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UFC Abu Dhabi reactions w/ UFC vets Angela Hill and Jessica Penne
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Jul 27, 2025
We said we'd keep it short but didn't, probably won't next week either, just can't stop yapping when we get around eachother. Check out our thoughts on a pretty exciting UFC Abu Dhabi card, how fight camp is going, what to expect next week, and if Ange is still mad Shara kicked her out of his photo op. Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join 00:00:32 Letting it ride 00:03:12 Nyguen v Yahya 00:06:36 Salikhov v Leal 00:12:28 RDR v Whittaker 00:27:32 Yan v McGhee 00:36:23 Magomedov v Barriault 00:46:22 Krylov v Guskov 00:49:50 Mitchell v Nurmagomedov 00:56:02 Ricci v Ribas 01:10:00 Preview UFC Fight Night
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recorded aggressive push. It was that was your body weight into it.
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Been very grounded this fight camp, you know. So, everything's heavy.
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Put my foot into the ground and it transfers through my leg and into my hips and to my shoulders and then boom,
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break somebody skull. Yeah, break the skull
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technique like that poor guy on the prelims. Did you see that? Which one? Herszog is at it again. He's getting
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lots of uh criticism for Oh, we'll just jump right into it. Hey guys.
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Hey. Sorry. No lube, no warm up, just right into it. We're not gonna Calvinqar it.
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No dinner in a movie. We're jumping right in. Right. Oh, when when and and Yaha you were talking
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about, right? Yes. Ya. Yeah. Cuz I kept hearing Yaya
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needs to do this. Yaya needs to do that. Like, yo,
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that sucks. Like, uh, that fight was pretty insane. And people are
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criticizing Herzog. Uh, he got criticized the week before with the Derrick Lewis stoppage, right?
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Mhm. And then this one or not Derek well takes Sarah will stop and then this one
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he let it ride. It's almost like he's listening to the criticism of the fans.
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Maybe he's he's Yeah, he's getting all those DMs and he's actually looking at him. He's like, you know what? I'm going to
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take your advice. I'm going to let it ride. I appreciate him being so receptive.
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However, [Laughter] I mean, as fighters, we have to listen
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to the vi advice of our coaches, of our colleagues, and you know, the people we trust and try to grow from that
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experience. Maybe he asked other people like, "Hey, what did you think about that stoppage?" They're like, "Hey, you
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know what? To be honest, you could have let it go a little longer." And he took that personally.
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He tried to course correct just a little bit too much. Uh, Yaha is might lose an
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eye, but you know, no biggie. Oh, man. You know, just just adjust and move forward to the next one.
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Hey, but look, I do understand why Herszog let it keep going though. If you
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watch the fight, every time he got hit, he bounced right back.
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His head bounced right back and focused on the on the guy who was trying to
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destroy him. What What is that game that like uh that old school game punk? It's like that.
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Yeah, that's what he reminded me of. Just off of the cage floor and Oh, no. Wait, how?
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He was just bouncy. Because he was the ball. Yes.
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Oh, like how does I thought you meant like his hands when he was throwing? No, he was the object.
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Oh my goodness. Constantly moving and bouncing. Oh my goodness. Yeah, he like it his I I
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feel like it's hard to judge the way he approached that fight because literally 10 seconds in he got concussed. So
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that's one thing like that you have to remember. But uh when came in there and
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he knew exactly when to throw the punch is when when uh Yaya would throw a kick
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without setting it up. And it like you have to set it up. Like I think that
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people get dropped more nowadays when they just throw a naked kick as opposed
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to when they have their hands down. I I agree because you're just you're so off balance and you're stationary.
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And so you're just if you throw a punch with your eyes closed and it's straight,
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you're going to you're going to hit something. Yeah. Maybe not clean, but you're going to make contact. And I mean to to Yaya's
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credit, he did come back in the second round and really he was trying. Yeah. It was that uh uh what do you call
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it? The the curse of the commentator when Bisbing is like you never know. He
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could fight back. And then he does. I'm fighting back. He's like, it would be great if he fought back, but you know, it's hard to
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imagine. And then he drops a win right at that moment. I'm just like, oh, okay.
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He's back in the fight. Maybe Hersog didn't mess up by not stopping it before the end of the round, which I feel like
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was the best time to stop it, right? Like that moment right at the end of the first round where he kind of did the uh
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the death drop. You know what I mean? Like the drag queen death drop. That's dramatic. Oh, I hate that. I hate when I see
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people get dropped and they fall backwards on their knee. It It just It scares me. It scares me so much for the
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person in their recovery. But he seemed fine. and he was able to fight back in the second round and uh landed a few
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blows, but but uh when was on top of it, he just had his timing down perfectly
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and every time Yaya lifted his leg up, he didn't throw something before it and
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he was just able to time it and land on his face. It was it was pretty nasty. And then uh like I'm two weeks out from
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a fight and I'm over training and I'm scrolling just to see like what am I
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missing and the first thing I see is this huge swollen shut eyeball huge swollen alien eyeball.
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It does something to a fighter. It It does, you know, it's it's not like it's foreshadowing, but it just makes it
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real. It like just kicks reality in your face a little bit. I don't like it. I don't like it.
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Nobody does. I don't like being aware of my own mortality, being aware of the
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fact that I'm not invincible. And that's a very realistic vision of, hey, this
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[ __ ] could happen to you in your next fight in two weeks. Or we can pivot and we can say, I'm
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going to do that to someone. Oh, yeah. There you go. See, that's where I have to adjust. Yes. But no, absolutely. You're human. That
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always happens. Like, no, no matter what. And I'm a veteran. I'm like, yeah, it could it could go either way.
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You never She's a realist. You never know. Well, to my uh point,
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the underdogs were killing it in this card. Like a lot of underdogs were able
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to get wins over people that I guess people had counted them out. And I was kind of surprised. Like the one that
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surprised me the most was uh Muslim Salakov. Really? I had him winning.
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Yeah. I used him to win. No, I had Salov winning. Yeah, he was a big underdog. He was like
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u or at least Lil was minus 500 and I'm like how like
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he's such a devastator. Yeah, he's a devastator. He had a a few slip ups I think but um against someone
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who had just got into the UFC. I think Lil only had a handful of fights in the
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UFC maybe two or maybe like a contender in the UFC but people are really hot on
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him and Salakov has been in the UFC for a minute. So, I always heir on the side
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of, okay, this guy's been around. Yeah, he's 41, but he's a killer. Like, they
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call him the kung fu king. He's He's over there. He's a badass. Putting people's lights out still. And
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he was able to do that to Carlos. So, I I saw his name and then I kind of
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skipped over Leil and I was like, "Okay, I've got um uh I've got Salakov in this one." And then when the fight comes up,
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I'm like, "Oh, yeah, Leo. He's a killer." But just his his style, he's more of he he's very very sharp. He's
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very well-rounded. He has power in his hands. He likes more of a boxing range, close-in range, and that makes it
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um kind of plays right into Salakov's game because he loves keeping the distance. He loves being kind of kicks
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first, as we were just talking about, is to sometimes people's own detriment. But when you have his when he's mobile, uh
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when he's quick, when he has great footwork, that's when it gets really dangerous and you're not able to to close the range. And we saw that in uh
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the other fight with uh Mamedov and um my buddy.
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Yeah, my bestie. We saw that kind of danger zone with a boxer versus a a lead kicker.
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Yeah. Yeah. Um, but Muslim Salikov, he's only lost uh he was on a a twoight win
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streak. Actually, he's only lost to Dalby and Randy Brown before beating
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Santiago Panzanibio and Kenan Song and then having this K this uh this fight
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book. So, I I feel like people need to stop forgetting to put respect on the
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UFC veterans names. Like I know there's the over 35
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theory that once a champion gets over 35, throw them to the pasture, let them
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rot. Like they're they're no good. They're just gatekeeper. Blah blah blah. But this goes to show you that like the
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veterans, they know all the tricks. They've prepared for every different type of fighter. They've fought every
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different type of fight fighter either in the cage or in the ring. And when you're a UFC veteran, you know the level
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that you have to be at in order to compete, in order to, you know, be at that UFC level. And I think people
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coming in from other promotions, um, they see it once they get there, you
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know, like it's it's one of those things that you have to you have to train with someone else who is high level in order
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to really feel what that competition is like because you're not going to get it in the gym. You can be training with UFC
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fighters in the gym and you don't get that same feel that you get when you're in the cage with them. Sure. Experience goes a long way. Um Leo
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is, you know, he was a bit uh he had he had less fights, but he still had
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fought, you know, some tough fights and he has all the skill and stuff like that. And also styles make fights. So
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while people put so much emphasis on the age, you also have to look at everybody's body of work and and be uh
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diplomatic and kind of fair when you're assessing the situation. Yeah. Yeah. So Lil was in LFA. He was in
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PFL for a while um between 2022
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and 2023. So, he had a bunch of fights in there, but you know, you're not getting
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that same level of competition. So, I was really happy to see the old guy get the win. Um, and like the way he got him
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too was really nice. It was almost like he knew he was going to rush him. He knew he was going to close that distance
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and he just dropped down into that cross over his head. It was really nice to see. We saw that a few times tonight,
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too. It's like one of those things, head off center. You're always going to see it. It's always going to work because
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people are like, "Oh, I'm going to get you." and then you drop your head and the punch replaces your head where your
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head was going to be. So, it it was a it was really cool to see him get that. And it looked like, you know, he's he's an
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older guy, so a lot of the people in the stands seemed really excited for him, too. Like, he had uh Islam Makashev out
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there like Yeah. Everybody cheering for their Yeah. for their elderly brethren. Show
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some respect. I appreciate it. Yeah, let's go. Ank Ank
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Salakov. Well, uh, let's jump up to the main and
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the combine, you know, like let's get her done. Get her out the way. Okay. Yeah, Angela is in a hurry.
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I am. She's ready to recover. [ __ ] tired.
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It's been a long Sorry, guys. You guys have gotten like really comfortable with like hour 20, hour 40. Like we've been
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we've been feeding well and we're we're dieting now. We're all weight cutting.
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Yes, we are weight cutting the show. Trimming
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the back. Getting right to the point. Shoving it in raw dog it royal style. And you're
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just going to have to take it. Just you know. Sorry guys. We'll be nice to you later. We'll buy something nicer to you later.
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We'll buy you something nice after the fight.
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Oh yeah. Um, this Whitaker RDR fight was kind of how we expected to go, right?
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It Yeah. Well, just in the overall arcing of Yeah, you can't count on RDR. Whitaker
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is a really tough test. RDR kind of showed up. Fight could have gone either way. I felt like
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I had winning. Oh, yeah. I really did. So, I was like I I think I
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was too emotionally invested because I I love me some Whitaker. He's uh Oh, who doesn't? He's He's so sweet. He's such a like a a
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chill, champion, like respectful, just down to earth. He's a great martial artist
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and he's a Fallout fan. That's like I'm like, "Yo,
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my boy, my boy, we go way back. Let's go dog meat." Um yeah. So when I saw that
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he was taking this fight, I'm like, "Oh man, I hope the same thing that happened with um with Drius Duplaces doesn't
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happen with RDR." Just like this other hard to read, weird. You don't know
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where his strengths are yet because he hasn't been tested yet and Whitaker is going to be the one who kind of breaks
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the ice with him. He really showed that he is a hard puzzle to like solve.
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He kept walking forward with that with that knee and it made it so challenging
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for Whitaker. Whitaker would would eat them and he'd come back. He, you know, dropped RDR at a couple points, but it
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just um his timing, his rhythm, even though I feel like he is technically getting like a lot more sound and um
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right with his technique. He's been working hard. It's obvious, but it's still it's still an off rhythm. It's
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still an off timing. It's still not uh what you're used to seeing.
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No, especially when he gets hit, he reacts so badly to getting hit. Like that first round I was just like did he
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did Whitaker put hot sauce on his gloves or something because every you know
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it's like the same face you know when your cats are chewing the cords and you put hot sauce on it and you're like hey
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[Laughter] it was such a weird reaction like and I was like traditional strikers are
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usually taught to tuck the chin you know eat them on the forehead that way it slips over. He He like eats it like
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this. Like he tries he tries to catch them on his forearms and bring his head out the way and then eventually it gets
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through and hits him in the face. And Whitaker was doing such a good job of landing those shots like those one two
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ones. He would like fake him out with the one and then land a hook over the shoulder. Like there was a lot that
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Whitaker was doing really well in the first round. But the one thing that was getting to him even in that first round
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was the fake shot to the knee. It was like every time he went hard for
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a shot, hard for a shot, he would dip. Whitaker kind of bends over to get ready
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to sprawl. He was sprawling amazingly in the entire fight. He bends over to get ready to sprawl and then the knee would
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come up. And I feel like that's why the knee kept landing because he was so aware of that takedown being really
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strong. Mhm. For me, the knee doesn't win the fight. It It could devastate. It
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could get a knockout, but for me, in in the grand scheme of things for all five rounds, it didn't win him the fight. Um,
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I didn't get to see the scorecards, but I wanted to pull them up. Yeah. Pull them up. And I believe that
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every one was on the same page except for the fourth round. The fourth round,
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two had it for Ditter and one had it for um for Whitaker. And then after that, I
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think they I think everyone did Whitaker first round, RDR second round, Whitaker
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third round, which I thought might have gone to RDR because he had him so hurt
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in the beginning before he got dropped and then came back and got on top and
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was landing punches. So, I wasn't sure who was gonna get the third round, even though everyone was like, "Oh, that was
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Whitaker's round." I thought it was Whitaker's round because he he came closer to finishing the fight. Yes, RDR had top position. He
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had, you know, control, but he was literally doing nothing with it.
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And so, I feel like, okay, maybe one of those draws that we've talked about before, but I aired on the side of
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Whitaker because it was such a devastating drop. And draw rounds never happen. I I did feel like knees were possibly going to
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finish Whitaker in that moment. So, I think that's why I thought RDR could have gotten it because if they both had
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moments where they almost got finished and then RDR landed on top, I'm like, "Oh, maybe he got the round." But
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everyone was on the same page with the Whitaker round. So, that was uh that was interesting for me. And but uh I think
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the fourth round was the one that was up in the air. Um, oh, you have the
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scorecards. Tell us tell us who got them. So, um, Mike Bell had first round
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Whitaker third and fourth. Mhm. And then, um, Ben Cartilage and Dave
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Lithabby had the first and third for Whitaker.
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Okay. Yeah. Yep. And And I felt like the the fifth round was like
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I don't know. I felt like that could have been Whitaker. I felt like the fourth round could have been Whitaker. Like it it's it's the bo the body
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language for me and like Dean Thomas mentioned it like oh D. Thomas what do you think? Like oh you know he got the
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body language of guy who's who's in a fight and he has to make sure that he's not losing looking like he's losing so
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he need to shore up. And like that got in my head because people have told me that you know like people have said oh
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you lost that close decision but sometimes you look tired. sometimes like it looks like they're trying harder than
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you. I'm like, but I landed twice as many shots, but it's like I'm sorry. I'm
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get a little too emotional. I'm I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm screaming at every No, no, no, no, no. It's okay. We're
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here for you. We understand. But it's true. This is definitely a
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thing that people look at. And when you have a close round like that and Ditter is doing the cat hot sauce face, you
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know, every time he gets jabbed and then Whitaker gets hit, but it just brushes
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past his goatee. Then you wonder like when do the optics take effect and when
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don't they? You know what I mean? in that. No, that and that's a great question, but I thought I thought
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optically I'm like, how can you say that Whitaker is is more fatigued looking
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than RDR in this instance? Yeah, we're saying the same thing. It's just I was I was really um Yeah, that part
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was different. Confusing. Yeah. I mean, both of them both of them. I mean, the commentary
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desk, the whole event was just talking about how drained everybody looks, how this, how hot it is in there, how
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taxing. I wonder what it felt like. I bet there was no AC in that [ __ ] Yes.
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I bet I bet they should have gotten a few extra whatever backup generators to
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to help with that. I bet no one took off their blazer. No. Yeah, cuz if you take that blazer,
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you got to keep appearances. I'm not a sweaty mess, I swear.
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Oh man, they're all wearing dark things or white things. Yeah. Yeah, there were definitely a few
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fights where it looked like uh the fatigue was looking like an altitude
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fight for sure. Um, everyone was like sweaty, slipping off of each other. There were there were a few fights where
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you could definitely tell that was taking effect. Yeah, I should have put more electrolytes in those uh to-go bags
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for sure. More applesauce. Does that have electrolytes in it? Applesauce.
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It It has some minerals in it. Some good vitamins and Yeah. Good carbs.
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It's easy to digest. Yeah. Yeah. So, I think I think we're kind of on the same page. I I felt like
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fourth and fifth round were pretty close, but yeah, I always I always lean to Whitaker. I I don't know if I'm just
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biased or I just like the way that he fights. Like I like the way that it
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looks better, but I I felt like he was the fresher fighter at the end of it. But yeah, like the Ritter kept shooting
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on him. He kept pressing him against the cage. He he would land a tiny bit, just enough to keep the punch count the same.
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And so I understand why they picked him like, but it did look like Der was a little surprised. I think he understood
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how close the fight was. And when they call his name, he's like, "Oh, see when that happened, that made me put
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I'm like, they're pushing a narrative. They they want something to happen. The the hat the tinfoil hat.
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Get out of the way, Bobby Knuckles. The new breed is in." Yeah. No, I'm with
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you, man. I'm I'm definitely with you. That one was frustrating for me. Yeah. Um Yeah. So, uh that was the main
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event. And who do you think Rain Ritter gets next? Um, I feel like he should be he should
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be on deck almost, right? Like to be honest, but he's fought like they said he fought
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um how many times last year? He he fought five times this year already.
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Hold on, let me pull up. I know it's crazy. That's what they said on the comment. I didn't This was his No, this was his fourth.
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No, they said that was his fifth fight in a year. Yes. So um he fought
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July 2027, November I mean sorry July 2024,
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November 2024, January 2025, May 2025, and then July again 2025. That's five
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fights in a year. Crazy. That's insane. like on the day like like
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his his first one was July 27th and the last one is uh today July 26th. So
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that's insane. He he has to need a little bit of time off. Granted, they
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were all um early stop or they were all finishes uh up until this one. This is
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uh his first decision win. So he just took out number five in Robert Whitaker. I mean,
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you know, why not a a Strickland or an Immob or a um even like a Kyo?
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Yeah, Strickland isn't booked. It looks like he's still suspended indefinitely. Did you hear about that?
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That's perfect. Then yeah, he can like hold off till December. Yes, little New Year's Eve action.
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Strickland has time to wait. Yes, we uh did we talk about that? I think we talked about that when he got in the
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bra. We didn't talk about him being suspended. No, no, this is a new thing. Yes.
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So, I think good job on that. Like, you can't have you can't have pro fighters
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running around fighting people. There have to be there have to be some consequences to some action, you know? I mean, I know we
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fight in a cage, you know, but
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we have to we have to uphold some some sort of civility. We do this like just a
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little bit. You're getting paid a lot of money to do what you do. Don't do it for free. Like don't don't go running around.
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Put somebody on a tough enough card. Yeah. That's like very like and respectfully,
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it's just it's a show where like you you're stepping in. You're developing
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yourself as a fighter. You're coming into yourself and it it's a few steps below the UFC level. So you just
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a few Yes. Like I can everybody has their place. It it just it it doesn't make any sense.
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Like there there's nothing he could have said I feel like to Sean Strickland it to justify
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him running up and punching him in the face and caveman behavior. Yeah, it's caveman. What if what if uh
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you know someone else did that? You know uh there'd be many consequences. But
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yeah, he's he's suspended. He has time and I think RDR definitely needs some
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time off. So I think that'd be a really good match for next guy. I think that would be a great match.
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Yeah. And like Drizz, he's fighting um Kamzat. And when is that happening?
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319. Uh what is the date?
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Pull it up. What is the date? August 6. Oh, the week after my fight. Yeah, it's fast.
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That's happening. I mean, they could zip him up the line after he took out
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number five and give uh the winner of Kamzad and Drius
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RDR. They could if they really wanted to fasttrack. Yeah.
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You know, the the title fight. Yeah. But Immov is backup for that title fight. So, I feel like he's next in line. And I
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feel of him versus Kyle Bryle. Yeah. Yeah. That's happening
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September 6 in Paris. Oh, that's going to come up fast. That's
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exciting. Yeah. We we
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should have a brunch show for that. Oh yes. Some quissants and champ. Oh my god. Why do I feel like Cal Bario
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would look really good in like that typical like beret and striped shirt get
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up? It's the glasses. He could pull it off. He could pull it off. Yeah, I could see him walking around with a bigot.
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A little bike. He should do that. He should definitely do that. A little That'll be his walk out. Yeah,
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just to win over the fans. This is like wearing the jersey of like the home team that like you're invading like Yeah.
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Just wear just wear a beret. Yeah, you got to French. The French we've seen be very hostile to
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they are rude for like a little bit. Especially for like their history.
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Did we ever Did we ever figure out if Brian Battle ever made it home? Is he okay? Oh man.
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He's fine. I don't know what he's doing. I haven't heard about him in a minute. Yo,
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he's never laugh. He's in their like little hate him French Guantanamo over there.
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Is that like the catacombs? They just locked him up down there. Yeah, he was never seen again.
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Oh god. All right. Well, let's move on to the com.
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We sidetracked a little. Yes, a lot. A lot. It's cuz I was speeding through everything. You know,
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it had to happen eventually. Sid tracking. We go off on our little
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fun tangents. Well, uh, Yen versus Marcus McGee. I
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felt like this was a big step up, but Marcus McGee definitely had a chance to get the upset. We saw it happen with,
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uh, Sean Ali before he kind of trains with him. I think I think uh, Ali pops
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in there every now and then, trains with those guys. So, uh, yeah, this was a a a
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big one for Yan just because he had to show that he still got the juice, you know, and he did he juiced him up.
28:16
He showed he showed up. And not saying that McGee wasn't in the fight. He wasn't, you know, doing his thing, but
28:22
Yiannis just always he's positioned to counter, he's positioned to strike. There's um, you know, he's he's
28:28
balanced. He has he makes great reads, high guard, just everything. He sets him
28:34
up for success. Like he he really does not waste any kind of movement or effort. And that is
28:40
why like I just love watching him. Yeah. It's it's that's been the case since he came onto the scene. Like he's
28:47
just always been very technical, very tight with his hands. I feel like he trains while he's on the phone. Like the
28:55
the way that that hand doesn't leave the side of his face. It's like he's talking to his girlfriend or something like,
29:01
"Yes, honey. No, I am at the gym. No, I am not with other women. You know what I mean? Like I feel like that's how he
29:07
trains because that thing never leaves the side of his face. And then like you're saying when he gets into the
29:13
pocket, he gets so creative in there. Like could you imagine fighting Kyan in
29:20
a phone booth? No. He would win. He'd die. He would win. You he'd hit you like from He'd hit you
29:26
with everything. Elbows, knees, head kicks. He can hit you with anything within this amount of space. It's so
29:33
crazy. And I love the way he gets his tie ups. He's able to punch on angles.
29:38
Once he gets that tie up and kind of frames on you in that clinch and you're always behind it see it seems like
29:45
whenever he's able to just get someone into that range. You know what I
29:51
noticed, and I don't think I it stood out to me as much as it did in this
29:56
fight, but yes, when when he ties up, when he meets somebody, his head just like finds that perfect spot. His his
30:03
hands, his arms, everything, they just go straight to a defensive position to
30:10
where he can push off and counter. Like everything, it's just like it's like a puzzle piece. Yeah. It's like he used to train with
30:15
that. What's that thing with the sticks out of it? Wing Chung dummy. It's like he used to
30:21
do that on top of his judo training, on top of his Muay Thai training, on top of his savat or whatever. Or uh was what's
30:30
the one uh where they're on the floor dodging Kravaga?
30:35
Have you ever seen a Kravaga class? No. I thought it was like rapping knees like old school boss root style. It's
30:41
well, yeah, but it's also like they put on boots and they put on they put on
30:47
pants with a belt and a black shirt and they tuck their shirt in and they sit on
30:54
the floor and you try to stomp them in the head and they dodge the stomps. What this is when I first started
31:00
training, I went to this place called Fight House in New York City and it
31:06
literally like it was illegal. Like it wasn't supposed to be as many people as there were in there at a time, but
31:12
literally you walk in there, there's a boxing ring in the middle. There's like a a boxing coach. Then there's a coach
31:19
that teaches Muay Thai. There was a coach that did judo. There's like a MMA class, which is where I first met uh
31:26
Laura Senko. She was like half her size, little Adamweight version doing the MMA
31:32
class. And then there was a Krav Maga class, too. And every time I would come in for my Muay Thai class, I see the Kra
31:39
guys on the floor dodging stomps. I The only thing I know about K the only
31:46
thing that I know about Kromagra is it's used for like more more military training. It's very effective like
31:51
self-defense kind of stuff. And I've just always had it in my mind that it
31:56
was like one of the like martial arts that did not translate or transition to
32:02
MMA very well because everything that theoretically you do in crab on God is
32:08
to kill the person you're attacking. So I'm so yeah it didn't translate that.
32:15
And I feel like there's a lot of McD dojo kind of stuff that centers around Kamaga because of that. It's like, I'm
32:22
gonna do this to you, but I can't do it too hard because I don't want to kill you. And then it's like, okay, well, will you
32:27
actually kill someone with it? Probably not. But yeah, it's easy to uh do
32:33
[ __ ] versions of what the original martial art was supposed to be. Okay. So, yeah. Anyway, we digress. Um Oh, I
32:42
mean, not No, hold on. We're digressing again. We're digressing again. Well, the my favorite part my favorite part about
32:49
Fight House I remember is when you go to the desk to like pay your membership or
32:54
whatever, they had these DVDs like car fight, elevator fight, like all these
33:01
different instructional v videos on how to defend yourself if you get in a fight in these small spaces.
33:07
Definitely not your traditional martial arts gym. Could you imagine Podan's elevator fight
33:12
series? He would be undefeated. Yes, he could he could like do instructions on all that. How to fight
33:19
like if someone tries to walk into your bathroom stall like how to fight someone off of there. You're making a phone
33:26
call, they jump into your phone booth. They're like, "Hey, give me your money." He'll know exactly how to defend
33:31
yourself. He would be good in car jiu-jitsu. Yes. Car jiu-jitsu. Yeah. Yeah. I think
33:37
he I think we're on to something. We should uh we should hit him up. Yeah. Pitch it to him.
33:42
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it was a great fight. Um, Marcus McGee had his moments. It looked
33:48
like he almost rocked him. Uh, I think it was the first round. Um, McGee had
33:54
like a a quick moment, but then Kyodian was able to fight back. It was 2928, but
34:00
I'm not sure which round they gave McGee, but Yan was just on his Hey, don't that
34:07
don't touch it, sir. Sir, over there getting a little too comfortable over there sniffing the easel. Um,
34:15
everybody gave McGee the first round. Okay. So, he did have a little moment
34:20
there. It was a bit of back and forth, but honestly, like I felt like uh Podan was doing a real good job of tagging
34:27
McGee in that round, too. But, uh, going into the second and third, he got his rhythm going. He was flowing. He he got
34:34
wobbled a little bit, but he was he was on his uh he was on his motor there. And
34:40
then in the last round, he had this really nice uh
34:45
Yes. His his patent signature right hook right.
34:50
It's like a [ __ ] slap to a trip. I love it so much. A You feel so stupid when it happens to
34:57
you. I hate when people do that to me. I look for that to happen every time he fights. I'm just waiting for it. I'm
35:02
like, I know he's going to get it. I do it. It's his patent patent move. I freaking love it.
35:07
It's so nice. It's so nice. It's such good timing. Um but yeah, he was just flawing. He was getting takedowns. He
35:14
was he was doing all the things. And he even slowed it down a little bit towards the end, but he did a good job of
35:19
starting fast, which I think is usually his issue in fights. Uh he was able to
35:24
put out three round version of himself. And McGee was super dangerous. I think I
35:30
don't think he loses anything from this fight. If anything, uh, you know, he'll have like a slightly less tough matchup,
35:38
but I think he'll learn a lot from this and be able to just come out even stronger afterwards. I absolutely agree.
35:45
Yeah. Oh, how cute was it when uh when Podan brought his kids in to the cage.
35:51
Oh, he's such a family man. He's so sweet. And his kids look like little clones, man. Like they literally
35:58
I I bet they're already doing like rounds aside like on the side of him
36:03
while he's training. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He He probably spars him. They're probably his training partners.
36:09
At least in the off season. Yeah. That got my my ovaries rumbling a little bit.
36:15
Oh my goodness. Just a tiny bit. Yeah. Well, uh what else fun happened?
36:23
We had uh Sherah versus Bar. Well, we kind of mentioned that before, but uh
36:30
yeah, that I I finally saw Shar kind of look more interesting.
36:38
Is that Would you say that you're a fan of his now? Have you forgiven him?
36:44
No, we're not there yet. We're not there yet. But yes, he did he did a great job moving laterally. He did a great job.
36:51
Um, even like stepping into another gear, like even in the third, whereas, you know, most people kind of gradually
36:57
declined, he I felt like pulled out like more volume in the third, which was
37:03
actually pretty impressive. Uh, how do you say his last name? Uh, Sharon Magamed.
37:09
No, no, no. Bar. Baralt. We'll say that. I know
37:15
somebody's gonna correct us. I want to do it right. We couldn't even get Qatar, right?
37:22
Calvin Kater. Calvin Quater. Qatar. It's Qatar or
37:29
I don't know. Somebody was mess making fun of us in the comments. We read them.
37:35
Well, bastards. But yes, it's always easy to make fun of people when you're on the other side of a
37:41
computer screen. Exact. When all you have to do is copy and paste like, "Oh, this is how you say it." Exactly. They can go do research and
37:47
study and act like they knew it right off the cuff. We can call him Mark.
37:53
Let's call him Mark. No, it was really hard. It was hard for uh Mark Andre to get out um to get past
38:00
the legs. Yes. Sher is one of those guys that does not throw punches before he kicks, but he
38:05
uses his kicks very well and stays at that kind of kicking range. Yeah, because he's fast with it. Like uh
38:11
we were talking about Yaya earlier getting hit off of that punch or getting
38:17
hit off of the naked kick, but he loads up. It's more of like a Muay Thai kick where you really like put your hip into
38:23
it. You can see it coming. He even like dips first before he starts to like get
38:29
his hips going and throw it up with Sh. He just goes He's very quick. He has no tells.
38:35
Yeah, there's no tells. It just zips up there. It's like Wonderboy, like all the karate guys. uh you know like when
38:40
you're when you have that quick twitch with the kick then you can get away with a lot more especially when you had a
38:45
speed advantage and that's what he had on uh Mark Andre but I think the most
38:51
impressive part for me was Sherah finally showing some grit. I feel like
38:57
usually when he gets a little adversity he kind of fades a little bit. He shrinks a little bit and I'm just like
39:03
dude this guy looks so vulnerable. When is somebody going to expose him? and we kind of got that with MVP, but it wasn't
39:10
really a game plan that's mimickable for most of the roster. But I feel like uh
39:17
Mark Andre, he was on to something. He was pushing him against the fence. He was getting in his face, making him come
39:24
forward, and then he hit that nice head off center and smashed
39:29
uh Sherah's nose. And I felt like that was the moment where he had to dig deep
39:35
and just like, you know, say [ __ ] it and continue to do the things that he was doing. Like he landed a nice elbow and
39:42
cut Mark Andre. But when he went for the elbow again, that's when he got that big
39:47
like nose crushing punch that happened. But eventually he was like, you know what, [ __ ] it. He went back to the well.
39:54
He started throwing those elbows again. He started flowing again. He was able to get back in the zone. And I feel like
39:59
before we've seen him break a little bit in those moments. Yeah. No, good for him. I I think this
40:04
is one of his more impressive showings that I've seen against somebody who is
40:10
just really tough and greedy. Yeah. Um as Mark Andre and I I really hope that they got fight of the night. I
40:16
think they did. Yeah. They very well should have because it was um it it was just competitive. Like
40:21
they both had, you know, big moments for both of them. They both fought it through adversity and I think that that
40:27
would, you know, be be who I would pick for it. What did you think about the 3027
40:34
scorecard? Because I know a lot of people were um giving Mark Andre the second round. I had him the second round.
40:39
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I completely disagree with that. He he took it to Sher and broke his nose
40:45
in the second round and he fought um you know, he pressed him against the cage a lot. He was dirty boxing, grinding. Heck
40:52
yeah, they got fighter. Good for them. No, it was well well it was a great fight. It was a really good fight.
40:59
Um and uh yeah, I think I think like like I said earlier, I'm being a hater,
41:04
but that was a fight that makes people who were on the fence about Sherah a fan, you know, like that. That's the
41:11
type of fight to propel him forward, to make him grow, and also just show that, hey, man, you you can hit him, but you
41:18
can't destroy him. You can't destroy him by taking him down and making him go, "Ah, now what?" you know, like he's
41:24
you're not going to win these rounds just by giving him a little pressure anymore. He's going to fight back. So,
41:30
he's definitely showing a lot of growth there. Um, I thought it was funny that
41:35
uh, you know, he had his post-fight speech after going to decision, which
41:41
doesn't always happen, but they he had the longest postfight speech.
41:47
I turned it off. I can't. It It was very Amanda Nunezesque, you know, like
41:55
But we like Amanda Nunez. Well, usually usually she's at the end of the card, though. So, at least people
42:01
can be like, "Hey." as they're walking out the arena. Fair point. It doesn't matter how deep you are in
42:07
the arena. By the time you're exiting, she's still talking. Yeah. Like, you can use the bathroom, get some popcorn.
42:15
Like, oh, you know, I'll get some overpriced popcorn on my way out. He's still talking once you leave. But it was
42:21
one of those. It was one of those. But I thought it was sweet that he uh he was inspired by his uh also partially blind
42:29
brother Michael Bismine. A how sweet. Well played.
42:35
Like I'm not going to get discouraged that I can't fight in most states in ES.
42:42
You know, they make they make room for him every card out there. So yeah. Wait, has he fought uh in the US a
42:50
lot? No. Or he hasn't? Right. No. Yeah. Yeah. Is it because of the I or is
42:55
it because it's either a visa thing or an I think. I I feel like it's probably that. Could be a combo of both.
43:01
Or maybe maybe he got in another street fight somewhere that we don't know about. Want it in all states.
43:08
Yeah. He seems like one of those people that would have a hard time. Troublemaker.
43:14
Yeah. troublemaker with one eye. Yeah. But uh but yeah, good for him being able
43:19
to get that win and just really show out and put on a really exciting fight. Um
43:25
and uh another one that I was really excited to watch was uh our our boy
43:32
Bogden. Oh, you love him? Yes. Bizarro Anthony Smith.
43:38
Yes. Have you ever watched Barry? That TV show Barry? I started trying to
43:43
watch it and I lost interest. It's pretty good. You should try it again. Should I? Yeah. Maybe tonight.
43:49
Yeah, it's a good one. Because he's a serial killer. Like that. You love [ __ ] like that. That's That's why I wanted to watch it.
43:54
And I'm like, why is this not like the first two episodes pulling me in? Yeah. The first two episodes don't grab
44:00
you, but then once you get past that, you're like, oh my god. I was like, why are you doing improv? Stop it. So yeah,
44:06
I don't want to see this. No, no, it gets good. It gets good. But
44:11
the reason I brought him up is because he looks like this guy this character on Barry called No Ho Hank. Do you know
44:18
what I'm talking about? I'm going to pull a hit man. He is like he he's like uh one of the
44:26
gang members that Barry ends up doing a lot of hits for and he's a really fun character. like he
44:34
that's part of the reason I think you're going to like it too because he's just like one of these really charismatic characters but you don't you don't
44:40
forget him once you see him act a few but yeah look there that's him right it's B
44:48
that guy was born to play a villain he is he was he's also very flamboyantly
44:54
gay it's really awesome but oh I love it like during the postfight speech I kept
44:59
seeing no ho hank when uh bogdam was But yo, that was a great uh that was a great
45:06
fight for him, too. He's finally coming out of his own. Now that Anthony Smith
45:11
is retired, he can have his own identity. Good for him. It's so exciting, you know. Um yeah, it was it was a nice What
45:19
was it? A right hand. Uh yes. Yes. No, maybe. Yeah, it was it was a
45:25
very nice win for him. Um, and I'm so glad that you mentioned this this Barry show because I'm kind of scraping the
45:31
bottom of the barrel with like all the things that I'm watching. I'm like on Amazon Prime right now trying to figure out,
45:37
you know, those like made for TV movies or, you know, those obscure
45:43
uh limited series kind of things. Yeah. Yeah. No, watch Barry. If anybody else has some like cool I
45:52
don't know. And have you watched Harley Quinn yet? No. Jess. Okay, put that on my list.
45:58
Harley Quinn, Barry. I'll think of some more. Guys, if you have any more, suggest them. I've I've watched
46:04
everything I feel like because I don't do anything but train and then come home
46:10
and watch TV with Adam. So, yeah. Uh, and play video games. Don't tell anyone
46:15
uh anyone who's on my PS5. But yeah, like you said, it was a right hand and
46:20
he hit him off of the naked kick. I keep telling you guys, don't throw the
46:26
kick naked because that's what happens. He kind of did a little shuffle in. And
46:32
Bogdan just like he saw it. He could see it coming. He like even said in his postfight speech, I knew this moment was
46:39
going to happen. I watched the tape. I did the research. Like I knew this moment was going to happen. And then
46:45
once he started getting the timing, he'd even dropped his hands in order to bait
46:50
him in to throwing that uh throwing that naked kick. And then once he threw it,
46:56
boom, right off of the top. Uh our our boy Dwight Grant used to throw this really crazy punch. I used to call it a
47:03
cartwheel punch because literally like his whole like back would
47:09
spin and like the person trying to kick him in the head would get punched in the face while kicking his back. Like it
47:16
it's just one of these things. If you're good at timing and just going straight down the pipe, then you can hit someone
47:21
every time with that. As long as they're not a karate guy, then it's a different game.
47:26
Once he once he can see those tells, you have to hide it with something. And uh that's that's what Krylov uh made the
47:34
mistake of. He he didn't hide the kick well enough for Bogdan to pick up on. He
47:40
got the big old big old punch over the top. And uh you notice uh we had a couple have you seen that like video
47:47
that's gone viral with the kid on the like the canoe boat and it's like a boat
47:54
race. It's like this little uh Asian kid. I think he's Asian or like from somewhere
48:01
perhaps Myanmar, perhaps a Burmese child. But there's
48:07
like this boat race that's like uh they like they all get in these long canoes
48:12
and and they're like paddling and there's like a kid on the front of the
48:17
canoe and he's doing this little dance just to keep everyone on beat. It's
48:23
like, you know, when you have the drum for the war drum for the march or whatever, he's like keeping everyone on
48:30
beat by doing this little dance in front of the boat. You haven't seen this? No. Ah, it's so fun. It's It's really cute.
48:36
I think you would like it. So, everyone's been mimicking that. Like, we had two people. I think uh Oh, um
48:43
Stephen W did that after he Oh, is that what that was? After he eyed up, what's the name? Yeah.
48:49
And then Bogdan did it, too. He jumped up on the cage and then his coach pretended to paddle and he was doing the
48:56
thing. Oh, I didn't get the reference. Ah, Jess, it's all over the internet.
49:02
I watch animals on the internet. Here, I'm finding. So, if there's not something four-legged
49:08
and adorable, I'm probably not seeing. He's pretty adorable even though he's on two legs.
49:14
Oh. Ah, it's too big. And it's not supposed
49:19
to. Okay, there you go. Yeah. How cute is he? I mean, he's kind of cute.
49:25
He's cute and they're going mad fast and he's just like grooving to it. Hey. Hey.
49:31
Yeah. Okay. Anyway, that's a thing on the internet. I would like a dog.
49:36
We should do a skit. Maybe we get some dogs in it. Make it more your speed. I'm in
49:43
I'll stand up on my horse and do it. Hey, that's cool. That'd be really cool.
49:48
Um, all right. What else? Oh, our boy Bryce Mitchell actually had a really
49:54
impressive debut at 135. So, the first round was
49:59
not going his way, but but this is not one of the cardio forwards.
50:04
Yes, he needs forot running in the mountains two, three years and then
50:10
forget it and then forget and then forget it. He'd be great. But he skips those days.
50:15
He skipped the stairs. He skipped the the mountain runs unfortunately because this guy is really talented and it makes
50:21
me so sad when somebody and I have experienced this before. I have gassed out in fights
50:26
and I have not been able to show what I really what I really could have should have would have done.
50:32
It hurts. Um no. Yeah, it hurts it hurts my soul. I I think about it sometimes.
50:37
Um and we saw that with uh the debut of uh Bushesa as well. We saw we
50:45
saw people who could have won the fight in a very impressive fashion but they
50:50
you know for whatever reason in preparation maybe nerves whatever it was their gas tank did not sustain them in
50:57
the fight and they ended up losing because of it and it breaks my heart. Yeah, there's so many factors that can
51:02
do it too. like not to uh crap on um um on S's camp. He might be doing his runs,
51:11
you know, but maybe he's not pushing it in the training room. Maybe he isn't
51:16
rehydrating properly. Maybe his weight cut is really hard. So, he gives his all
51:22
that he gives in training, but it doesn't feel the same in a fight because like you don't have as much to move
51:27
around. You're you're basically fighting sick for for anyone who's never done a weight
51:33
cut before. Like you're fighting like you just had food poisoning, you know? You don't have the same pop as you did,
51:39
you know, a few weeks ago on the mitts and you're like, "Oo, I feel good. I feel ready." And then you're like, "What happened?"
51:44
Yeah. Yeah. Why Why do I Why do I feel like a a a waif of myself?
51:52
A child. Yeah. Exactly. Um, but uh, Bryce Mitchell, he said that he hit pretty
51:58
hard. I think it's just a matter of that energy ex expulsion. You know, you have
52:05
to figure out where you can rest, where you can explode. And Bryce Mitchell was really good at that. Like he he got
52:11
dropped in that first round, but I got to say his striking or at least his movement on the feet looked better than
52:17
it has in his last few fights. Like win or loss, it looked way better. Um, maybe
52:24
it's a different camp, maybe it's the confidence at 135, but he just looked more comfortable on his feet, more like
52:31
a a vintage like Bryce Mitchell fight. And then when he would get into those
52:36
positions, like the scrambles looked a lot easier for him, too. So, yeah, he's able to be a little more of a bully down
52:43
there. I think uh at 135, as long as his, uh his, you know, his weight cuts
52:50
are are going to be safe and healthy, I think he can definitely thrive there.
52:55
Yeah. And I mean, I I think he's a great addition to bantamweight from, you know, what I got to see in this one. Um, I
53:02
mean it's it's a tough it's a tough top 10 though, but yeah, it's it's a steep steep hill
53:09
to climb. No. Yeah.
53:14
No, no pun intended. No pun intended. Steep mountain to climb. [Applause]
53:20
Three years. It's going to take two, three years and then forget it. Oh man. I I um I was cracking up when
53:26
they said that uh Bryce Mitchell runs all his fight camps at his own compound
53:31
and he like brings in fighters and coaches and stuff and they all just like live together and farm together. I was
53:38
like what if Jess would go I would for sure. I love the sound of
53:43
that. Yeah. You could like ride horses, plow the yards, um grow tomatoes, which you
53:52
love. Love me some tomatoes. I love harvesting. Harvesting. And honestly, when when I'm
54:01
figure it out, I don't think I don't think uh
54:06
[ __ ] horn. I don't think the mics can pick up on it, but we had to open the doors cuz it's a little hot in here.
54:14
Yeah, you need you need air flow in the summertime in San Diego. And someone's
54:19
beeping like crazy. They are pissed. Somebody is pissing somebody off. off and somebody's being a dick about it.
54:24
I want to do the thing where you peek outside with the with the broom.
54:29
Just sweep in the dirt. Don't mind me. I want to go be nosy. I know. I really want to see what's
54:36
happening. Painting the trees. I like I hope somebody's fighting somebody by now. Just Just handle it.
54:42
Maybe the ring camera will pick it up. Gosh, I hope so. One of your squirrel cameras.
54:48
What are we talking about? My bird buddy. Um, yeah, we were saying that uh Bryce Mitchell has a compound.
54:57
So nice. I bet he has a bunker, too. I bet self- self sustaining.
55:03
Yeah. For the end of the world. Yeah. But you probably have to like listen to one of uh Bryce Mitchell's
55:09
sermons at least once a week, which could or could not be
55:14
maybe a deal breaker for me. Normal a normal sermon.
55:20
How'd you like his postfight speech? I didn't listen. Oh, okay. Good.
55:25
Didn't. He's just He He's such a crusader. Like he he he's in a Muslim country. He's
55:32
like, "Uh, Jesus Christ gave me the armor to come in here above." And I'm
55:38
like, you know, I I respect the conviction. No, he's he's he's just a caricature of
55:46
of what he represents. like he is him. Like he can't like he can't make that
55:52
up. Nope. No. He stays true to himself. I respect it. Yes. Yes. Um what about
56:00
Oh, we have to talk about uh the the girls
56:06
elbow. Yeah. Out of nowhere. So, uh she did the same game plan, you know, like
56:12
she goes she looks for the press up against the wall. Oh, we're talking about Richi versus Revas. I think they
56:18
got that. I'm sure I'm sure they watched it. Ladies on the card. Uh Richi versus
56:23
Heibbis. Uh the first round looked kind of similar to what I thought we would
56:29
see. Reebus was trying to, you know, throw big stuff on the outside. Richi
56:34
pushes her up against the fence. Reebus gets a couple hip throws. Like that. It
56:39
was kind of the cadence that I thought we'd get to. What I did not expect was for a little elbow to destroy her eye
56:47
socket. Kind of shocking. Like it was What happened?
56:54
What happened? Um, it's crazy to me that it was so devastating because it's it's an intight elbow. And
57:00
I'm I'm, you know, not saying anything other than it is very hard to create that kind of
57:07
torque and power to completely take somebody out at that close range.
57:12
Well, you've seen her uh um conditioning videos.
57:19
She does like the wiggle. She does the wiggle, guys. Uh, go check
57:24
out Tabitha Reed's Instagram. I know you already have because you're all perves, but
57:29
it's the short shorts. Get them every time. She's She's very very gracious.
57:36
The pointy butt gracious with the cheeks. She has two shark fins that people go crazy over. Um,
57:44
but she does these like uh drills where she does the resistance bands and she just goes crazy. That was a very much a
57:52
a resistance band elbow, but it was a good read by her corner to go for it
57:57
because Richie wasn't blocking the hand from strikes. She was really just kind
58:03
of defending the under hook. She didn't want her to get deeper into the takedown and be able to get something and get
58:09
heavy on top. So, she was kind of lazy with this arm and just like really just
58:15
keeping her elbow in. And the corner was like, "Go for elbows there." And that's what she did. And she landed. Every time
58:22
she went for that elbow, it landed right on that same spot on the eye socket. And then eventually she just crumbled. And I
58:29
thought it was really strange how quickly uh Ree was just like, "No, no,
58:35
not the stoppage." Because she she covered up. She wasn't defending herself. I thought it was a fair
58:41
stoppage, but I thought it was weird how quickly they whisked her out of there. Like she had the ice pack on her head.
58:46
She's like, "Bye, guys. Sorry, I'm not laughing at it. But but it was just like what is happening? Like
58:53
that was that was just kind of weird to me. Like usually because they're women.
59:00
What do you mean? Is that why it was weird to me? No, no, no. Is that why they whisk them out fashion?
59:05
Yeah. Instead of like Linda damage. I guess I'm just nosy. Like I'm out there with my broom. Like
59:14
let me see what that eye look like, you know? like, "Show it to me."
59:19
It It felt a lot like when Misha Tate won the fight against Holly Holm, but
59:25
she had the towel over her face. She does that any anytime that girl had damage on her face. No, no, no. I will
59:31
never forget this. I think it was a Strikeforce fight. I'm sorry. I I freaking think she's
59:37
awesome and she's a vet and she's done amazing things. She's dope. But she has this habit. She has this
59:43
habit of like anytime she had damage, she'll like pull the hair over. So
59:49
she'll take she goes Aaliyah style. And I remember it was right when she don't succeed.
59:56
So it was right when she was like rebranding herself as cupcake instead of takedown. So she had a really big black eye. I
1:00:03
forget who she fought. and she like combed her hair out and like you know how like when they do the braids they
1:00:09
put all the stuff in your hair so it's really like Yeah. It's like 80s looking.
1:00:14
Yeah. So she pulls it over like very obviously trying to hide it and she's just sitting there with her cupcake and
1:00:20
there was cupcake in her hair and I'll never forget this visual. I'll never forget it. But I was like oh wow. She doesn't like showing it's like damage.
1:00:27
Yeah. She doesn't like showing the damage. So there are people out there that are just private about it. She's protecting the brand. The brand is
1:00:33
I have a beautiful face and it's beautiful every time I fight. And if you
1:00:39
get [ __ ] up, people might that might be the image people see when you actually look cute. They'll remember the
1:00:46
big swollen alien eyeball like Yaya had. So, I get it. But, you know what could
1:00:52
have been good product placement for her? If it was a puffy eye, she could have put like the little a little icing
1:00:59
around it. Maybe a little cherry right in the middle. Different different branding.
1:01:05
Just a little. She's be like,
1:01:11
she's not as off as off the cuff as you are. She's not as creative. Not as playful. She could have got the paper like cut it
1:01:18
out, taped it on to Oh, yeah. A little eye patch out of that cupcake thing.
1:01:23
Yeah. Yeah. They think it was like a prosthetic, but it's really her eye. But she could just pretend that it was a
1:01:29
cupcake. Next time. Next time. Next time. Uh, yeah. So, I thought that was weird, but
1:01:35
kudos to Reichi for getting that finish like that. I feel like finishes are what
1:01:41
you need in order to stand out in straw weight. And she was able to do that. Maybe redeem herself a little bit after
1:01:47
the uh the Yan fight and boost herself right back up to where she was before
1:01:53
that before fighting me. And what do you think about Hebus? I
1:01:59
think that Hebis should I feel like she does better at 125. That's just me.
1:02:05
Well, yeah, that that's the other point I was trying to make with the with the damage thing. Like I feel like that
1:02:11
wouldn't have happened to her if she didn't have a hard weight cut. Yeah, she's a bigger girl. I mean, she's
1:02:16
not huge for 125, but she is for straw weight. And so I feel like if she was
1:02:23
able to stay a little bit healthier with her weight cut and stay at flyweight,
1:02:29
um, she could maybe take that kind of damage, it wouldn't affect her as much as a little bit more cushion to to
1:02:36
soften the blows. Yeah, exactly. Like if you think about the amount of fat you lose everywhere,
1:02:42
like we've talked about the surprising areas you lose fat, like you'll look down and just be like, "What the heck?
1:02:49
Why does it look like that?" like so skinny. It looks like Ren Stimpy's mouth.
1:02:57
But uh yeah, you you lose weight everywhere, including your face, and you
1:03:02
don't really rehydrate that in a day. So like the amount of pressure that like
1:03:08
your forehead, your eye socket, any any part that usually has a little bit of cheek, a little bit of puffiness there
1:03:14
is gone. and you're just fighting bone on bone with people because you decided
1:03:19
to cut a lot of weight. I mean, looking at Bryce Mitchell's uh body while he
1:03:25
fought, it took me a while to register that's Bryce Mitchell because he's all skin and bones all of a sudden. Before
1:03:31
he caricature of himself. Yeah. Before he looked like a a little farm boy tough, you know, like that farm
1:03:37
boy body and now he looks more like uh like a little skeleton, like a little
1:03:42
little teenager, you know? Well, it just it it takes something away from you. But in his case, it benefited him. I think
1:03:49
in Reebas's or in Hebas's case, she is probably a little healthier at 125. Like
1:03:56
I've always talked about there's middle weight classes, too. They were talking about having a 165 weight class. I think
1:04:03
with the women's divisions, the 10 pounds is a really big jump. Like they could have 110, they could have 120. She
1:04:09
could be a perfect 120 pounder, you know. But um but yeah, she's she's too
1:04:14
big. Like uh when I was supposed to fight her back in COVID times and she
1:04:20
got COVID, she they tried to rebook the fight for like maybe two or three weeks
1:04:27
later and I think it was just like one of those like oh she got the some actually no she got sick. So I don't
1:04:33
think the fight would have happened two 3 weeks later anyway. But they wanted to rebook it at 125 and I'm like, "No,
1:04:40
no." They did the same thing when um I was supposed to fight Goldie. Yeah. Yeah. And she tested positive for CO. They
1:04:47
tried to rebook it 2 weeks later at 125. I was like, "No, no." Like, we're not big.
1:04:53
No, you already cut a ton of weight. And she would have to cut weight in order to make 125 and I would have to
1:05:00
eat, you know? So, thank you. No, no, it's not fair. So, uh, she's definitely a bigger a
1:05:09
I'm trying not to cuss. Why? Definitely a bigger [ __ ] You know, she's slightly bigger [ __ ] than
1:05:17
uh a lot of the other straw weights. So, I think if she's more healthy, she definitely performs better at 125.
1:05:24
Yeah, she can toss people around easily. Yeah. And I I say all the time, I'm not sure why she's still ranked at 115 when
1:05:31
she's been doing very not good at 115. It It's interesting. And there's a lot
1:05:38
of um time in between when she competes at 115. So, it just doesn't really make sense. I think she has the win over Durn. Is
1:05:46
that the one? Or was it a win over Viera? She has a win over somebody who's
1:05:52
like top five now. She fought Durn twice, right? Yeah, maybe. I forget.
1:05:58
No, wait, no, she lost to Durn. She lost to Durn. Um, who does she have a win over
1:06:05
at 115? I think it's Va.
1:06:11
And that I feel like that's the only win that keeps her whatever that win is, that's the only win that keeps her
1:06:18
and Oh, she beat Lana Pinera. Yeah, she beat Vienna
1:06:23
and she beat Viona four years ago and that's why she's
1:06:30
ranked in top 15. So look, Angela Hill canceled twice. Yeah, I know.
1:06:35
She has a lot of cancels. That hoe can't make weight. That's why.
1:06:41
Um, but she's a sweet girl. She's not a hoe. She's normal. That's just what girls
1:06:46
a normal nice girl. Yeah, she's a normal nice girl. Don't Don't misquote me.
1:06:52
I don't worry, I won't clip that. I'm just gonna only quit me clip me
1:06:58
calling her a big [ __ ] in a hoe. On repeat on a loop. Yeah. Amanda Heis
1:07:06
and you mispronouncing her name, too. Amanda Reebasis. Heis. Big [ __ ] hoe.
1:07:12
Like, how's this clip Monday? Do it. I don't give a [ __ ] anymore. Just let him
1:07:19
know what I'm really like. Bitter and angry and a hater.
1:07:26
So salty. Full of salt. If you ate me, I'd taste like shard. Not for much longer. You got to start
1:07:32
cutting that out. Oh, I know. Oh, no.
1:07:40
It's fine. It'll be worth it when I make her eye look like yayas. You collect her
1:07:47
head. Not the other way around. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Oh, man. I don't have
1:07:54
the heads. I know. I didn't I didn't figure it out in time.
1:07:59
You don't have time. Yeah, I do have time. I have a week. Two weeks out now. Yeah, two weeks. I have two weeks.
1:08:05
Can be your arts and craft for fight week. Yeah, that's true. It's true. I just got to find some. There's definitely
1:08:12
there's a Hobby Lobby in Vegas. Yeah, there's definitely lots of places I can get crafts. Yeah, you got those.
1:08:18
Yeah, bring it back. Bring the crafts back. Yeah. All right. Well, uh, any other fights
1:08:24
you wanted to mention? No, I thought we were cutting it short today. Yeah, I think we're good. I think that's
1:08:29
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We're going to do another one. Like, you guys, you missed your opportunity. We're not sending you anything. But we'll do another one um after my fight
1:09:04
and maybe I'll steal some stuff from bearing gifts. She's going to steal me a windbreaker, too.
1:09:09
A windbreaker. Which one? Red or brown or blue? The blue one. The blue one. Yeah. With the little chip chip.
1:09:17
I would have thought you wanted the blue. I mean the brown. No, I want the blue. Oh, interesting. Thought you'd want it
1:09:24
to match your eyes. My eyes are hazel. Yeah, the brown is like a light brown.
1:09:31
There's no green in there. You don't gaze longingly into my eyes. Apparently, you don't know what color my eyes are. I
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thought they were black. [Laughter]
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Continue. Thank you. Please continue to watch. Yeah. Uh, so
1:10:43
what do we have next week? All right. Next week we have UFC Fight Night. Albazzi versus Tyra.
1:10:51
Ooh, Tatsura. Tyra. Yes. I love you, [ __ ]
1:10:57
This catchphrase. It's adorable. I can't understand it. Ah, you know what
1:11:03
he said. You know what he said. H yes, Tatsur Tyra is fighting. And um
1:11:14
yeah, who do you got in that one? Um Quickfire, I'm going to go with Albazi.
1:11:19
Okay. Um although I know that they they really like Tyra and they're
1:11:25
going to give him, you know, good matchups, good opportunities, but he's coming off of a loss, right?
1:11:32
Who's Wait, who did he just fight? Hold on. Let me pull this up. I know nothing.
1:11:39
I've got you. I've got you. Hold on. I'm digging. Uh, so yeah, he lost to Brandon Royval. He beat Alex Perez. That's when
1:11:45
he did the weird uh terrible knee injury thing. Lit decision against Roy Val. Do you remember
1:11:53
who you thought won? No, I thought Roy Val won. Okay. No, I do remember that. I remember. Um
1:11:58
it was it was a big step up for him and I thought that I think Royal out struck
1:12:04
him and just like kind of outvetted him, you know. Yeah. So this is another big step up um to you
1:12:11
know a a veteran who's been uh you know doing pretty well. So we'll we'll see
1:12:17
how he does. They have I think that they have like um high hopes for Tyra because he he's been you know pretty
1:12:24
impressive. He's a very talented young man. Yeah. And Amamira Bazi, he um he's
1:12:29
really good on the ground. Uh lots of um lots of finishes. He finished uh
1:12:35
Francisco Figeredo with uh Reikoke uh Alessandro Costa with uh uppercut. Nice.
1:12:44
And then went to split decision with Kai Carrance. His last fight was Brandon Moreno. Lost a decision to him in
1:12:51
November last year. So, uh, yeah, this is probably like a just one person
1:12:57
cancels out the other. We'll see who gets to get that big step up. And man, I
1:13:02
don't know. I like I feel like Tatsu Tyra, we don't know how good he or he
1:13:10
hasn't hit his like stride of being like the best version of himself yet. No, he's still young.
1:13:16
Yeah. So, I feel like he can get out veteraned again. So, I'm I'm going to go with your pick, too. I'm gonna pick
1:13:22
Albazi for this one. So, I'm not excited about the come, but I actually seeing uh seeing this one,
1:13:30
the one just below that Elvis Brener and Estabbon. You're not even going to talk about it.
1:13:36
No, Rivik. Wow.
1:13:42
Sorry. No, I'm excited about this one. Chris Duncan, Scottish. You should be
1:13:47
excited about him because he's Adam Adam's uh brethren. his country.
1:13:52
Oh my god, look at Butcher eating his foot. Are you all right? He's mad that you didn't want to talk
1:13:57
about the coming event. Oh, sorry. Anyway, okay. You like Rivets versus
1:14:04
Brener? Yeah, I think this is going to be a fun one. I'm giving Brener a slight edge just cuz um I don't know, a little bit
1:14:10
little bit bigger, a little bit more uh dynamic in the striking, but Rivix is I
1:14:16
mean, he's a gamer. He's aggressive. Uh, lots of volume. I just feel like Elvis is my pick for this
1:14:24
one. That was so crazy when he got that head kick off of uh, Terrence McKini. I remember watching that. I'm like, "All
1:14:30
right, here comes Ter." Oh god. Yeah. Yeah. With um with this match is
1:14:37
definitely going to be um, less kill or be killed, I think. But yeah, we'll
1:14:44
we'll see who ends up uh getting the win. He uh uh Briner is just coming off
1:14:50
of a knockout, too. So, I feel like that always gives like the the crazy kickboxer, the striker a bit of an edge.
1:14:58
So, I'm going to go um Esen for this one. Got you.
1:15:06
And then we have Carol Rosa versus Nora Cornol.
1:15:12
I'm actually not very familiar with her. Yeah, she I I remember seeing her
1:15:17
recently. She won a won a fight. Um Oh, she beat Haley.
1:15:22
Yes, I remember that. You know, I'm gonna go with Carol Rosa for this one, though. Yeah. Again, with the veteran stuff, I
1:15:28
feel like Rosa has had some really good performances even off of her losses. Uh
1:15:34
she has like that nasty leg kick that she destroys people. She is really
1:15:39
technically sound. Yeah, she is. I think if she just puts a little more like finishing touches on
1:15:45
everything she does after the calf kick, like calf kick to the punches, like use it to set up the head strikes and I'm
1:15:52
sure that's what she's been working on. Um, with Ailen Perez, she had to just like defend the takedown over and over
1:15:58
again. So, you saw her look a little a little more green on the ground than Ailen, but uh I think Perez brings like
1:16:05
an underrated ground game. I think people are so used to just watching her twerk that they forget that she has some
1:16:11
skills. No, she's a killer. She puts in work. She works hard. She fights hard. Um and
1:16:17
that was I kind of counted her out in the Carol Rosa fight because I just kind of didn't give her the respect that she
1:16:25
deserved with her takedown ability. Yeah, she's good at getting a takedown and staying on you. She's sticky once
1:16:31
she gets there. And like when you have someone who's that little ball body type, like if they grip on to you, it's
1:16:37
so hard to get them off of you. So yeah, I I like that one. I like uh Carol Rosa
1:16:43
against Nora. I think she's just going to use her veteraness and she learned some good lessons in her last one. And
1:16:50
then we have the Broki Nil Magny versus uh Alexi.
1:16:59
Oh, do Santos. Ooh. Oh, this is this going to be a good one.
1:17:06
Los Santos is Oh, I'm kind of leaning towards him. Oh, no. I know. I mean, I'm rooting for Neil
1:17:12
Magny. Uh, you know, he's he's again a vet, but um ah do Santos is freaking good. He's
1:17:19
pretty good. He's lost to some good people, but he uh he knocked out Zack
1:17:24
Scrogggins with punches in November and then he lost to Chitty uh via knees and
1:17:31
elbows. Remember we we broke that fight down, right? Uh we kind of saw
1:17:37
that he was going to be open to that. I think Neil Magny has been doing good work in the clinch as well recently, but
1:17:44
he did get caught with that elbow um in uh I think his second to last loss. Yeah, against Michael Morales. So, yeah.
1:17:52
I'm I'm wondering this is a tough to see which one which version of Neil shows up. Like sometimes
1:17:59
he takes We've seen him like lose because he like steps up on short notice. He's always like a company man
1:18:04
and stuff like that. So, I feel like it kind of clouds my judgment with him. Yeah. I'm happy he's had at least half a
1:18:10
year off. Yeah. Since the Carlos Prattz fight. Like you he needed time to let his brain heal.
1:18:17
And when he got that fight uh so soon after getting dropped by Michael Morales, I was I was just like really
1:18:24
kind of like my heart sunk a bit. Like I I was rooting for him, but I was also like man like your brain doesn't heal
1:18:30
that fast. It's a bad It's a a bad combination of things. It's a bad event. Yeah. So, I'm glad he has some time now.
1:18:37
He's healed up, feeling feeling antsy and ready to go. So, I'm going to go
1:18:42
with the Broki on this one. I think he can get it done. I hope so.
1:18:49
I'm rooting for him. Yeah. Anyone else you want to uh highlight?
1:18:54
No, we good on this card. All right. Well, thank you. Heard it. We good. Oh, we do have
1:19:00
some straw weights. We should probably talk about them real quick. I didn't see that. I missed that. Oh, it's hidden down here.
1:19:05
Yeah. Over on the prelims, of course, that's where they love to put us. Uh Lafier Pier Rodriguez is fighting
1:19:14
Caitlyn Sa. Why isn't it not on my card? Um I have the tapology up.
1:19:20
So maybe that's why. Maybe maybe it already got cancelled. It doesn't even say cancel on the It
1:19:26
doesn't even show that it's up there. But I'll cheat on figures. Uh let's see if they're on the prelim
1:19:32
side over here. Just make sure it's happening. Oh, that's where I'm looking. Yeah, there it is. Pierre Rodriguez
1:19:39
versus Catelyn Sza. It's not on mine. Go to prelims, babe.
1:19:44
I was. Oh, there it is. A
1:19:49
that was like a fight. You're having like fight camp. Uh listen, it's been a long week. You're
1:19:55
right. I was just out in the sun all day.
1:20:00
Oh, like fight camp brain is my job right now. Oh my gosh. I'm supposed to be having fight camp
1:20:05
brain. Sorry, you're you're not in it alone. I just wanted you to feel, you know, uh I'm happy you're going through the
1:20:11
sympathy pains. Yes. Yes. I got you.
1:20:16
I can't be the only one stressing and forgetting [ __ ] and missing out on things right in front of my face. I get
1:20:23
so mad. Like uh it's always in fight camp, especially when you get down to like the really tough weeks, I'll be
1:20:31
going out the door and then I'm like, "Where's my phone? Where's my phone? Where's my phone? Where where's where's my [ __ ] phone?" And then I realize
1:20:37
I'm holding it in your hand. Yeah. It's like the the lack of carbs and just like the hard work. It you just
1:20:44
It just starts like wearing on you. I literally like I feel like crazy if I
1:20:50
don't have carbs. Sucks. It It's just It's really rough. Like if anybody has ever has ever tried a low
1:20:57
carb diet, I don't know how you live like that. It is It is awful.
1:21:02
It sucks, man. But like luckily I can eat carbs up until like actual fight
1:21:08
week. But for me, it's like the time management, the like thinking about
1:21:16
everything, the stressors, like, oh, am I doing enough? Am I doing too little? It's like my brain always feels like
1:21:23
it's a million different places when I'm in fight camp. So, when it comes to like
1:21:28
doing normal things, like putting things in my bag and then remembering that I put them in my bag,
1:21:36
like I feel like I empty out my bag so many times during fight camp just because I don't know if I put my wallet
1:21:42
in there or not and then I can't find it until I get all the way down to the bottom. So, it it's just one of those things
1:21:48
where it's just like, ah, there's a lot going on in your brain and it's hard to focus. But, I digress. La Pierre
1:21:55
Rodriguez versus Katlyn Sza. Uh, do you think she will headbutt Katelyn in this
1:22:03
fight? I hope she has learned her lesson because last time she did that, it didn't go well for her.
1:22:08
No, it wasn't it wasn't nice. Um, she was actually at Alliance the other day
1:22:14
at Alliance San Diego. Really? Yeah. And she was not as like chill as
1:22:20
she was last time she came through. Oh, she was a little standoffish. What' she do?
1:22:26
She she was she took the class that like I think Jenna was teaching and um what's
1:22:33
her name? Uh our girl um [ __ ] I can't think of her name.
1:22:40
Uh she's her bestie. Yeah, her bestie. The the girl that is doing kickboxing now, but she was inc
1:22:47
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Why can't I think of her name now? [ __ ] horrible person.
1:22:53
This is fight camp brain because I know her name, but she she was doing a Muay Thai fight and so Lafier was down there
1:23:01
um with her people and they took Jenna's class and uh yeah, she was just kind of like
1:23:08
like and finally I went up to her after class and I was like, "Hey, how's it going?" And she's like, "Good."
1:23:15
Wow. Well, then don't come here. Friendly. I know you speak English.
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Go home. I think I started at your own gym. Well, I think I think I started asking
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her a little too much and then but like in English and then she was just like so
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I don't know if she just doesn't speak as much English or if she was being shady.
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I'm going to say she just doesn't speak as much English because I don't like people not liking me.
1:23:44
Shady. I don't like people not liking me. But yeah, she was she was uh she was at the
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gym, but she is getting ready to fight Caitlyn Sosa, someone that I fought before. Um, how do you see that fight uh
1:23:58
going? Oh, that's the last person I fought. Yeah. I see I see Rodriguez's taking her down.
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I see Rodriguez pushing the grappling. Hopefully not headbutting. Yeah, hopefully not. Um uh I think
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Katlin's going to go big. Uh they both kind of go big, but I think Katlin's definitely going to be scrappier on the
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feet. Um and Vieira, yeah, she's going to go for those takedowns and and try to
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control on the ground. She looked really good. Um what was it in her was it the
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DQ one? No, in the Josephine Nutson one, she she was got a lot of takedowns,
1:24:35
right? Yeah, I remember. And then in the Colonel one, she was looking good in the striking department, too. And like I I don't know
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if she just saw red, but she was just like, "I hate you." And
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then got the heat for no reason. She was winning. Why did you do that?
1:24:55
Yeah. So, uh, yeah, Caitlyn's got a little work cut out for her, but I do think she's really a really strong
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competitor. And yeah, we'll see what that looks like next weekend. And I get
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another pass fight or past uh what do you call it? Opponent fight before my
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fight in two weeks. So that'll be really fun and totally not uh stress inducing
1:25:19
for me to sit and watch that. It's fine. You won. I get the sweats.
1:25:27
Uh all right. Well, that's all we got for this week. Tune in next week. Uh,
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just do a quickie next week. Do like a like a reaction. Zoom it.
1:25:40
You want to zoom it? I like it on the street. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll do it. We'll we'll sit down and actually do
1:25:46
something. But we'll see you next week. Don't get your hopes up. No. Well,
1:25:52
what are you doing? Playing with their emotions. Don't expect too much. No, you'll see all the emotions of Fight Week. So, you
1:25:59
actually should tune in because it's really interesting. You might see her breakdown. You might see me cry like this. Just
1:26:05
Jess just has to like ask the right questions. If Jess just Jess knows how to push my
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button. So if you guys want to see me cry, you want to see me shake the cage, let her know in the comments.
1:26:18
Shake it. Shake it. I'll do it for you guys.
1:26:24
[Laughter] Justice mounts me. Get up. It'll be so
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much fun. It be like Ronda Rousey's mom just like arm bars me halfway through the show. Defend it. Defend it.
1:26:39
It would be It would come from love. Yeah, exactly. Making sure you're staring.
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Yeah. So, tune in next week. It's going to be a great show. Bye.