or is it going to be a freak Show fight you know and I feel like it's probably gonna be a
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freak Show fight for a Payday that would have been bigger than if I'm gonna fought through his entire Champion
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contract and won every fight I feel like it's gonna have to be because he is already finding us a professional mixed
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martial artist so he can't do amateur boxing he really I don't I'm pretty sure there's a rule against that yeah Pro you
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can't go yeah no amateur he's not going to do amateur boxing but he could get opponents that weren't that great that
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were maybe a little small or that were that had that were a bit chinny you know
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yeah they do they do do that a lot in boxing yes
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um you know they're very big on like a favorable matchmaking to you know cultivate their
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talent and stuff like that yeah yeah but I just don't know if that would be the route that he should go I think it's
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probably gonna be one big deal fight like a Tyson Fury or something like that and just like a big ass fight yeah gets
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a lot of money win or lose probably gonna lose but you know the maybe is what puts
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people in the seats and then he'll be good he can chill he can retire I think
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that sometimes that frustrates me or it bums me out sometimes I mean it's great that there's
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opportunities for you know MMA fighters to do like cross-promotional kind of stuff
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um as far or going to different um to different disciplines and stuff like that but it's hard because MMA
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fighters are not um what was that sound sorry I got really
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distracted right I totally lost my channel
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dude wow I don't the mics probably didn't even pick it up so we probably
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just looked crazy that's really funny um it it it's great that there's an
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opportunity for it but sometimes it bothers me yeah that fighter MMA
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fighters specifically go into other promotions and they're you know gonna be the underdog they're at a slight
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disadvantage in you know certain ways because boxing for MMA is completely different than boxing for boxing just
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like kickboxing and you know grappling and yeah you know all these different disciplines where everyone is just
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focused on that base that discipline and MMA fighters need to be good or
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well-rounded enough to like be knowledgeable in each discipline so sometimes it frustrates me and sometimes
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I can see that it's a great opportunity but there's just um it's a little bit more challenging for success in some
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aspects yeah well I think all the experiments where somebody from another discipline who was a big deal came into
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MMA they always go bad for the person coming into MMA so they stopped doing
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that a long time ago they're just like [ __ ] that [ __ ] you come to me because I probably make a
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lot more money than you do in your sport that's way [ __ ] harder you know so
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there were only a couple people that I mean there was CM Punk and then James Tooney yeah James
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yeah he was a little cartoony got ankle Pips by by Randy Couture yeah
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uh I feel like there was a couple more but I can't think of them maybe they weren't like big Dill fights but just
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even even just coming in um trying to think who else did that
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there's a few there's a few but not not as big as those two and I think James Tony is the one I always think of is why
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MMA fighters go to boxing and not the other way around because that's what
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happens yeah um but uh on another note what do you
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think about the matchup that we have with Sarah gone and Jon Jones
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I'm really excited about it I'm fascinated by it I I just think what
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um Cyril does is really really impressive for a heavy he's a smaller heavyweight he's not a huge I mean he's
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a he's a large human but he's usually outsized by a lot of the heavyweights you know and the way he moves and stays
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in the pocket he has he has beautiful striking and he's you know fairly well-rounded still needs a little bit
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more work on the ground and the grappling aspect but he does a really good job
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um and somebody like Jones I could see trying to take it to the ground and I
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think that it's just an interesting matchup like I don't know what's going to happen because Jon Jones is a big dude he was
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always big for light heavyweight and I think that um with all the time out of the sport
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he's probably put on some really good size and he's probably huge for a heavyweight right now yeah he looks
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insane he looks crazy I hate to bring up Connor again but he they both did these like weird
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metamorphosis outside of competing where the outside of the testing pool did they
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temporarily retire I don't think Jones did I think he was in the east side of testing pool the whole time but he got
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thick like he got yeah real thick shins are still the same size as mine
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but those little twink legs little twiglet legs but that's because they're long as
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[ __ ] and that's how he keeps people in the head with them um but yeah he got he got really swole I
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think he finally feels comfortable at that weight and I think that was a a big part of his stalling aside from you know
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the getting in trouble and stuff another part of it was just feeling comfortable at heavyweight because you have to
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transform your body and now he looks like a heavyweight like before he looked like he could you look like you could
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make this or that but now you look at him you're like biggest you're one of the biggest definitely
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yeah dude it's um yeah it'll it'll be interesting to see
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like how he implements himself in the division I mean yeah he could he's so athletic he's he's so talented
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um so powerful and I could see him being dominant in in heavyweight just like he wasn't like
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heavyweight yeah and just giving everybody a hard time and it's it's a bit unfair to not get to see what
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Jon Jones is working with with a lesser a lesser
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um what do you call it just lesser stake fight you know what I mean the stakes are so high in this fight and Cyril gone
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doesn't really know who he's preparing for because Jon Jones hasn't fought in however many years he's huge he's
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probably gonna have to play the game a little differently maybe rely more on his power instead of movement or um
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maybe switching Styles will be a little more tiring for him like going from striking to takedowns that might take a
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little more energy with a bigger frame like you really there's a lot of question marks that uh Cyril gone's team
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is gonna have to just figure out in the fight with Jon Jones so that's going to
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be a really exciting thing for the fans too is to see what happens because I
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don't think anyone has any idea except for Jones's people you know and
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maybe they don't know either you know like like it's also you also wonder what
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mental state is he gonna be in when he steps in there because he's been through some [ __ ] he's he's created some chaos
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you know and it it a lot of it stems from just not being okay you know so I'm
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wondering if he's gonna make it to the stage and if he's going to be mentally there and I hope he is because I love
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watching him fight um but you know there are a lot of people who hope he isn't who hope he
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doesn't you know it's uh and but that's what brings the fans absolutely
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when they hate you when they love you that's like exactly where you want to be as a popular fighter because you'll
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never not be talked about you have to be polarizing you have to have people want you to win or to lose yes no in between
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that is what they want you can either be old or young there is no in between
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oh you're 30. you are old
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nothing but old yeah so that's gonna be a pretty killer card good job getting on that thing yeah
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I'm excited about it and um we had um we had a pretty fun card last night
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we're filming this on Sunday and we just came off was it a fun car I know I like
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that's a lot Jessica
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I'm sorry but you were like uh that's a lie
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that is incorrect that is not what I experienced you
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didn't experience fun I did not and you know what it had been
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I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm not sorry oh listen I've been waiting for weeks to
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watch you know some UFC fights I've been you know watching boxing and other
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sports and you know binging on you know whatever during my fight Camp I wanted to
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and see some blood and guts yes yeah and um you know maybe maybe the UFC they
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just wanted to have like kind of um like a a palette warmer upper kind of thing you
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know just like yeah just be like you know here it is and we're not gonna give it yes above moves
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how do you say what is that the appetizer oh I forgot I don't know that
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one it's it's what is it
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is a single bite-sized hors d'oeuvre oh I love those yes just to get you know
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your your taste buds going yeah that's a perfect description of what that fight card was okay I'm fancy like that you're
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so fancy got dance you and Adam good Chef Adam
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even though you can't pronounce it I could not but he knew what I meant you know those horse Derbies
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I love them horse derby fight cards
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uh well I mean there were compelling parts of the fight card uh where
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well um I'll wait wait what happened again Danny gay
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Danny gay that was compelling that's one he was on a skid and he got his knockout
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win against um Damon Jackson I believe and you know
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but like you know Damon Jackson is in top tier like the guys that he had lost to but he was on a win streak um he was
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a good opponent and he was able to knock him out so that was a big deal for him he cried in his post-fight speech that
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always his post fight speech got me it always gets easy because we've been there yeah yeah he said first win in two
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years and he's in there crying after getting a knockout like the emotions are
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so high because you put so much time and effort into perfecting your craft and you go out there and it doesn't go the
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way you want it to and you feel like you failed everyone you failed everyone who helped you who
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coached you you failed yourself your your family your teammates and of course they don't feel that way at least not
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the the good ones a couple a couple shitty ones will feel that way but the the good guys the ones
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who mean something they're not gonna feel that way but that's how you feel internally and he felt that way for two years
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so yeah like it it was really cool to see him get that and we both can relate
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to that situation it just sucks to be on the loose streak
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um especially when everyone's watching when people are expecting great things from you and I think the toughest thing
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about being like a an MMA fighter in the UFC is
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there's there's just so much pressure on it and you're you're only as good as your last fight you're only as relevant
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as your next fight and it could be a long time in between the next time you
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fight because if you fight you're not going to get rebooked as quickly or you could get cut and if you you know get
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booked and you have an exciting match up and they're pushing you and then you under deliver I mean say even if you win
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but you want to deliver it they're like ah they're not as good you know there's just there's just so much writing on it
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and so much potential for you know a letdown or or something
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amazing happening it just it can be a lot it can be like crippling it sometimes yeah it's a huge roller
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coaster to go through and to be persevering through all the naysayers
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and you know the doubters the haters um through that two years people telling
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you to quit or telling you you're not good enough and allowing yourself to
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stay focused and stay determined it really is something that a lot of people
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would have quit and I think we both have like stories where like a lot of people would have quit if they had if they got
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dealt we got dealt in the UFC and when you're able to overcome it and get
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that win finally and just even just showing up it resonates with people you
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know I know I know a lot of people hit you up after your first win back against loopy and um you know even the last of
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my last couple of fights um people hit me up and they were like yo I'm so happy for you like you didn't get robbed like
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yeah we were praying you didn't get robbed and it happened so being able to
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overcome those big humps like not a little bump and then you're back and
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swinging and everything's going great but big [ __ ] let Downs over and over again uh it's a big deal so that's why
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the Danny gay thing I was like no I I completely yeah completely relate
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I can completely empathize and just understand like that was a huge moment for him and I'm really I'm really happy
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and to see somebody so gracious and humble and um vulnerable was was really
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inspiring to see so another cool thing that happened was uh
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well like I guess it's cool um
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I'm like in the context of the card in the context of this card it was cool
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well I was pretty surprised that Strickland showed up what do you mean not surprised that he
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showed up but I was I was surprised that he took the fight and I wasn't super
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surprised that he won but I am always surprised when he wins doing the same
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[ __ ] he always does yeah it's the same [ __ ] every fight so I
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I thought that he would take the fight like I wasn't surprised he took the fight and I wasn't surprised that he
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started like you know getting out in front because he has that like
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it's got to be so frustrating to fight someone like him yes because he never stops coming forward he never like
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um and he has so much pressure and this like ranging pressure and if you don't know how to like get under it or angle
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out it could be a really really tough night it's like some people's pressure you don't really
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know what it feels like until you're in front of them I think Strickland has that effect on everyone that he fights
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where it takes a lot even even uh Alex perea he was backing up he was giving
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him space he didn't do that with fizzy you know he was in Izzy's he was pushing Izzy back but with with Strickland he
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pushed him back he was in his face like it is a lot to deal with and if you don't have that uh patience and that
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Precision with your striking especially striking moving backwards then you're gonna have a hard night against
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Strickland it can be really frustrating and and dismantling and it can kind of it can start like switching your mindset
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to be like what the [ __ ] is happening yeah why is this guy pushing me back why is this guy doing this to me and there
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are people like that I always say like Julio penny is one of those people yes that she is just so tenacious and so
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precious she's not great in any one area but she has pressure and she's strong
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and she does not stop yes she has those uh those press takedowns I don't know
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you use the word pressed right yeah okay yeah she has the Press takedowns where she's just like I'm gonna take you down
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I don't care if I'm like bending over in a weird way and my head's not in the
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right spot I'm on your legs I'm not letting go until your butt's on the ground and it [ __ ] works for her like
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she goes 110 for everything she does and that's why she was easy for foreign
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against after they had already fought but the first time Nunes was flustered
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like what like what is happening you're not doing this to me yeah like why are
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you just eating my punches and and coming forward and hitting me with more punches
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um and that's what Strickland does and it's uh his kind of weird way of blocking too I think
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um I like to call it throwing up gang signs what he's like
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I've noticed that too yeah is he gets his whole shoulder in the way or in his
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whole arm in the way and he kind of cages his his head from the shot so if
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you're head hunting against Strickland you don't hit that much because he always has like this big pull of an arm
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in your way and it's not a traditional way of teaching people how to block you
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do like the turtle box or you learn how to move your head or you parry there's all sorts of things that have
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I guess they're more predictable but when you have someone who does this all
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the time you're like punching his elbows you're you're punching his shoulder you're never getting through you're
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wasting energy on trying to get through it's it can be really frustrating so not only do you have this wall closing in on
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you but all the counters that usually work against your training partners aren't working because this guy is
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blocking all crazy and deflecting everything that you throw so it's it's a lot to kind of
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navigate when you're in there because uh I think
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Strickland style looks a lot easier to break down than it actually is I agree with that I can see that
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definitely it's like when you watch uh Diaz brothers and they're out boxing
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someone and it looks like they're punching in slow motion but every time they land a jab the guy reacts like
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crazy and you're like what what's happening like that punch doesn't look like it hurt that much but the guy's
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nose is exploded and Strickland has that kind of same energy where when he throws
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a punch it looks like it's coming in slow motion and then there's a push at the end and you can see the person
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absorb all that and not want it anymore and start running from him so uh yeah
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good good for him you know good for him got his win he was able to get that win back from that very
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razor-close King in their decision um and he gets to compete twice
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last Friday New Year and first Friday the new year yeah pretty cool all right last Friday old year
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you know what I mean I gotcha yeah it's looking for it good for old stricky boy oh crazy stricken boy with his weird
41:40
just weirdness post fight yeah what was that about why
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did you send me that I don't know I just thought it was strange new what does it say new boot
41:52
skin yeah I hate that so much that's your people I know
41:58
I know yeah country people when's uh when's the next Stagecoach
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I actually when I was in London I sparred a girl that I trained with in
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Thailand and Muay Thai um and her name is Grace Spicer she's like ranked number one in the UK right
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now in Muay Thai so it's a really cool check and she is like born and raised in
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the UK but she loves country music interesting it makes no sense yeah it
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really doesn't mean it's stupid quite your tongue but
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she said she'd come through to train uh and I was like okay well you know if you
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come through during Stagecoach then me and Jess will go to stagecoach with you
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yeah and we'll get our little new boots and do our new boots getting and all
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that get some cowboy hats cowgirl hats and yeah go line dancing or something so
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if that happens come through I'm down to come through okay cool
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yeah anything else oh we're getting close to our bed but we got a few more
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minutes no we have some stuff yeah we still have some stuff don't get all all fired up and ready to go yeah what else
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go for it I feel like I've been talking no you've been talking a lot okay you
43:25
know you're like you're on a roll so I don't want to interrupt you I've been uh I've been in chill mode all day so I
43:32
finally have someone to talk to I I get it I get it all right Adam will talk to me we've just been staring at our phones
43:39
watching TV I had openmat today so there was that I interacted oh you had social
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time I did good job I did it's always awkward I hate being social it's weird
43:52
so I asked I I put up like a question thing for the first time on my Instagram
43:58
I didn't know what I was doing but I think I did it right good job and I think some people have some questions but I just don't know how to find it oh
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God for me goodness all right so what you
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want to do is go to your story that you posted where is it
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where's the story go to the story for me please
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okay oh there it is so you have oh no that's votes
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eh okay okay so you swipe up
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then yeah these little buttons yeah that's the question so I said that I would answer some stuff oh promising
44:44
people things that they might regret so uh Big Papa's MMA said can you ask
44:52
Angie to start unblocking some people um so anytime I like post a picture of
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you and I on my page yeah like for the two straws we always get comments about
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like hey can you ask Angela to unblock me and I said listen I'll talk to the
45:11
warden but you do the crime you do the time yeah so I don't know what you said they're like I didn't say anything I'm
45:16
like I feel like you did because she doesn't just go around blocking people they know they know exactly what I did
45:22
or what they did so I go scorched Earth sometimes
45:28
hey don't come on my page being passive aggressive and liking comments that
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somebody else said that you know are shitty oh so I don't ever look at that
45:42
sometimes when I do that because every every now and then people will go crazy
45:48
on the page and try to bring me down you know especially after I lost or something like that so I'll wait I'll
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wait it out shitty comment top of my feed maybe 50
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likes I'll go through every one of those guys and I'll like every [ __ ] person
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that like that shitty comment and then I'll block the person who said it but the passive aggressive
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haters they think that I'm not gonna do that I mean who does that but it really
46:19
cleans up your feed so a lot it's a lot it's very rare now that I'll get like a
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nasty comment on my Instagram or whatever because I do that because I block everyone who's been shitty and
46:33
who's had the nerve to like a comment saying that I should retire or that I
46:38
should go to Invicta or that like you know just rude stuff um there's that's so unnecessary and I
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block people who talk about my friends I mean like if I post a picture of my friend and you want to talk [ __ ] about
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my friend I block you I block everyone who like that comment you know like I go scorched Earth and I think it just like
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I I really wasn't doing social media um hardcore before I was an MMA fighter
47:05
like I only started it for my job and it just makes me angry angry that I can't
47:12
be as open and as free as I could before I was a minor celebrity so it it like
47:20
pisses me off when people want to come into my little safe space and like [ __ ] all over it you know like don't don't
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piss on don't piss all over my like nice little comfy area like get the [ __ ] out
47:31
so that's what I did to your house and make your house a mess yeah so tell Big Papa he was probably liking some
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comments passive aggressively or talking some [ __ ] or doing something and he
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knows why he got blocked so sorry buddy well there you go
47:49
follow us on two straws I think he does too
47:55
so somebody said when you fight again we already discussed that March 4th
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um um let's see oh what's next from Ghana we already talked about that oh see
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we're hitting all the fan questions you're so good yes I'm not at our jobs I'm not saying that out loud oh say it
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I would kiss you from your beautiful head to your sexy toes hahaha
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nice yes same
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um we already talked about that Jones and uh Gone
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um any ideas for your 40th birthday sorry if I counted which ones which
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one's in your turn on this what what
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I don't know what he meant by that but ideas for my 40th birthday oh that sounds like a good cliffhanger
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that we can leave for our premium content I know unless you want to no no
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no you're right you're right we can switch it over and we can finish answering the rest of these questions because there's many many more oh so
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