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Two Straws Episode 6: UFC Liverpool, Innit?
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Nov 6, 2024
'Ello, 'ello, 'ello! Jessica Penne and Angela Hill set up shop on historic Abbey Road in jolly ol' England to breakdown UFC Liverpool aka, brunch with the UFC. Darren Till calls in and they have a good laugh over a cuppa tea!
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hello and welcome to another episode of
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two straws tea stuff in this episode we
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will be going over UFC Liverpool you see
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Liverpool oh it's gonna be so exciting
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we get to practice on fake British
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accents is that you're finished accent
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huh yeah we'll keep working I know I
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know seems to be that we're in Liverpool
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Oh beautiful sunny Liverpool crumpets
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are on the way and we're enjoying a nice
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cup of tea
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oh the old listening to the lovely Spice
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Girls yes tell me what you want what you
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really really want by the way if you
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could be a Spice Girl what would your
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spice groaning be I'd be brolic space
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I'd be [ __ ] space yeah done telling up
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to Dana and he said mr. white mr. white
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please sir can I have some more
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I believe in myself I'm gonna be the
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greatest fighter you ever seen I want to
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fight in Liverpool could I have some
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more fights he wants more and then he
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had more in others fights in Liverpool's
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rival to the big man this is how you get
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to UFC Liverpool Sunday May 27th at
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10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. brunch time uh
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actually one of my favorite times I'm
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gonna have a mimosa get like a crumpet
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and tea and that's a turn on the face
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screwdriver yeah for our brunch theme we
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are admiring this let me I got a special
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tea for you you're gonna like this oh
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that's that's a very bold tea leaf you
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have there yeah it's uh from crushed
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grapes cheese pinkies out hey you like
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it I love it it tastes like wine it is
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fine oh yeah because only tea we serve
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in America
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is liberty so we haven't had this in a
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while but we have a caller we have a
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special guest this time for two straws
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we have Darren the gorilla till home
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regard he took time out of his freaking
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busy fight week to talk to us he saw the
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bees we have now I'm bummed that I'm not
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like rooting for him
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oh don't worry I won't tell them I won't
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tell
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we have Darren till on the line Darren
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how's it going
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I know how to deal with any you know
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with the guys to fight and no one's
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gonna get in my way to where I wanted
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all very cool very cool so how's it film
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main eventing in your hometown in
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Liverpool I know I can tell what anyway
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you know with the guys to fight no one's
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gonna get in my way to where I wanna go
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so what is your strategy going into this
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to this main event I'm just totally
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believe in myself no one inspires me no
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one no one's me you know I don't know
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hope that anyone I inspire yourself okay
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okay a little more the same but yeah I
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get it I get it
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alright so I know you might get girl in
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Brazil we have that nice set suit kind
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of looks like these right there but
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what's your favorite pickup line like
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how do you get the ladies I am the best
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alive I'll keep saying that every time a
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deaf question gets us all displacing
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accessory because that's what I believe
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okay
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I guess one more question what do you
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think of the socio economic climate in
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post-industrial northern England in
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light of brexit and how do you view your
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role as a potential emergent working
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class hero I believe on the most
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intelligence you know I believe a
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control lever so well you know I bring
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them into my world and my world is
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different coffee I don't think I'm
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better than anyone in this world I am
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just confident totally it's in our
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question alright buddy thank you so much
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for calling I know you're busy so we're
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gonna let you go thanks so much guy and
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good luck this week maybe it's because
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of a weaker heart says I think that's
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his thing so uh you know who else is on
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this guy oh that ring card boy Elliot
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Theodora
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oh my gosh yeah he's taking a break from
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his ring card work and he's actually
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gonna have a fight now this is this is
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gonna be the first ever ring card boy
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that fights in the UFC he's gonna take
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the vest off and throw the card out and
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put them love's on there pretty
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impressive that's a really impressive
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transition back and forth back and forth
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I mean I don't know how he does it I
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mean could you put your Arianny Celeste
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going in and fighting you know it son
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that's a lot of expensive yeah work and
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I wouldn't want to mess that up no more
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power to them you go ring guard boy
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doing it for all the ring card boys and
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girls out there you're an inspiration in
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the flyweight division we have Molly the
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meatball McCann versus Jillian the
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savage Robert Lou the meatball versus
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Savage
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yeah yeah trying to tear that meatball
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up like a sub so meatball is a newcomer
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to the UFC flyweight division and
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Gillian Robertson was one of our 125
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pound contestants on The Ultimate
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Fighter the first season so we have a
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pretty tough opponent in McCann and I
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say that because watching her fight she
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she's really tough girl loves pressure
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loves coming forward and has a pretty
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sound boxing and Jillian Roberts on the
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other hand is more of a grappler from
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what I've seen looking for the takedown
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so I think we're gonna have a striker
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versus grappler kind of a matchup yeah I
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think that's really where she shined on
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the show was her grappling she's very
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aggressive she tries to get dragged him
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down to the floor and just like you know
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that's her world on the feet she looks a
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little more uncomfortable whereas
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meatball Molly like all she wants to do
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is box and she asked it's setups like
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she has a good overhand she has good
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hooks like basically she likes to loop
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the punches but she comes in with a good
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one too as well so yeah I think meatball
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Molly's gonna come in with a lot of a
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lot of weight in her hands and try to
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knock her out I think I'm gonna go with
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Molly for this one and so one of those
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things about people when they when they
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primarily fight overseas and I've had
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kind of limited talent competition wise
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I'm it's always interesting to see how
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they come into the UFC and perform
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because she does have a lot of hype with
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her she's been in the big stage over in
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Europe and I'm really just see how she's
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gonna do on the UFC she says all the
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right things in her interview she says
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with a thick accent but you still know
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where she's getting that seems very
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comfortable in front of the camera and
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yeah I think we're gonna have another
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rising up star on our hands
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you know she might rub people the wrong
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way but I definitely like to see
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strikers doing well in the UFC and I
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think she's definitely gonna be a tough
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strike at a beat for Robertson oh and
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there's a two chick fights on this card
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where you know about meatball Molly
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versus a savage but have you seen yeah
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Gina versus Lina
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in the ladies bantamweight division we
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have Gina danger Manzanillo versus Lena
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the elbow queen Landsberg so we have an
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interesting and exciting matchup
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I am personally rooting for Gina danger
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Manzana because she's my friend and she
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was really cute purple hair she's
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looking Unicorn basically if she does
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this every time she takes a picture
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she's adorable but inside the cage she's
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a maniac
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she's a cave woman she is the Savage for
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real I was a frickin savage yeah you've
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seen her last fight she had a really
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impressive win where she just kind of
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dismantled her opponent and she she
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broke her foot and foot it she broke her
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foot before that fight so she couldn't
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really like do a lot of cardio and it
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didn't show at all like she was just
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going going gone so I gotta like feel
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like she has the cardio damage in this
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one and I definitely think she has
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something to prove she took a short
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notice fight again Sara McMann coming
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into the UFC and it was kind of a
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difficult matchup for her it was her
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first time on the main stage so she
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didn't perform as well and I just feel
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like she has been very determined to
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show what she's got to work with and she
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is really impressing everyone lena
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Landsberg on the same token came in to
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the UFC with a really difficult fight
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inside Ward she fought cyborg no thank
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you
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yeah you know like Landsberg definitely
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had a tough match with that I mean who
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who comes in like she's another one of
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those bantamweight who you know they saw
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the opportunity to get into the EOC by
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fighting at 145 even though it's not
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their natural weight class and she went
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for it and you know she's got cyborg
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everybody gets cyborg there's nothing to
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be ashamed of and now she's dropped down
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to a more natural weight class for
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herself and she is taking on Nadine
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Germans Annie now this is an interesting
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matchup because we have two aggressive
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females and I'm kind of leaning towards
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fight of the night for this one is
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definitely gonna be
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action packed in your face yeah I think
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they're definitely gonna be jockeying
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for that cage control I know
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Landsberg like suppressing up against
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the cage she's called the elbow Queen
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even though she doesn't throw that many
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elbows she's more like the Duchess of
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abacus stands by her intellij yeah to
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the Duchess of let me know how a
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relative should probably elbow me
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probably lets you know why she
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definitely jockeys for position
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she's gonna be looking for that head
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control early on in the fight which is a
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lot what Gina took last opponent tried
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to do but you know that position is very
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tiring if you're not able to get the
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takedown immediately I feel like Gina
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has a better gauge of how to use your
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energy when to go hard when to kind of
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reset still yeah I'm leaning towards
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Gina on this one very cool well either
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way both women are very exciting
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fighters and I'm definitely looking
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forward to this matchup me too
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what team at all
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in the co-main event of UFC liverpool we
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have Neil Magny vs. Craig Thundercat
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white thought that dr. Thundercat
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oh right just had to get down this is
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Jesus anything else in there need to
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worry about Craig White has a very cool
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nickname that you know makes you just
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want to pull so many other couch and
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slice your friends head off yeah awesome
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wait I think we need to nickname Neil
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Magny Neil the saint
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Magne yes this guy is seriously the
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sweetest coolest nicest human being in
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the world if you guys have not heard
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about this he has offered to donate
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fifteen thousand dollars from his purse
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to helping a young girl who is in
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desperate need of medical help and he
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hasn't started this GoFundMe account but
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he is offering $15,000 who's donating
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his purse like that's amazing
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a lot of times people do things for
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photo ops or to look good and public
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opinion man I know magnet he does this
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stuff without even like you know
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recording it or documenting like he just
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does it out of the goodness of his heart
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Magne like I wish I wish everyone was
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like you I wish I was like you like
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that's amazing and you're just setting
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the bar so high for all the other
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fighters to follow thank you so that's
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my brother your brother yeah he looks
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just like me oh yeah Neil Magny
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was originally slated to fight Gunnar
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Nelson mmm-hmm however he had to drop
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out of the fight and now he is fighting
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Craig white and I've tried to do some
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research on this guy and he is basically
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an international man of mystery there is
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nothing on it yeah he might say yeah
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fighting for 1 million
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[Music]
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now Craig white is is a man of mystery
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but we did scrounge up some old fight
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footage of his previous fights we saw
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two of them and he's wearing some pretty
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spiffy fight shorts if if I do say so
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myself yeah the first thing that comes
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to mind Randy we're in the street
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he looks like it's his first period of
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middle school anywhere white pants he
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has a nurse's office all day yeah like I
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have his mom bring to school some new
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undies and pants mm-hmm and then she
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explained to him the birds and bees I
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feel like his friend should have said
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something to him yeah management PR
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something Craig white he's coming in
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he's kind of an on he's another one of
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these guys who have fought a lot in
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Britain and Europe and you know he has a
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lot of fights he has a lot of experience
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but you know there's levels to this
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thing and I really don't see him giving
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much problem for Magni like Magni has
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fought the chromatic rock when it comes
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to the welterweight division in UFC he's
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won some he's lost some but he's coming
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off of an amazing win against Carlos
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Condit and I think he's just gonna keep
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that momentum going with Craig white I'm
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definitely a huge fan of Neil Magny he
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has great striking grappling he does a
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lot of body lock takedowns which I think
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are amazing for MMA and he's just always
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gamed to fight he's always in the fight
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he has amazing cardio and he's really
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fun to watch and I'm really interested
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to see what he's gonna do this fight all
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right let's just keep it real we know
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he's gonna win but how do you think
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you're gonna win let's make a bet let's
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take a bet all right so I'm gonna heart
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Schucman back so any kind of ko can i
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get both since i lost the last one get a
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little handicap KO or TKO i think that's
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fair
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I say submission let's go it's a bet
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seem to have you massaged Mayhem's cuz
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and in the main event at 170 pounds we
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have Steven the Wonder Boy Thompson
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versus derenberger illa til Oh Wonder
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Boy vs. tail it's gonna be pretty you
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wonder boy versus the gorilla sounds
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like one of those like budget comment
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buzz they see in the bin for like 25
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cents at the comic book store I bet you
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would I would so in this matchup we have
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kind of a more traditional orthodox
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fighter against a traditional unorthodox
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fighter if you want to compare that so
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Stephen wonderboy Thompson is known for
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his karate style very unorthodox
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switching stances a lot when he stands
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southpaw he tends to lead with that that
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side kick to the leg yeah like right
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kick to the leg or fake it to the head
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and stuff like that and then when he
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switches to right he tends to lead with
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his hands and then we have Darrin Hill
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who who comes in southpaw all the time
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and he's definitely he does get a little
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fancy and a little showy he leans back
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his head he likes to reach for that that
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lead leg kick whenever somebody touches
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that lead leg so to be interesting to
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see the adjustments that he's made
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because that's what Stephen Thompson
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leads with till is super aggressive but
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with Thompson you kind of have to like
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play it safe a little bit you have to be
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a little more cautious you have to wait
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a little bit more because he's always
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looking for that counter and even though
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like the Wonderboys counters aren't like
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super hard like sometimes it's the ones
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that you don't expect those are the ones
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that knock you up so you definitely have
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to be cautious when you're fighting a
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guy like that so Darrin till I really
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like his style because here he leads him
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with the jab he's traditionally leads
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with a jab he comes up with the right
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leads in the jab uppercut elbow that
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that's kind of his his chains you know
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he gets you thinking that something's
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gonna come but then he throws it from a
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slightly different angle and I think he
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really has to watch out for that
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high-volume counter that Thompson is
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known for it always worries me when a
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fighter
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is known for leaning back like he gets
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out of the way he's really good at range
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control tillers but when you lean back
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too much you become a little bit more
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predictable and if you follow up with
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more than a few punches that last ones
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gonna land or that last kicks gonna land
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because like when you lean you become
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planted and they know where you are so
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Thompson is really good at doing that
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he's really good at following up with
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more than one or two punches or strikes
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and yeah that's the one thing I worry
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about with till but I think he has more
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power I think he has more aggression um
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this is gonna be an awesome matchup like
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if there was an Abu Dhabi for Abu Dhabi
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if there's an Abu Dhabi for striking
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like these two would be matched up you
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know like this is like elite karate
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versus elite Muay Thai like this is a
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really really good striking match so I'm
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super excited for it definitely excited
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for this and and I'm definitely excited
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to see the step up in competition for
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dare until Thompson has been competing
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at a very high level he's the former ten
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title contender he has fought at the top
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of the top and I'm excited to see what
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he does with this with a step up in
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competition until we got to do a
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prediction who yet I have a feeling
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you're gonna go for the Moi's hey guys
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you know I I really liked what I saw of
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MAS what I thought he did a lot better
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than a lot of the commentators are
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saying he was able to hide a lot of
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punches and really land on Thompson so
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I'm gonna pick till he does the same
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thing only with the left hand you know
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he's a southpaw he's dangerous I got the
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underdog one in this one all right I'll
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give you that one just because you know
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you're a Muay Thai person and you gotta
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go a free gotta go with your people so
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I'm gonna go for is demon Wonder Boy
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Thompson it totally so life
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fun fact about ya know yeah exactly
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that's what I was going with that was
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going all the way in uh like every man
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should know fun fact about uh Stephen
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Thompson is his brother is married to
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Chris Weidman sister really ya know that
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I wonder how that happened
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yeah wonder what that I don't know the
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family looks like
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and this has been another episode of two
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straws this is Angela Hill I am Jessica
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penny and thank you so much for joining
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us don't forget to tune in on May 27th
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Lisa can we have some more tea oh that's
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a good year well done oh yeah crushed
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grape tea May 27th Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
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10:00 a.m. Pacific you're gonna need
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your mimosa is your crumpets your tea
20:58
your Bloody Mary's your drivers burgers
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putting people who are to bring us on a
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brunch ringing yelling Leo no maybe stay
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in bed whatever you want to do it just
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make sure you tune in tune in hey let's
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get that track back
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