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Nov 6, 2024
No McGregor, no problem. Unless, of course, you're one of those poor souls that ponied up for a Vegas trip all decked out in your fighting Irish gear and then a jammed pinky toe brought your long anticipated bachelor's weekend with the boyzzzz to an abrupt end. But wait. What's this? Over the smoldering ashes of the UFCs tentpole offering steps a implacable figure, his long face stoic. This is a man who'd fight with a broken toe. Nay, TWO broken toes. Across from him stands a man wearing an kimono and carrying a samurai sword that he almost certainly didn't acquire from placing first in a NAGA tournament. A modern-day white ronin with a topknot that says 'I am at one with the bushido'. Looks like 303 is back on the menu guys. So join us as UFC strawweights Jessica Penne and Angela Hill delve into a markedly different card to the one we were anticipating 2 weeks ago. Brought to you by Duelbits Bonus content available early through our brand spanking new YouTube subscription: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join
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hey Jess hurry up I'm coming in oh ow my
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toe what' you do I hit my toe I think
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it's broken oh I don't think I can
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record I don't think I can record until
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September is maybe I'll let you know
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okay
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[Music]
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the what's up guys International fight
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week is upon us and I will be in Vegas
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so if you see me make sure to ask me to
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kick you in the leg well I'll be here
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sorry guys I won't be able to put you in
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a triangle at ufcx but hit me up on only
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fans and I can put you in a triangle uh
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local travel only and I do get to bring
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a
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bodyguard speaking of only fans sorry
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Michael Chandler you're going to have to
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rain your red panties no Conor McGregor
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fight I can't believe he pulled out of
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his fight because of a broken baby toe I
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know maybe he got cold
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feet yeah he was afraid to toe to line
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in that condition he's been putting his
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fight out all forever I totally believe
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he's going to eventually fight Chandler
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oh yeah better pinky
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swear
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Chandler's what I am not reading that
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say it I am not reading it say it is
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funny no you're trying to get me
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cancelled just say Chandler's black B
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can't believe you wrote that all right
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we won't put it in thank you Jamal Hill
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is also out of his fight uh good thing
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Dana White has been working on lowering
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his cholesterol we might have lost him
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last week oh yeah UFC had the call in
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The Suicide Squad this weekend to make
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up for all those fights they called Alex
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perea Jerry uh Anthony Smith Diego Lopez
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Brian Ortega I'm kind of mad that
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weren't any straw weights on the card I
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could have been there Harley
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Quinn what about me you're totally a
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poison
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ivy umer's out too yeah now we have
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Roman doy oh yeah this Fire card has had
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more shakeups than a gamma yatsi and
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more plot twist than an Mite shamalan
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movie yeah this C's had a bigger face
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lift than David Beckham in that stupid
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Adidas commercial that he kept playing
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50,000 times on ESPN plus anyway let's
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dive to the main card yeah opening up
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the main card we have Ian Gary Machado
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versus Michael Venom Paige oo just like
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Ian Gary's nutritionist I can't wait to
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watch him get it
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on this fight isn't one to wag your
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finger at so in this one I feel like the
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best strategy that Ian Gary Machado can
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have is what he did his last fight
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against Jeff Neil so he can if he you
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mean lose well strategy wise I mean I
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know I was there
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too however um I think that the best
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thing he can do is stay on the outside
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circle make Michael Venom pagee try and
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come into him and then capitalize Just
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the Way Lima did in their Bellator fight
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so what Lima did really well and I think
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he can take a page from this fight is
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getting him to come to him and then
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exploding as he comes in with those
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burst nice and I feel like Michael Venom
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pagee he is g to take his time he's
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going to be patient and try to draw a
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lot of Ian Gary's attacks out and then
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find those moments to capitalize on he
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did a real good job of keeping Kevin
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howand at Bay just being a little faster
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a little trickier and I feel like he'll
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be able to do this against Gary Gary
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potentially Gary's gonna have to be
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really patient which we saw that he can
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do that in the Jeff Neil fight um and I
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think that he's got to drag out those
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explosive movements out of Michael Venom
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page that's already part of his game I
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think he's going to get him to do it and
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if he can capitalize off of those and
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time it properly he can end the night
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early but if uh MVP is able to taunt him
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able to get under his skin get the crowd
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bullying at him he can make Gary do
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something a little wild and be able to
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capitalize on it we know Gary gets hit
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we know he gets punched if he gets hit
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against MVP at the right time that could
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be done in the fight potentially yes
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yeah so I can't wait wait to see that
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one I'm surprised there haven't been
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more like [ __ ] talking I totally thought
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he was fighting kobby Covington to be
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honest oh there's more there's more
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pre-fight presser with Kobe cumington
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and Ian Gary Mado talking crap to each
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other ah than I have heard MVP at all
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well sometimes that means real recognize
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real you don't want to get in a [ __ ]
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talking contest with someone you think
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can beat you
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word who is that who the [ __ ] is that
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get him buter
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get him go get
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him oh
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no what the
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hell butcher come here last time she
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came over uh I was editing our footage
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no that's so funny she's like I know
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that boys make her come H hang
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out I know right
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this is also going
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in next on the main card we have Myra
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Buena Silva versus Macy wait wait wait
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don't go to the bathroom yet stop right
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there this fight could be a banger if
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Macy makes weight if if she makes weight
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that's a big if I'd like to see ESPN MMA
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do an article on how much she cuts in 14
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days I bet it's more than 22 pounds who
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you got in this fight man I
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I think Myra bua Silva had a bad outing
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against Rael Pennington I think uh maybe
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it was you know she was off their meds
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or
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chill damn or maybe or maybe uh it was
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just the the big opportunity before her
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but she looked a little stifled in that
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fight I felt like she didn't perform to
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the ability that she had in the past so
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I feel like this is going to be a good
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um a a good test for her to see if she
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still has that fire that she had on the
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come up to the title fight so I'm
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excited to see what she does against
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Macy chasam because this is usually the
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type of fighter that she really performs
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well against what I saw in that fight
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with Raquel Pennington was potentially
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like we have to remember that she still
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doesn't have a whole lot of experience
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she's still fairly green for a title
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shot and it was also her first time
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doing a five rounder so I think it came
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down to her managing her energy and
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output and I think that you know she can
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take all of that feedback and experience
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from that fight and come back bigger and
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stronger this is a three rounder she's
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going against somebody who is dangerous
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everywhere and I'm really excited to see
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how she matches up against her yeah
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she's dangerous everywhere but she also
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makes a lot of mistakes and I think
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she's very hitable which uh you know
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we've seen Silva really capitalize on in
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the past she's been able to punch
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through people she has kind of that
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andrades style of punching where she
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just weighs in and
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asserts her dominance but then also she
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has those nasty finishes those nasty
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submission abilities and we saw uh Macy
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gets submitted in a similar way against
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Raquel Pennington so I feel like Silva
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is going to have the grappling Advantage
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as well well they both lost Raquel
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Pennington and I'm interested to see how
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this MMA math maths yeah math it up
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hopefully she makes weight so we don't
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have to deal with that math but it
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should be an exciting fight weight
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division that's easy enough that's
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straightforward that's a 30%
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deduction M for the bank all right well
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up next on the card we have Anthony
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Smith taking on Roman doy now he's he's
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a stud he stepped up on just a couple
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weeks notice to fight olberg yeah but
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then uh doy stepped up on eight days
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notice to fight Smith at a higher weight
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class what a one uper a higher weight
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class in eight days he should hire
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Kelvin Gastelum as his nutritionist just
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so he can get up there don't don't do
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that don't ever TR
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again please don't do that well I don't
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know why olberg ended up pulling out but
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if it's anything like McGregor I mean he
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may have gotten a paper cut a splinter
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or maybe had to wash his hair that day I
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don't
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know well this fight should be a fun one
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because these Fighters put entertainment
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before their health yeah both had
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chances to aljo it in huge fights and
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they decided to keep fighting through it
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so huge props to those guys this is this
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is actually a more dangerous match for
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Smith than olberg I feel like because
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olberg had very straight forward things
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that he could do to to mess up Smith but
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he's still really green and doy he just
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has this ability to put people in tough
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spots so he's really tough he has the
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ability to survive in the way that Smith
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does and I think if Smith is able to
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beat him he's going to have to use his
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length he's going to have to uh use his
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leg kicks there's a lot of things that
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Smith does well that can really give
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douy trouble but he has to stick to the
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game plan what I think Dolce needs to do
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is take notes from his last fight when
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he fought
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imov he did a lot of good stuff in that
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fight but what he didn't do was take
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control of the range he didn't mix it up
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enough he would find his under hooks he
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would get double unders and grinding aav
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up against the cage really well but he
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wasn't scoring and we've talked about
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damage a lot in those kind of clinch
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positions when you know control doesn't
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necessarily score as much as damage does
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so what he's going to need to do is he's
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going to need to stifle him against the
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cage like he did eov but he's going to
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need to add damage strikes knees elbows
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punches he's going to have to mix it up
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a lot more
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and if he allows Anthony Smith to
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control the range like ovov did against
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him it's going to be a long night yeah
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and then with the clinch position too I
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worry that uh Smith is able to do what
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he did with Rashad Evans you know just
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control that position even with his back
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against the fence and land his elbows
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and knees in a devastating way we've
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seen uh doy get hurt in those positions
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but we've also seen Smith get hurt in
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those positions so I wonder if this is
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going to be one of those good Grapplers
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end up slugging it out fights or if
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you're going to see a lot of weird
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grappling exchanges cuz they also do a
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lot of similar things they have a lot of
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the same reactions when they're on their
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back on the ground as well yeah I think
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this is going to be you know come down
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to who imposes their game plan better as
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in most fights of course um but I think
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that it's going to be come down to if uh
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Dolce has made those adjustments from
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his previous fight because those are
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some big holes that he needs to fill
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yeah and Dolce hits hard too we we did
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see uh Dolce dip a lot in that imol
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fight too and he tends to lean towards
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that trying to dip and get to the
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takedown I wonder if he's going to do
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that against Smith because if he does
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get into that habit there's a good
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chance that Smith can throw something
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right up the middle he has good stab
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kicks he's good at uh evaluating the
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range drawing things out so even though
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he isn't really known as Dev a
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devastating striker he's good at picking
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up on patterns and then capitalizing on
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him Anthony Smith is you know a former
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Champion he's a veteran um especially in
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comparison to doce um did I say his name
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right
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do okay that's right um especially
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comparing to dce so I'm GNA say it's
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going to come down to veteran versus you
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know upand Comer at this point that's
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gonna you know I want to see if uh lion
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Hart can you know win the fight through
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his experience lionart beats the
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Caucasian OD nickname choice is that his
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nickname wouldn't have been my choice a
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nickname that is not his nickname's the
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ccasian how did I not see that when I
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was studying his footage hisn like a
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wait stop it it's a Caucasian
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Angela I wouldn't make this up as race
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baiting as I am it is a Caucasian let me
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see ran Dy the Caucasian is at the
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top that's got to mean something
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different in Georgian it means you're
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[Laughter]
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white they were the ones that were
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allowed to wear the white hats and not
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the black hats okay if DOL is smart
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he'll go right up to Smith and punch his
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teeth out o i mean if he's really smart
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he's gonna attack his family first leave
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his family alone next next up we have
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the comain event formerly it was
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um not quite sure but now it's Brian
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Ortega versus di Lopez man this is a
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really tough and exciting match up we're
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gonna have to see if uh Ortega still got
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the
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sauce well he's going to have to pour it
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on thick if he wants to get that win
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well the UFC is really excited about you
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know having more Mexican Champions on
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their roster um good thing Ortega has
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been working on his Spanish because you
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know it potentially they may think Diego
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Lopez is a little bit more Mexican than
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Ortega yeah team grassa so this is going
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to be an extremely tough challenge for
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both but on paper it is an extremely
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tough fight and the biggest challenge
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for Diego Lopez however the way he's
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been putting everybody away it it seems
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like Brian's going to come in the
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underdog yeah Diego Lopez is coming in
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with a lot of hype a lot of momentum in
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or is fought maybe three times in the
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same time that Lopez has fought about
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nine so he has a lot of experience he
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has a lot of momentum and he just has
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that fire underneath him that I think
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Ortega has lost and maybe gotten back
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after his last win but it's hard to keep
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it going when you're established when
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you have a name when you're financially
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stable Lopez is still fighting for that
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he's still fighting for that recognition
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and you can see the fire in the way that
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he strikes and the way that he's able to
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hit people no matter if they're on the
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floor standing up going for takedowns
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he's striking from every position and I
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think the most impressed I was with uh
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with Lopez was in his fight with evov in
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a loss where he was just able to attack
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from everywhere able to find a way or
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try to find a way to win it even uh on
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five days notice so I think with all
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this uh with all this notice for the
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fight well I mean all this two weeks
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notice for the fight um he's going to go
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on there with just every uh it's going
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to be a win-win situation for Lopez and
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for take he's just trying to prove that
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people that he's still one of the people
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at the top well what um what Ortega is
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going to have to do is he is going to
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have to stifle that fire that you were
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just talking about he's going to have to
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put those long punches in Lopez's face
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he's going to have to push him on his
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heels because that's a place where Lopez
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really never ends up he's always coming
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forward he's always pushing for The
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Knockout for the submission really
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trying to control the pace and the range
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and the distance of the fight and one
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thing that I can see Ortega being able
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to capitalize on is Diego coming in so
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hard for those takedowns to try and
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finish the fight by submission Ortega is
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great at wrapping up chokes he's great
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at wrapping up submissions off of of
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that takedown he's great counter
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Grappler yeah if he can play the long
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game and really tire out Lopez we can
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see him uh land those long punches and
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keep him at Bay keep him from getting to
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a point where uh he'll be able to land
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power but as soon as Lopez gets into
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that hook range he's dangerous and with
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Ortega we've seen him get beat up there
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a lot like he allows his head to get
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punched especially when you're able to
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go over that long punch punch him right
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over the shoulder like that's where OTA
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gets beat up the most so I think if uh I
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think it really comes down to whoever
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starts first and who's a whoever is able
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to keep that pace going but I see a lot
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of uh or's offense working for Lopez's
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favor especially if he tries to shoot
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especially if he tries to get in close
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so we'll see who's able to come out on
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top
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you better start start hot start fast
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yeah sprinkle some sauce on it wait uh
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dang Deo Lopez coko Lopez teos
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sauce I feel like we have another
17:44
signature drink coming up oh do we
17:47
because uh you owe me a little uh a
17:51
little Victory lap we're even you didn't
17:54
do anything last time I won so whoever
17:56
wins this one I'm still
17:59
might be a special treat I will collect
18:02
payment anyway moving on this might end
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up being a really close fight but
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luckily for him if it's a robbery we
18:08
know Henry Gracie will have his back and
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testify on his
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behalf for a small
18:15
Fe and for the main event we had uh
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Michael Channer versus Conor McGregor in
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a non-title fight nonre weight class
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fight but now we have something that
18:26
makes more sense we have Alex P versus
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Jerry
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P for the rematch for the light
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heavyweight title this just in
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apparently Conor McGregor's toe is in
18:39
even worse condition after receiving
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stem cells oh no how'd he take it it was
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injected into his toe he should have
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done it like the rest of his
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meds the only reason this fight wasn't
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announced earlier is because Yuri was
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locked in his dark room trying to
18:56
harness his Akuma oh and couldn't be
18:58
reached yeah he didn't have any cell
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service uh true samurai would have
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T-Mobile I heard when he does that he
19:07
doesn't eat for three days uh next time
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Kevin Gastelum has a fight we should go
19:11
ahead and toss him in the room with Yuri
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Kelvin gastelum's a little more of a
19:16
Akira than an
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Akuma the fight between p and Jerry
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should be an interesting one I feel like
19:27
they've both improved since the last
19:29
time they fought each other even though
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they only fought each other one fight
19:32
ago um Pera he has nasty leg kicks he
19:38
has a good way of commanding space and
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even though he looked huge at
19:43
middleweight he still looks huge at
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light heavyweight it's really
19:47
interesting to see um I get why ESPN MMA
19:51
is so intrigued by his size but I I
19:55
think that uh that hook is not the only
20:00
scary possession that he has he also has
20:03
a nasty uppercut he kind of took that
20:05
from the Adisa fight when he got uh when
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he was studying his tape he started
20:10
doing that uppercut hook lean back that
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does and that's how he got The Knockout
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in his last fight so I feel like um if
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anything p is going to be coming in with
20:21
new skills every time he gets in there
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he looks better on the ground too and
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it's going to be a tall order for Yuri
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to catch up to the way that he's just
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able to uh impose his will every time he
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gets out there well I think a really big
20:36
question that I have and that everybody
20:38
else has is how in shape is Alex per
20:42
it's not whether he's going to make the
20:44
weight or not he's a professional he's
20:46
used to cutting weight and he used to
20:47
cut down to 185 so we know we're going
20:49
to do that it's just will it tax the
20:51
system and how good of shape he was
20:54
already in because Yuri always comes
20:57
into shape I feel like he's always
20:58
training I feel like he's always fight
20:59
Camp ready yeah um I think that if we
21:04
take notes from the first fight what
21:06
Jerry did really well was he stifled him
21:09
and he took him down and yes phara's
21:11
ground game has gotten a lot better but
21:14
I think that if Yuri can get in there
21:17
early avoid those leg kicks and just
21:19
close the distance and not take the
21:21
damage that he took in the first fight
21:23
he can make beara have a really really
21:25
tough night yeah I think uh Yuri was
21:28
able to get the taked down but he wasn't
21:30
able to do any damage with it but then
21:32
you saw in his next fight he was able to
21:35
get the taked down and then really
21:37
impose his will so yeah y also improved
21:40
on the ground he improved where he was
21:42
able to just uh win the fight make
21:45
people get hurt and it's going to be
21:48
interesting to see how fast both of
21:50
these guys were able to level up in
21:52
between fights yeah this is a really
21:55
compelling exciting fight it's a bit um
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you know there's history in there
21:59
because they had previously fought each
22:00
other and I'm really excited for this
22:02
mat show yeah me too I think I mean I
22:06
feel like giri just is a damaged sponge
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like he's able to come forward he's able
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to pressure he's able to absorb a lot in
22:15
order to find his places to to score and
22:19
to hurt people and then with perea he he
22:23
likes to watch a bit he likes to take
22:25
calculations he'll lose around in order
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order to say okay now I have your timing
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now I know when you're going to really
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commit to something and that's when he
22:35
starts picking people apart I think if
22:36
Yuri attacks him in the same way he did
22:39
in his last fight he might get hit in
22:41
the legs he might get chopped up it
22:44
might be a faster finish than it was in
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the first time that they
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met for sure he has to be really careful
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because um if we saw the if you take
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notes from the first round beara laid on
22:57
those calf kicks those leg hits really
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hard and every I think it was within the
23:03
first or second kick that he took to the
23:04
calf he was already like it had already
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changed the way that jurry was was
23:09
moving the way he was being
23:12
offensive yeah yeah but on same side if
23:15
uh Yuri just pressures forward if he
23:18
kind of throws caution into the win and
23:20
just goes for it puts uh Pera up against
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the fence and makes him uncomfortable
23:29
I think he has a chance to win that
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fight I think he has probably the best
23:33
chance now just because of the short
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notice fight so it'll be interesting and
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then we'll get a Trilogy fight and
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everybody's happy hey fun times I just
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have one
23:42
question who's RBF is scarier Alex Pera
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or Jessica
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capes I let the fans decide anyways what
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are your picks for the main card
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sponsored by dual bits my pick
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for the main card
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are
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MVP Myra bua Silva Anthony Smith Diego
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Lopez and Alex P who you got Jess I
24:14
think we have the same oh
24:17
God you know what I'll go with
24:19
Yuri I'm gonna do it Yuri [ __ ]
24:23
Lopez Anthony Smith Macy oh K son and
24:29
Michael H all right so uh Silva versus
24:34
Tian and padaa
24:36
versus prasa those are the ones to watch
24:40
to see who has to drink in Orga Lopez
24:47
colada I can't wait all right it's on D
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bit F let's go
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