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UFC 312 Recap and Angela Hill's Fight Week!
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Jun 18, 2025
Its a quickie because Ange is fighting this week and we ain't got time for 2 hours of gabbing! But we did get a sec to break down this week's Aussie card and do our member's only raffle! What rare fight week item's should Ange steal for next month's giveaway? Sean Shelby's hat? The Conor McGregor painting from the Conor Mcgregor suite at the Apex? A box of Prime Energy drink? Let us know in the comments and wish Ange luck! 00:00 FIGHT WEEK! 01:51 Weili Zhang vs Tatiana Suarez 07:28 Dricus Du Plessis vs Sean Strickland 17:37 Members Only Raffle winner! Powered by Duelbits. Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join
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what's up
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everyone happy fight week to miss Angela
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Hill for the hund
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time here we go again yes how you
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feeling I feel good I feel ready I feel
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prepared I feel uh yeah ready to whoop
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another another kiddo a little whipper
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snapper yeah bully another child take
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her lunch money you know what a lot of
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Us wish we could do that and I just get
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to you know live vicariously through you
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as do others hey I mean you might be
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doing it soon enough oh I am she's a
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child oh you have a match up
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is um I forgot her name Joyce uh
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Joyce Joyce yeah uh sounds
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adorable she looks adorable a I'm gonna
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feel bad yeah don't let that uh not that
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bad let your guard down still got to
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beat that kid up no no no she getting
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spank though yeah yeah no I'm excited uh
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I'm almost packed uh everything is in
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the Motions of being fully packed and
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then I'll be in Vegas tomorrow yes
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that's how it goes when packing for a
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fight because you need stuff yeah for
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like training the day before MH and you
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always have like the laundry going and I
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feel like I always get packed like very
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late the night before no it's annoying I
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I like have had this outfit that I
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trained trained in all day I just had to
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run so I wasn't touching anyone so I'm
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not gross but I am ready to take it
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off I'm ready for a shower so uh yeah
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we're going to do a quicky one just
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because you know fight week got to get
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going but uh we had some crazy fights
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this weekend we'll start with the straw
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weight since in our uh in our weight
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class uh the whe versus Tatiana Suarez
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fight I kind of I I feel like
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a lot of people were doub in wh but I
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saw her getting us done and of course I
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was like oh I think she's going to be
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able to do it and then the first round I
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was like oh I was wrong but wayy was
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able to turn it around she got that
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reversal at the end of the first round
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she was able to keep Tatiana Suarez at
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Bay she really wasted a lot of energy
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Suarez did trying to take whey down and
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it was a really impressive showing by
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wayy because we've seen Suarez Domin so
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many other people uh especially you know
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the ex Champion say she's dominated and
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dra uh who was at Grasso and um Carla so
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it was really cool to see wh's grappling
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game on dis spray on
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display well you did say that Wy would
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win but you thought that she should stay
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away from the grappling and she did not
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she leaned into it she had great
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counters great reversals um she made
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Tatiana work for everything and um it
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was just really really impressive how
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how prepared she was for everything and
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just how such a a dominant wrestler in
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Suarez um had had a lot of trouble yeah
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yeah she uh she went for her patented
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Guillotine um she had hanger BJJ I
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forget his government name but he was in
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our Corner he's a really good um
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Grappler from he's done adcs he's known
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for his Guillotine so the fact that
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Tatiana was definitely going to go for
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that while she was fighting uh wh it was
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cool to see that she's been able to take
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that train and use it she got caught in
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a deep one it seemed like for a second
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and she did all the right things to just
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kind of roll her head out and it's not
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that Guillotines are impossible to get
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out of but we' seen Tatiana get everyone
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with that same neck attack like if she
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doesn't get the guillotine she's able to
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go to something else so it was really
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impressive to see wayy not only use her
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grappling but fight over the fight out
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of those sticking positions and end up
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on top and just stay safe like Tatiana
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had to really dig deep in this fight she
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had that nasty cut on her knee she was
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trying to go for like those uh reversals
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herself like almost like a a deep half
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roll over and it just wasn't working
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because Way's balance was so so good on
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top and she was able to just stay in
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really good positions where she could
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hit and
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score yeah it was it was a fun fight to
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watch uh definitely a a big learning
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experience for Tatiana and an impressive
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win uh an impressive win for Wy and she
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really solidified just her um her
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dominance in the division she did I'm
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wondering what's next for her because uh
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you know there's there isn't a clear
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person who deserves the title shot right
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now we've had a lot of ups and downs we
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have Z and Yen just getting a win after
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her lost to whe um a lot of the people
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in the top five just haven't really made
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a case in their last like two or three
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fights to be like hey I want to fight
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for the title next so we're going to
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have to see how a few fights pan out um
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I feel like McKenzie D might be a dark
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horse in that race to the top for who
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gets the title shot next but we could
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also see wayy fight Chev Chen go for
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that double champ status I think that's
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really exciting and I remember when Wy
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first won the title she was calling for
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that fight she was like oh my God I
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would be such an honor she was very
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respectful for it she just wanted to
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challenge herself and I remember
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Valentina telling her to wait her turn
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and calm down equally is
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respectful was she very nice she was
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polite was she there was a tone there
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was a tone the most humble there was a
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little bit of a tone
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which I mean I I kind of understood uh
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you know she had just won the belt and
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you know whatever she was really excited
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but I think that she's made a great case
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for her and if there really aren't
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people in line at strawweight that have
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made a compelling case for themselves
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for the title shot I really like that I
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think it's exciting yeah I like it too
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um also VNA is another one who's kind of
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a Dark Horse who who just needs a fight
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she just needs a fight she hasn't been a
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she was lined up to fight Tatiana Suarez
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I mean looking at the fight now it might
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have been not so good of an idea right
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and the UFC's knew that which is why
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they pulled that fight from happening
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and ended up putting her in because it
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was more convenient you don't want to
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waste an undefeated prospect on someone
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who you may not really be as excited
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about for the title not as many dollars
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are going to be paid to see a Vera fight
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uh but she has done the Merit she's done
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the work to get that title shot I feel
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like she definitely is one of the people
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who deserve it maybe she fights uh D
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again for the shot um well or I mean if
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they bypassed and just gave Tatiana the
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title shot I mean why not do the same
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for V that could definitely happen too
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and maybe they're not going to be as
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worried about giving Vera that shot
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since there's no one else at the top to
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really challenge her so yeah I'm looking
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forward to seeing how the strawweight
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division plays out and then what did you
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you think about the
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main
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well was it a beautiful display of is
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why I do not bet against DDP Oh I
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thought it was Strickland well no I was
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I I kind of wanted Strickland to win but
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I was I I said that in the past I have
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gone against DDP so I'm not not doing it
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anymore yeah I just uh he finds a way to
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win it's not it's not pretty it's not
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technical but it is very very effective
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yeah uh he was able to double down on
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his unpress and really just jump over
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Strickland's guard and land punches over
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and over again yeah it just it seemed
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like Strickland did not make the proper
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adjustments from the first fight to this
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one it seemed like he went with the same
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game plan and maybe he thought that he
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really you know decisively won and he
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didn't need to make any changes coming
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into it which I I think did would not do
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him that service and I I hope that
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wasn't his mindset but it just looked
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like Strickland was doing the the same
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things and not making the adjustments
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until like the third round when he
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started throwing volume and he started
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kind of changing levels but he just
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didn't keep with it enough to be
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effective and efficient and by that time
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uh duplic has already got so much
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momentum going on him and started doing
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so much damage that it just seemed like
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Strickland was not going to be able to
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dig himself out of the hole he got
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himself into yeah it almost seemed like
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uh he had a chance to pull it out until
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that big nose break and know I'm not
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even sure if it was a nose break but it
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looked like it it looked like it broke
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that was broke in the fourth round and
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that's when you really saw just oh a lot
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of flinching a lot of like really
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reacting to everything that DDP did
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every like level change that he did
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every push forward every get big kind of
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spammy combination um there was a lot
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for Strickland to just kind of break
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down while he was standing in front of
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him and the te wasn't enough the the
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Philly shell wasn't enough he wasn't
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able to keep him from getting past his
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guard or at least hitting his arms and
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still scoring and that's the thing in
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MMA when neither fighter is really
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making a big moment in a round if you're
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just able to touch the outside of them
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even if they're blocking that scores
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because it's damage it's like imagine
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you're like in one of those Star Wars
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ships or whatever and you have a force
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filled around your actual ship and even
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though everything is getting blocked the
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force field is going from 100% to 90% to
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5% and then eventually something gets
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through so those first rounds were
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getting scored for DDP because he was
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taking down uh Strickland's defenses
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hitting them on the arms you know really
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making a move back and dictating the
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pace now once he got to the rounds where
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he had started to do damage
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it was really hard for Strickland to
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pull it out and you saw that frustration
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in the corner when um uh his coach uh
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Eric nixi is like telling him hey we got
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to do this we got to do that we're
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falling into the same patterns that
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happened last time and he just kind of
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got frustrated and walked away and I
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it's so it's it almost makes
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him like makes you feel for him even
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though you know it's strickling it
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almost makes you feel the the the little
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Human Side come out where you're like
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[ __ ] I've been there I know what that
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feels like where it's like I know what I
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have to
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do but this is what I got you
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know what are you this is what I got is
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yeah you're telling me the right things
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I'm already I'm telling myself what to
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do too and we're we're seeing eye to eye
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but it's not [ __ ] happening it's it's
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hard to to dig yourself out of a hole
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like that um in in the moment sometimes
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we've seen it we've seen it with
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countless other Fighters um I I know
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that we've experienced that you know
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whether it's in a fight or in training
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or what have you but it is really hard
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and and I I do feel feel for him as well
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because he does have he does have the
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tools you know and I think that
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he didn't show
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exactly what he could have in this fight
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I I think he showed you know his his
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typical style but I was hoping to see um
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a few more tools in the tool belt just
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uh a little bit bit more out of him yeah
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somebody said he could
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grapple he can uh I forget who on the
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broadcast said like oh the Sean STL
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pretty good Grappler yeah yeah so they
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TR R together the point that's I feel
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like when people become so confident in
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one discipline they just like stick to
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it that's their their go-to just like
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you know um a a wrestler that gets into
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MMA and they get hit once and they just
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go to you know the takedown because
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that's what they've they've trained so
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much but it is MMA and Sean only showed
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a very small aspect of his MMA game yeah
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and um also he wasn't put in a position
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where he could grapple just by uh being
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defensive you know like DDP did not feel
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like going to the ground with him either
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even though we've seen him use that in
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the past like his uh takedowns against
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Adisa that have kind of gone viral
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because like how the fug did how did
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that work it just did the headbutt to
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the
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hip the grabbing the leg and falling on
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it basically a flying knee
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bar instead of a single leg uh he knows
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how to get the fight to the ground and
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he didn't feel like he needed to in this
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fight because he was doing so well on
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the feet pushing strickling back gauging
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his timing every now and then Strickland
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would land something clean but it was
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almost like he thought or or not even
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that he thought but it was like he would
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be satisfied with that moment and not be
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able to find anything else yeah there
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were no there were no follow-ups to his
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strikes it was just a one a one two it
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very seldom in this fight did we see him
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like unload a long combination yeah
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there were little moments where he
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started doing I I was calling he was
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like doing the DDP mimic where he would
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just throw a big looping like you know
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that you this girl is trying to fight
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you in the club punch the big windmill
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do you know what I really liked that
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Strickland was doing and I saw a couple
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of other Fighters um doing that uh prao
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did it as well they they dip as their
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opponent's coming in and then they throw
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like a big right and he was connecting
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with it mostly not not every time but he
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was connecting with it there's no
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followup like as soon as you hit it's
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like okay that's my Que Now I can land
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some more and and there just wasn't any
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follow shots and it was it was
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frustrating to watch but I did like that
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little piece that little technique that
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he was doing he was doing the first part
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of the
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drill like a lot of times you drill a
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combination you're like this is
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definitely going to work and then you
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only do the first
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move then line my line like [ __ ] I
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forgot yeah so it it was um you know
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kind of a human moment from Strickland
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but it shows that DDP has something
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special where uh his
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his pressure and his just kind of weird
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erratic timing and his power takes
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people out of their game and uh you know
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he's probably the best person to do it
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right now like he's taken out a lot of
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people who are legendary counter
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Strikers and they can't there's no
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nothing to counter like the the the
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patterns don't make sense like they're
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they're like I don't know they're
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they're playing like hip-hop and he's
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Jazz you know he's
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like and he just
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like what like I can't just hit you I
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can't get hit you and make you want run
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away so from an outside perspective it
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doesn't make sense like I it doesn't but
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it it really works very well for him I
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think he just does a great job of
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getting into that flow state where most
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people if you're running forward and you
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start to lose balance you'll try to get
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your balance back he don't he just hits
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you yeah he just keeps going he's just
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like I'll catch my balance on them it's
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fine I'm GNA make it work there's walls
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in this cage I'm not going to hit the
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ground yeah but kudos to DDP um I wonder
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if anyone's going to be able to solve
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the puzzle uh what do you think do you
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think uh Nadine imov has a chance
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against him he just got that big
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knockout over adna I think he does but
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in the post fight presser DDP was saying
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that kayv is next
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kamay yeah yeah he said he wants him uh
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and then he wants uh perea ah I like the
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pera fight uh they've been building some
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kind of rivalry that I haven't been
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paying attention to but like Sean
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Strickland has been saying oh P hates
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DDP so I guess that's a thing so let's
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build that
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story I love it he needs to avenge his
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brother Strickland yes his his little
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his son um yeah that that would be
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interesting uh kamay I think could go
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similarly to the way versus Suarez fight
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where you have someone who has had big
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wins but they get in there against
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someone who's who's just been champing
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who's seen every style and been able to
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figure out and they have that advantage
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over where it's like okay I can think on
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the fly a little better than you because
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you've just been dominating and you
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haven't fought that often
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yeah it it'll be interesting I'm I'm
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actually pretty excited to see how that
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one goes yeah um yeah cool well uh next
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week I'll be fighting um we have a
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kingan Aire versus um RoboCop as the
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main and as a special treat for you guys
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had to do a double tap I'm like this is
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