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UFC 314 Reactions w/ UFC vets Jessica Penne and Angela Hill
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Jun 16, 2025
Lots of big things went down this week, a new/old champ, Trump taking time off from golfing to watch UFC Miami cageside, the GFL conundrum, and our girl winning her first fight in the PFL tournament. All our picks hit except for 1, maybe you guys should start listening to us more often! Sit back and see what we had to say about how #UFC314 went down. 00:00 Espn + needs some better commercials 04:00 Alexander Volkanovski reminded us who the fork he is! Diego Lopes doesn’t lose his shine, just needs more time. 07:42 Jess almost had a clean sweep on her OF live stream “Penne’s Picks”! Better tune in next time (link in bio) 😉 8:17 Yair Rodriguez impressed vs Patricio Pitbull who looked a bit overwhelmed by the moment. 11:26 Paddy Pimblett beat up Micheal Chandler better than the last 4 elites Chandler lost to. 20:25 Jean Silva vs Bruce Mitchell was everything we hoped for + barking 26:33 Was Dan Ige’s stoppage of Sean Woodson a little early? 33:57 Virna Jandiroba secured her number 1 contender spot with dominant win over Xionan Yan. How does she match vs Weili? 42:40 Dominic Reyes continues to shine improving his streak to 3 kos after Nikita Krylov win. 45:40 Jess breaks down the latest GFL news after the cancellation of their upcoming California fights. 52:36 Ange got to hang out at PFL and watch their home girl Jena Bishop gain epic win vs Kana Watanabe. 57:28 Aleksei Oleinik made the news for fighting in BKFC at the age of 47 and getting brutally ko’ed. Fighters beware not having an exit plan. Powered by Duelbits. Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join
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you start running the heater in the morning so your body can warm up oh yeah i haven't
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been able to like take my hot shower beforehand that like loosens everything up yeah i have to
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stretch in the shower in the mornings now yeah yes poor little old lady body i know it's all
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right we still got it we're just like yoda still got it just takes a little longer to get there
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Yeah, we might limp on the way to the mats, but once we start going
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Once we're warm, you're ed. Yeah, well, hello, guys. Hello. This is another Two Straws, and we had some amazing fights this weekend
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We did. They were making up for last weekend. Oh, yeah. It was a bit of a snooze fest, but this one was very exciting
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I actually watched and was not compelled to scroll. Oh, nice. I know
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You weren't candy crushing while watching Penny Pemplink crush Chandler? Every once in a while
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But I refrained for the most part on the main card. Hey, there you go. You got a candy crush during the commercials
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They're the same commercials every time. Oh, my God. I hate it
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It's so obnoxious. I hate it so much. And especially when they have like the really annoying ones
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like the Burger King ones with a guy who can't sing. Please stop
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This was never a good commercial. Yeah, I hope they're getting paid a lot for that ad space
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Me too. There was this random commercial that me and Adam loved when we were living in New York
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And it was like, I forget what the commercial was for, but the chick goes, babe
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And her husband's, oh, it was a yogurt commercial. Her husband was stealing her key lime yogurt because it was so good
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Wow. And so she goes, babe. And then they cut to the husband and they cut back to her
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and she's doing it on the other side. And it became this running joke
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And then I met the guy in the commercial at my job
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I was so amped for him. I was like, no. Did you do the line? Yeah. I was like, it's my favorite commercial
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He never noticed that it was like that. You had to say the babe
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Yeah. Babe. And he was like, oh, I'm going to look for that next time
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It was a really bad cut. No continuity in the side of her face that was making the smirk
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Kind of like Pretty Woman with the pancake and the croissant. No, what happened with that
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Oh, my God. It's like one of the worst, like, continuity kind of things in a scene that you've ever seen
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so it's the first night after pretty woman and Edward you know have their first
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tryst in the sack and she like you know comes out with
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her big old red hair she's not wearing the blonde wig anymore and she sits down at the table
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and she starts asking him questions and she's eating a croissant at first and she's talking to eating
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the croissant and then they switch to him and he says something they switch back to her and she's eating a pancake
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oh shit that's great It's really bad. There's another one I actually just noticed
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It's with her friend Kit DeLuca when she's writing with the lipstick on the pizza board
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And she's like, Viv, Bev, Will, Bev, Reesher, whatever it is, like the location she's at
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And they cut to the scene where she's writing it down and it's like a straight line
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And then the next scene, it's like longer words and they're like diagonal
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There was just a lot of details that were missed in that movie
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Still a great movie. One of my favorites. Yeah, they're more thinking about, you know, the pretty woman and her getting her..
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Pretty woman. Oh, love it. It's a classic. I love it. Well, we had some pretty fights last night at UFC 314
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Should we start with the main event? I mean, I think we could
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Yeah, let's do it. I was really excited for Volk's comeback, but also for the possibility of Diego Lopez just being like this super likable champion
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With a crazy two-year trajectory from entering the UFC to championship title congenital. It's crazy
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Yeah, you never see that in that weight class. Like, you see it at 205, you see it at heavyweight, even at 185
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but you never see it at the lower weight classes where there's so many people that can take you out
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from, like, below rank number 15 and above. It's really crazy that he was able to string together all those wins
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especially after his first fight coming into the UFC was a loss
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He was able to just bounce back from that and become a superstar. Yeah, he's so likable
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He's so entertaining. In this fight, though, you definitely saw the experience factor
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Yes. You saw Volkanovski. And you know what? MMA fans, critics, come on, guys
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It's the Volk. Give him a break. If you look at his body of work, and then, yes, I know that he has two glaring knockouts
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but if you look at the circumstances with those knockouts, you got to say, like, hey
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maybe that was the case, which it was. Yes. He's still got it
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he's still you know in his prime he's still a you know championship caliber as he showed last night
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but so many people were harping on his past performances he took a short notice fight against
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Mahakachev he got knocked out and then he took a really close fight after being knocked out so badly
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against a power hitter you know what I'm saying like that's a recipe for disaster so I'm glad that
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He took the time off. He let his body heal. He had a reset. And he came back in there looking like himself
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Yeah, he only had three months between getting knocked the out by Islam Makashev
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Short notice, by the way. He only had three months in between that and fighting Ilya Teporia
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That's stupid. Someone who's knocked out everyone up until that point. Stupid
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Yeah, it was stupid. But we love Volk. And Volk loves to entertain
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And that's why he did stupid things. You know? It's just part of the game
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So he finally took more than a year off after that. I think that was really good for his physical and mental health
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because he was talking about having really dark thoughts when he was out of the cage
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when he didn't have something to prepare for. And that's something that a lot of us get caught in
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It sucks, but we're workaholics. We all love to have the next gig lined up
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And when it isn't, you get kind of anxious. And he's expressed that. But I think in this year, he's been able to work through that
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And he looked fresh. He looked like a new Volkanovski. He looked like his old self before he got knocked out twice
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So I'm really excited to see what he can do. He said that he debunked the over 35 curse, which I think is just baloney
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Like over 35, it doesn't matter. It really depends on the athlete and their chin, their conditioning
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how their body's holding up. Their style of fighting. Yeah, like injuries, are they healing
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Are you recovering properly? Like there a lot that can really push that envelope and allow you to still perform at your prime when you past most other people primes And it really hard to put it like all of these statistics it individualized
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You can't put it in an AI machine. You cannot. You just can't
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Create a book. I was doing my Penny's Picks on my OF Live on Friday
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Penny's Picks? And by the way, I've got to say, your girl was pretty, pretty spot on
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I missed you. I picked the preliminary and the main card and I missed two fights
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Dang. Which fight did you miss? I picked Jan. I thought that she would be able to keep it standing and keep the distance
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I know. You did. And then I picked Pitbull winning by decision
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Yeah. I picked Pitbull too. And Yair just completely shut him down. Yeah
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It was a tough one. And I kind of forget how like the size difference
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And I forget how much Yair has really grown into himself and has filled in a lot of gaps
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So he was very impressive last night. Yeah, I was surprised. And I was also surprised how kind of shell-shocked Pitbull looked
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It looked like he was a little, you know, not himself, right
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Like he wasn't as aggressive as he could have been. Maybe it was the kicks
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Maybe it was the transition to the UFC. Maybe it was all the expectations put on him or the doubts or whatever
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But I think whenever someone comes in as like an ambassador of the people fighting outside of the UFC
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like his entire career has been outside of UFC, but he's always been considered one of the best
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One of the people. There's a handful of people who still impress and people are like, man, if UFC did like a UFC ballot card or UFC risen card or something like that
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these guys might be able to win. and he's always been one of them. So that's a lot of pressure to put on yourself
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For sure. And I still think that he's a great addition to the UFC, and I still think that he does well there
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I think it was a tough matchup. And I saw the first round being the most challenging
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because he comes out so strong with those big kicks, and he throws so much power
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But Patricio just, he had some moments of success with a takedown, with a couple power shots
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but for the most part he was staring in the mirror and he wasn't able to get those reads and he was
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staying just so far outside and allowing those kicks to really stop him yeah yeah your looks uh
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on form and usually you see him break a little bit uh yes after a big takedown like after that
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takedown i think it was the first round at the very end i was like oh shit like if he allows
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pitbull to get right back there in the beginning of the second this might go pitbull's way but he
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He didn't. Yeah. He was fast. He was on his bike. He was hitting and running
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And when he would hit, he would make it count. That first head kick he landed, I thought it was over
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Ooh. That, like, he kind of, like, dipped, dipped, chambered, and then stood up with the head kick right as Pitbull was probably about to
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throw, like, a big looping, like, hook or something. Landed right on the side of his head
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I thought it was over. He ate it, though. I'm like, that boy got a chin
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Wow. Wow. No, there were some shots that Pitbull took that were just pretty impressive
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Yeah, right? But I was really impressed with Aguirre because, like we said last week
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I've been feeling like he's on the decline. Like people are figuring him out
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He's such a tricky fighter. Whenever you have a tricky fighter that starts to get figured out
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they have to learn new tricks. They have to start tightening up the fundamentals
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and getting better in the boring areas. and I didn't see him doing that
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So I feel like he went back to the drawing board and he worked on some things and it came out in this fight
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It's always important to be a student of the sport and that's what we're seeing in your year
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Yeah, no, it was a really good showing by your year. And then another fight that we didn't pick as a lock
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but I was pretty sure it was going to go the way it went
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Patty Pemblitt just destroyed Michael Chandler. Listen, I feel like if we had seen this fight a few years ago
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the version of Mike Chandler would have been different. Do you know what I'm saying
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This is the kind of matchup that Michael Chandler usually thrives in
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And we saw in the first round him having some success, but we saw it quickly start going the other way
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Patty Pimlet is improving and making things work for himself. I mean, the technique is still not great, but I'm sorry
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I don't mean that in a bad way or a mean way. It's not. It's not necessarily technically sound, but he makes it work for him
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And his style is a bit quirky. Again, I love the polite shade
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I'm not meaning to throw shade. But he makes things work for himself
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whereas I feel like if other people had his style, it wouldn't work for them
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Yeah, no, for sure. And I think part of it is his weight cut
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He is huge. He should patent and sell his weight cut routine when he retires
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because he gets so big in between fights. Right now, he's been a little more chill with it
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He hasn't been becoming obese. But he used to be able to do that
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Now he's staying at a normal weight, but he gets still pretty big in between fights
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He cuts down. He looks like a POW when he weighs in
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And then he rehydrates to almost the same size he was during fight camp
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And Michael Chandler is not a small guy. He looked tiny in there
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He did. He looked like a little insect, like a little roly-poly
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Like he looked kegerator. Yeah. He looked like a little bouncing ball
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He looked so small in comparison to Patty. And you can see the difference
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Like when you would throw, he doesn't care. He's just throwing his limbs like like like a baseball bat, like those calf kicks he was throwing
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A lot of them probably hurt, but he didn't care because he has the bigger calf
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You know, he has a bigger bone in his leg. He knows his bones are going to win. His bones are more dense than a lot of these guys
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You can see it on his head size, you know? Like that's the head size of a guy with a big-ass skeleton
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We saw it when he weighed in. We saw all the bones. Very big skeleton
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And they're sharp. Oh, man. I would hate to fight someone like that because it's also that style that we've been talking about too
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The Drigas Duplessis, the McKenzie Dern, the people who just throw a reckless abandon
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Because they're not worried about what happens afterwards. They're throwing their entire weight into this
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And with Patty, he's so good on the ground that a lot of people are going to plan to avoid that part
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They're going to avoid the ground game. I mean, he did to Michael Chandler what no one else has done
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And that's the most impressive thing. If you look at the people who beat Michael Chandler, they weren't able to get on top of him and get a TKO
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Like a ground finish And to be able to hold Mount like that is really impressive against a guy who is scrambly who has been doing this all his life all his career working on get ups he was able to
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control him and keep him in a place where he gets tkl yeah it was it was impressive um do you think
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his call out to the top four or five in the division is warranted now who did he call out
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He was calling out Oliveira. He was calling out Gaethje. He was calling out Poirier
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Just basically calling everybody in the top of the division. He wants to earn that title shot, and he wants to do it fast
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I think it's perfect. I think this was the gateway fight to those guys
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and he wasn't going to get any of those names without beating Michael Chandler first
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But do you think it's warranted because Chandler has been on such a decline
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Against those guys. So I think it's warranted that he fights anyone that Michael Chandler has just lost to
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I think that's warranted because then we can see what happens. And like I said, no one has really been able to dismantle Michael Chandler the way that he did
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Granted, he's had a long time off. He was waiting for that Conor McGregor fight
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And I'm kind of glad that didn't happen because who knows what that would have looked like
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But yeah, I feel like all those fights make sense just because Chandler has been hiding in the top five since he beat Dan Hooker
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Like he beat Dan Hooker. He was able to fight for the title
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He was able to fight all the people who are next in line
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He got a gimme fight with the Tony Ferguson matchup. Like he's been able to hide out in the top for a long time
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Now you're going to have other people getting in there. You're going to have other people who are able to break through that mold
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And a lot of people aren't able to get past Oliveira, Gaethje, Dustin Poirier
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Like they stop all the prospects from getting to the title shot. So I feel like it's warranted that he at least gets to challenge one of those guys
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And if he beats him, why not? Who else are we going to have aside from Sarukian or Ilya Teporia to fight for the title
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Yeah, fair enough. And Sarukian's still on punishment, I believe. He's on the naughty list
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It's going to be a full-on year. Yeah, I wonder if they would make that matchup
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Yeah, I wonder what matchups it's going to be. It'll be exciting
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you know, if nothing else, Patti Pinlett is great at promoting a fight
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It's always entertaining. People show up to see him win or lose. He's become a pretty polarizing figure
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And so it's, yeah, I'll tune in to watch him fight. Do you think he finally gets to fight Ilya Teporia
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No. I don't think they'll do that. Now that he's moved up
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I don't know if they'll do that one right away. No, that's true. That's true
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But I think Ilya, I think he has his heart set on getting that title fight or that number one contention fight
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And who's the number one right now? It's Armin. The number one is still Sarukian
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Okay. And then we have, wait, I'm on the pound for pound
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And then we have Charles Oliveira, Justin Gaethje, Max Holloway, Dustin Poirier, Dan Hooker, Chandler
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But I'm pretty sure that's going to drop. And then we'll probably take his spot
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Yeah, we'll see a big jump. Interesting. So did you see Colby Covington talking shit to him at the post fight
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I did. That would be a really crazy build up to a fight promotion
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That would be so obnoxious. I think we would all be fried. Yeah
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But we've had less. We've had more obnoxious build ups. So I wouldn't be surprised either
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I mean, I wouldn't be mad at it. No. I would like to see the fight, I guess
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Yeah. I would tune in for that fight. Yeah, for sure. But I think the Iliad Saboria one would be interesting
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because they have that whole hand sanitizer thing. Yeah. I don't remember what happened
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but he kept screaming, hand sanitizer, boy. Yeah, I don't remember what it was about
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I just remember something got thrown. It was hand sanitizer. Yeah. Yeah, it was hand sanitizer
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That's what happened. I think it's only, that's everything. That's all it was
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But it would be fun for them to use that. I mean, throwing hand sanitizer is a little classier than throwing a dolly
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Fair. And they've used that. And we saw, yes, we've seen that many, many times
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So they love it when people throw things. They love it. Next time you need to throw things
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That's what you've been missing. I know. That's it. Girl, you know black fighters can't throw things
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I mean, you could. They just call us ghetto and thugs. Get this animal out of here
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So racist. I'll tell my opponent to throw something at me. Here, do it
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I won't get mad. I promise. I'll duck. You have to do it
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Just put it on paper. Do it for me. Do it for us
20:19
what did you think about John Silva versus Bryce Mitchell what a fight
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what a maniac he fought such a good fight he looks
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so comfortable out there he looks like he can just control the entire pace and energy
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of the fight he just looks so confident you know So you can see his energy and his presence inside the octagon affects his opponents
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Yeah. And it was almost not quite as severe as like when Gaethje fought Namagomedov
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But it was that same kind of reactionary. It was the same kind of draining energy that you saw
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and you just saw, I mean, to his credit, we saw Thug Nasty trying
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Yeah. You know, but it just seemed like his efforts were more in desperation
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and frustration than anything. Yeah, even just them standing in front of each other
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There was so much, like, erratic movement from Bryce Mitchell and then John Slovel was just kind of relaxed
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He was feeling himself. Everything was efficient. Like, he fights like he's on his third playthrough of the game
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Like, he's already been in this world three or four times. Like, this is his last, like, run
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He's already unlocked all the extra trophies. Like, he's just doing it for fun at this point
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He's just getting points so he can buy more weapons. Yeah, exactly. More skins, you know
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But, yeah, he looks so calm and comfortable in there, like you were saying
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And just he commands the space. He's having fun. And he's the definition of flow state
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God, I wish I could have that kind of fun in there. It's . Watching him walk out
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Yeah. And just like take in the moment and like harness that energy
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Normally, like when I'm walking out and I'm like, . Like I about to fight I about to get punched in the face I like shit I going to punch her in the face This just got real And he is completely embracing it and using everything to his advantage He harnessing it Harness the good block the bad
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We're like, oh, what happens if I win? What happens if I lose? And he's just like, what's up
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I know, like, wow. Hey, Bruce Buffer, I love you. No, it's so impressive
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He is a special breed of crazy. I love it. Oh, he's insane
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So the fight. The fight was pretty one-sided, but Bryce did have moments, like you said
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But just going in there, getting mad that he didn't want to touch gloves
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and then starting and just being at this really calm pace, he controlled that distance in between them
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So whether Bryce was pushing forward or backing up, he just kept that same distance that he wanted
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and he would throw at the same time. and those were the things that really like connected and got Bryce off off kilter and then
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his takedown defense was really nasty like the guillotines that he threatened they were real
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guillotines like he wasn't just grabbing out of desperation or like oh shit whoops he had some
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serious like tightness on his neck and you could see it when he finally got that ninja choke in the
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last round um or not in the last round but in the last moments of the fight it was really impressive
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of how he's able to just get on the neck and really just squeeze with all his might
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He's not worried about gassing out. He lets go at the right times when he needs to build back up
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It was just a really great display of just something that Jeremy Stevens has been saying a lot
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the ring generalship. He's commanding the entire cadence of what's going on in there
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Everything was completely intentional. There were no moments of wasted effort or movement
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He was just very cool, calm, collected, and sure of himself. And it was, no, it was a masterpiece
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Like, part of me thought that he was, that when he was getting kicked
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like the leg kicks, the calf kicks, I kind of felt like he was setting something up
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Like, he was reacting to the calf kicks way too much. No, he is, like
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And that's what he does to you, right? He creates confusion. Yeah
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If that was a legit calf kick, my brain goes, no way that was legit
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Because of who he is and what he's doing. He's with me. He's with me
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No, I know. He cries wolf too much. I'm like, and I hurt
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He's going to get knocked out. Like, if he ever gets knocked out, no one's going to believe he's knocked out
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Like he's coming back. Yeah, they're like, he's just playing like Willy Foo Foo
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Like the judge jumped in or the ref jumped in too soon. Like, you know, but yeah, he's, he's one of these people who just, yeah, it would be a nightmare to fight him
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Like a frigging nightmare. And I love his little point to the spinner
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He was like, Hey, Hey, look at that. I thought he was pointing at like Trump or something
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And he's like, Hey, Hey, look at that. And I don't know if Price looked, but the fact that he did that and then landed the spinning hill kick right afterwards
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Like what an asshole. I know. I know. You'd hate to fight somebody like that. this guy
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How did you like that ninja choke at the end? Oh, it was beautiful. Yeah. So I've never seen
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anyone finish it after they do the proper like roll through. It was like a gator roll is what
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you want to do to defend your neck from that. He halfway turned, but he got stuck. Yeah. So the
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proper thing to do is you want to almost like exactly as you said, gator roll flop to your back
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because that alleviates the pressure and then you can start fighting it. It is a really tight choke initially to come on
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but you can create space by doing that. And John Silva just cinched it up so quickly
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that Bryce Mitchell was out before he could even continue. That was nasty
26:31
Yeah, no, it was beautiful. Yeah. Speaking of early stoppages, what did you think of Woodson and Danny
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because a lot of people, including Woodson, are complaining. Everybody says it's the worst stoppage they've ever seen
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I think we've seen worse. I think it was warranted up until the point
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where I saw how quickly Woodson stood up off of the single. Yeah
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But the thing is, it was about 30 seconds of unanswered punches
27:02
Yeah. Just completely being on autopilot, trying to defend and shelling up
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And so I think that the idea of the stoppage was warranted
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But then when you saw how quickly Woodson got up, there was a question
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I don't think the fight was going to get any better for Woodson
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But I think, you know, you want to be able to go out on your show
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You do. And you also want to see maybe an even more spectacular stoppage because it's Danny Gay
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And you know he's capable of that. And a lot of people were saying that they thought Woodson was up two rounds
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I didn't think he was. I still gave Ige the first two
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I don't know what the scorecard said. But you do want to give that fighter the opportunity in case those scorecards did reflect that
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You know, he could have been winning that fight, just lost that round. Yeah. And so I looked it up
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And, yeah, I was kind of in the same boat. Like, they were close rounds
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I thought Ige was doing enough. but the commentary was pretty heavy on Woodson's side
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I didn't agree with it. Yeah, yeah. His punches, he was going backwards. There were really, I mean, he did some nice kicks
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but he was being pushed backwards, and the amount, the effectiveness of his punches
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I just don't think were there. Yeah, I felt like he was being super defensive
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and just kind of afraid of the power of Ige. he was looking for that knee on the come in
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like when Ige would jump in to close the distance he wanted to throw like a big knee up the center
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and I think that would have worked you know on that one punch that dropped him
28:44
the big overhand counter to the uppercut but yeah he was definitely wobbled
28:52
he was not answering punches it was an accumulation like a death of a thousand cuts
28:58
we've seen a lot of stoppages like that where it's like, okay, you stop it
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The rough gets in the middle. The guy is fine. But also you got your ass beat for the last 30 seconds
29:07
Like it might've been a 10-8 round if it went to the decision. But yeah, I think if I was Woodson
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and I hadn't seen the scorecards, I'd definitely be like, hey, give me a chance to get to the decision
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because there's a chance that I might've won. So it's a weird one
29:25
But I also think his frame definitely makes it more dramatic when he starts to get wobbled
29:32
Yeah, it's very wacky, wavy, inflatable 2K. It is. It's just, it's the body type
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I mean, what is it? 6'2", 6'3", in the featherweight division? Yeah. That's insane
29:43
And there's no meat on anything. He's like, he would be the most unsatisfying, like, human barbecue sacrifice
29:52
You know that movie, what was it called? The Green something. and they were, they like would barbecued
29:59
the people and eat them. Oh, yeah, I know what you're talking about
30:03
Yeah, like they would hate if it was his turn. Like they would have had to fatten him up for a few months
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before they finally like fricassee him because, yeah, that would be a really unsatisfying, gamey piece of kill
30:19
No, if he drew the wrong card in Yellow Jackets, they would veto him
30:24
They'd be like, you know what, you're fine. Just get out of here. Just stop eating our food
30:30
is not doing anything. This would be a pointless kill. And we need you to work for us
30:35
Yeah, exactly. We need you to get the fruit off the high trees. Oh, man
30:42
Yeah, so I'm not really mad at the stoppage. Maybe it's because I'm an Ige fan too
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Who knows? But I did feel like once Woodson fought someone with his credentials, with like the experience
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with the heavy hitting, with the ability to be the shorter guy because he's usually the smaller guy in there
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And having that power, like he knows where he has to zig and zag
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in order to get in and hit him on the noggin. And I think Woodson has relied on his length for so long
31:12
that it's hard when someone's able to crush that distance. Did you hear Ige in the post-fight speech talking about how he had to spar the whole camp
31:22
with light heavyweights, 185ers? just could you imagine that kind of fight camp that sucks that would be terrible because there's
31:30
literally there's nobody close to that weight class that is that stature and you have to somebody
31:35
that long that has that much range on you you have to have that experience and that look before you
31:42
get in the cage with someone and that's really hard on your body yeah man that is so hard i
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sparred i sparred because everybody was gone i sparred with alima and lauren who are fun
31:55
We're pretty good size flyweights and bantamweights. And I'm telling you, my head hurt
32:01
It still kind of hurts. And I was tired. Dude, whenever I spar big girls, my shoulder blades, from grabbing and moving them
32:13
I feel like that hurts more than anything. Yeah. Headbones, my ribs
32:20
Everything hurt. My ribs hurt if they sit on me. Man. It's not fun
32:25
I'm sorry I'm going for the takedown I might not get but I really need to take this down
32:31
so I feel like that sense of urgency was very compelling it was is very helpful for me
32:35
just that kind of life and death urgency that you don't always get in training you know it's good
32:42
I like my my tactic when I'm sparring big girls and I can't take them down
32:46
I use the uh chase hooper oh yeah I just climb up them yeah I got you like a tree yeah you know
32:54
what this isn't working I'm gonna go up you don't have to go down I'm gonna go up there we go
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and they can hold your weight because they're huge on one of the and we're doing like big
33:05
glove sparring because if you're sparring if you're sparring big girls you need you need big
33:09
gloves because they hit pretty hard you need a little bit more cushion yeah I remember I went
33:13
for one of my like kind of like sacrifice throws and I was like this is really stupid like as I
33:19
started i was like why you're like i sacrificed too much why did i make these choices this is my
33:28
fault was that one of those ones where they just kind of like yes just like settle right on top of
33:33
you and you know all the momentum of the yes it was nice that was stupid well fast learner
33:40
though yeah fast learner there you go gotta learn the hard way though good job never again at least
33:47
Not for the next couple of weeks. Oh, man. Well, what other fights have we not talked about on the main card
33:57
Jean, Joroba, and Jan we should probably talk about before we do anything else
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Yes, we should. Jean, Joroba, and Jan. I kind of saw it going that way, but there was a huge question mark in Zanayan's ability
34:13
to defend Vierna's takedowns. That's where I saw. Yeah. John Gerroba having difficulty
34:19
and she did not have any. She snatched up those singles like
34:24
I've never seen before. Like that little game people were playing. Oh, that was her whole training camp
34:31
That foam game, yeah. Like, give me that leg. I thought Jan, I've seen
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her in matchups in the past with pretty good grapplers. And I know that all grapplers
34:45
are not the same. A lot of grapplers don't have the the takedown um experience and strength that jean giroba does but i thought that
34:55
she's just so fast on the takedown defense i thought she would be able to defend better but
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i mean she has survivability on the ground which we still saw even though she was in some really
35:04
hot water it's just she could not keep jean giroba off of her yeah no uh they're both pretty big and
35:12
And Verna, when we fought, like there was a lot of just defending, grappling, moving around
35:20
But if you stay still, that's when she gets you. And that's one thing that Zanigan does well is like she defends the first initial takedown well
35:29
But if you chain that together, if you go to a second attack, then that's when she falls over
35:34
But she doesn't stay still. She doesn't stay flat. You can tell her whole camp is focused around getting up, getting back to the feet, getting out of bad positions
35:43
So she did a good job with that. It's just Verna is on another level with her grappling
35:48
She knows where you're going to go, and she jumps to it beforehand
35:52
She sets up the Kimura before it even seems like it's time to set it up because she's rolling for that arm bar
36:00
She's rolling for the back position. She has a really good understanding of where she wants to go on the ground
36:06
And having that confidence in it makes you go hard for that takedown, makes you like sell out on just getting attached to them
36:14
Because once she gets attached, it doesn't matter if if Yan is on top or bottom, she's going to get on top eventually
36:21
And that's what you saw a lot in this fight. Like Donna and Yan, I fought her, too, like way back in the day
36:28
And I almost stopped her, you know. So I always felt like if she were to fight a grappler who was able to get on top of her, the sub would come eventually just because it's hard to catch up
36:40
Like once you're already a professional, once you're already fighting these people, it's hard to close those gaps
36:46
Like when you're both doing the same thing, you're both fighting for the UFC, you're both fighting the highest talents in the world
36:54
So it was interesting that she survived, but it's like, I wonder if you're just kicking herself or not
37:01
just like jumping on that armbar a little bit sooner, just to make it a little more of an emphatic win to fight for that title
37:08
I mean, either way, I think she is the number one contender for the belt
37:13
Either way, whether she's stopped her or not, she has to be
37:17
It would be blasphemy if they gave it to anybody else. Oh, like Tatiana Suarez? No
37:25
You know what I happy that they gave her that opportunity I think that think that that was a good call because you just she had such an up and down career with with injuries and layoffs and stuff
37:36
like that so I was happy that she got it and it's likely that that fight would have gone a similar
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way where Suarez might have gotten the takedown but but uh Vierna would have gotten the submission
37:49
very very possible how do we think Vierna matches up to the champ um it depends you know like uh
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people forget that Zanagan basically got submitted in the first round of of the fight versus that
38:08
didn't happen they woke her up was like hey hey get over on your seat she was fine hey they got
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out the bath the what do you call the smelling salts it's a bad song it wasn't florida
38:21
they got the smelling salts and they're like hey wake up get to your corner you're still in this
38:26
fight um so uh i i feel like whaley's grappling is underrated i think it's not gonna be as much
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of a scrap on the feet because virna just comes in crazy it's that same grappler crazy striking
38:43
shit like didn't she throw some some something weird in this fight i feel like she did like a
38:48
spinning something she did a spinning thing yeah but i'm like what and then she goes to the takedown
38:52
so i feel like she's gonna be so confusing on the feet that the actual fight is gonna happen in the
38:59
clench and it's gonna happen on the ground but i also feel like waylee has closed that gap better
39:06
than anybody else mostly because she has to like strawweight division is a division full of high
39:12
level grapplers and she's been able to stay on top because she's been working hard on that grappling
39:19
where you're seeing her almost submit people who she never would have when she first got into the
39:24
UFC. I think she's closed a lot of gaps. I think she has the confidence and the awareness and
39:30
understanding in her grappling to compete with anybody, even a top grappler like Gianji Roba
39:35
um i do i think that it would be the wisest game plan no i still think that it would be
39:41
wise of her to keep it striking because that is still where vierna is not as strong she is a
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complete mma fighter but her strikes are still to set up a takedown so they don't have that same
39:55
presence they don't have that same ability to keep somebody honest and create fear in the strikes it
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can create confusion but i think that it would still be smart for um for wiley to play that mma
40:08
game and mix the striking and the grappling and you know maybe break her down before she starts
40:14
trying to prove a point with her grappling i mean she proved the point with suarez yes yeah she did
40:19
but suarez doesn't have that same jujitsu flow that same threat from any position she does she
40:29
does i think we just haven't seen it because usually her first attack works but if you see
40:34
her flowing and her grappling like you you can tell that she does have that like jujitsu mind
40:40
when it comes to looking for submissions and attacking from different areas but
40:44
she hunts for the guillotine like the guillotine is her go-to and i think uh like we saw some of
40:51
the shit that um that verna does when willie fought carla she got her with that nice like uh
40:59
crucifix to the single arm like gear or rear naked choke so i feel like waylee has what it takes to
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threaten on the ground and that helps her overall game plan like that's why she was so dominant over
41:16
tatiana suarez because she didn't just go i gotta keep it standing she was like i could her up
41:21
anywhere and i'm going to and i'm just gonna go with what i see it's kind of like the john silva
41:26
thing you know she's very much in the moment when she fights i think the roughest fight she had was
41:32
down again because there was so much happening on the feet like she was getting dropped she was
41:38
getting wobbled and she had to take it to the ground i feel like she's focused so much on her
41:44
grappling because she's gone through so many wars and she can't take that stand-up attack anymore
41:50
and like if virna is able to throw up something hard i think she could do something with it like
41:56
She threw a head kick that looked slick. I was like, what
42:01
Who did that happen? No, I think if anything, Verna can go in there and throw haymakers
42:07
just because she knows if she falls over, if she gets off balance, she's where she wants to be
42:12
So I feel like for Whaley, the overall game just being well-rounded
42:18
like she's been in all of her title defenses, will be the best way to defeat someone like Verna
42:24
as opposed to just staying on the feet because that's when Verna does her best work
42:29
when people are afraid of what she's going to do when she level changes. Sure, I think, yeah
42:36
Yeah. And then we didn't really talk about our boy, Dominic Reyes
42:41
but he really looks like he's gone in a time machine. I know, he's had a resurgence
42:48
and it's really nice to see somebody be able to dig themselves out of that tough spot
42:53
I love seeing it rooting for him. And, you know, what could possibly be next for him
43:00
It puts him back into the conversation. For sure. I'd like to see him keep picking off guys
43:08
kind of do the same thing that he did before he got to the John Jones fight
43:12
Because I feel like at the same time, you don't want to rush and to go into the next killer fight
43:23
Like I would hate if his next fight was like the winner of Jamal Hill versus Khalil Roundtree
43:29
You know what I mean? Like that just sounds like you're going to take all that progress that you made and put the brain damage right back
43:35
Just roll the dice on it. Yeah. Yeah. Just burn it down. Let's see what happens
43:39
I mean, it would be cool to see him fight Johnny Walker
43:43
I feel like. Oh, that wouldn't be fair. Walker is kind of in the spot that Reyes was before he got on his streak
43:51
So I feel like that would be at least fair in that sense
43:55
Oh, I don't want to see Johnny Walker fights anytime soon. It's one of those things we talked about earlier
44:01
Volkanovsky had two bad knockouts and he sat out for a year. That's what your brain and your body require
44:07
And for Johnny Walker, I think that he has gotten, you know
44:11
so many consecutive knockouts that it would be prudent for him to sit out for a bit
44:17
Well, his last fight was about a year ago. His last fight was June 2024
44:25
Almost. So we're almost there. A little bit longer, buddy. Just a little bit longer. Please
44:29
I mean, Reyes just fought, so he's probably going to want some time off too. But I feel like that might line up well
44:35
And I think it would be something that both of them want just because Johnny Walker is going to be looking at Reyes' skid
44:42
and seeing that as an opportunity. And same with Reyes. So that might be something that they set up
44:48
or maybe he gets to climb the rankings a little bit more
44:53
Maybe go after someone like Jan Blakovic which would be a big jump But as we saw with Carlos Olberg you can go after the old king
45:05
and really get a huge bump in your status if you're able to slay him
45:11
You can match him up against Olberg. Oh, yeah. You want to see him die
45:20
Give him, Olberg. No. How dare he beat Jan. That was a robbery
45:26
Yeah, I'd be interested to see how that plays out because Reyes does really well when people come forward
45:33
Ulberg's not going to do that at all. So that might be an interesting puzzle for him to solve
45:38
Yeah. Yeah, so what's been going on with you? There was a lot of crazy news that dropped midweek with the GFL
45:48
and made me want to break down all the craziness if there's like a light at the end of the tunnel
45:56
like what's been happening? I don't know. You still went to big girl sparring
46:00
So I'm proud of you. You're like, you know what? I'm still going to train
46:05
You know what? There's our manager just told me like, hey, don't burn it down just yet
46:10
Just give it a few days. Let's get more information. And so there's an email circulating with a new structure
46:17
and just kind of more information. I haven't seen it yet though
46:22
from what I've heard is they're giving people the option to opt out of their contracts
46:30
because there are a lot of people getting paid like really stupid amount of money
46:36
Which is probably why they couldn't put the purse into the athletic commissions thing
46:42
for the fight card that was supposed to happen in two weeks. No, not two weeks
46:47
Three weeks. No, it's still like a month away. Oh, really? Yeah, it was supposed to be May 24th, 25th
46:52
Oh, so yeah, we're still quite a ways away. There's a lot of time. I thought it was two weeks that they had to have the money available in the bond
47:02
So they were supposed to put the bond in recently. And that's what stimulated this conversation
47:08
So the apparently one of, you know, the primary backer of the show ghosted, pulled out, which
47:17
is kind of crazy to me. Where's the paperwork? how are they not going after him um sue him um probably in another country maybe i don't know
47:29
maybe he he got hit maybe with a tariff pretty hard by you know the uh the stock markets and
47:36
stuff like that so he he wanted to pull his money who knows the reasoning who knows what's you know
47:41
going on with that i don't know and i don't really want to speculate um so what i do know is they're
47:47
trying to move the card yet again to the Florida, which was going to be the date and location of the
47:53
second card. Okay. So they're just trying to move it there again. And if you guys know anything
47:59
about Florida, it's much easier to run a show in Florida than it is California. So we'll see
48:07
I think there's going to be different structuring. I think there's going to be new information in
48:10
this email that I have not seen yet. So I'm just, I don't know, I'm just kind of enjoying training
48:17
I haven't enjoyed training in a bit. So I'm, you know, just doing that, enjoying it, having fun
48:25
and then we'll see what happens, you know, with the information. I'll make a decision
48:31
Yeah. So you haven't opted out yet, but you're just kind of seeing how everything plays out
48:36
Yeah, I need more information. How can I make a decision if I don't have all of the information
48:41
Yeah. Yeah, but I also do want to say that just, it's been pretty disappointing with how people are like really rooting for this thing to fail
48:52
And I'm just, I'm not surprised by it, because that would mean that I, you know, have expectations of people's behavior
49:00
But it is disappointing. I just want people to, you know, root for fighters to have opportunities and success
49:07
and for a new organization to be able to blossom into something that they're trying to do
49:12
So it was just, it would just be nice to get more support than naysayers
49:16
I know that it was, you know, a lot of expectation and a lot of like big promises
49:25
and they seemed outlandish to people, but still you want to root for things to succeed
49:29
Yeah, I think it was just an easy target. It's like when Ronda Rousey got knocked out
49:35
Everyone was like, ha, that's what you get for thinking you're great. Yeah
49:40
How dare she? How dare you have confidence and think that you can outbox Mayweather
49:45
Yeah. Yeah. It's like one of those easy targets that they were doing so much different
49:54
and so much that seemed like a bad idea, like with the huge fight purses and the salaries and all that stuff
50:02
But at the same time, it's like, well, these are the fight purses that we feel like the UFC should be providing
50:09
You know, this is what we've been asking for for a long time
50:15
They were also offering health care and, you know, shares of the company
50:23
and all those other things that we've always been like, oh, it'd be really great if the UFC did these things
50:29
A lot of people said their contracts are more than they've ever gotten paid
50:33
for a fight in the UFC or wherever they were coming from, Bellator, 1FC
50:39
So, or I don't know if there's any one people. But it's a huge jump, a huge paycheck
50:45
and you want to believe that it's going to work out. You want to believe that, okay, this is where MMA is going
50:54
We're starting to get like what we're supposed to be getting as professional athletes
50:59
We're starting to get like a bear cut of the pie. But then when it doesn't work out, then people are like, well, that was too good to be told you
51:07
So no, it's just too good to be true. And it is. But if it went down, I think people would have been ecstatic for everyone
51:15
They probably still would have been like, OK, well, they got one show out, but yeah, see if they get another one going
51:21
But I think people would have been happy for everyone getting paid
51:26
Of course. And I was cautiously optimistic. You know, a new show, big promises and stuff like that
51:31
But still happy to try and be a part of it and, you know, see what happens with it
51:35
The thing is, it just, there are no other opportunities in the fight world, really
51:43
Well, not that there are no other, but there are very limited options. I mean, there's what
51:47
They have four straw weights. There's Invicta, straw weights and atom weights
51:52
And there's one FC. Yeah. And I was really looking forward to competing at atom weight
51:57
I've really wanted that for myself. I've always felt more confident and just happier to compete at that weight class
52:05
I think it's more natural to me. So I was happy to kind of, you know, end my career with that
52:10
But if it happens, great. If it doesn't happen, you know, got to figure something else
52:15
I just need more information at this point. Well, hopefully they get their shit together
52:21
We'll see. We'll see. I think there will be more news coming out this week I think I have my decision made and then I will report back yes you get the low down on the down low uh well uh i was also out and doing stuff with a different fl
52:40
the pfl not the gfl um just out to support uh our friend and teammate jenna bishop and she was able
52:50
to get a big win over Kana Wantanavi. It was a crazy fight
52:55
It was. And you know what? She showed so much grit, technique
53:01
She showed new wrinkles to her game, new confidence. So it was really cool to watch
53:06
I'm really happy that she got the victory and just fought a hard-fought fight against a tough opponent
53:12
Yeah. I think there were a couple people going, oh, I don't know if that was the right decision
53:18
But like it was it was the right decision. Like you must be mistaking her for me
53:26
Who doesn't win obvious decisions. But it was it was a really good fight
53:31
There was a couple moments where like, oh, it looked like she got hurt in the first round
53:35
But the accumulation of damage that she made in that first round after and before I felt like she I felt like she won all three rounds
53:44
But there's always that doubt when it's not a dominant round. And I was happy that the third round was so dominant, just kind of putting a button on the entire performance
53:53
But, man, that was crazy. And I was surprised that kind of did not want to mess around on the ground at all
54:01
Because every other grappler that she's fought, she's been comfortable pushing that pace on the ground
54:07
She finally, I guess she finally learned her lesson when she got subbed by Liz and was like, okay, not going to do that again
54:14
Try a new tactic. let's let's let's stay on the feet let's uh yeah and i mean with her frame the the size difference
54:22
the body you know the body difference it would i think it would be an obvious kind of strategy
54:27
to like work that range to keep it standing a little bit longer break the opponent down and
54:33
then start trying to force the the grappling yeah she is a bit uh long long and big yeah and it's
54:40
surprising that she hasn't tried to do that but i think uh i think she's gotten wobbled a lot in
54:45
the past and so she's banked on getting quickly to that takedown like not even playing around on
54:52
the ground just shooting right away and this this fight she tried something a little different and
54:56
it made for a much more exciting fight for sure um and then uh did you watch any of the other
55:01
fights liz karmouche ended up destroying her upon it just like body shot and then just donkey
55:09
kong smash on the ground no i checked out it was too much i forced myself to watch anything after
55:18
jenna's fight because like afterwards you just have this dump as yeah i'm like i'm good yes i'm
55:24
good um who was uh there was a male fight right after and i watched that one and it was a jake
55:31
hadley yeah hadley he got a kind of a modified twister ish kind of it's called a scottish
55:37
twister. I'm going to ask Adam to teach me that. You think they learned it in like their
55:42
grade school? Grade school. Yeah. That's how all the fights end in the schoolyard
55:46
Yeah. Oh man. They couldn't quite get that schoolyard like headlock. Yeah. They usually
55:54
start it with a headbutt. Definitely. Start it with a headbutt. Very Scottish. They fall
55:59
over. You land in that position and then hit the Scottish twister right there. Yes. Yeah
56:05
So, yeah, that was nasty. I got video of it so I can figure out how it's done because that was it was a weird one
56:12
I've never seen that before. It was a bit it was a bit different. Yeah. Yeah
56:15
But he had a lot of people from his team from the British side of the pond out there
56:23
Leon Edwards was there. His brother, who I think is fighting next week
56:28
And then Mark D'Cassie was there, too, who's also fighting next week
56:32
So he had a good little crew out there rooting him on. And it was cute to see the British boys all getting all crazy
56:39
So cute. Throw the right hand. Throw the right hand, bruv. There you go
56:44
There you go, bruv. Hit him, Jake. It was really cute. I'm like, oh, look at them
56:50
Getting all excited. They're probably laughing at me, too. Nah. Going crazy
56:57
Nah. Going crazy for my girl. Yeah, so that should be interesting
57:01
the next tier of the tournament for Jenna is, I think, June
57:08
June or July? I don't know. We'll see. It's somewhere in about nine weeks
57:14
So you guys might be lining up for fight camp again. We'll see
57:18
I'll let you know in a few days what's going on. More big girls sparring for Jess
57:24
Let's go. Well, there are some crazy things happening in the news
57:31
that you saw um which one um we have yeah we got time for like one or two okay so we have
57:42
uh this one this one has been circulating a bit and i just um you know as i get closer to the end
57:49
of my professional fighting career um this kind of stuff just kind of uh resonates with me a bit
57:56
it's um olenik he just got ko'd in the bfc debut and he is he is one of those um fighters that is
58:06
just you know of you know in his 40s and he is still having to fight because he has nothing
58:13
and this is you know just a cautionary tale it's it's a sad story about how people like can't
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necessarily sustain a living because they've poured their heart and soul into fighting and
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they don't have any other options he you know he went through a divorce he
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dang he's 47 now yeah holy shit and so he took a fight in bkfc and he ended up getting knocked
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out pretty badly and it just it resonates with me because you know there's always that like oh
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shit what am i gonna do when i retire what is everybody else gonna do when they retire i know
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I have options and I've been working on setting myself up, but still, it is still just, it's
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kind of scary, you know? And I know everybody deals with, you know, entering a new chapter and life transitions
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and stuff like that, but this one just kind of, it hits home a little bit. Yeah, it's rough because like, Ojanek, he's like, he's not just a fighter that's been
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around, like he's headline fight cards, you know, like in the UFC and outside of the UFC
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So he's one of those guys where you would want him to be taken care of because he built a lot of careers
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He built like the weight class. He was just one of those names that if he didn't exist, a lot of other big stars wouldn't exist either
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They wouldn't have been on the radar. Yeah. I mean, that's why that lawsuit is happening
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Right. Yeah. To kind of right that wrong. But it's still the money that's coming through isn't life changing
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You can't live off of that money. It'll get you out of a hole for a minute. It may give you a little room to breathe
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A little, a couple payments on the credit card. Yeah, exactly. But it's..
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It's scary. So let this be kind of a cautionary tale. And I hope that everyone uses their time
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in MMA and their platform from it to create something else that's more sustaining
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Yeah. And you kind of got to start thinking about that early. When we started this podcast
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it was a long time ago. It was, how many years ago was it
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Like eight. Damn. So eight years ago, we said we should probably start learning how to talk
1:00:30
on camera. Yes, ma'am. Because that's something that you can transition into
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and it's a needed role. You see how successful the few women who do do it
1:00:43
in the MMA sphere become. If you're good at it, there's a space for it
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But there aren't many people who are good at it. And luckily
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we've been working on this for a while and hopefully that comes across
1:00:55
in this episode versus our first one eight years ago. But it takes practice and learning about the fighters and learning the history of everyone and being able to recall things uh that don necessarily affect you but you have to know about it because this is
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the sport that you're talking about it's all tough and most fighters that have transitioned
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into like Alexi Olenek's age are dealing with that where they have to do a bunch of other stuff to
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make ends meet including fighting and giving yourself more brain damage so that's rough yeah
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it's just kind of scary if you think about it but also hopefully like to everyone else it's it's
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motivating when you see stories like this to you know figure other things out there's so many
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opportunities that open up from this platform and you know it's just it's up to you to seize
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those opportunities and create them for yourself but it's hard to see too right like oh for sure
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Yeah I don know I feel like your future almost has to be tied in with MMA because if it isn then you like what am I good at I spent every moment of my life becoming good at mma i can transition that into like working at a restaurant you know like going back to the office crunching numbers for
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the man like we we a lot of us feel useless once we leave this stage of our life where we're just
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using our bodies to to make money yeah be a stripper supposed to do it the other way around
1:02:41
stripper for a cinema maker it's a transitionary thing um it's just i i guess it comes down to
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you know just being able to pivot and and switch mindset and and figure out where you want to go
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and I feel like anybody who is in this sport has so many amazing tools and abilities
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like dedication perseverance grit all of these things that are necessary to be successful in all avenues of life So I feel like there are not necessarily wasted efforts You know something can transition You just have to you know be open to it
1:03:27
TED Talks. Yes. Get on them TED Talks. Do that. Audiobooks, because I don't read
1:03:36
Yeah. Well, is there anything else you wanted to pop on before we pop out of here
1:03:41
Pop off on. We can pop off. if you like. Pop off
1:03:47
All right. All right. This has been another Two Straws. We will talk to you next week
1:03:51
We'll see what Jess is going to do. She's going to keep big girls spying for her little girl spot on DFL
1:03:58
Hopefully I'll have news soon, but I probably won't, so I'll just complain about it
1:04:05
They're keeping me away from Trump. God damn it. You love him now
1:04:10
Keep me away from him. I can't like wave at him with one of my fingers
1:04:15
Yeah. Like you guess which one. All right, guys. This has been another Two Strows. We'll see you next time
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Bye
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