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UFC Edmonton: Moreno is BACK! Reactions with UFC vets Angela Hill and Jessica Penne
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Nov 7, 2024
After a slow start it was non-stop action at #UFCEdmonton! Though not many fights were changed by the new rules, they weren't lacking in the violence department. Between Brandon Moreno reminding us of his champion abilities, Blanchfield eeking out a decision against Namajunas for that #1 contender spot and lots of crazy finishes, UFC gave the Canadian fans a lot to talk about over their maple syrup and weird bacon this morning eh? 01:30 Brandon Moreno vs Amir Albazi reminded us why we love the baby assassin. 8:29 What’s next for these guys? All the top flyweights are at least Eskimo brothers at this point. 18:57 Erin Blanchfield vs Rose Namajunas, who won round 4??? 24:20 Should Rose have tried to use more grappling? 27:35 Blanchfield calling out Grasso might’ve been a smart move. 30:27 Fan Question time! When will we sell merch? Good question! (We didn’t pay him to ask that) 31:40 Jasmine Jasudavicius looked phenomenal on her main card spot vs Ariane Da Silva. 39:10 Member question! Does moving up a weight-class affect your movement? 42:04 Ivana Petrovic’s wall smoosh game explained vs Jamey-Lyn Horth (side note: never give up good position for a nip slip!) 47:15 What was Eric Colon thinking giving Albazzi round 1?! 49:50 Charles Jourdain looking super impressive at 135 vs Victor Henry 54:42 Preview of our bonus episode available now for members and Tuesday for errybody else! Become a member! Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join Powered by Duelbits. Use our link or code "2Straws" to place your picks!
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and we're back hey guys hey coming off of an exciting night of
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fights in Edmonton yeah Edmonton
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um what a fun place very have they been there before I think so but I think it's
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been a really long time they tend to go to like Vancouver and Toronto a little bit more Alberta is that a place in
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Canada that's Edmonton Alberta oh it is oh okay they have been there before yeah
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okay it's just been a while it's been a while been a long time sorry I thought that was mine I'm like where is I need
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that yeah like why is that on my leg all right so we had some pretty exciting
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fights it was a dull night at first like I was a little worried because I was watching from you know from the bottom
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to the top and I'm like I don't know if I can make it through this card this is
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one of the first times when the prelims didn't outshine the main card it was
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like it was a slow burn it was a buildup very slow as they used every minute of time that
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they had before the main card started almost every minute there was like maybe
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one I think finish on the prelims maybe one or two but it was it was a long
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night before the main card started but the finishes
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really made the night and you know I was I was really enjoying the Mareno fight
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too I thought that fight was um probably the best we've seen Mareno
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in a long time I thought he looked really good his his boxing his range his
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um his jab his up jab his uppercut everything was just really nice he was he was setting up albazi really nicely
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and albazi was having a really hard time you know getting getting into the pocket getting in range for those takedowns and
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when he did get in uh Brandon made it look easy to shuck him off yeah it was
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uh you could tell what albazi was thinking when they went through their game planning uh you knew you could tell
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that they were looking for the leg kicks they were looking for um that steping
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knee when Mareno starts to dip his head and they were looking for the takedowns and none of that stuff was there like
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Marino did that typical thing where like you see on tape what is a guy's weakness
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and you try to do it you try to do it you try to do it but I feel like he didn't work enough on his own weaknesses
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in his uh come up to this fight and I think the main problem with his attack
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was that his head was just on the center line the entire time I think that you know to to Brandon's credit I think that
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he pushed albazi back so much that albazi didn't have an opport Unity to have that forward offense to to really
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set up takedowns he was constantly on the defense constantly being being pushed back or met with that jab and I
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mean we do have to take into consideration albazi was out with some serious injuries and at that level to to
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come back off of an injury that really puts you off of the mats for a long time and Rehab is extensive um to get right
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back in the mix with Brandon Mareno that was that was a tall order and I think that um you know after after this fight
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he'll have a lot of you know good footage to look at what he needs to work on and improve from there but that was a
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really big step you know out of injury into competition yeah against um someone
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who's just been fighting the best of the best and maybe showing holes in his game
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against the best of the best so when you're coming in you don't have that high level experience you haven't really
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beaten anyone at that top level you think you can pull off the same things that these other guys can and suddenly
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you realize oh that's harder than looks it's harder than looks to take down Brandon Marino especially because every
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time you fight someone it's going to be the best version of of themselves until
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they start that Decline and I think that was the biggest question is Brandon Moreno on the decline and because he's
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had a few losses because he doesn't have the belt anymore it's easy to assume that but he's just been fighting the
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best of the best and I think when you shake up that top of the division with the with um with the uh flyweights when
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you shake that up you're going to get a different outcome every time if you're fighting uh Pantoja if you're fighting
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Mareno if you're fighting Roy Val if you're fighting even ersc you know you're going to get a different um
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you're going to get a different result every time because they're so evenly matched and I think um albazi even
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though he's performed really well against lower competition you can see that he still
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needs to get those reps in there he needs to get that uh cage time and that experience so he can pull off his game
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he's always been kind of a slow starter too and I thought that might hinder him a bit in this fight and uh yeah you
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could just see it when when he would start to land Marena would start slipping and
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dipping and Landing as he came up and a lot of that stuff was really throwing him off just missing things that usually
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land for him or going for takedowns and Marino just scooting out of it and getting up not not taking a step not
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like skipping a beat he would just like boom butt hits the floor he's popping up right away and when you're fighting
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lower level competition you get that takedown you can probably take a second to be like o I got it and then climb up
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on top of them but not with someone like Mareno not with someone that scrambly someone who has something to prove to
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like Brandon Mareno taking a fight of for taking a fight with someone who's so
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much lower ranked than him you go in there not just to prove something to
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people but to prove something to yourself you want to know that hey just because I've been losing every now and
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then to these top guys it doesn't mean that I'm any less of a monster to everyone else and I think he went in
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there with a really solid game plan with a really good head on his shoulders his chin looked good his striking looked
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good he was really aware of every attack that was coming there was one check that
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he hit in maybe the fourth round he checked like a calf kick and it hurt me
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like I was like ooh he's not throwing that calf cake anymore cuz he just leaned into it perfectly just
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like hit the hit the outside of the shin with the top of his knee and little
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moments like that are what make someone in the top five so much different from someone in the top like 15 to six like
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little things like that being able to pick up on those moments so I was really impressed with Brandon Moreno I think a
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lot of people were counting him out it was kind of one of those pick them fights where you're like we're not sure who's going to show up so it could go
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either way but I Mareno just reminded everyone what kind of Beast he was it
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was good to watch yeah it was nice it was a nice win for him he's definitely got his eye on the priz yeah and just a
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correction there were two submissions in the prelims but that was after four long
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ass fights four long ass fights including
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the heavyweight fight Alexander Romanov and Rodrigo nasimo basically looked like
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the two were staring at each other it was a staring match more than a fight so
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that one felt even longer and there was a nutshot so it was like a 30 minute fight so
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after that we had two submissions and the rest of the card was pretty crazy um so yeah it was just a slow
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start it'll it'll do you it'll erase your memory it'll confuse you with what actually happened it happens all the
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time why are we stuck this is the longest weekend of my life we stuck in a Vortex time has stood
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still Edmonton is [Laughter]
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asleep so yeah I really enjoyed that fight um what do you think is next for
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Brandon Marino after a performance like that well I mean it it puts him right
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back up in the mix I I think because he has you know he's been kind of on a skid
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or you know hasn't gotten the the belt back I think that it's but I think it
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puts him back in the mix like the the number one or two spot for who's next in
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line well let me pull up the rankings really fast yeah his uh his last loss
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was Pantoja but I think uh oh no his last loss was Roy Val it was a really close
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fight with that one um but he had two losses recently Roy Val and Pantoja both
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really good guys um so yeah I mean I kind of want to see them put him against
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Kara France because I don't think that they'll give him because they have um
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royval in the queue after this next title defense or this next title
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challenge um I think that royval has a
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pleads a better case for next in line uh but I think that after Kar France's last
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fight against um you yusk what God damn
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it IG oh okay I was like I was like our friend our old grappling coach like who
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the no I think after what he did to to ersc uh a couple months ago I think it's
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been I think that I'd really like to see Brandon Marino against Kara France so
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that would be their third time fighting I know but I want to see it and Marino's two and 0 it just makes it just makes
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see that's what I mean it's so hard how about Marino versus
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ersc that hasn't happened yet yet yeah but just lost badly yeah just just throw
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Marino another bone get him a a Mexico City fight get him like you know out
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accolades isn't going to turn it down Mareno might be interested it was a it was a good uh
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couple seconds of a fight before he got knocked out so I think um I don't know
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it's a weird one because when you bring in these guys I mean he could just fight for the title or win or lose fight that
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uh the Japanese guy who's coming in asakura like maybe maybe that could be his next fight win or lose between uh
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oakor and panta well if oor loses I could see them being paired up yeah yeah
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I could see that too but it would make a case for Marino because it won't be a remat match if he wins it won't be a
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rematch and he's right up there in the top of the list or we could even do Tyra do you think that they would give Tyra
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and Mareno a chance uh what was his last fight Tyra F fought Ral and lost
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decision yeah I don't know that one was that one super close I don't I don't
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remember no I mean yes and no no it was competitive it was competive but royval just showed that he's a veteran yeah it
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was it was he raw dogged him I remember now it was as he does he just raw
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dogged he just raw dogged his way to that fight I mean that it's hard to uh
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deny Roy V that spot too for the winner but I would be interested in seeing uh
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Tyra trying to make a comeback against Marino I think just because his decision maybe that would be a decision loss that
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he uh had it would be more likely than ersc but I don't know I feel like ersc
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kind of slid in under the radar same with that asakura guy and there's a lot of guys who are willing to jump in there
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and and fight yeah it's hard the the top five are just it's it's like a everybody's
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dated everyone it's like what about one degree of separation I know right is it's like dating in Hawaii it's um what
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do you call it uh they're all Eskimo brothers yes yeah what about um manell
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cop who's he fought recently he just fought uh makave M he was pantsed during the fight
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he was pantsed yeah that was was a really weird fight though I feel like that wasn't totally a loss just because
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of how weird it was it was a weird one I I I don't know he's almost to the top
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five but I don't know I don't know who I would put cop against I would I would be
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interested in seeing cop versus Marino I think it would be an exciting fight
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there's like a lot of dangers there for him because he hits hard he likes to move he he's also kind of a slow starter
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um which Marino could capitalize on but he can't let his guard down so I'd be
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interested in seeing uh seeing star boy try to try to take Marino out because Marino is dropping all the way down to
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number eight yeah but he just fought uh what was it number that guy's ranked
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pretty low that he just fought yeah true fair um it was like 12 or something or
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11 no what is was he not even ranked nah he was ranked
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oh he was number three number three my bad how is he number three I know with the long layup they kept him up in the
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rankings that's weird yeah so you know okay maybe he won't drop down that low
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but I'd like to see it happen and what I was going to say is Marino's in this weird position where he's fought
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everyone at the top he doesn't have the belt he's not going to get the
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opportunity to fight the next biggest star until they lose if they're on their
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way to a title shot so you end up with the tatsuda Tyas you end up with Roy v a
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million times you end up with you know what I mean so it's he's in a spot where
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he is going to have to take a few fights at a lower um at a lower rank in order
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to just keep that spot up there sure but I think there'll be showcase fights I
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think there'll be like Mexico City fights or um you know even fights down
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here in SOA where where you're going to have huge Marino turnouts huge Marino fan turnouts and yeah they love him down
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here yeah I I think uh you could put Brandon Mareno on any card and he could headline whether there was a belt on the
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line or not so even if he's taking these fights that are more exciting than
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actually meaningful for bringing him up and getting him closer to the title he'll be taking those fights to stay
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right there and be that guy CU as soon as he gets a streak going he's going to fight the next person even if it's
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somehow figuro for the fifth time or the six time well it won't be him because he's
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up at bandam we now exactly but I mean if sometime if somehow he loses an arm and decides to continue to
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fight and gets the title which I wouldn't be surprised he could do um that's a possibility and we'd be here to
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watch it but yeah um and then uh for uh
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um albazi what are you thinking um I'm thinking they'll
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probably he'll probably drop in rankings uh closer to the bottom end of the top
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10 and I think you could put him you think that far yeah I
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do um just because I don't know how he was still up after a long layoff at
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three so I think he'll drop a few spots and I think he could five some uh fight somebody like five through
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10 um maybe a no I don't think they would give him
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Charles Johnson although you never know they give Charles John albazi is the typical
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fight that Charles Johnson gets matched against yeah so if they gave him that
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I'd be super excited for him because it's a winable fight it's definitely a winable fight for any who can mix it up
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who can who can wrestle with him who can avoid his power shots uh and who could
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put on a pace like Johnson did in his last fight I think that was super impressive and uh yeah I I think guy
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there's a lot of flyweights that have been grinding outside of the rankings
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that I think will be able to really showcase once they get in there and get the opportunity to mix it up with those
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guys at the top
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I have a sneeze on the tip of my nose and I'm trying not to I'm sorry it's very distracting yeah I was like
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anything else no sorry I'm really trying to manage it right now okay while you while you work on that sneeze you know
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what's sticking out to me a little bit is Tim Elliot I haven't seen him fight in a minute I think he would be he just
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lost to somebody who did he just lose to um let's
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see let's see here he just lost oh wait no he just beat Suma
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dii with an arm triangle not uh not familiar with that
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guy uh but he uh he lost to MV that's what I was thinking of in
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2023 and then the win was in December 2023 he was
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supposed to fight tatsuda Tyra and it got cancelled that would have been a fun one and I'm not sure
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why yeah I feel like if he's not matched up I feel like that one would be a good one for albazi for albazi uhhuh yeah and
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even for for Charles since we're talking about him I'm really excited to see what he does like moving up the ladder what's
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uh Tim Elliott ranked at 11 okay yeah there's a lot of fun fights for Charles
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um and albazi moving moving uh moving around in that flyweight division uh but
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in the female flyweight division we had Rose versus blanchfield and uh a few
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people were debating I had Rose winning three rounds really yeah see I had blanchfield
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winning three yeah I had I had Rose I gave Rose the fourth um just because I thought even
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though blanchfield came out like like a bad out of hell in that round she came
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out really strong she still wasn't Landing she was doing the the charge but they weren't connecting and I think Rose
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was Landing the the sharper crisper punches and doing a really good job just keeping that distance sticking moving uh
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fending off the takedown I thought blanchfield uh came alive in in the third with the takedown and then in the
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fifth M uh so I had it 3-2 for Rose uh what did you think I thought uh
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blanchfield won the fourth pretty convincingly I thought she landed more on the feet um even though she wasn't
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able to get the take down it looked like she was visibly annoying Rose and Rose
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wasn't able to answer back as much as she had in the first couple of rounds I felt like uh Rose got a lot more flat on
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her feet in that round she was there to get hit a lot more there were a lot of moments where blanchfield would hit her
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with the onew and pop out and Rose was like whiffing on a punch as she was popping out and I feel like moments like
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that it's you're when you're thinking of okay who's winning the most moments when
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you're when you're thinking of a combination like a volley in in like tennis or whatever whoever is able to
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land that last shot is the person who really stands out as the winner of that moment and I felt like blanchfield was
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doing more with that even when it just comes to damage it looked like blanchfield was Landing more damage in
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that round as opposed to all the other ones that she was trying to throw with and yeah in the third she came out like
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really fiery really like intentional with her striking but I felt like she
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was eating just as much as she was Landing but getting that takedown I felt got her the third round too so I feel
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like people were kind of debating the third but not really but most people were debating the fourth and for me just
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watching the fourth I'm like if if with the sound off no commentary it looked like blanchfield
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was winning like it looked like she was doing more damage she was definitely Landing more volume and Rose wasn't as
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elusive on her feet she wasn't making her Miss as much she was defending the takedowns well but in order to defend
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the takedown she was getting hit with like punches and kicks too um yeah I just thought uh I did think that the
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commentary wasn't giving blanchfield a lot of credit for what she was Landing because it was obviously making a
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difference in the fight um but it was really clear that Rose was win of those
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exchanges in the first two I thought I mean I I see your point
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of view I just thought that it was more of the same in the fourth as I saw in the first and second yes uh Rose slowed
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down a little bit and blanchfield was really like putting it on with the cardio and with the volume I just
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thought that Rose was doing enough to to control it um and then you know but I mean hats
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off to blanchfield she she came out and she was very assertive she made adjustments which I didn't see her make
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in her previous outing with uh with Manon yeah and so it was it was a big
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leap and growth that I saw from her in the Octagon that night yeah I think that kick was really doing something for it
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like that left high kick that she likes to throw we've seen her drop people with it before and there's definitely some
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power on it um most of them were blocked she landed one I think in the second round or something but most of the kicks
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were blocked but what it did was it shut down Rose's right arm and what Rose likes to do is kind of similar to Marino
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she likes to dip with the punch she likes to throw her combinations and really dip to land that power when she
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throws a right hand and she was able to land it a few times and those were the moments that won her the first and
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second but I think she would have landed a lot more if blanchfield wasn't throwing that kick up every now and then
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and it was a weird like nonswitch left kick so she didn't show it when she
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would throw it and a lot of times when Rose is about to dip in for that punch she has to keep the arm there because
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that kick just comes out of nowhere so I thought blanchfield was really smart and sticking to the game plan with her
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striking you could tell she's still not super comfortable on the feet um you can tell that especially when she's on the
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defense side she she let stuff gets through she she does the weird like forearm block the the Wonder Woman
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forearm block which you see a lot of people do who don't start with the
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Striking background um but offensively I felt like she did really good and just
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pushing the pace and doing what she could against someone who was so elusive who was so good at cutting angles and
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getting out of the way and then coming back in with the punch uh the takedown totally slowed Rose down and made her
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more in front of her and there to be hit in the fourth round and I think that was
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the big game Cher in that fight but you know what what I was screaming
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about Rose got her down or she she um
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what happened she like uh she hit the hip throw she had a really nice haray she hit the nice haray against the fence
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she got her down she's on top of her blanchfield starts building up and she
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lets her go then in the third round she shoots on her why well because that's what Rose
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does she she throws she throws that right and then she gets you thinking about the right and then she comes in
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with the takedown but blandfield was expecting it because Rose does that every single fight and she was just
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ready for it so I'm I'm just frustrated in the fact that she had her in a great
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position Rose even though she doesn't have the credentials of that blanchfield
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has on the ground she had her in a great position where she could have done some damage she could have stayed on top she
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could have taken the back hit her a little bit like I felt like the the possibility for her reversing that
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position where she's on all fours trying to build build up against Defence where you could break her down where like she
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thought about it and then she let her go maybe she felt something maybe she felt like a lot of strength a lot of
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explosiveness something that she just felt like she had a better Advantage with striking but then she didn't feel
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it when she shot on her in the third round maybe instinctive and I know it's instinctive and that's what I was
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thinking too I was thinking okay she was getting pressured what she does when she gets pressured is shoot but she must
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have had some comp confidence in her grappling in that moment as well as later on I think in the in the fourth or
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the fifth round when she shot on her too so I'm just like I feel like if if that
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were me I'd be beating myself up about not taking advantage of that moment and
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it it almost looked like she tried to write it by shooting on her there like maybe she felt okay I got her with that
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throw I could I could have gotten on top of her let me do that again and then she
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felt that like defense and was able to what' you do it was so loud in my ear
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I had to turn it down now you can't hear anything yeah no it's it's fine was yours just stop touching stuff yeah but
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um yeah it was just uh yeah it it's one of those moments where in in my fights
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you know like as I'm thinking like I'm in the point point of view as a fighter I would have been thinking about that
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moment so much because it was it was a really great throw and she really could have done a lot of damage taken a lot
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more of her confidence away and I think after that round blanchfield just said
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[ __ ] it yeah like I can't I can't play it safe anymore I have to go forward and
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uh I thought it was a great fight by both of them um I think I think if Rose was just a little more bouncy on her
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feet in the fourth round it would have been more clear for her than blanchfield
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but that pressure and landing and her just being there to receive the shots for the first time in the fight I think
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that made most people see it for blanchfield yeah I get that I mean I'm not I'm not screaming robbery I'm not
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you know mad at the decision I just saw it a different way and I saw you know
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Rose coming out with their hand raised um but you know what it it mixes things up a little bit it's a little bit of a
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setback for Rose but not much um I could see you know I don't see her really like
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shifting in the rankings and and it's a question of what's next for blanchfield as well um I could potentially see
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either one of them being put matched up with Gro if uh if blanchfield doesn't get next in line what did you think
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about her calling out grao and not shev Chena it was it was a little it was a
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little weird right like why aren't you just calling out for the title why you
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don't like money maybe she doesn't know nobody's told her yet yet she knows nobody told
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her um I yeah I I get it though maybe she felt a little uncomfortable in there
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maybe she remembered the fur fight maybe she still wants to feel what it feels
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like to get your feet wet against someone who she has more confidence out
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grappling yeah I mean if you if you look at Grasso's last fight you see a path to victory for her for sure but with with
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Ina yeah she got submitted that one time but it really looks like she's tightened
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up her game so that will not happen again I think it would um I think it would be okay for
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for Aaron just because she's still she's ranked so high but she is still like very young in the sport she she's young
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in competition years which is is very impressive what she's done in a short amount of time um I I wouldn't I I
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wouldn't be against her you know climbing a little bit longer I wouldn't be mad at seeing her against Gro I think
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that that would be a good level up um before she gets to a title shot yeah
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yeah I wouldn't be mad at it either um but you always got to worry about being
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that number two spot the number one spot fighting someone you didn't have to fight and then they
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win me it's just it's just but she has time MMA math yeah she has time to
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reverse any mistakes that she might make in in the future yeah I'd like to see
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Macy Barbara and Rose finally meet to be honest after this one I would like to see that now yeah yeah I've been waiting
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for that one okay I yeah I'd be down to see it I just I wonder um because Macy
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Barber she she's had a lot of trouble making it to fights yes so I mean I
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guess Rose takes a lot of time off to in between fights so it probably they'll probably link up it could happen for
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sure it could for sure that'd be fun just patiently wait for it yeah well we
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have a bunch of fan questions and these fans have been patiently waiting for us to get to them let's not make them wait
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any longer yeah so let's see what do we have we got some fan questions on
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Instagram and on uh YouTube we'll start with the YouTube
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ones because y'all are the ones who really care about what we have to say um living HZ says when will y'all
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sell merch and will you come to La for UFC 311 and meet with the fans wow great
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question well we should definitely get some merch in the store I'll I'll make that one of my goals for this month is
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to get like some t-shirts on I think you got to get like a Shopify or something
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to make merch buyable through YouTube but we'll figure it out we'll figure it
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out definitely First Step was getting something to Weare for ourselves so next step is that
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and uh for UFC 311 I'm actually begging to get on that card so hopefully um
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we'll be able to meet with you fans there
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um a 10 steps ahead podcast oh 10 steps ahead
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of what uh you guys were asking Jasmine ju judicious performance and who should
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she fight next so we were actually going to talk about this one she looked great
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she did she was having a little bit of trouble in the first round just uh eating a lot of punches against a Silva
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but she made the adjustment moving forward in the fight and ended up getting a a really nice Dar uh she's
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she's a grinder man yeah she's she's good figures out a way to win and you know I think that was really important
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for her to go through that first round because once she realized how available
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the takedowns were and her confidence was so much greater in going for them
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like after that kick that she caught and she got the take down there then there she kind of saw oh I'm strong oh yeah I
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this girl's Gonna Fly I got take down and and she landed in a good position where even though it looked like she was
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in danger for a second she was able to use that and capitalize on it land some good shots um in the next rounds she was
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just able to get in there and get on top get some big takedowns like that little single leg she got nice outside single
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so easy so well timed very little energy uh exuded to get the takedown and then
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the big double egg that she got at the end that was that was amazing and the
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fact that it was so big really set up the fact that she was able to pass so
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fast because reaching in for that Dar like she got that long arm energy like
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when you have long arms like that you could really reach in it was almost like she wasn't even past the knee yet but
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that frame was trying to keep her away from getting on top and she just reached her long ass arm in there like Dome arms
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over there was able to lock it up get past and get to her choke so that was really impressive to
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see it was um it was interesting because when she was in dominant top position she was like kind of stuck in half guard
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and she really was and passing so yeah I was wondering about that because it looked like she could have passed and
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and then at first I was thinking okay and then the commentary was saying it too like oh maybe she just is enjoying
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hanging out there because there's less movement it looks like it's making it easier for her to stay on top but then
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it looked really uncomfortable well it just I feel like she just kind of lost sense of of her
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back leg at a couple of points she's like it's it's fine I don't need this um and she kept going uh she was pinning uh
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D Silva's arm nicely um and cormia kept calling it a crucifix it really wasn't
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necessarily a crucifix he could see he couldn't see the leg was stuck it was just you know she's long and lanky and
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she was just utilizing all of her length in in very unexpected ways so I I
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thought that was kind of fun to watch she just made she made her body work for her in a really cool way and then ended
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up um making the adjustment for the DAR and then it ended up helping her p and
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um yeah I think I think it was a really fun fight um I like the adjustment she makes in a fight I like that she just
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always game uh whether she wins or loses she's coming you know coming forward and trying yeah no I'm I'm excited to see
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what she does next do you have like a fighter you'd like to see her up
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against well let's see all right so she's ranked number 14 we don't know
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where she's going to move if she's going to make a move up she'll probably switch positions witha yeah D Silva was 13
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right or 12 yeah D Silva was uh 13 and then up above them at 12 is Tracy Cortez
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um perhaps a rematch maybe a rematch Tracy Cortez was present at the fight so
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you know you never like she saw uh I didn't see either way but maybe you know
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what I would really like to see her fight Amanda heus who's ranked number 10 okay in uh in flyweight I think that
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would be a fun one yeah yeah heus is fighting D in December so oh gosh darn
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it so heus is one of those elusive oh she's playing one of those elusive
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Fighters that get to Just Bounce Around however they choose and take up spots in
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the rankings whenever they feel like it so nice uh but yeah i' I'd definitely
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like to see uh Jaz divicious move up uh fight someone I wouldn't mind a Tracy Cortez rematch I think Tracy um has only
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lost to a couple people and she she's definitely a gamer um I think that would
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be a great match up because they both have a wrestle heavy attack Tracy is
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like pretty solid with the boxing she has some power I think it would be a good match up you see what they end up
36:43
using when both of their game plans are kind of similar see for me I feel like it's a little bit too soon for a rematch
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I mean why not why not give her arjo andrad Caitlyn uh
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serara like you know why not oh when when's where's Caitlyn been um I I
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honestly I think she's trying to have a baby from what I've heard so her last fight was March against Macy
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Barber yeah she's uh she's still rank number seven I I mean I could see that
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fight happening I think that would be kind of a cool match up yeah I think it would be a a fair one too like not too
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big of a step up but um you know if she if she gets that win when she'll really
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be able to like contest for a top 10 somebody up in top five for her next
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fight yeah I think that would be a good matchup too because uh again you have someone with a strong grappling
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background and Caitlyn and she has more striking um I think or just seems more
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fluid on the feet than someone like jzu vicious so we'll see like how that
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striking continues to develop if she's going to like start stepping in throwing a little bit more before she goes for
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those takedowns I think that's the one thing holding her back is that she is a little St stagnant on the feet like she
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has to set those uh takedowns up a little bit more against someone who has
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more experience like Caitlyn Sara so we'll see what happens with that I'd love that match up I think that would be
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good Proving Ground uh fight for her and you know Caitlyn um she's fought for the
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belt so it'll be a good one it'll be good one under jazu vious Bel if she is
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able to get that one um let's see what should be next for
38:35
blanchfield from Astro K we were talking about that earlier but I like the Grasso matchup I like it too I think I think
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it's actually a smart call out even though people are talking [ __ ] but I think if she were it's not their career
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it's not their career but I feel like if she were to call out the winner of Fior
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of chevchenko she'd probably still get grassa yeah like I don't think she
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changed the the web of time or anything there's no Butterfly Effect that's happening by her calling out something
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more uh more likely yeah yeah and people are going to talk anyways yeah they're
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always going to talk um oh uh play voltage one of our members should have
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read your question first play voltage says uh his question does going up a
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weight class affect your movement a lot also why does Ivana Petrovic so
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successful with all her wall smush game thank you love y we love you
39:38
too because you're a member you can ask two questions just for
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you um going up a weight class affect your movement a lot I think I think it
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can I think it it's different when you're fighting with more weight on you
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you might like if if you're really light on your feet at a lower weight class uh you feel more springy you feel like you
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know you feel like you can float through air when you go up a weight class you might feel a little more heavy a little
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more flat footed you're moving more mass than you're used to at a fast rate so I
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don't know I feel like I feel like um when it comes to cardio maybe you end up
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sitting on your punches a little more you end up uh just being a little lower to the ground I don't know that's how I
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feel when I come from being at fight weight to being at like walk away walk
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around weight so I feel like it would be similar to going up a weight class but what do you think um I think it depends
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on the body type the person how much weight they're they're cutting to get down versus you know if it's more of a a
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healthy weight class if you're going up I think it just all depends on the individual and where their comfort is
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yes you're going to notice a little bit of of a difference depending on if you
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were you know a bigger frame cutting down lower and and now you have some healthy weight on you and I think it'll
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just it'll just depend and it's more of like an individual basis and I'm assuming they're talking about rose with
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this so do you think uh her movement um is different now that she's at a bigger weight class I don't think she's put on
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that much mass to where she's completely different I think that she has to fight differently for sure I think she's
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trying to plant a little bit more land a little bit harder shots um she has to worry about moving bigger bodies and
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dealing with the impact of bigger bodies hitting her so I think those are still adjustments that we're seeing being made
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but from you know when we talked to her when we interviewed her she spoke to you know enjoying putting the weight on and
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and adapting a little bit more um I think she is still a little bit smaller of a frame and I think she could still
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probably go down easily just like heus does uh but in in this case I don't
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think that the extra weight is is hindering her I just think that it's the different weight class that has to has
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to uh her body and style have to adapt to and also why was Ivana Petrovic so
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successful with her wall smush game well uh she had really good placement with
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her shoulder um and she was keeping um what's Huff how do you say her name
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horse horse sorry my bad horse horse I am horse she was she was doing a good
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job of keeping horth flat and that could be because of her technique or because horth was not well versed in um in cage
42:36
defense I think that it may have been a combination of both horth allowing herself to have her back flat and
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Petrovic having just good position and um not allowing hor to cut those angles
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that she needed yeah it I I think it it was like a lack of experience on H's
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part for that immediate that first part um you know just getting smooshed
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against the fence and I I feel like a lot of times if you're not used to that fight then it can be a little surprising
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when you feel it for the first time um but at the same time you have to do
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something with it you know so I I always feel like I mean going back to uh my
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Richi fight there was a lot of wall smooshing where um you know that shoulder pressure is really important if
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you're able to get that shoulder in a good spot where it's just hard to lift it out you know like you get it wedged
43:35
right under like a part of you and it's just so hard to move that wedge that it
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takes a lot of energy and by the time you get their shoulder pressure moved out oh they have another shoulder yeah
43:48
they shifted they adjusted they could put on the other side of you and that same little notch on your body and make
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it really hard for you to just wiggle away so I think um you know just just
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having a good awareness of that can allow you to really like drain the clock
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and get that control time that you know may or may not win you a fight sometimes
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it works out in ri's case sometimes it doesn't in uh petrovic's case you know
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you some you have to do something with it like you have to land punches you have to land knees and unfortunately
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when you try to land punches that's when the pressure comes off and then your opponent is able to move so the wall
44:31
Smosh game it's kind of a gamble it's like the laying prey game you you're not
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sure what the judges are going to see if you don't land any damage with it but
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it's a good way to slow the fight down maybe make your opponent a little more tired so you can do something after you
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smush yes um one thing I thought was funny uh Petrovic had a really good
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position as horse was like kind of building up trying to get away and then she
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stopped and she looked at the ref and she was like saying something to the ref
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and I'm guessing like a hand was stuck it looked like her bra was coming down yeah her bra was coming down and and it
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made me laugh because I'm like if those two two girls were like if they switched
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positions and hor was coming up and her boob was about to pop out I feel like she would have let it hang she would
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have let it something about different types something about her I F like
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Petrova had her lashes on she was like looking all cute you know and uh and I'm
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like hor would let that thing hang out the entire fight for a good position I
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know what you're saying I know what you're saying and I agree that's what I would do I'm like dude like you're on
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the back you are on her back she's standing up you can jump on her you can
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break her down you can get the body lock there's so many things that you can do and you can do it all while while hiding
46:01
the fact that your boob is out yeah like you're in a good position to just just
46:06
different priorities hide your boob under her shoulder blade no one will see it it could have started you off for an
46:12
only fans yeah and then and then hey hey check this out if your boob pops out and you have body lock what do you do pull
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that thing right down just pull it down right there that's why I wear two bras
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that's why veterans never have to worry about that because we know all the ways to get our boob
46:30
back in the bra without anyone noticing been there done that now asses back in
46:35
your pants that's a different story but I digress all right we'll do one more fan
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question and then uh we'll talk about a couple more fights so uh let's
46:49
see um oh that's not a question what was it he had a dream
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about me last night oh what what were you dreaming about I feel like we get to ask fans questions yeah please please
47:04
explain the dream in the comments was it of the wet variety no the Stevie J Mac
47:11
uh hopefully wasn't jacking off in this dream I might have
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been oh okay uh Mike eike 714 on
47:25
Instagram it's not a question it's more of a statement but he said that whack
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ass judge from the main event oh there was one
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judge Eric colon yep and funny his name is colon because his judging of the
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first round was a piece of poop it was pretty shitty shitty judging from Eric
47:49
colon um and you know I feel like we're we're being a little harsh because
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usually the judging is a lot worse than what we saw last night last night I felt
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like the judging was pretty fair uh the close fights that people didn't agree with nobody was screaming robbery um it
48:08
was just they were close fights so uh but still if we won a net pick Aaron
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colon how o how did you score round one for albazi o how that's a great question
48:22
was there a moment even Sal demato got that one right clearly got it right they were on point last night they were they
48:29
were like hey man people are on to us we need to get our [ __ ] together we are gonna we're going to score according to
48:36
the book according to the rules got to throw them off the scent yeah and then next Apex card watch
48:45
out gotcha watch out prelim Fighters no one cares if you get robbed
48:51
exactly nobody's going to see this nobody's going to remember and we're going to make money ha um um yeah Eric
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colen I don't know how he got round one for albazi I there was one round I
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forget which round it was but there was one round where albazi was doing a little better than than he had done in
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the previous rounds I think it was four or something um but the first round was Al
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Marena yeah no I agree I I have no I have nothing else to say what did he do
49:23
in the first round I I don't know uh you're on the list he was already on the
49:29
list because we've made the poop joke before but you're still on the list we we're
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keeping an eye on you we're keeping a uh a brown eye yeah we're keeping a
49:41
brown eye on you whispering eye on you or is this more like a whistling
49:49
eye yeah all right well there's a couple of uh finishes we want to talk about
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before we go to our bonus oh yes um we already talked about jazu vicious looking
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vicious um and then your boy Charles jordane moved down to bantamweight and
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put on a killer performance he like so I was so mad because all the decisions up
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to that point have been so dull like all the decision fights up to that point had been so dull and then we get a fight
50:21
that I would be happy to watch five rounds of and it ends in the second round what one I was so sad I was happy
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I'm a big listen I'm a big fan of jordane I I love his striking I love the way he mixes in his grappling uh I just
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I've always been a fan of his style um Henry you know he's he's a really tough
50:41
fighter but Jordan was just a little bit more slick a little bit more you know durable than what Henry was was trying
50:47
to push on him and he ended up um getting a really really nice
50:53
ninja Guillotine whatever you want to call it uh but it was modified McKenzie
50:58
teen Cody McKenzie nut D it was just uh it it was a really really nice
51:05
transition he stayed really patient um he got out of out of Harm's Way after being in a body lock for for quite some
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time he made the adjustments that he had to and when he got Henry down um you
51:18
know he looked to be not in a dominant position but he just really believed in that grip that he had around Henry's
51:24
head and um ended up creat Space by coming up and then sitting back for it again it was it was very very nice no it
51:31
was cool it it was like one of those weird ones and and I feel like that's kind of trending in uh the Jiu-Jitsu
51:38
world right now just being really confident with that uh chin chin strap on the head and if you have the head
51:45
controlled just not letting go of it like even if your legs don't feel like they're in the right position you you
51:50
don't have a closed guard or you're not like bring breaking their head down you can still sit up
51:57
get your chest on top of their head and get the finish and he was able to do that by standing up and then popping his
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chest over and it it it was like it was a crazy one because it looked like Henry was about to pass like he was doing
52:10
everything right but just the fact that he already had that hand pushed over and sunk in that deep like even passing to
52:18
the right side wasn't going to get your neck free yeah and it's funny because this is something that will uh coaches
52:25
will yell at white belts and blue BS for let go of the head you're holding on to the head for way too long but jordane
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was a little bit more Savvy in that in his attack and his setup so he knew what he was going for but it is funny because
52:37
normally uh the lower belts tend to really like grip the head you know a couple times they got it in training so
52:43
they're just really committed to it and they end up putting themselves in really bad positions because of that really
52:50
wanting to hold on to it so it was it was nice to see that slick setup and that commitment to it yeah and the the
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clinch sweeps in that fight were so nasty they were beautiful that's what I was saying like I could watch five
53:03
rounds of that because just watching and they were both doing it they were both hitting like these knee trips on the
53:08
inside and like these foot sweeps on the outside getting really big throws jumping covering the head like I I was
53:16
just so impressed with everything that was going on in that fight and then jordane was just throwing flying [ __ ]
53:22
the whole time spinning [ __ ] like he really had Henry like fighting in the
53:27
gter like uh just uh they were going at it um it was a really impressive fight
53:32
to watch I'd watch it again and yeah it just it just sucks because I do uh
53:38
really like that style that Henry brings but jordane showed that at bantamweight
53:43
he's a different monster and I think uh what we've seen from him before he has
53:50
these little uh these little flashes of Brilliance but then a lot of times they get snuffed away because the people that
53:57
he were he was fighting were able to just get on top of him like shut him down a bit slow them down a bit he's not
54:04
able to do his fancy stuff I think at this lighter weight class you're seeing that lighter on the foot lighter on the
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feet thing that we were talking about you're seeing him being able to move someone getting that big clinch sweep
54:15
like that's not something that happens when you're fighting someone bigger than you like they're they're just going to
54:21
hurt your foot you know it's hard to off-balance someone that's a lot bigger than you but he was able to get a lot of
54:28
the stuff that he's good at a lot of the tricky stuff that he's good at because he's fighting at a lower weight class so
54:34
that's cool to see and um I'm excited to see what he does next to the bwe division CU like man that was an awesome
54:43
performance um well yeah I think we should uh head over to our bonus section we still got a
54:50
couple fights to talk about um we definitely got to chat about that Justin stolitz fight was sick that was really
54:57
cool he mean and yousef's allow man his striking to to grappling is like
55:04
something that every fighter should aspire to be able to do so we'll talk about him in his journey um getting cut
55:11
and coming back into the UFC talk a little bit about the heavyweight Division and how they make the women's
55:17
division look good every time we get a fight like the Roman off one and uh yeah
55:23
Jess talk about her last fight a little bit since you guys have been leaving
55:28
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