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UFC Seattle Reactions w/ UFC vets Angela Hill and Jessica Penne
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Jun 16, 2025
Ange was on the scene in Seattle enjoying the festivities and proving to fans her nose wasn't broken while Jess prepares for her secret GFL fight that was clearly happening in April against some girl named Joyce but is now a big question mark. We break down Eye poke gate, how much we enjoyed the finishes and whether or not Sal is back on the list. 00:00 Seattle is full of dirty liberals and Ange loved it 04:40 our picks would've been a clean sweep but Song had to screw that up! 05:21 Henry Cejudo vs Song YaDong 10:14 The eye poke changed everything 20:50 Sal back to his old ways 23:26 Anthony Hernandez vs Brendan Allen 28:55 Rob Font vs Jean Matsumoto 33:38 Jean Silva’s ko vs Melsik Baghdasaryan was scary impressive 39:25 Was Alonzo Menifield winning vs Julius Walker the right decision? 41:13 Ricky Simon got a huge KO win vs Javid Basharat, broke his 3 fight skid and got Ange a lil emo 45:22 Ion Cutelaba swapped his shorts for a beer, Jess is down to do the same next fight. 48:15 Jess explains how super organized the GFL has been so far. 57:10 what does pre-camp look like for Jess 59:20 We got a bonus episode this week! Become a member to watch now and get entered in the end of month giveaway! Otherwise see ya Weds. Powered by Duelbits. Join us:
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hello hi how's it going good yeah we're back with another two straws made it out
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of Seattle safe and sound yes I made it out with my life I actually I really
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like Seattle yeah the land of liberals wearing birken socks and eating granola
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oh that was a lovely place you know I didn't know how liberal uh Seattle was so I got there and I was just like oh
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yeah my people let's go graffiti everywhere just talking
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about how impotent Trump is I loveed it but the crowd at the UFC was also very
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mixed very liberal very cool um and they were wild man it reminded me of the
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crowd in Paris the first show like every time one of their guys were up they went
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crazy like uh paton's aunt's boyfriend he's
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Washington adjacent it's basically yeah counts they drove over they drove over
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they bought a ticket and they showed out it was it was really fun to watch um
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yeah but it was it was a lot of fun uh a lot of fans like you know came up to you
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and just were like hey oh my God like yeah great fight um the fights were
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insane to you I I feel like when you have that type of crowd everyone just go
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go out on the shield you know and and that's how the fights were like uh every prelim ended in a finish uh the crowd
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was there from the get-go so they had every knockout had like a huge crowd to
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pump them up and uh yeah it kind of continued into the main card uh even the
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split decisions were pretty insane like uh the the only thing that slowed the
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night down was the main event but what what but
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you you can't have a perfect card what are you going to do you know I feel like
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it's hard to end a fight card like that with another knockout because after
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you're leaving the arena you're just so jazzed up there fights in the streets yeah you have no um you have no button
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on it so you're just like H now what do I do with all this people in a bar I mean there were some
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fights there were some fights in the crowd and Seattle we we got out of there quick and
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security that was another crazy thing security made me feel so important oh
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you got the presidential treatment didn't you dude they were like we when we would go up to the lounge to do like
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the meet and greets with the fans we would get to the elevator and there's people in the elevator and they're like
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you're going to have to get out the elevator and I'm like that's fine they're fine they could
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they're like no they have to get out of the elevator I'm like I'm sorry I'm so important I'm so sorry guys here here's
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some here's some dollars go spend them on something nice poor peasants the only
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time I felt that important was that I was in uh Mexico doing fighter appearances because we have armed guards
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yes everywhere and police escort like military police escort guns on cars yeah
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the turrets oh I swear you feel feel like really important and oddly like
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safe but unsafe is like is this necessary it makes you feel like like it was really stupid to go to the Starbucks
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right before right before you got a police escort to the arena you're like maybe I shouldn't have gone to that
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Starbucks by myself there's danger in the streets everywhere yeah no I I felt
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that too um with the Mexico City thing I did it twice and both times I was just
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like they don't even know who I am like you're drawing unnecessary attention they think I'm somebody that's very
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important and now they're going to like yeah now they're going to kidnap me exactly they would not have tried to kidnap me
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before try get a really high Ransom that is unnecessary that I don't have no one's paying that no one not even
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Dana uh so yeah it was that kind of special feeling where I felt like it was
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a lot but then when I saw how crazy the fans were and there were like fights in
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the in the seats after the Henry cejudo fight there were fights outside um like
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by the concession stands and stuff so people got wild in Seattle they're like we are liberal but we are angry violent
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liberals got to take it out on somebody yeah I get it I get it lots of pent up from frustration um so what did you
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think about the fights which ones they were all awesome and I I got to say I
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mean minus one we did pretty well in our predictions guys you need to pay attention I think we were on our way to
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having a clean sweep if it wasn't for songs dongs songs little dongs going
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little dongs penetrating to where they're not supposed to go not in the stipulations he did not
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sign up for that type of penetration you normally pay extra for it but he got it for free yeah and I
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don't know he got it for I don't know if uh if
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it looked the same from your perspective but in the arena I felt like he was
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Henry cejudo was taking over the fight he was I'm telling you until he got eye
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poked he was gaining momentum it took a little bit cuz you have to look at who he's facing song is you know he's
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explosive he's sharp he has great takedown defense he's so fast and so it takes a little bit longer to get the
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Rhythm to find your range especially in shudo being the shorter opponent M um so
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I thought that he was starting to finally gain momentum I thought I mean minus the eye pokes I thought he won
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that round yeah and what happened was he lost every moment after the eye pooke so
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it looked like he was winning the second he he picked up momentum at the end of the second but it was pretty even before
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that so I can see why some people were saying two to one or saying two up for
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song at the end of the second round but I would have scored it for suo because he ended so strong and before then it
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was a little tip for Tat song was doing a good job defending but his suud was
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finding his range and then in the third third round he was picking him apart and
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I remember because there was this really annoying person behind me and that's the other
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reason I I I always get excited about going to fights until you get to the
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point where everyone's blackout drunk oh and just screaming out absurdities yes
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slightly slightly provoking my unhealed
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parts like every time this person says something like my my bicep tense like we
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still have work to do we still have work to do and I know I couldn't say anything because I could feel Adam getting way
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more annoyed than me a lot faster all he needs is the is the green light and he's
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like all right we're throwing chair I gotta pretend like it's not
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annoying me but there was this guy behind us that kept going take him down take him down you're Olympic wrestler
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take him down and it wasn't like he was actually Ro like doing it to encourage cejudo he was doing it to get a laugh so
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it was annoying after the 20th time he said it but because he was saying it so
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often I was noticing how well his striking looked like I was like cejudo is [ __ ] him up with the boxing why
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are you yelling for him to take him down like he's doing great in the boxing was doing great fainting the takedowns yes
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going to the body and then coming up like he was he was playing the game he was figuring out
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what was working for him he just needed more time yeah yeah and he needed to be
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able to see his opponent as well so I'm not like a huge uh sympathizer of Henry
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cejudo but I definitely respect everything that he's done in the sport
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and I think a lot of people write him off as his clown because he because of how he carries himself but he made such
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great adjustments he did in that fight and I felt horrible for him that it ended that way it it's really hard you
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don't want to see that like I know song didn't want to win that way he looked pretty devastated because like nobody
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wants that kind of Aster next to a win you know and and for cejudo the the
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M yeah that that the momentum that he was creating for himself it I I think he
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was starting to finally see his path to victory yeah he was doing a nice job of uh kind of switching stance too he went
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to Southpaw and this should be in that Southpaw
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movie he went to Southpaw and the second I think it was the second maybe it was the third but he just started finding
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the mark and we saw 32 Landing 3 tw's ending fights all night yes I was like I
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need to follow up better on my two I wrote it down yeah we're both like
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that's how you do it oh yeah there must have been a seminar somewhere or something cuz everyone was dropping
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people Miss it's all right we saw it now we know watch out watch out [ __ ]
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we're coming we're coming for you with the three twos from from the left and the right uh but he did a real good job
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of finding those three twos when he switched to Southpaw and I think it really confused song to the point where
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he was getting busted up he was getting landed on and when you switch stance and you're fing those takedowns your brain
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overloads you're just like what what is this guy doing ah ah okay wait no okay now he's ah you know so uh he used his
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takedown defense against him cejudo did and he was really finding that Mark until the eye poke and man it's it's
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easy to uh to get angry at a fighter for not continuing but when you saw what
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that eye pooke looked like did you see the uh the morning after the video oh yeah we saw we saw the slow-mo we saw
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the replay we saw the the post fight it was it was bad and I mean good for Henry
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speaking up for himself yeah a lot of people would have just gone into the next rounds and got beat up because they
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couldn't see their opponent yeah and that's that's what ends up happening it's it's hard enough
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you know overcoming obstacles to get you to the fight but then when you're in the fight you need to be able to see you
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need to be able to to make those Corrections and adjustments so I'm I'm proud of him for speaking up for himself
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it was a vet move it's not you know Popular by any means you know for the fight fans but you know if put yourself
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in that position what would you what would you choose to do and uh to uh
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cejudo's um you know uh I guess luck he wasn't in some he wasn't somewhere like
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Mexico City where they literally will throw cans of beer into the Octagon this
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is what happened to Jeremy Stevens when he fought in Mexico City fighting uh yaaya Rodriguez in literally the first
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10 into the fight I poke devastating can't see they have to call the fight um
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a lot of people were criticizing the way that um I
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guess the the end moments were handled like the fact that cejudo was made to
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continue to make it go to decision that was that was really interesting so I'm wondering what it sounded like on your
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end because we didn't have any audio I I heard the uh the fact that cejudo kept
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saying I can't see and usually when the fighter says that especially more than once they stop the fight like once they
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realize okay you're not just reacting you understand if you say I can't see
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three four five times that means we have to stop the fight but the fight still continued so the the strange thing and I
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don't know what what provoked this but it was um Jason herddogg who is who is
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the ref in this fight one of the best refs one of the best refs there is UFC he um kept asking cejudo he was like can
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you see and cejudo said yes up until like the the last minute he's like I will give you five and cejudo just kept
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saying I need five I want the five I just need time I can do it okay so he said he can see he can okay and so at
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the end of the five he went in he tried to continue and at the end of the round
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when he went back to the corner he said I cannot see I can't see what is what he's throwing he is blurry he was very
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adamant that he could not see he wanted to try to continue he tried and I mean you saw you saw at the end of
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that third round he was just completely defensive just trying to be Elusive and move and he was he was doing a pretty
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good job of it for somebody that couldn't see um but then it was just um I I didn't understand well I understand
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why he wanted all they started it they started the fourth because Herzog was
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saying that you want to be able to go to the scorecards otherwise it's um it's a
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no contest or um DQ or a DQ for but that would be a DQ
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for for a song for a song correct yeah so he didn't want that to happen I don't
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know if somebody was saying like hey it needs the round needs to start so the reason that the round started was just
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for technicalities because they wanted to be able to use the score of the first three rounds
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okay and I wonder because obviously that would have worked better in sud sudo's favor if
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that didn't happen yeah or it would have been a no contest or what whatever the ruling would have been yeah if they had
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just called it I think I think the confusion happens where he restarted after the
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initial fou like if he had just stopped then and there then yeah DQ but because
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they started back up um that's one that makes it confusing because you're
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still suffering from a foul that happened that tried to power through so
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I we need to figure out what the rules are for that because yeah it's a DQ if it doesn't start but it don't you want
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that if your cejudo's camp or well not if your songs Camp yeah exactly so
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they so the result helps one person but not the other yeah and Herzog was the
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driving force in that decision yeah so I I don't know if there was somebody at his ear I don't know if that was his
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decision I don't know exactly what it was but he was was adamant about making sure that the first three rounds were
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scored so that it wasn't um a DQ and no contest or like whatever the ruling would have been and
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maybe From herzog's perspective he thought it was going to be two to one for cejudo so maybe that's why he was
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trying to push for scoring because then at least the fairest thing happens where whoever won the fight gets to win the
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fight and uh and both somebody gets paid win bonus you're able to just you know
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put a button in it yeah I I mean for me I think I would have rather seen it be
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labeled as at what what it was not gun to scorecards them both get their purses
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and then potentially you know get rescheduled yeah and apparently that's not going to happen right no uh Dana
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White was adamant that he did was not interested in a rematch even though song and cejudo after the fight called for it
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yeah I wonder I wonder what that means keep I mean this is the probably the
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result that the UFC wanted though because you have the younger fighter you have the China Market you have um you
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know a fighter with a lot more upside than cejudo does who only fights every year goes in and out of retirement he's
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expensive he's super expensive lots of credentials yeah I feel like they're
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pushing him into his coach State yeah and I mean he's he's already partially there but I you know something keeps
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pulling him back which I I mean I think he's still got it I know he's he's dropped you know against morab um
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against al Jermain but it's you know I still think that he sells fights I still think he's got it I still think he can
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compete um but I think also the UFC is in a place where they're trying to
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filter out and cycle through and bring in you know the the newer talent and um
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you know you always hear it on the commentary desk like age is a huge thing they always have the same kind of
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dialogue about it oh he's slowing down he's old he's this he's that or she's this she's that it's um it just gets
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frustrating because I think there is um just a a lens that they put over um when
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they view more seasoned vets yeah exactly so hudo looked fast yeah he
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looked great and he was adjusting fast in my opinion and he was yeah like you said he was adjusting he was popping in
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and out he was using a little bit of everything he was overwhelming song and if it wasn't for that I pooke I really
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feel like he would have been up two rounds and going into the fourth with that momentum that we were talking about
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and yeah we we've seen song Drop it too against people who are more season
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people who just under understand the game better he's really young so uh obviously he'll learn from this and
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continue up but he's one of those people that people have always looked at as future Champion material and cejudo
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having been there done that having had close fights uh I thought his fight with
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morab uh was the first time you saw him really hurt people on the feet in a long
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time you know you saw it on his come up and when he was flyweight but this time he reminded people hey like I'm not just
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an Olympic two-time wrestler you know I'm I am I got hands yeah I got hands too so uh
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so seeing him be able to piece up someone who was considered a striker I was very impressed and yeah man I hope
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like something like this is the type of thing that makes you put the gloves down before you're ready you know like
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something like this where where it was a weird foul uh it seems like unfair scoring they had it 3027 song which I
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was like come on bro no come on bro I know that wasn't my boy s a model cuz
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he's been on point recently no he actually did not he's been doing his thing well
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well with you this this weekend no he made a weird one did he I think it was with the Rob font fight Oh I thought
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font won well font won but he did he do
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3027 hold on let me pull this up um he just he did a weird one in one of the
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scorecards where every other judge gave it I'm pretty sure it was the font fight
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um and and he went against and he gave it to uh Matsumoto um scorecards
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um yeah but uh this is definitely the type of thing that can make you just say
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man is it all worth it anymore uh I'm I'm hoping he sticks around because he
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is a character he has some extra interesting matchups interesting
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rivalries to the division if he is able to stick around and and the crazy thing is he's still beating people like his
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fight with Alo was super close his fight with morab he was able to put hands in Mor rob a bit before before uh morab did
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his Mor Rob thing and in this fight he was able to put Hands On songs so I feel like cejudo still competes well against
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the top five but the question is is he going to have the patience to endure another Camp when he's already like
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taking years off and and just kind of popping in when it sounds fun and you know not fully fully committed to being
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a fighter anymore here for the party yeah exactly which I mean cool it's I think
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it's really cool that he's I mean he's earned that position you know if if that's his prerogative then you know I
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think that you know I still want to see him fight I think that you know the fans still want to see you know all the Antics uh that he brings because there
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just aren't that many of those kind of Fighters Henry
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coodle you think I can beat this guy that's what every guy in the top five is saying about Henry
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Cudo um so it was your boy Sal deato that gave uh Matsumoto the first round
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when Derek clearly and Mike Bell I thought it was a clear Rob font round in the first okay personally um and he had
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he had Rob font losing that fight he had the first and second round to mamoto and
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and the third to Rob font which I did not agree with I agreed with uh drik
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clearly and Mike Bell I thought it was a clear decision for R font yeah I think I remember uh font starting off strong and
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then that kid just kind of woke up and got to business and the second and then the third one was the one that everyone
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was like oh we'll see what happens but yeah yeah it was it was good um another
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another vet move by Rob font what were the scorecards for cejudo uh song oh
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well we're at it yeah just pull just pull that up just want to know just curious so we had wait oh I went
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completely the wrong way hold on with me ah take your time okay so we had
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um Mike Bell Derek clearly and Sal deato um so it was It was kind of mixed so
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Mike Bell gave cejudo the second round okay and Derek clearly gave him the third okay Sal deato had all three for
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song ah s making me look bad I
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know W well he got he got an important one right so
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got the the one the one the one for the for the
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year I'll still try to avoid him um yeah so uh yeah it was that was
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rough it's rough to see a fight in that way but the crowd was actually pretty stoked that song Yong one and they were
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on Henry side in the beginning of the fight interesting yeah they were chanting USA they were all about Henry
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cejudo and then I guess they turned on him because he didn't want to continue
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to fight see you guys need to chill like imagine I mean imagine you know you're
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doing your job when you get poked in the eye how many minutes would you need you'd probably leave the rest of the day
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exactly yeah exactly oh I just you probably need to Uber home because you can't see oh my gosh poor car is coming
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at you exactly yeah so you guys need to chill on that yeah uh the comain
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was uh we had Brendan Allen and fluffy Hernandez I love that nickname dude he's
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awesome um we both picked him to win and he did a great job he has the ability to
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just take these Grapplers and just make their lives miserable he's like I am the
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grappler now look at me look at me I'm the grappler yeah and I mean you know
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Brenan Ellen was was trying he got to some um at the end of the first first I think was his biggest moment I gave him
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the first round just because he was able to reverse and then do damage whereas um Hernandez was more you know covering
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cradling um off balancing he he did have like um a huge amount of control time
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throughout the three rounds however you know if if I'm critiquing if I'm a coach
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I'm going to say like hey you need to do more damage in those positions just to make just to put a stamp on all that
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control yeah he was getting after after it though with the scrambles and the
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positioning and and just always moving like he never got stuck on one attack as
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soon as Brandon Allen would start to wiggle away or get to another spot he'd
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roll for something else or jump on top and get something else so that was really impressive to watch it was it was
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high level grappling oh yeah you know it was super high Lev grappling uh the good thing is when you have a fight like that
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you come out pretty unscathed like I'm I'm still mad that I threw a kick at the
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girl that I fought my shin still like ow why'd you do that don't touch me
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don't don't lay on my leg at night it throbs but uh yeah it was it was a super
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high level grappling match and there were so many I guess
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um position changes transitions yeah transitions like just like uh what do
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you call it like uh like when you're volleys like a like volleys like when
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you're playing tennis or something it's like yeah it was it was non-stop back and forth I I'm not kidding you I love
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this guy's use of the Cradle in MMA like it's such um the way he Vines legs together we saw um uh Paige vanzant's
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husband uh Vander Fort do that as well just like lacing the legs just his um just his experience on the ground he he
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fully utilizes everything and makes it like really work for him in MMA yeah yeah it was it was some fun grappling
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exchanges at that night uh did you think that there was ever a moment where he
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was going to get the sub where you felt like Brendan Allen was just too good on the ground I I did not think he was
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gonna actually get the sub because Brendan Allen is I mean he is really
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really good Grappler great in MMA he's you know had he's dropped his last two
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or three um I know he lost his last one let me look it up but continue um but
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yeah he's still he's still you know a really really tough fighter he has great technical ability there's just little
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things that he needs um you know to develop in this fight I saw him just really needing a sense of urgency in
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those tough positions and again it's it's easier said than done it's easy to criticize from my nice comfy
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couch especially when you have somebody like um you know fluffy hernanz on top of you it it just you know brings it to
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a different level so I would have liked to have seen a little bit more urgency a little bit fighting the hands in certain positions just to like really solidify
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that that standup yeah and so you're right he only lost his last two and Nadine imanov IM IM imov was the other
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guy that he dropped the decision to and that fight um he was doing really well but kind of gassed out in a grappling
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and I feel like that's what happened in this one too um we were sitting behind um behind uh Ali who's one who's his
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manager and when he got uh fluffy Hernandez down in the first round he was
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screaming don't pass don't pass and when I was watching I'm like no he
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should pass like why not he was hanging out in that half car position that a lot of people like to hang out in and H and
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land but because Brandon Allen is such a stud on the ground it's like hey maybe
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pass and see what happens see if uh if he gives up something trying to transition or roll out of something but
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after their uh remembering what happened in the last fight he really like sold out on a lot of grappling in the first
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round and a half and right at the halfway mark gas gone so it's a good way
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to conserve your energy too to stay in that half card position to hit to make
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uh the person on bottom do all the work and then you're able to be recharged going in the next round and I feel like
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that was the game plan but Hernandez was just so scrambling and so able to get
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the fight to where he needed like that second round where he just went straight in kind of swung him to the ground
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landed on his head that Brandon Allen did that was like the beginning of him deciding okay I'm taking over and I'm
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not going to stop until the Bell Rings it was a cool fight to watch yeah it was it was very fun very technical very um
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you know lots of transitions lots of back and forth so yeah definitely definitely what I was expecting they
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definitely delivered yeah um so was talking about the font fight now since we're going down down
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the line yeah let's let's talk about our boy Rob font listen he showed his his
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veteran um he kind of looked um like he he was just trying to remind us you know
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what what got him as popularity what got him into those like Main Event kind of fights he he took on you know a very
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tough opponent and undefeated Matsumoto and he put it on he had the
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gas pedal down as soon as the bell started and I think that's what created
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those really great opportunities where he was scoring MH yeah mat though he came after him I think it was the second
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round where he just said [ __ ] it and went for the taked down he was just swarming him with all his stuff and then
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like doing some wild things too like kind of unpredictable stuff that I think threw Rob Fon off but I agree he was
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able to come back in the third it was a little more back and forth in the third but yeah the kid showed that he deserved
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to be there absolutely as soon as he walked in I kind of did like the Casual fan thing where I'm like H girl in the
30:08
corner what's this guy got this guy's got nothing it was uh it was uh my girl
30:15
um um uh [ __ ] with the traps oh yeah I know who you're talking about you're
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Mexico City fight my Mexico City trapzilla in his corner I'm like that's probably his main training partner that
30:28
girl's huge yeah yeah she going up a weight class maybe she's
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injured why is she so built right now she's huge but uh yeah Matsumoto walked
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in and I'm like uh I don't know this a lot of times you get undefeated guys coming into the UFC making their debut
30:46
and you're like they probably didn't fight that great of opponents in order to get up here but matumoto you could
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tell why he was undefeated like he put it on font he made him work for every inch of that fight yeah he
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did a week or two weeks notice I it may have been a little bit more than that um
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I forget when Dominic pulled out but yeah oh yeah I think yeah I'm wondering
31:12
if they had trouble finding someone because I feel like someone said it was two weeks notice but yeah he uh he
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filled in for Dominic Cruz um kind of a different opponent still going still
31:24
with the takeown threat and everything but font was able to adjust as well yeah it makes me wonder how how the fight
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with with dom would have gone I think it would have been a fun one I think you know the just the energy the um you know
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fight IQ the awareness I just think it would have been a really uh you know really good fight yeah and people forget
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how good Dom looked um before the Cheeto kick that landed but it's easy to forget
31:51
after such a spectacular movement you know yeah but like they it was I think it was four rounds of Dominic Cruz was
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doing the Dominic crw thing just hitting moving picking him apart gaining his
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points like just really styling on Cheeto Vera and then the kick happened
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yeah so and I feel like that was the last time that strategy worked for Cheeto too because after that everyone's
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like all right not letting that happen again you know he's got it away with it long
32:22
enough no more if it can happen to Dominick Cruz it could happen to anyone we got to put a stop to this but uh yeah
32:29
people forget how good he looked in that one his one before that against I think uh uh Kevin Casey the the the kid who
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was like I'd [ __ ] wasn't he oh on a ladder
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if he stood on a ladder Megan yeah he's like I'd take Megan home Megan Anderson home if she was the last
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girl in the club at night and I had a ladder in my pocket you know like boy sit down oh my goodness
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but yeah he looked Dom looked really good in that fight too so um yeah it it's heartbreaking that Dom had to go
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out like that as well maybe maybe he'll come out of retirement the if there's an inkland for a cejudo rematch who knows
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maybe maybe he'll get the itch again but he posted a pretty happy looking photo
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of him uh fishing the other day a so I think he's enjoying retire let him enjoy
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it I'm like this boy looks like he's been retired for 20 years he's over there with his fishing hat on on a boat
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somewhere like yo I love it you dreaming of doing this yeah no for real he does
33:40
uh the next fight uh John Silva boy yo oh my goodness these fight nerds these
33:47
fight nerds I'm telling you they're taking over insane oh he's so mean he is
33:53
he's so mean and he was another one of those uh step in hook with a cross just
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freaking putting him out and I appreciate that that um he really didn't
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want to inflict any more damage than he already had he definitely concussed his opponent um but but the ref wanted
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wanted him to die please continue like no he's not all the way out he's he's only otish he's still
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twitching I'm gonna need you to well how many times does the rough jump on and
34:25
and save the The Fighter and then they get angry that actually happened uh with
34:30
the VanZant boyfriend Mr VanZant he jumped up he jumped on top the fighter
34:36
wasn't responding he jumped in was like all right you're done and the guy was like what are you doing I was about to
34:42
do something I was defending myself intelligently by closing my eyes yeah he
34:49
was barely hitting my face for the last 30 punches but did you
34:55
see that he went and shoved him too yeah it was crazy yeah he get mad mad yeah
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and use your words he was big mad that yeah and that guy uh you can tell uh his
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um Corner was getting a little frustrated because he he needed to hustle in certain positions and he kind
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of just waited and he did it multiple times where he would get pinned up against the fence or or start fighting
35:20
like for a double unders or something but then he' just wait and that's the
35:25
best thing to do for someone like Austin Vander for he was just like oh great all right okay we got you he's like cool
35:32
yeah and now I'm on top and now I'm hitting you and you're not you're still not moving so yeah it was a good
35:38
strategy for Austin Vander for but um in the Jean Silva fight man he did such a
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great job of pulling out his attacks uh with uh who was it uh melik melik
35:54
basaran is that how you say Well done basaran
35:59
melick Mr melick this is another person that the uh the your Olympic wrestler
36:04
guy was really into so so needless to say I was a little
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happier when melick lost than I should have been um did you turn around and look at him I was like spit your tongue
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at him I did like the little kid and the
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the little kid in the car window
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I would have done that too that's what you get for rooting for someone uh that's what you get for caring about
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people uh no but uh melik was also coming in he was on a hot streak too
36:40
right uh lots of Knockouts lots of uh exciting fights and John Silva him and
36:46
John Silva was just a a blockbuster match made in heaven yeah it was for me
36:52
it was going to be a I mean I rooted for Jean Silva just because I I think that what I've seen him do
36:58
you know just in his last now three fights is just incredible same absolutely incredible this guy's a
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killer um and and a sniper he just just really knows how how to read
37:09
his opponents and like he were saying pull things out and and capitalize at the perfect moment there was one moment
37:16
where he rolled a head kick and I was just like how the how did he know that
37:21
was coming like he's doing his little like movements joking on him and then
37:27
the head kick comes out fast like melik's head kick was so fast he just
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goes that would hurt my heart if I threw this beautiful head
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kick and the guy just slipped it like it was a jab you know it was it was really impressive and then when he got in
37:46
through that 3-2 man he dropped MSC uh kind of looked at him he did this smell
37:53
that made me feel like he has bodies buried in his basement you know he does
37:59
he at least a few animals he keeps
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trophies oh man he does no I think he's an animal lover okay yeah somebody
38:11
that's that psychotic loves animals yes just has no empathy for humans the animals are the only ones that
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understand him exactly that's why but no he looked at him smiled and looked at the ref I was
38:23
like oh no that's not enough ba ba ba and those elbows too like even the
38:29
elbows to the ribs just look so horrible and you wanted you wanted the 12 to six
38:35
elbows and look where they're doing it to people I would love if I could do that like John Sila that would be great
38:41
I don't want to be on the receiving end but I was very impressed the way that look so man what a knockout what a crazy
38:48
performance and as soon as it happened um I I looked at him I was like yo this
38:53
guy's going to be a star yeah like a superstar he already is but there's nowhere to go but up like
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they're going to keep giving them insane matchups really fun fights when or lose I feel like he's just going to keep
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rising in popularity but his fight IQ is so high that you just have to see him
39:14
winning in a lot of his matchups that are going to come next there's there's a lot of special people come people at
39:19
fight nerds right now and I'm really excited to see um everything that team that team is creating yeah for sure um
39:27
the mini fight was a pretty back and forth close one too did you agree with
39:32
that decision I did I would have given it to him um I mean hats off to to both
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of them for stepping up you know earlier than they were supposed to yeah um you know it's kind of a short notice fight
39:43
thrown together because of all of the chaos of the Seattle card okay so they were already scheduled to fight but just on a different card different people as
39:50
well oh okay from my understanding okay um but Alonzo was meant to fight in March and I think Julius Walker
39:58
was meant to fight somebody else um but he took this fight on short notice so it
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I think it was back and forth I mean when you have when you have a a huge power strike or somebody so explosive
40:09
like menafield I think that Walker's strategy was very smart and I think that
40:14
he was you know just hoping to kind of you know grind him out and and stay safe but um menifield had you a lot of those
40:21
just really big moments um with his with his power with his striking I thought it
40:26
was a fun fight it just you know it went to decision and we're spoiled on the Seattle card yeah no I think that was
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the first one right the first decision of the night so but I I do like when a
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fight is close but I still agree with the scores that were made it makes me
40:46
feel like okay the the kids are going to be all right when it comes to judging and I felt like the judging was pretty
40:54
fair that um in Seattle that night um except for your boy salato except for
41:01
dude luckily he didn't he didn't ruin anybody's night he didn't ruin anybody's night it it was like oh I'm not
41:07
surprised it was split but then when you see why it was split you're like huh excuse me what you
41:14
doing um the one fight that uh that kind
41:19
of got me a little emotional was the Ricky Simone fight dude it such a nasty
41:27
knockout Bashar was twitching it was horrible it would he he he flat line for
41:35
a minute I think it was it was such a nasty knockout it was bad yeah it and but it was really cool to watch because
41:43
Simone was coming off of a three-fight skid and it it was three good people um
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let me pull up who exactly they were um but he was coming off of a three-fight
41:54
skid uh against really good people s for one uh that was the first one he he lost
42:01
via knockout the Mario Batista who has just been beating everyone he lost a
42:06
decision to him um and then venicius oliviera who is uh one of those like
42:12
stupid good super explosive new guys coming out of Brazil um he lost a
42:18
decision to him as well so it it's frustrating when you get these really
42:23
good people three times in a row and you know sometimes sometimes you drop
42:29
one to him and and uh uh um oama his
42:34
coach was there and I asked him like was there anything different that you guys did this time and he was like he just
42:40
had to get in a fight yeah like he just had to start getting after it and I think
42:47
that's kind of what happens once you become nuanced in your approach to
42:52
fighting a lot of times you forget in its Essence that you're just fighting someone yeah you're just trying to hit
42:59
someone really hard exactly and it's hard because when you go against somebody that is very polished and
43:04
Technical and pristine like basharat it it's hard because it makes you feel like maybe sometimes you have to approach
43:12
things differently when when the real thing left to do is is to fight is to make it dirty is to just get after it
43:18
you know not let them execute you know not let them fight their range not let them fight the fight that they want to
43:24
fight yeah just hurt your fist on on their face mhm that's what you have to do and he did that step in Hook and the
43:32
straight it's it's the move it was the move of the night it's so simple so simple yet so
43:39
beautiful no it it was a devastating knockout and it couldn't have happened at a better time to Ricky again you know
43:45
the UFC is always looking to you know move pieces around and um I I think that
43:51
Ricky just made a really important statement for himself and and let them know that he belongs there yeah and to
43:58
have his knockout um be um held at the same level as Johan Silva's which was
44:05
like the most insane knockout I've seen in in a while uh that has to give him a
44:11
lot of confidence going he was able to get the knockout bonus as well as John Silva and then um who was the fight of
44:17
the night do you remember I don't remember I can check though but it was a
44:22
good one I think it might have been minifield uh minifield Walker but but uh yeah to to be able to get the bonus on a
44:29
night like this has to give him a lot of confidence going forward um it's always
44:35
correct okay yeah let's go it's always nice when um when you're able to make an
44:40
adjustment in Camp and then it works you know that gives you a lot of uh just a lot of good vibes going into the next
44:46
one as well so yeah that that one I was like good
44:52
job let's go bringing the skid all right
44:57
uh were there any other fights that really jumped out at you not too much I mean I think the the fight as the fight
45:04
card as a whole was just very exciting um you know just sorry when I think of
45:11
Seattle I think sleepiness so I I thought this card might be thought it might be a snoozer but it wasn't it was
45:19
not um we oh we have um yeah we just had a lot of finishes so um uh Costa and phy
45:27
and cila and asan those were like really quick fights that um that are those are
45:34
fights that ended pretty quickly uh calaba ended up exchanging a beer for his fight shorts oh yeah was it wouldn't
45:41
that happen in the stands or something yeah he was walking out yeah when he was walking out it was pretty
45:47
cute pretty cute usually you could get a beer for free mad he had to give something up
45:53
for I'm sure I'm sure whoever handed him the beer would have been happy to just you know just swap spit yeah that's what
46:01
happened to me once when I was oh San Diego not swap spit but let me let me
46:08
what Adam say hey I'm not ATA okay I don't just make out with people I haven't heard
46:15
that one right you never seen that no so I think he did the head Clash he did
46:21
something with a fan but everyone was saying that it looked like he gave him a kiss on the lips oh you don't remember
46:27
that no yeah I I got to find you the video but it was pretty funny but uh anyway I would not do that but there was
46:36
a nice warm half drunk beer waiting for me as I got out of the arena in San
46:42
Diego and so I grabbed it because I'm like oh yeah beer yeah let's go and then
46:47
as I'm walking backstage the security guard which was black mama she had black
46:53
mama energy she went
46:58
no uhuh girl you don't know where that where that beer was it was warm it was
47:05
half full there is nothing good about that beer except for the fact that I just won to fight so but it tasted so
47:13
good I bet it tasted amazing best warm beer I've ever had so yeah thank you
47:18
thank you uh to that Auntie that saved me from getting mono that
47:24
night good on you uh um well yeah like
47:30
uh you were saying that he had to swap something for a bear is there something you'd
47:35
swap I'd swap some gear yeah would it would it have to be like something nice
47:41
like a like a nice uh a nice um cabinet no after a fight no it's
47:49
anything I'll slum it you drink one of my beers I would drink one of your beers yeah I mean slowly one of my ipas slowly
47:57
very slowly what would you swap uh yeah I take off my shorts for it what if I asked you for your bra I wear two so I
48:05
give it oh sick all right guys if you're in the St after Jess WS her next fight
48:12
you know what she'll do for a beer get that titty
48:20
sweat oh speaking of your fight somebody was asking about gfl on our
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page um hold on I will bring up the um
48:35
Kaiju soeki wow look at that pronunciation big
48:41
old monster over here kiji uh says I'm interested to hear
48:47
Jessica talk about gfl this mystery promotion with no dates or venues announced but they apparently have
48:54
signed every inactive and retired in may5 that's alive so maybe you don't
48:59
know where the venu and dates are no but none of us do oh [ __ ] no I'm serious
49:06
they no no everything is just they changed it what yeah so tell
49:13
me why everything keeps getting changed you guys nobody knows what's going on
49:19
they they give us these little breadcrumbs and we're like okay cool we got we got the scoop and then they're
49:25
like hey we're going to send out out something in email to everybody that like updates you on what's going on and
49:30
then we don't get it and then I hear something from my manager or I hear something from somebody else who's like
49:36
you know signed with the league and I'm like really that doesn't line up with anything that I've heard so far so I
49:42
think what's happening is the issue is is they don't have a venue lock down I
49:48
mean they have the desired venue in the desired you know city which is La uhhuh
49:55
but it I given I've been given three different possible dates and nothing solidified I've also
50:03
been given like opponent information but for the fights that they're releasing I
50:10
don't know if that lines up anymore so it's not Joyce no I mean that's what I
50:16
was told I was taught we only I knew about her her name was Joyce I know I was told that we were fighting team Sal
50:22
Paulo oh okay yeah so you knew there was a joy on team Salo
50:27
I was given the team and the name and I was given two possible dates now I'm given another date and I don't know if
50:34
it's the same opponent I mean I'm cool with whatever opponent I get like let's it's just I would just like a date it
50:40
would be nice face you know just a face to you know maybe just like dislike a
50:46
little bit more than the others like to tape on the uh heavy bag exactly I need
50:51
I need you know a name so that you can imitate them properly oh yeah of course I can even change my hair this time
50:58
because about that time as soon as we figure out who it is I can go get that weave installed
51:05
real and then it's on so you know and I've I've gotten phone calls from other
51:10
people that like have been drafted and are on designated teams and like we kind of all just we put our information
51:16
together and it's not all connecting huh so yeah interesting yeah oh um are you a
51:22
part of that group chat for the thing Yeah the secret group chat you guys
51:28
should do that for uh gfl too I guess so like have a secret group chat so
51:35
everyone oh okay you have one well I have one with my like my female teammates okay okay cool yeah maybe uh
51:41
slowly add in some more people so you can like from different teams so you have a good idea yeah yeah not the one
51:50
where you talk [ __ ] about the other team no no no no no no see you need to make sure you categorize those ones
51:56
[Applause] just be like throwing out there and be like oh yeah delete somebody already saw
52:03
it for sure but we'll just pretend that it it's fine it's fine it's fine we
52:09
didn't know you were here we're sorry we respect you everyone talks [ __ ] about
52:15
you behind your back but we respect you now ever since I got added to that
52:21
other group chat I've been getting some weird phone calls I'm like yeah I'm like I need need to get out of this thing
52:28
like some information was shared oh no oh no I know yeah that's not good yeah
52:34
don't don't uh corrupt the Integrity of the group chat guys um well yeah that
52:42
that's a little disappointing because I thought that you guys were pretty set in
52:48
at least the first tier of fights that's happening thought so yeah so what was K
52:53
what was the last information that you got before they Chang it so the the last information I got was
53:00
the the card would be in LA on the last weekend of April or the first weekend of
53:06
May okay and now I think it's being pushed back two weeks okay yeah so it's
53:14
it's hard to secure a venue especially when there are so many other like things going on yeah um sometimes you have to
53:20
book out you know a year in advance I mean imagine you know you're having like a wedding
53:26
and you try and you know book it a few months in advance it's not going to happen you're not going to you're not going to get that venue you're going to
53:32
end up at like your your Auntie's backyard yeah yeah yeah you can't get the nice place no yeah no you got like
53:39
10th pick and you have nobody to be mad at but yourself yeah well maybe there're
53:45
still locking down we're going to end up at freaking Commerce Casino I swear you
53:50
know small that place where is that know where you want to go Angela is that in uh Vegas no it's in LA
53:57
oh but like the hood like Compton like is that where they had uh Invicta um I
54:04
have fought at Commerce Casino for fatal femes oo that sounds like you were
54:09
fighting in jello I know I know exactly or like one of those Kitty pools full of
54:17
mud Lube in bikinis I mean might as well been that's the dark days of MMA that's
54:22
how long we've been fighting we've come so far like that's not on my topology but
54:27
it happened there's video somewhere on
54:32
VHS oh my good goodness oh the good old days H well hopefully it it'll end up
54:39
somewhere a little nicer than that and everyone gets their paycheck CU that's the most important thing it's like we
54:45
don't care if we're fighting in our Auntie's backyard as long as the check clears yeah do you remember when I was
54:51
doing um analyst work and and doing um stuff for that Knuck hey fffs c yeah yes
54:59
so we were yeah that was that was a terrible time that check bounced no
55:04
nobody got paid their checks nobody and there were like some big medical bills for that one too cuz it's bare knuckle
55:11
like people got messed up there was not one person that came out and didn't need a trip to the hospital oh my God luckily
55:18
you are commentating you probably still could have used the
55:24
trip I think I need a tetanus shot after being part of this [ __ ] you know you
55:30
never know you never know no it was that was that was bad I feel really bad that
55:35
that happened I mean I you know it was a small part of the show and I wasn't
55:41
putting my my life and health on the line so it was a little bit you know
55:46
less damaging for me but still there were you know people that fought and were supposed to get paid like
55:52
life-changing money and and they didn't get it no whenever you're part of a situation like that and you don't end up
55:59
as screwed as you know the person who headlined who got 50 lacerations on
56:05
their face then you're a little grateful that it wasn't that bad but it still sucks all around yeah it still wasn't an
56:12
ideal situation but I think I got out luckier than most yeah yeah well fingers
56:18
crossed at the gfl um ends up uh more faithful than than bkf and I'm
56:24
not I'm not comparing the two at all it just brought up it's just something that happens you know and that's why a lot of
56:31
people were skeptical when it first came out including uh Kaiju over here because
56:38
there is a lot of money being promised to people and everyone's wondering where the money is coming from so yeah well
56:44
some some uh some questions are going to be answered come May yeah I'm sure
56:51
June July hopefully May we'll see hopefully my fingers crossed me we're
56:56
only in February so oh no Mar it's almost over yeah well this is a short
57:02
month we're still in February so hopefully hopefully I just need I just
57:07
need to be able to like time it right because last fight Camp I feel like fight Camp was just like too long for me
57:14
and I Peak and I started like that downward like I hit the thing and then I just started going down so I just need
57:21
to be able to time everything properly so right now I'm in pre-amp mode okay so
57:26
I'm doing the the road work the technical stuff and sharting to you know just try and build yeah you know how
57:33
many weeks do you like to go before you feel like you peeed is it like six five
57:39
Well normally I like I think like between 6 to8 is a sweet spot but I think I had a little bit longer last
57:46
time and it was just too much a little too much intensity in pre-amp to yeah it
57:52
just it didn't work out so I think maybe because I am one of those those veterans
57:58
uh I think maybe six weeks might be my sweet spot now yeah well it's like you don't have uh anything to really learn
58:05
at at this point you know it's just about well it's about taking what you know how to do and applying it at the
58:12
right time sure and I think uh it's hard to like go from that like I got to learn
58:19
how to do all the moves mode to like okay let's let's take the stuff we do
58:26
really well and make a game plan out of that absolutely and I mean I think that
58:31
I do have a lot of tools in my tool belt of course like I you know can tighten and sharpen things up and I think that I
58:37
can always add but I think something that I've been missing is just um putting things together in a way that
58:44
just really uh supports my style so we're going to work on that
58:51
yeah yeah well um hopefully I'll be able to slide back into training this week
58:57
and uh help you out with that and uh which one was it it's the other one give it let's
59:04
see that's good there was a little there's a little twitch of the I can I can still kick in like I'll still [ __ ]
59:10
you up I can still kick in the knee and not cry I just have to wear a
59:18
Shinu well uh we're going to have our bonus after that there's a couple weird things that happened on the internet
59:25
we're going to talk about um maybe answer a few more of these questions oh that's not a question but a
59:31
few more of these questions from the fans and also uh did you ever get info
59:37
from Mr uh what's his name for the raffle for the giveaway oh hilard I
59:43
haven't looked in a couple days maybe a few so hilard um that his name right
59:48
Kevin Hillyard yeah hey if you haven't messag us make sure you uh message us on the two straws Instagram page so we can
59:55
sing you that thing and uh I got some goodies goodies from fight week hey that
1:00:00
we can give away at the end of this month so guys tune in for the next one make sure you become a member so you can
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be part of the giveaway and uh and we'll raffle that off next time we're out
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here bye yeah