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1:20 Fighting in the middle of the night
4:38 Edwards vs Belal
11:49 DC doesn't 'remember the name'
16:27 Brunch FC
17:00 Aspinall vs Blaydes
20:34 Point deductions? What point deductions?
24:00 Kape vs Mokaev
29:51 No more 100k bonuses
31:44 Paddy vs Green
38:50 Molly vs Brasil
43:23 Girl nut shots
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[Music] hello Hello friends
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hello oh what a lovely beverage I have here I know it's made with love is that
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what that is yes and a little bit of gloating for
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winning you know tell me how good it is no go ahead do it I can't get over the
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smell do you smell how skunky it smell it legit smells like the skunk in the backyard
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it smells like a
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skunk I think that's all I could drink of you were singing its Praises just a
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few moments ago if I had a straw I could down that thing but there's too much
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skunk at the top of it it's all skunk froth I did layer it you know so it got
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like caught in the froth nice then it like you know yeah like just connected
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that's what they should have uh given all the fighters right before they walked out at UFC London to W the [ __ ]
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up yeah that all those poor things oh my God that would put some hair on your
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chest and make you like oh okay let's go oh man what did you think about the main
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event first of all I can't believe they were fighting at 5:30 a.m. holy [ __ ]
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okay so the thing that really stood out to me was the post fight presser where Dana White was basically saying that
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he's never doing big bonuses again I thought so the headlin said we're never doing this again it was like it was a
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disaster or whatever it was I thought he was talking about making his Fighters fight right past their bedtime but no
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you're talking about the bonuses no oh you're not going to make them do the thing that makes them happy anymore
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you're going to make them do the thing that makes them sad again wow I can't believe that yeah I and he
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was so dismissive of that as an excuse you know he was just like no no that
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can't be true um but uh yeah it it has to definitely affect your performance if
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you're not able to actually train and acclimate at that time especially I
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think the advantage was for everyone coming over from the US a little bit right because of that that uh time
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difference it's basically you just stay on that schedule yeah you never try to wake up in the morning or go to sleep at
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night you just wake up at 3: a.m. hang out all night go to bed at 3 p.m. and
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just keep that going perfect yeah for somebody for somebody to say that the
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the Sleep Cycle doesn't play an effect on the performance of athletes I just I think that's wrong I know and when lean
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Edwards got out there the first thing we said was oh he looks so sleepy and he looked sleepy the whole fight he had I
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mean he had moments of you know of success but it was just too little too
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late I think it was sleepwalking
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and oh it's got skunk drink everywhere do you have a name for this for this
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Abomination Victory L Victory L that's
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it so on the nose um yeah that it it was really
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obvious that a lot of the fighters were sleep walking through their fights
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and the ones that were lucky that were able to really Zone in and channel that
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moment and maybe prepare a little better maybe they were able to actually get training in at that time of night that
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they were going to fight those guys were able to perform above and beyond it seems like it would be really
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challenging for people that aren't you know at the upper Al Shalon who can pay
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for you know the gym to be open who can pay for trainers to come right and just kind of do like camps and very
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specialized camps for them I think it would be really challenging but the people that were a little bit lower like
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the early prelims and the pr preliminary card seemed to have done a little bit better because it wasn't such a a
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drastic time difference for them yeah it was like they were fighting on the main card exactly yeah it was I think
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midnight was the latest that a preum guy walked out and and that's not unheard of yeah yeah but you know getting into the
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wee hours of the morning I can't I can't imagine how my body would have would
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have felt I think that anybody you know could have been dragging yeah it just
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really challenging and Edwards was dragging like a mother that fight he
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started off the first half of the first round I'm like okay looks like we're
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going to see another classic Leon Edwards performance Bow's doing better but looks like lean has his number and
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then he got hit with this like little chipping elbow um oh and before that he
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got hit with this takedown and it just looked like it took the wind out of his cells like that takedown even though he
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did well he got his butterfly hooks he was able to get back up and wrestle up to his feet after that everything was
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coming out a lot slower it did seem very delayed and I mean I don't want to take
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anything away from balal because he fought a very great game plan against a very dangerous Striker um but it just
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seemed that Leon was was always just a step behind and it would take him just
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so long to get his bearings and then you know counter the I mean he countered every position that he was in but it
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just took took the whole round it took the whole round yeah yeah if he could have done it you know at the halfway
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mark I mean it could have completely changed it yeah for sure and that's kind of what happened in that third round he
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reversed a position in the beginning of the round and that again seemed to take
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all of his energy away and he wasn't able to redo that moment for the rest of the
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fight yeah it was a hard fight to watch yeah it was it was frustrating because I expected both of them to show
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up at their best and give a really great fight and I think balal did
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that exceedingly well and I don't think that Lon showed up that night the way he
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needed to yeah and I know he can do better yeah and I think people aren't
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giving bow the credit that he deserves because everything that you see in blow's preparation for this he doesn't
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cut Corners he was running to the gym to get his workouts in he was training at
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the right times when he got over to the UA UK he was able to get the keys to a
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gym to in order to train at night or in the very early morning so that his body was acclimated and he seemed to do all
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the annoying things that most people wouldn't want to do he did it a lot
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I mean he's very annoying so I feel like it was right up his allei
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to do all the annoying things that you have to do in order to become champ and
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I commend that because a lot of people aren't willing to wake up at 5:00 a.m. and aren't willing to get a group
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together at 5:00 a.m. to put them through rigorous training and and ass out of people not a lot of people are uh
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have the means for that either so Bal really pulled all his resources together was able to um just perform really well
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in this like kind of harsh environment mhm he he did what he needed to he rose
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to the occasion um hats off to him it's it's probably the the best I've seen him
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look M did did he look as good as Canelo no I'm sorry
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no um I I appreciate and respect his his aspirations and him wanting to be you
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know in that same conversation you know himself not compared to like GSP or Canelo he wants to be you know up there
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in that conversation but I will say that he has a GSP thing going on though he
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does he definitely can claim that but not the Striking well it's there it's
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it's pressy it's aggressive he's getting past the range where he needs to be in
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order to actually get hit and hurt he pushes past it and is able to get in and get his takedowns and then he threatens
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with it uh a really good read that I remember number two was when Edwards kept doing that elbow frame thing that
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was new for me he did the elbow frame and blah went ohop uppercut right up the
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middle and if that was a new thing that he's done the fact that bow was able to
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see that read that and take that opportunity that means a lot like even
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if his striking isn't pretty or isn't traditionally what we think is like a
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slick Striker It's very effective it's effective It's very effective and I think people can uh get
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too I don't know just caught up in the idea of what striking is supposed to look like because we see martial arts
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movies we see Kung Fu we see uh you know great boxers and great like muay thai
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fighters and people who are really slick and can throw the Barbosa kicks and all that we're like oh that's great striking
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but if you can't land that [ __ ] then it's not great striking B was able to
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land so much on Edwards for M ma striking does not have to be pretty we
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we talked about this a lot the last podcast you know you you can make it ugly you can um do things not
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necessarily as technically sound and precise and clean and you can still be a
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successful MMA Striker where that's different in in different sports and why
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you think that is um because of there are so many different styles in play so
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many different things you have to prepare for I I think that it's not just striking for striking it's striking for
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takedowns it's striking for grappling it's it's figing and baiting people in a different way that traditional
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kickboxing or boxing is there's just so many more tools and so many more things that people have to be aware of in MMA
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so I think that it opens up a lot more possibilities in the Striking realm yeah
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and I think uh glove size has a lot to do with it too because if you're going blow for blow in a Muay Tha match and
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something lands clean and you're trying to I guess just meet power with power if
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you're not Landing cleaner then you're not really going to get that same effect with the bigger gloves in MMA you can
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hit me with the knuckle of your thumb and you can cut me and cut me give me a
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huge hematoma on my eye like there there's so much you can do with just a little bare bone just that little uh
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padding that you have on the MMA glove so that too gives the person who is just
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willing to throw an advantage because if you're waiting for that perfect shot and
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you're waiting for that perfect setup and it never happens then you're going to just get punched in the face by this
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person who's throwing Hammer fist at you and clobbering you scoring lumping you
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up and it's not pretty but it makes a difference because there's literally no padding on those gloves yeah so I think
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Bal did a great job I hate to say it but he did all my picss are
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wrong last night I had high hopes for Edwards getting the job done and yeah
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Bal just proved everyone wrong with that it was it was his night it was well well
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earned and deserved yeah so uh how do you feel about um DC forgetting bal's
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name it just seems so fitting for the whole just the whole thing I mean poor
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guy just one last dig and it was it seemed it was unintentional too did it because he did make a joke about bow did
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make a joke about DC's weight I don't know what I couldn't uh I don't remember what he said but he said something like
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oh you know what I'm talking about I think I I don't know what he was like scaring at but he patted him on the
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belly and it seemed like a fat joke I mean it probably was I was trying to find transcripts of it because I
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couldn't hear exactly what he said but it seemed like a fat joke and so DC just walked away you know how he does that he
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does that shady walkway mic drop yeah this is mine I'm taking it with me I get the last word yeah you say something
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he'll be like thank you everybody walks away all shady he's the guardian of the
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microphone that's what he did it's it's such a I don't know why it seems so rude
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or I don't know but he just snatches it away like a like a kid with his ball
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like no I'm I'm taking this and I'm going home but he did that and he said
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ladies and gentlemen the champion of the world Leon Edwards h i mean
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below well maybe it was intentional maybe it wasn't but it seemed it seemed
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pretty on point it was it was uh unintentionally
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intentional oh yeah so that was that was pretty tough fight to watch um do you
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think that Leon gets the immediate rematch after that performance I would
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hope that that's in his Clause somewhere in his championship Clause I would hope I don't know if it is I don't know based
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if if it's not I don't know based on that performance it would be probable but
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hopefully that that is like put into his contract so he does get an immediate rematch a lot like you know um some of
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the other Champions have yeah I I mean I was watching it and and the one moment
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that I thought might have sealed him to deal was when he reversed it and was able to split Below open with 30 seconds
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left and the whole time you're just thinking he has the skills to beat this
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man yes and he just doesn't have the energy yes like where did the energy go so it was really frustrating watching
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that moment too but in my mind there was that glimour of Hope like oh okay maybe
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he gets that immediate rematch just because he proved that he could do something
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just wasn't able to do it for a long amount of time the the thing that I
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heard in the press conference with Dana White saying you know who cares about the time it doesn't matter kind of thing
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um I feel like that wouldn't be a valid uh what's it called argument for the
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boss man it wouldn't be well yeah for for Dana but I think um when you're
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looking at what's fair I think people go to like oh this person fighting at
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altitude that's going to be harder for them this person fighting at 5:00 a.m.
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this person going up a weight class this person fighting at short notice like there's always an asteris that comes
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with the immediate rematch especially if it's like a quick knockout or something and it wasn't dismantling bow did a very
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good job of just T picking Lan apart but it wasn't like there was something that
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he did in the fight that made him look badh he looked bad from the get-go yeah
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it just looked like he couldn't get out of first gear yeah it seemed like there was something just wrong with him yeah
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and again not trying to take it away from balal because he did a great job yeah and it might have happened the same
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exact way if Leon was throwing crisper and if he was scrambling better um the
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same exact thing might have happened we might have still had like a wrestling dominant aggressive bow winning the
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fight but the fact that he looked like uh like a stick in the mud you know he
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just looked like he couldn't move he had no snap in his punches it was a really weird thing to see and you had to think
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that there was something on the outside that was just affecting him mhm yeah I mean for me it's it's a valid argument
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for an immediate rematch hopefully it's in his claw I would like to see it again at a normal
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time for them I don't mind watching a brunch UFC yeah me neither but I'm not
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the one fighting yeah i' I'd be happy to watch a brunch UFC if they were fighting at
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normal times in the UK I think I think we actually enjoy watching fight in the
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morning I love it I'll pull up with a mosa yeah you might get more more viewers that way Super Bowl Sunday kind
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of thing um so yeah that that happened and then before that we had someone who
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showed up right away to get his big win um Tom Aspen got a huge knockout over
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Curtis blades which I don't think that the outcome
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would have changed but it was a bit early for my taste it was a little bit early for my taste as well I was I was
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reading for Curtis blades but my pick was Tom aspel um I'm I think that Tom
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aspel has just he's just on another level you know it's his time it's his time to you know
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climb that ladder I think that you know I I do want to see him fight Jones although I haven't seen him the amount
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of fight footage to watch of him is is very limited MH uh but that also creates
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a lot of intrigue and excitement and possibilities when going up against you know somebody like Jon Jones yeah uh the
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um the possibility of Jones winning against
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Aspen I think gets lower and lower the longer he waits m the longer he waits
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the older he's going to get the more ring rest he's going to have um waiting to fight Stipe isn't really going to
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give him the same experience of fighting someone at Tom Aspen's level um it it
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just seems like he should fight him now before aspon is able to get better because uh talking or listening to all
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of his come up uh just all the things that he was talking about about um the first fight with blades hurting his knee
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having that year off to get better he he looked phenomenal that night he just
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went to work got blades down knocked them out with a little shov a little uh
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shovel shovel uppercut jab kind of thing and you just thought man this guy's only
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going to get better he he made it look so seamless against a really really tough opponent yeah he made it look easy
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he's made those fights um just look easier than they should have been on
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paper mhm and that's so impressive and he's so young and he's so humble I love his call out to Jon Jones ex excuse me
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Mr Jones sir hey
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John like wow I just I like if I wasn't a fan before I'm a fan now has there
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been a response no not that I've seen usually he's quick he's quick maybe he was
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sleeping maybe he was sleeping I don't know it wasn't that late um maybe he's you know he's dealing with
19:30
some other stuff right now so maybe he preoccupied y uh but no I haven't seen a
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response yet and I would love to see what he says yeah man usually he's as fast as Connor when it comes to
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something in a weight class that he was either involved with or currently involved with he's like oh the the light
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heavyweight division misses me or I knock out all these guys or oh you can't
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get past me I don't know he always is ready to say something snide but I find it interesting he's been quiet on this
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one maybe he's focusing on his next fight maybe when is the stbay fight supposed to happen you remember shoot no
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I could I could Google that right quick yeah but either way that that's a that was a pretty crazy um
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knockout it literally just started and espanol was able to hit
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blades with like a nasty shovel upper two followed him to the ground and I
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felt like the raffing was a little off last night there were a lot of moments
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that I didn't agree with with the refs uh which one specifically there were a few for me too yeah so with this one
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there was the early stoppage with which I'm not super mad at but it's hard to tell whether blades was building up
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because the ref was stepping in and Aspen was you know taking his weight off of blades or or if blades was building
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up because he was finally getting his wits about him and able to fight back uh
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so that I was a little annoyed about but then there were a lot of um fights I can't think of specifically but there
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were a lot of fights where they were threatening to stand them up right away
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um there was that one fight where they were clinched up against the fence and as soon as homeboy turned him he broke
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it and I was just like wait why did you break it there he just turned turned the guy off of the fence and now he gets to
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throw knees and he gets to attack but they broke him right as they turned him um it just seemed like a lot of weird
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breaks and momentum no points were given either for a lot of fouls there were cage grabs short grabs the short grabs
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um Manel cop's whole ass was out and it wasn't on accident like I can see if
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your finger just gets caught and like I had my little moment with uh with Denise
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Gomes where her I think her to got caught in my shorts and pulled it up my butt crack nobody was mad about that no
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one was mad about I wasn't mad about it it was a good angle for me but um but
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yeah it was an obvious accident and she gave me time to fix it but he egregiously grabbed the shorts and
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ripped it off of him like he was trying to take this boy's virgin hole oh my
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God that's the uh what's his name
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oh what's that comedian's name who was uh talking all the [ __ ] about everyone he was like talking about everyone
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giving up their virgin ho oh God I don't remember that one in Hollywood and he was the only one who didn't um but yeah
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that's what happened and there were no points given for any of that um there was also the the Bannon and um Alon or
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how are we sing how how was the proper way to say her last name Tik to girl oh yeah yeah uh ellene
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um I think they were seeing it differently it was um someone like anyways we'll call her a
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Tik toac R yeah but but there were five fence grabs within the first Cat
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Williams That's who was doing the Virgin ho I like
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outings oh yeah uh yeah uh sh Bannon was doing the grabs right yes five within 2
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minutes yeah of the first round they didn't say anything no I think she grabbed glove too and she grabbed she
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tried to grab like one of the logo um Banner things in the cage she grabbed the cage her toes grabbed the cage the
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gloves like there was just there was a lot there was a lot of grabbing and no stand up no separation no warning like
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of points or anything like that yeah and it was the first fight in the night so
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you give him you always give him some credit first fight of the night people aren't going to be on their p's and q's
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but it continued to happen over the course of the night the one thing I did like about the Manel cop fight uh versus
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MF though was how Beltran cornered him like a little child
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and I was scared for him dude I was like you're in trouble oh my goodness yeah I
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was like o if I ever made belron that mad at me
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oh my goodness dude he he he disciplined him like a little child and I feel like
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he hasn't gotten that discipline I think there was finger shaking there was there was he was like no look at me look at me
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I'm like you better look at him and he did he's going to slap you in public he
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did he did look at him he was like oh [ __ ] you're being serious okay uh sorry sir that was the one thing I did like
24:49
but I still wish that he had taken a point maybe from his angle he didn't see it as being um as in in as on purpose as
24:59
it looked I don't know but I really feel like that's something that deserves a point getting taken away and for a
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second I thought it was a cop that grabbed the shorts and I'm like looking and I'm like how is he grabbing the
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shorts because uh thingy continued he was he was still wrestling at that point
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makv was so I'm like what are you doing bro yeah it seemed like a good moment to
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really make him pay for it but you know it is what it is yes well he is a free
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agent now and as as Dana said in the press conference uh he was kind of on a rooll last night uh he said that he
25:37
wishes him the best in the pfl they're getting a great undefeated
25:43
Prospect dang yeah I mean I I like him in one FC too doesn't have to be pfl I'm wondering
25:52
um if it had something to do with negotiations then um he said
25:58
he basically said that um it wasn't just the fact that he's a wrestler and the matchmakers don't like wrestlers because
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there are a lot of people with that style that they keep he said it was just basically like everything so many things
26:11
the Antics in the pi you know fight week just all of these um all of these things
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and it seemed like he was also kind of alluding to the fact that he might have been really difficult to work with on
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top of everything else yeah I think uh just the amount of security they had to
26:29
pay to be on their detail all fight week was a reason that they would get mad at
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him affecting the bottom line you know um that on top of the fact that all that
26:41
buildup happened and it was a boring fight it was a freaking snoozer it's like you know you have a whole box of
26:47
fireworks and you're so excited to light them off and then yeah it
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just one one firecracker went off one Roman candle and that's it
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and it was it it's like Fight Night blue balls yeah luckily Patty and uh Bobby
27:06
green King Green delivered but I wasn't happy with the way it did it was too fast for me I needed more yeah but but
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uh going back to the micaa fight um it was their whole thing all week just they
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look like bad kids they're so tiny they burned themselves out
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they look like they had too much sugar like it happened every face off every
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face off the weigh-ins before they fought uh backstage apparently MV was
27:42
throwing things at cop uh then when they fought a cop ran up to them like zipped
27:49
past all the security like a little chill you're going to fight in 5 seconds you're literally going to fight in 5
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seconds I'm like how did you maneuver past all the security to that guy's side of the corner and you
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couldn't get past his range fly weights are just so fast you blink and they're gone yeah I was like where'd he go oh he's over there somebody get him strap
28:08
him down put a leash on him no more sugar oh my gosh yeah I think I feel
28:14
like it was a headache like watching someone's bad kid like they they were so fast and energetic and then to have that
28:21
flop of a fight it it really didn't work out well for for those guys they wasted
28:26
so much energy on all of those pre-fight Antics yeah when they should have saved it for the fight but I'll give it to M
28:33
he was trying to strike more he was he took that feedback and he's not you know he's not as as great of a striker as cop
28:41
is uh but I think cop really got into his head like his emotions and his
28:46
wanting to not win got in his way of of not winning yeah wanting to win sorry
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yeah yeah yeah and the fear sry not wanting to lose yeah yeah I got you yes
28:58
yes uh no I feel I get that all the time and um you know that fear of the takedown as well it was really making
29:06
him stop I wish he had done more of what he did in the end of the first round yes
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it's like all of a sudden he's like okay if I get taken down there's 30 seconds left I can move around I can see what's
29:19
working and what isn't and he was flashing the knees he was throwing combinations stepping in with stuff and
29:25
all that was working he never went back to it M and it frustrates me because I'm like you could have really hurt this guy
29:32
that the UFC doesn't like that automatically puts you on their like good guy you got a new contract yeah hey
29:40
let's throw on an extra extra 30 40 50 Grand on top of that you deserved it you
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know yeah but um but yeah it just sucks the way that fight played out I feel like that was the main argument of Dana
29:53
going never again am I getting giving out 100 what whatever boosted bonuses
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because that was a flat night mhm and there was no urgency from most of the
30:06
fights and I feel like he was mainly talking about that one yeah and maybe Leon Edward's
30:12
fight I mean blow was really
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trying he was he was really trying and 100 Grand isn't going to change the way
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a champion fights it's that I only get out of bed for 304,000
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yeah no they they they're getting what is it five to uh they get something like
30:35
five to challenge right I think so is five or three but
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they they get a big amount to challenge yes and then if they win I think it goes up to like whatever the champion rate is
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um sometimes you have it worked out in your contract already sometimes not but then you negotiate after you defend a
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few times and you're making a lot of [ __ ] money like you can make a million dollarss after two fights or
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just one fight and a bunch of endorsements so 100 Grand isn't going to
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be as big as the Ultimate Prize of getting the belt but every other fight
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they're probably W in that extra 100 Grand stra they're probably wning it like they I can't think of any fighter
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on that card that couldn't use that 100 Grand sometimes though the fear of
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losing and losing that contract and using the affiliation that holds people back as
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well it's just like cop having a fear of the takedown or of losing it stopped him
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in his tracks I feel like sometimes that's a big part of why Fighters under
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deliver MH well one person who wasn't afraid of losing was Patty penlet he was
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like Hey last fight on my contract LS maybe I'll box maybe I'll keep doing MMA
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maybe I'll go on vacation for a year who knows and he went out and
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outperformed probably because of that yeah that's a big part of it um he was
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fighting King Green there was a lot of emotion in that fight a lot of uh leadup
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I feel like Patty thrives off of it more than a lot of Fighters he's good at it
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he creates chaos he creates tension and emotion um a lot like McGregor does yeah
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and and it comes very naturally and so when when someone fights somebody like
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that it can it can really put you into an emotional state we saw what it did to like Jose Aldo versus McGregor he all a
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came in like completely out of sorts out of pocket and got knocked out real quick yeah uh that's what that emotion can do
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to a fighter sometimes it can really take you out of your game yeah and uh I always make the mistake of thinking that
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the fighter from the hood is going to have a better time dealing with that emotion uh dealing with you know the
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[ __ ] talk and showing up and all that stuff but if anything the fighter from the hood has more to lose you know and
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someone like Patty who already has millions of fans millions of followers
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he he pretty much has his next contract cinched but decided not to renegotiate
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or I guess the UFC decided not to renegotiate but he has things that he can do outside of the UFC after this he
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makes money outside of the UFC no problem he's yeah he's good he's financially set so if anything he's
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doing this for the thrill of it and I think that makes you very dangerous if
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you're not putting a ton of pressure on yourself to perform but you're still putting in the same work that's required
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to perform and that's what he did um man that fight right from the
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get-go was was the first thing he noticed Bobby green not sticking to the
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game plan that he normally does it took him out of his game yeah and I feel like the size was a huge part of that oh yeah
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he was so big and I remember watching Patty fight Jared Gordon and watching
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Bobby green fight Jared Gordon and Jared Gordon and Bobby green look the same size I didn't think that jarro Gordon
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looked that much smaller than Patty but when I saw Patty versus Bobby green I'm
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like yo that's two different weight classes no he's huge that was insane he
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is absolutely huge yeah and the feeling of someone with big legs like that
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kicking at you um throwing their full power not allowing you to get into range
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where you can hit them back uh it seemed like green was getting a little frustrated really early mhm and that's
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probably what made him go in for that Tak down M it uh it just wasn't set up
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it was just kind of a naked takedown and he ended up costing dearly for it well not only that but he got kicked in the
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leg on the way in so even if the naked takedown was well timed the fact that he
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was off balance as he was shooting underneath he was in a horrible position to actually secure to Tak down Patty was
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ahead of him on that he was able to jump on him get the submission luckily didn't seem to like
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really destroy his arm but it was pretty bent it looked pretty nasty it seemed like Patty was very in control of the
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amount of torque he was putting on I I do have to to say that I think he could have twerked it a lot harder than he did
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but he knew that he was going out he knew he had it and he was waiting for the ref to jump in mhm yeah it looked
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like he was covering it he had just enough pressure on it to just in case Bobby
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goes then he go no stop it stop fighting back but uh
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yeah you got to commend him for that he didn't he wasn't trying to do anything vindictive um there was respect at the
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end uh they both shook hands they both like you know gave each other their flowers and um yeah then all this
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started was this oh Pat the
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bat I can't find my wigs I have two Patty wigs somewhere in the house but I
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can't find when I move they'll pop up somewhere we can truly
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celebrate our favorite Fighters wi oh man oh yeah I really thought that
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uh green was going to be able to out veter in him especially you know I look
36:35
at the Jarry Gordon fights again and you always forget that MMA math doesn't math
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it does not it it do MTH and I and it makes me wonder why that happens so
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often um but I think it's just a matter of what we were talking about with with
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the horrible striking working um the fact that it works in MMA and not other
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sports is similar to why MMA math doesn't work uh there's just so many
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avenues that you can go down there's so many um if you have a skill tree there's so many ways that you can get better and
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if you go heavy down this road then the person who beat your last opponent goes
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heavy down this road and this road beats that road it's just yeah it's a web more
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more than an equation when it comes to what beats what who gets better faster
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and it's really interesting to watch like which Fighters are able to still Thrive even after a close fight after um
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just kind of being figured out who's able to reinvent themselves M and that's the key to it it's um you know what kind
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of lessons that you can learn from from each win or loss and take back and
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evolve yourself cuz as Val Tina says if you're not learning you
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die I love that quote it's the best I want to write it say with the wide
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eyes if you don't learn you die no water it's true no yeah Fighters
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we get to constantly reinvent ourselves and some people are able to to do it a
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lot better than others and I think that's um where we see those those winds start you know going in that
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trajectory um so it's yeah it's a cool it's a cool thing to watch it's also very frustrating at the same time um and
38:38
it's hard to predict fights in that way it's really hard um speaking of predicting fights oh how
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did you think that Molly versus Bruno Brazil was going to go because I don't
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think anybody saw that coming I I I've got to say I did not see that coming but
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I will say that Bruna Brazil looked the best she ever has yes I'm telling you there's something about those fight
39:08
nerds that are they're doing something right the people that are you know coming out of that gym are really really
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impressive and sharp yeah and I feel like that was her first fight at that gym I I could be wrong but she looked
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completely reinvented yeah she looked amazing like her timing was on point uh
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she had a strategy she wasn't just kind of chasing her opponent down which we've
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seen happen in the past and just throwing combinations as opposed to actually waiting for the right moment to
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throw certain things and having an understanding behind it and it looked like everything was a setup everything
39:45
was leading Molly into that right knee or that right kick or oh sorry left kick
39:52
um just those big body shots and stuff and then her grappling looked really
39:57
good too she was able to uh um just wrestle back up she was able to defend
40:03
get her own takedowns it was a really impressive performance from Bruno Brazil
40:08
and the things that I thought was going to get her caught she didn't do anymore like The Reeling back from punches you
40:15
know how uh tall people do that lean back a lot of times she would come in B Bop and then lean back to get out of the
40:22
way of strikes and I'm like ooh Molly mcc's going to spin and back fist Spin and elbows some do some spin [ __ ] to her
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and she did not do that once this fight she was very tight she was very composed
40:34
even after landed that huge nasty shin bone to the crotch on Molly
40:42
oo that hurts so do you think that might have affected Molly at all because that
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happened at the very very beginning of the fight it hadn't really been pushed either way yet and before that I mean I
40:57
I mean I can't say for certainty for you know complete certainty because it's not my body I was there yes but I I feel
41:06
like it's a lot easier for a female to recover from that than a male I don't know that that was what made the
41:12
difference in the fight I honestly just have to say I think that Bruna evolved
41:18
and she had a great game plan and she executed it like nearly flawlessly she
41:23
was very prepared for Molly and she had an for everything that Molly did and
41:30
Molly was not able to to just get to those moments that she normally does
41:36
MHM and yeah I I don't I can't say that it took her out of her game I think that
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Bruna took her out of her game yeah I mean I will say that when it first
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happened that need or the kick to the Visine um when it first happened we were
41:52
like come on and then I saw it and then we saw the replay and we were like oh my bad never mind cuz I thought it was a
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toe I thought it was the top of the foot that hit her and I'm like oh that just
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knocked her over she's just trying to get her breath back but then you saw the replay and it was like knee to top Shin
42:13
fully lifted her up it looked bad yeah it looked bad no
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that hurt I I feel like that kind of attack though like that kind of injury I
42:27
don't even know what you would call it that kind of foul makes me more Angry than anything yeah like it makes me
42:33
angry that you hit me there but it doesn't hurt in a way that a body shot
42:39
hurts which is what I feel like um getting hit in the nuts does yeah like I don't know have you ever felt something
42:45
so painful that you've had to stop fighting no not stop fighting like stop
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training is defin and training yes I've experienced that but not not in fighting yeah cuz the adrenaline's going it's
43:00
like you're you're getting sliced open and stuff and you're not stopping your nose is getting broken your orbital is
43:06
getting smashed up you're not stopping so I always feel like yeah it's a foul you shouldn't attack that part of the
43:13
body but you recover pretty pretty quickly like it's just it's just painful
43:19
but on top of that too um I actually got spinning Hill kicked in the viin once
43:27
and I'm mad at myself for not taking the foul because I feel like it took it it
43:32
got counted against me interesting yeah it was a spin and Hill I was fighting Nina aner off and I threw a kick and she
43:40
threw a spin and Hill kick at the same time and there's a picture of the foot right there as I'm throwing the kick and um
43:48
and I got knocked over because she kicked me in the crotch but it I didn't get knocked over because it hurt I got
43:54
knocked over because I got knocked off balance and then and I knew that it hit me in the the groin area but I didn't
44:01
think to stop because we were fighting yeah but part of me almost wishes that I
44:07
did stop just to acknowledge that so the judges would see hey that was a foul but I mean if it didn't hurt uh I don't know
44:14
too for it's a weird one it's a weird one it really is because I really don't I've never experienced that as something
44:22
so debilitating that I couldn't continue yeah yeah but everyone's vagina is
44:29
different well well that hurt I mean after I saw that replay it hurt me yeah
44:34
I felt for her I felt for her too but she definitely has some balls because she fought to the very end she did she
44:41
did she tried to the very end she you know tried to finish it she tried to come in with um or with the take down
44:48
and then get the back uh she end up falling off right yeah and reversed it U
44:54
but she was trying to the very end to finish it like she's she's got heart mhm she definitely does and I'm interested
45:00
to see what Bruno Brazil does next too with this new camp with these uh new skills that she has just uh knowing how
45:08
to use her skills in the correct way it's really fun to watch that development because she was just someone
45:13
I wrote off yeah yeah um and another person we wrote off was Alice
45:21
adelene versus shaa Bannon but I feel like the Tik Tock girl was the better
45:28
fighter out of those two she just didn't have a camp so two weeks notice she they
45:34
said that she was getting ready to be on the contender series and that's what ended up bringing her her name up into
45:39
the mix right um so I think she was preparing for a fight I just don't think
45:45
that she was quite in fight shape no you know not fight shape ready and a full Camp could have completely like changed
45:52
the results of that fight yeah I mean when does cons Contender series start start I thought it's September okay does
45:59
normally start September yeah so she still had a a month to prepare for that
46:04
yeah she's not peeking yet yeah so it's a hard one um it really looked like
46:10
she understood what she was supposed to do she just didn't have the gas tank to
46:16
pull it off like she did well in in the uh in the grappling exchanges even
46:21
though she kept giving her arm in she was able to take it out sometimes people put their arm in and get snatched up and
46:28
they never get it back but even though she made some mistakes on the ground she was able to defend well get back up she
46:34
was able to strike more and man I did not know how insane Shauna Bandon
46:41
striking looks you never watch her in Victa no I have never seen that she's
46:46
like a yeah she does karate blitzes all day every day it looks so bad but I'm telling you that kind of stuff it
46:53
doesn't have to be pretty it doesn't it just it looks the way it presents to
47:01
judges I swear they really eat that up it scores big for judges I mean I think
47:06
she was just Landing more I think if ardelene landed the same punch the same amount of punches but in a regular way
47:14
she would have scored better um but it's very aggressive oh man it it just did
47:19
not look good um what are you going to do about it it
47:25
it it does amaze me to hear them saying okay MV yeah out of
47:32
here hate the way you fight and then see a fight like that it's hard because they
47:39
brought her into the UFC very very much still green and not kind of ready for
47:45
that level up so it it'll be hard to see how long they can get opponents that are
47:53
like not uh such a big gap in talent and an experience from her it she looks like
48:00
somebody who may have you know may start hitting a really tough road and have to leave
48:07
and then work her way back yeah
48:13
definitely but she'll be able to do it if she's tough enough she's still got time she's young
48:20
she has uh Molly and Patty and you know good role models and inspiration around
48:26
her so yeah and she can have that Bruna Brazil Resurgence too I mean she won the fight no I know but she won the fight
48:33
but um who was she supposed to fight before it was that uh Maria oliviera
48:39
which was going to be a tough fight yeah that was going to be a tough fight yeah so she kind of looked out with that um
48:45
you never know too her her grappling uh looked pretty dangerous I think Alice arelene actually has a better skill set
48:52
than people were giving her credit for just because she's a Tik tock girl she's an only fan she her real money is in all
49:00
of that but I think she takes her MMA seriously you could tell by the takedowns that she was hitting the
49:06
position she was getting to um she she was doing well it just looked like she didn't have the tank to actually win
49:13
those last couple of rounds sure yeah yeah well um we got some other stuff to
49:19
talk about but we should do that in our bonus content yes we should what what
49:27
stuff did you want to talk about in today's bonus um I wanted to talk about the the heartbreaking separation of the
49:34
Bromance yo that is um Strickland and
49:40
Blades they were going to bring the world together and now look at them end all this Division I want to help them I
49:46
want to bring them back together I think there's still hope you think so I think there's hope have you met St Strickland
49:52
yes I have yes I have then it's amazing that you're so
49:58
um I'm a romantic at heart you are I am I'm a mush you're such a mush you're
50:03
such a mush to a fault I think I think I want to uh well
50:11
somebody in the comments was asking that we oh I'm ready I have notes discuss the
50:16
Ronda te oh not that okay what were you talking about oh I was talking about
50:22
making picks for the next card oh picks for the next card yes yes yeah let
50:27
little our little gambling uh online betters want some some inside Scoops so
50:33
you asked and you shall receive yeah no James
50:39
cross never it's not that much inside we're not that deep inside we
50:45
just know fighting um we have opinions we do have opinions all right so yeah
50:51
when we come back we're going to Spill the tea on uh Randa even though there isn't really any T to spell just I guess
50:58
they just wanted to know what we were talking about last episode um talk about the Chris Curtis and Strickland breakup
51:04
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