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UFC Vegas 101 Dern vs Ribas Preview!
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Jan 20, 2025
First episode of 2025 is here! We previewed some of the big fights on UFC Vegas 101, talked Ireland MMA vs Dagestani MMA and why someone like Themba Gorimbo may have his own family hating on him. Ange might've called Logan Paul 'Jake' a few times as she didn't realize it was Logan fighting Conor until editing the video. All in all a successful show! Welcome to Two Straws 2025! Powered by Duelbits 00:00 happy neeewww yeeeeaaaah 02:45 Mackenzie Dern vs Amanda Ribas, hot girl fiiiight! 09:30 Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Carlston Harris 11:30 Caesar Almeida vs Abdul Razak Alhassan 17:10 Our new homie Chris Curtis vs Roman Kopylov (make sure to watch our exclusive interview with him in our previous episode!) 21:52 Fatima Kline vs Viktoriia Dudkova 27:20 Ireland MMA vs Dagestan MMA, why are people talking about this?! 36:20 Logan Paul vs Conor McGregor is apparently happening. 42:30 Themba Gorimbo getting hate from his family. 53:00 things not to say to a fighter during fight week 55:43 Thanks members for the support, someone tell Tactica_Moses to send location! Join us to be a part of next months giveaway! Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join
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what's up everyone we're back Happy New Year to all of you resolutioners yeah
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what's your resolution I don't have one none not one no okay no I don't I
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guess I don't really have one either just trying to get uh better and hotter and richer hey that's kind of mine too
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that's been my man like Yeah I'm I'm GNA make a lot of money this year that's my
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goal shoot because it's probably the last year that I can but you're we're gonna do it we're gonna
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do it we're gonna make it big I can believe it I believe it I definitely do
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well uh we're starting off the New Year Strong with a nice little chick fight to
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pop it off I'm excited about that uh you know people are saying that UFC isn't
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welome but I beg to Deer it's a very woke card coming
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up what else besides women headlining makes it woke I think that's it that's
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it okay that's fair enough that's all you need I mean it doesn't matter that people mainly objectify the headliner of
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the car sexually but I mean it's aside from that that is a woman breaking
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through the G glass ceiling with her submission skills and in our ass yeah
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it's it's what more could you ask for one punch yeah there you go and and I
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mean there there are two Fales on the card um and they both Pack-a-Punch they're both uh very decorated Grapplers
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yeah easy on the eyes yes wear very short shorts yeah there you go and very
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bubbly personalities I mean it's it's a win all the way around yeah you're you're going to maybe see some chage
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definitely chage defin maybe uh quadruple chage four cheeks
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yeah definitely four cheeks pouring out the yeah you guys should be saying thank you you guys were very good last year I
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guess it's not very woke after all oh well I'm excited about it uh it's
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a meaningful matchup at straw weight and I think it's going to be a fun one to kick off the new year um should we jump
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into that should we talk about other stuff yeah I mean you you started it yeah I guess you tease this year
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teases make more money they do yeah why buy the cow if
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you can get the milk for free that's what they always say mhm that's what my mama said at least she was right yeah
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well I'm not going to tease this time let's jump into it uh I'm kind of
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leaning towards D just because Rebus doesn't look as good at straw weight I
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feel like she looks more vulnerable it's similar to the thing we were saying about uh Yas Meine how she looks great
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and training but as soon as you cut that weight you just look a little easier to drop a little easier to hurt and throw
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off your game and I feel like we've seen that with rbas even in her last win at straw I think it was uh uh Pinero um she
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got pieced up in the beginning of that fight so I feel like darn has the same
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ability to just throw everything into her punches come forward maybe drop her
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before she jumps on top of her and I feel like it might be a rough night for rebas just because of that um you know I
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was watching I was watching their previous fight this morning and I see a lot of improvements in both ladies but
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more on D side uh don't get me wrong heus has been looking really good in her
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fights I think she's been uh putting her punches and Strikes together um a little
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bit better been following up whereas in their first fight she kind of just um hit and then and moved um I see D Coming
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forward a lot more in this fight I think D has um filled in more gaps since they
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fought and um she just looks like a more a little bit more of a complete fighter these days and I think she has a lot
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more confidence in her strikes um the thing is I still see her trying to take
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it to the ground whereas she had a lot of trouble with that in their first fight and we have to also consider that
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heus is a little bit bigger of a body um and
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her takedown defense and her counters to um D's entries and takedown attempts
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were were there and I think they'll still be there um I do agree that there
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is that danger zone with the weight cutting and and the potential to to get dropped a little bit um we'll just have
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to see I think that Rebus manages her her distance a little bit better so I'm still on the fence about it ah on the
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fence Jess I know yeah I don't know I I just feel like Reus looks better at at
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uh heus sorry she looks better at 125 or at least just more durable and we know D
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has that power I mean I felt it you know so there's going to be that chaos in the
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beginning um because you have two women who are known for the grappling but
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really throw down with the Striking they throw all their weight into it because they're not as afraid to go to the
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ground so you really see them commit to punches and I think D is able to take uh
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a bit more damage than heus is on the feet and that's going to be the real game Cher also it's the the selling out
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that D does we he heis does it a little bit with uh with her hip throws or her takedowns but D really sells out and I
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feel like that's been able to tire out heus in in the past and I think she'll
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be able to use the improvements in her striking as well as that ability to
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still commit to everything to just make it a really rough night I could I mean I
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I could see it going either way to be honest I think that um you're you make
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really really valid points but I also do see he was maybe having that time off from cutting down to straw weight so
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often uh it could have you know given her a little bit more life expectancy in
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the straw weight life expectancy yeah well she won't die
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I just mean on her on her chin you know what I mean I hope you guys know what I mean she has a longer expiration date on
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her chin it won't spoil as soon because she hasn't been you know damaging her
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body with the weight cuts and and damaging her body with those with those tough gritty fights um she's been coming
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out on top I've been really impressed with her her durability and her volume and her striking her just um and her
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tenacity I just think is um you know on both sides but I I feel like heus might
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might inch it out she could she definitely could she has uh good wins at strawweight um vierna she was able to
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beat in 2021 and then um she was able to get a big
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strawweight win against Lana Pino but again she took a ton of damage in that
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first round and I feel like like pinero's uh kind of uh uh track record
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of gassing out in the second followed her in that fight if she was able to keep that pace on into the second and
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third she would have been able to win that one so I think that Duren is able
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to do that she has the uh she has the stamina to go all three rounds and we've
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seen her improve in the Striking ability in her last uh was her last one um loopy
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what was her last I think so yeah she um but I just remember in her fight with
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loopy I was impressed that she was able to keep it going keep that uh keep that
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um what do you call it just the stamina going and no she always comes in shape and she always is very aggressive yeah
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her last win was loopy she lost to Amanda Lio uh lios and then Jessica
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andrad yeah so I I don't know I think um I think she's been improving I think
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that last fight was a good uh testimony to that and the limos fight too it was really close fight um it could have gone
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either way I think lmos just did a little more damage but with uh with heus I feel like she doesn't have that
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slickness in the Striking category she's she's more so one of those fighters who kind of hit pads like she's going to
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throw the combo that she's been working on that should work but if it doesn't she doesn't make adjustments and I think
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that's why she had trouble with rose when when she went up and fought her because she doesn't make those slick
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adjustments in the Striking in order to just find the openings that you don't
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plan for fair enough fair enough to say that um and I do I have been impressed with McKenzie's striking um she's just
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been a more um more educated in her in her strikes lately and I mean either way
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I think this is going to be a really fan friendly fight a really great main event to start out the new year because both
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ladies bring it no matter what chage there will be cheeks there
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will uh what what do you think about the co main the co main I I have uh so it's
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ponzano versus Harris and looking at their footage I just see ponzano being
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able to to get this one done um Harris is you know more of an upright uh ones
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and twos kind of Striker and I think ponzano the way he he mixes his volume
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his boxing his pressure Against the Cage I just I think he's going to get this one decisively yeah pzo he's one of
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those people who have been around for a long time and just never disappoints when he gets out there like he's always
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fighting the toughest people and this one seems like uh maybe maybe a a little
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gift for p like I hate to say that yeah I hate to say that but I know what
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you're saying just just to throw him something like his last two fights he fought Kevin Holland and got knocked out
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and then Muslim salikov lost a split decision so it's like okay you're fighting really tough guys here's
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someone who hasn't really proven himself yet let's see let's see what you can do with uh carlston over there how
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Brazilian sounding in that I wonder where this guy's from
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winon I know uh Brazilian son Brazilians are famously known for
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putting together their their own names and make them sound kind of American it's like oh I like this guy and this
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guy I'm going to put them together and make a name that represents both things
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that I like you can tell who his mom was a fan of I
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guess when you look at a certain Brazilian names yeah definitely um but yeah I
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think this one um I'm going to stay upon takes it and then um moving down from
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that car um from that fight we have Caesar Almeta and Abdul razik Al
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alhassan that was a bful for me good job I wasn't going to [Laughter]
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try um this one I feel like they're they're similar fighters in their
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approach to fights although um so they're you know kind of stalkers
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pressure Fighters uh you know Power Shot um I think alhassan has a few more tools
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that he's been working on we saw in um his his like previous fights he's trying
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to mix in like cage pressure and grappling in there but he has that that
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one punch knockout power yeah and I mean technically I'll it or one kick that
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too um I'm I'm leaning toward alhassan in this one uh just because because I
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feel like Caesar doesn't get on the gas pedal as much he's um he he's not as as
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tenacious not as much volume uh not as much go-getter and um
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yeah I think alhassan might take this one but either either one are very dangerous I'm trying to do you remember
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what happened with the illegal elbows with brendich wasn't that was it that the 12
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to six is that what happened I think so ah interesting
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so who landed the illegal elbows was it
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uh was it uh Brundage or Al Kazan I don't remember okay I need to I need to
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see what happened because okay yes yes it was Al Al Hassan yeah alah Hassan was
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on top throwing illegal well they were kind of back at the head so I think that's why it was a no contest but and a
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lot of people got mad that he milked it those were big powerful elbows
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to the back of your head let me know how you feel after that happen yeah yeah it was it was a lot of a lot of damage to
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the back of the skull that that that portion where you're not supposed to hit whenever you're throwing a 12 to six you
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kind of want to make sure you frame up the side of the head they always say try to hit the ear or the back of the ear so
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you know that you're not hitting the back of the skull so I I remember seeing that and not really being sure if I
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agreed with it just because of the milking but like yeah I've never taken an elbow to the back of the skull before
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so I can't really talk as to how bad it was um illegally but any shot to the back of the head is is bad and the fact
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that it was a 12 to6 elbow as well just coupled it uh what did a what's the over
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under we see some 12 to six now that they're legal I no well and this one on on the
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other side of it so Almeida had um his his last fight against ehor pora or
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pteria oh good job my God I correct me please don't hate us um so this in this
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fight though poor almeida's poor opponent poor teria poor ate opponent so so many
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fingers to the eyes and a grind shot and this is the one where um the the ref
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kept separating unnecessarily like after like 5 seconds he would separate separate and it was um it was uh Pia's
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like only chance in the third round because it was pretty much one and one yeah and going into the third and um he
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finally got you know in and was trying to utilize that that game plan and get
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Almeida down because he' been able to get Alida down previously and the ref just would not let it happen it was
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crazy commentary was going crazy they were saying this is laughable kind of thing it was it was not funny at all it
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was terrible calls by um by ref Dave sjad oh yeah we we were like who is this
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guy I hope we never see him again probably not probably not gonna yeah
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that that's wild it was a really wild wild fight with uh the terrible calls
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and lack of calls by this ref yeah that that whole Utah card was pretty wild like they were being I think even um
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some of the more vetan refs were being very quick to separate and stuff um it
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was it the Utah card was pretty Infamous that year or last year that year so long
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ago 2025 so yeah I remember that being a big
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deal um yeah dang so we might have a bit of a foul Fest we might today that might
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be a dual bits uh you know make your own bet kind yeah prop uh what do they call
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it pick your uh pick your bet is it a prop pick your prop bet or something
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like that I godam dbits choose your bet choose your bet how many fouls or will
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there be fouls by both opponents in the Caesar Alia versus Abdul razak alhassan
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that would be something to look into these guys hit up dual bits right now and send it over there there's going to
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be a big over under for that I feel like you're not going to make much money on that bat it's okay it's fine a win's a
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win no fouls is probably like plus 500 it might be
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definitely well we got to talk about our boy who so uh
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graciously graced us with an interview over the holidays Chris Curtis what a
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guy yeah he's fun amazing energy just um just such a person like I I always
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measure my like likeability by like would I want to have a beer with this guy yes yes yes some people know not at
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all but uh yeah Chris Curtis was uh really funny and honest and I just
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really appreciated his energy yeah I felt like I could tell him all my deepest darkest secrets and he wouldn't
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judge me and it would be okay yeah he wouldn't get on Reddit and spread it
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spread the news or tweet about it 5 seconds later um he yeah he's he seems
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like an awesome guy uh his wife loves me which is why we got the
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interview thanks wife he has a beautiful kid he has two
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beautiful kids I haven't seen the other one but I'm assuming um and uh yeah he's he's super determined to put on a great
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show just to get in a fist fight and I love that I love when people are I know it's not the smartest thing
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to be as a fight but I love when people are more focused on the entertainment value
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of their fights than like just winning because that's why you see so many people getting cut after one loss it's
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because they get in there and they'll do something really boring they'll press Up Against the Cage they'll they'll run and
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Jab or they'll get a takedown and hold it forever and everyone's like what are we watching we're we're supposed to be
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watching entertainment sport so I I know that's not um you know always the case
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but with him he definitely focuses on the entertainment value of his sport and
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he gets in a foam Booth fight every time he fights like he gets in there he gets in the clinch he throws elbows and knees
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he throws uh nasty punches from the outside and it's really fun watching this guy perform so I'm excited because
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on the other side Roman kopov is another guy with with just that ability to wow
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mhm and he's he's is not one of the OBS that goes for the takedowns no he's a good OV he's a good OV he's the kind of
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OV that I would want to fight I'm like get this other OV off of
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me stop hugging me I need space I said no get him off I said see what I yeah I
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got it yes now he is fighting Roman kopilov
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who is also a really fun kickboxer to watch and uh ctis was saying that he's
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started going for takedowns more in his fights too um yeah again you have to you have
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to balance the entertainment aspect but you always have you also have to win yeah um you entertainment will only get
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you so far so you know you have to take into consideration some strategy you have to look at your opponent's
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strengths and weaknesses and figure out the best route to victory at some points and then be flashy where you can
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um but but this one I think is also going to be a very fan friendly fight I
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think this is one that uh the fans will definitely appreciate not as much cheek though not as much cheek but you got abs
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pecs got abs and pecs yeah there you go you know maybe just a little little less bounc but you
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know um but yeah uh both these guys are going to bring it uh guaranteed fun
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fight definitely yeah I'm excited about that who who you have winning why you tell
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us put you on the spot I mean I got to go for Chris Curtis in this one I mean Roman cop he's your boy cuz he's I mean
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he's my new boy but he's my boy our new boy our new boy uh but I just I got to
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go for the veteran status the the grittiness the determination um he's just he's been in there with some of the
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greats um and he's he's still got it he's still pushing forward and I think that um he has the tools to you know put
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Roman on on his heels and uh you know potentially get that knockout yeah I'm
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excited to see it happen uh his last win Roman kopov was Caesar Almeida who we
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just talking about so um yeah it should be interesting to see all these fights
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play out and see who comes out on top one last fight I wanted to talk about is
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uh the weight fight on the prelims oh okay okay we got uh your girl Fatima
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Klein is she my girl I don't know you were talking about her before I thought you had all this info because you
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watched her fight in another promotion or something watched her fight in inv Victor yeah and you were like oh she's
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really good uh she has good strength maybe that's someone else no that was somebody
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else uh that was probably uh Jasmine jzu vious oh yeah when I was doing commentary for C FFC uh I got to see
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quite a few of her fights yeah it's I've enjoyed watching her progression and then getting into the Big Show okay well
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Fatima Klein she's a name that I've heard of when trying to get friends of mine fights outside the UFC and that was
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a name that would pop up and then I'd look at her fights and I go I don't think they're ready for that
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yet cuz she is she's pretty legit her only loss is her first one into the UFC
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and that was at a higher weight class A lot of Fighters end up doing that um
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tabith arichi had to do that fight it 125 against Manon Fior in order to get a
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shot at being in the UFC at 115 so the same thing happened with Fatima Klein
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now she gets to fight at her actual weight class and she's fighting the girl
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if you remember who had staff in places
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I cannot say places I shall not say in
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all the places oh honey don't say anymore so I'm hoping that she is Staff
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free and able to perform at her best that was that was like two or three fights ago though so that's the kind of
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thing that kind of sticks with your image but the girl has decent uh takedowns uh this Victoria
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dudova uh she has really good takedown she she trains with um it looks like she trains with a bunch of dastani like
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maybe she's on team dastani when it comes to the women but she she's a good wrestler and she does does well enough
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on the feed enough to set up her takedowns and stuff so it'll be a good entry fight for Fatima Klein if she can
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get past due to coova it'll show that she has some uh some real upside in the
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UFC yeah I like Fatima striking uh but I haven't seen much in the way of of her
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groundwork um I think she's primarily a a pretty a pretty clean Striker so it'll
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I think it'll be um prudent of dudova to kind of push the grappling and make her
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uncomfortable take uh Klein out of where she's uh more comfortable and dominant yeah I think I think um when I watched
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her like maybe one or two of her fights she just seemed like really good all around like there's there wasn't a spot
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where you can go ooh we can get her here she's just a really well-rounded fighter
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and uh to see that on the regional scene is always kind of rare a lot of times you see people come into the UFC and
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then become that but she already kind of had those skills um outside of UFC so I
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think I think she's got what it takes to take on uh dudova I'm excited to see that fight and yeah we we'll hope that
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they don't have any SK any weird marks or pimples in the
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weigh-in photos just make sure you give the commission a double double wink to
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like double examine her you know what I know you're cold from your weight cut and you're rehydrating and you're
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shivering butt strip down please oh so gross and you know what happens often
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where people fight with staff and they don't say anything I I feel like it's just one of those things I wouldn't want
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to know like if I but then maybe you would because then you're you're
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showering immediately after you get out of the out of the cage
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I don't know I I don't know wh which is better to not know and not think about it the whole time the fact that you were
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rolling around in someone's puss or or to know and be able to go and just
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wash Yourself clean immediately before you do press or anything to make sure you don't get it as
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well either way I mean you can't shower right after after the fight you I mean
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there's showers there there's showers in the lock room if if the Press wants to talk to you you go talk to the press
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you're kind of you're kind of at their becking call and then you can go shower maybe but all of your bags are
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taken to the car so I've walked have to go to the hotel I've walked a teammate
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to the makeup room before she had to do press so I I know they'll make
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time if you need time to wash staff off of your face they'll make
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time well if if they're getting if they're not being seen as is having
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stuff then you're you're not going to know so she's going to hide it again she's going to put it somewhere where
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she cannot speak of oh no speaking of um not that this is
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a sign no speaking well I mentioned she was trous diseases oh God
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no quit trying to get me cancelled Jess speaking of the fact that she trains
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with a lot of dog danany guys um or it looks like it you know she's Russian and
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she's training with guys with no M mustache and full beards um there's been a lot of debate
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between Ireland and the dastani MMA scene have there how so I don't well I
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don't know why but I don't know how you can even compare them it's like apples and oranges that's what I was thinking
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like it's such a different group a different grouping of skills a different
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level of achievement I think of Ireland I think of this yeah the little leprechaun
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and what was that thing called The Throne the The Throne logo oh I don't
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know yeah remember the little guy with the I thought it was not oh well that's the lion
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yeah well I was thinking of like old MMA Brands but uh yeah that's the same thing
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I think of this when I think of Ireland and then when I think of dastani I think of smashh yes yes bearded no mustache
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smesh that's what I think of and it it really is two totally different things
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it's like comparing I don't know kickboxers to wrestlers or boxers to
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wrestler well which is what we just said that was a pointless sentence but apples
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and oranges it it's the same thing so the reason this popped up and it's
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indicative of how stupid the conversation is the reason this is a convers is at all is because the pfl is
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um promoting one of their fights as basically kabib versus Conor McGregor
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too but it's not even though it's too different but it's not it's not it's not so I need to hear more now so now I I
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got to look up for the guys names the reason they're doing this is because they don't promote their actual
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Fighters so you don't know their actual Fighters names which is the reason why they're having so
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many problems with putting on fights and guys aren't helping yourselves yeah you're just doing it the wrong way okay
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so Usman Nur n magamed off uh
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cousin of kabib he is fighting he does
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right he's fighting an Irish guy who I cannot find his name but he's fighting
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on the pfl I'm going to find it and basically
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basically they're promot in it as khabib versus Conor 2 even though it
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has nothing nothing to do with them with it so it as a result Conor McGregor
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sound off and he was saying how I I really don't know it looked like a coked
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out tweet but he was basically just G you guys are bums you your wipes a
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towel blah blah blah you know like doing all that that's an old quote he didn't say that just now that's an old one but
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but basically it was one of those rants where he was just like Dagen blah blah
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blah Ireland MMA is is more advanced blah blah blah and so then all these other Fighters started chiming in like
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other uh you know um uh fighters from well not even Ireland like uh Darren
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till chimed in Michael bisbing uh other people came to Connor's defense and then
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doubl down and a lot of people are thinking that it's not actually kabib
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but it's Ali saying what kabib I guess would say
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uh and so here's khabib's tweet his last tweet on the subject and he goes you can say whatever you want but if we're
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talking about facts you can't you can't compare Irish Fighters with fighters from dagistan which is what we said Fair
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we dominate am MMA and it's not even close not just compared to Irish Fighters but the whole world I'm
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absolutely confident that if we were to organize a team versus Team Matchup dagistan would defeat a world team in
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amateur MMA and when it comes to professional MMA we have Champions
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contenders and ranked fighters in every Major League show me Irish fighters who
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are currently title contenders in the top three MMA promotions at best you
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might be able to name one or two fighters the facts speak for
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themselves who do you think wrote that not [Laughter]
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him as soon as he said show me Irish Fighters show me location of Fighters
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currently title contenders and top three MMA organizations I will will tell you
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we are number one maybe he wrote a
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draft and then it was edited they they sent it to chat gbt like Mike Perry did
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with his uh cop apology at least he tried oh man no you
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can tell you can tell what a manager or publicist steps in it's it's for the good of the fighter yeah it's always for
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the greater good usually there is a point point though where you express hey
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I want to say this but I'm not sure how to say it but this is how I'm feeling we
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go I'm just like fed up I want I want people to know this this and that and you're saying it in your khabib voice
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but they jot down all the import important points and then they write it out in a very you know press release
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fashion yes and that's what it seems is happening here but I still don't understand why this has been become a
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shouldn't be because it should be a thing it's obvious that dagani Fighters
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are taking over an MMA a lot of it has to do with the rule set a lot of it has
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to do with their ability to control the fight and to put it where they needed to
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be in order to score and win decisions when get submissions all that kind of
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stuff the work ethic like there's there's a lot in there where yeah you have to give props to all these fighters
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who are inspire ired by team kabib who are inspired by uh the way that they
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train and they're doing really well with it um Irish Fighters have a different background they have a totally
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different way of training they're they're more flashy they're more uh dare I say exciting like it's more of a
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striking based fight style so yeah you're going to have more people who fail in MMA because of that there's a
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lot more risk in the way that a lot of Irish Fighters fight is why um uh Ian um
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um Gary Ian Gary what is that boy's name it's why
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it's why Ian Gary had to change his style he and he's training with a lot of wrestlers a lot of high level wrestlers
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in order in high level Grapplers in order to change his style where it's less risky because he was going there
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and taking the damage of a title fight in a one round knockout win so I think
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it's fair to compare it to because they're so different inherently and and
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like would you really want to have one over the other it's nice to have a variety it's nice to have this whole mix
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of skills and that's why MMA exists in the first place because we wanted to see
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real life Street Fighter we wanted to see what someone who fights like Blanca does against someone who has the karate
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of re you know what I mean and then like when you see all those different styles come together and fight it's it's really
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fun and exciting so yeah I I think it's I think it's lame to to have this debate
35:34
nobody nobody is debating who has the best numbers you know I think I think uh
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the real debate is which style do you want to watch or which is uh more fun to
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I guess see when but like they're all fun you know like they're all they all
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have their different we're we're not going to not want to watch khabib fight We're Not Gonna not want to watch shavat
36:00
fight We're Not Gonna not want to watch Ian Gary fight you know and or Conor mcgreger get back in there we're going
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to watch that whether he's 50 we're still going to show up and watch that fight because it's going to be exciting
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either way so yeah I don't know it it's just odd that it's at the top of the
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news in 2025 and it's well it's been to be fair
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it's been a a slow few weeks in MMA so they need to fill it with something uh just like the headline of McGregor
36:31
versus uh a Paul uh Logan Paul there what yeah yeah
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you didn't hear about that one no I did not uh it's going to be I must not have looked at the news that day yeah yeah
36:45
yeah so they're doing a boxing match it's happening it's happening and they're getting millions and millions of
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dollars they don't have the date but they just announced that it is happening is that going to be on YouTube I mean
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not on YouTube sorry on Netflix Netflix I'm I'm stuck in
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2020 um hold on let me pull it up okay I will pull it up right now and I feel
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horrible for not knowing that uh Irish Fighter's name who is the other half of
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kabib McGregor too but I need to figure that okay here
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it is um Paul that's who it is Usman nuraga medov versus Paul
37:31
Hughes and their um their what do you call it promoting it as dagistan versus
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Ireland part two which is the lamest yeah it's it's a weird take on it
37:46
as a as a uh promotion that is your own fighters that is supposed to be
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competing against no exactly the UFC yeah it's it's a weird one so uh
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proposed McGregor versus Paul boxing match in India is coming together fast and could happen sooner than you might
38:05
expect it's targeted for April oh interesting yes yes yes interesting all
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right who you got McGregor I hope to got McGregor oh
38:20
it's like we running out of people to root for I know it's never going to happen is it I I don't know it's
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supposed to be for like an insane amount of money so yeah Mega buuck 250 million
38:34
dang all right that's a big payday yeah so I think they're both showing up for this one um especially with all of
38:40
McGregor's legal troubles and getting dropped from sponsors after the the verdict of his court cases I I think he
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probably should he has to make sure he could pay the mortgage on his yacht yeah
38:53
yeah foror McGregor um that uh I feel like he needs a
39:00
Handler he needs a publicist he well not just a publicist I'm sure he already has
39:05
a publicist but I feel like they need to be fired he needs someone who they can
39:10
handcuff him to that won't get beat up and the keys
39:16
stolen from him like uh some big old I don't know Brock Lesnar siiz bodyguard
39:23
that can just I don't know at least slow him down if he's CH to him he needs
39:30
people around him that actually care for for his his health and
39:35
his safety and him as a person well there's just so many people that want to say yes they want to be part of the show
39:42
they want to be part of the party they don't want it to stop and it it needs to stop but he's he does sound terrifying
39:50
when he's on one you know what I mean like he I would not want to be left
39:56
alone a Conor McGregor party because he sounds he sounds like once he gets going I feel
40:04
like whether you care about him or not he can't be stopped and who's going to stop
40:10
him like you you're gonna have to hire khabib to hang out with us like that's
40:15
that's the only answer we need you like porier are you busy like we just need you to just hang
40:22
out with Connor he is having a party is really important he can't get into trouble just be a bodyguard be a buddy
40:31
be a wingman and stop him from doing bad stuff I think the answer I mean you you
40:37
got to stop it before that you just you can't go out anymore you're not allowed to go to any parties no you're not
40:44
allowed you have you have proven time and time again that these are are not good ideas oh man yeah what do you do
40:51
something like that unfortunate yeah it just I mean and and what's going to make him learn you know usually people hit a
40:57
bottom and and that's you know that'll send them on the way back up and on the
41:03
way to to healing and working on themselves but I don't know I I hope I
41:08
hope something changes yeah well Jon Jones seems to be doing okay right now he hasn't gotten into trouble in a long
41:15
time and he's what was that face for I
41:21
didn't he just get in trouble what did he do with the usada people with the testing people oh but that that was that
41:27
doesn't count come on jez of all people no [ __ ] you have sided with him I
41:34
have but technically that was that's technically a mark oh all I got to say is cops were
41:43
called all I gotta say is if usada or newada it was newada not old usada but
41:50
if newada showed up during our Thanksgiving absent
41:56
extravagance well I I was passed out so I don't know what I would have done I feel like they would have had
42:02
trouble getting that sample oh yeah oh
42:08
yeah it would have been a hoot for us I would have had
42:13
fun I would have had fun here's the cup catch oh sorry I didn't fill it up all
42:20
the way guess you got to stay oh yeah I'm just saying just put
42:26
out there well uh that should be fun I'm excited about that who I don't care who
42:35
wins I really hope my wins I'm tired of this I'm tired of the [ __ ] oh man uh
42:41
any other news that popped up while everyone was taking a break from fighting yeah dude so this actually this
42:47
made me pretty sad hold on where did you go where did you go what happened um the
42:55
[ __ ] is it why is my bank coming up hold on I got to dig through yeah I had
43:00
this pulled up so i''d be ready for it um all right
43:06
thimba gimbo oh yeah um after following his
43:11
loss um to Vincent luk uh his short notice fight uh basically he he was
43:17
interviewed um saying that his his family members uh were celebrating his UFC 310
43:24
stoppage loss to Vincent luk so he he basically had his whole family sending
43:30
him messages and cheering for his loss dang family members dang cousins aunties
43:38
uncles what' he do um so he says and I mean there's always two sides of the story that was
43:44
the first thing I asked I was like damn bro what' you do to your family were you getting like Diva status on them what'
43:50
you do but um he it could have been could have been but basically uh to like
43:57
Cliff's Notes it he said um some of his cousins were celebrating his losses they were all celebrating uh they sent
44:04
videos um and he said that um all I try to do is is better for
44:11
everyone I might not directly help you but maybe I want to you know build a
44:16
weal for the community but um you know somebody from his family will message him saying that you know he they need
44:22
money and then he gets it from like all of his family members and everybody thinks that he has a lot more money than
44:28
he does because he's in the UFC but that's just not the case you know he is an entry-level fighter still and
44:33
although he's had exciting fights and you know he's been in the news with the rock you know helping him and stuff I
44:39
think that basically what's happening simply just from an outside perspective is his family sees his success and they
44:46
think he's more successful than he actually is financially and so they are taking it personally that he's
44:53
not giving them uh what they ask for yeah well that that's a that's a really
45:00
uh that's a really tough situation to be in because you never want to deny someone
45:07
help if they really need it but as soon as you help one person then they find
45:14
out like somebody else might find out and then where it gets around that you
45:20
are Santa Claus yeah and everyone's asking for a handout and and it sucks
45:26
because because yeah you you never know what the what the situation is there's always two
45:32
sides of the story um but he seems like a nice guy like I've I've met him before
45:38
he he doesn't seem like uh like a horrible person or someone who would just I don't
45:43
know just piss on the F the family that he came from I feel like uh he he moved
45:51
out here to get better opportunities to get better training and be able to fight
45:57
notice all those all those things that happen when you move out to Vegas sometimes people take offense to that
46:02
too when you leave your country in order to train somewhere else in order for the
46:07
benefits that you get somewhere else I mean that was the whole drama with the
46:13
um uh drus dup's comments when he said I'm the real African Champion when it's
46:19
like there were three African Champions at the time and they all had to leave their country in order to get better
46:25
training better quality of training and ability to fight as often and have all
46:31
the things that you can get when you're training in America or wherever they were it was a really uh rude thing for
46:39
him to say and I think people just take offense when when you see other people who are able to make it happen in your
46:46
country but you decide to leave so I don't know if it's if it's about that or
46:52
if it's about uh you know the money thing but like you said we don't make that much like even like I
47:00
I've had like 30 something fights in the UFC and I'm not making as much as an
47:05
entry like not even a fraction as much as an entry level like college football player you know so so I think the idea
47:14
of a professional athlete's salary is skewed when you're thinking of MMA
47:21
versus every other sport in the world and a lot of people think that you're that you're making the money that like a
47:28
football player is or a football player is you know like a soccer player is or all these other sports that are way more
47:35
lucrative and the players are getting a lot more money the players have
47:40
um uh what do you call it unions and stuff and they're able to get health care and all this other stuff like we
47:45
have to save every dollar we have so that we're not broke 5 years after we
47:52
retire and if thimba is not giving it all out willy-nilly than good for him
47:57
because there's no telling especially after a loss like that there's no telling how long you're going to be able
48:03
to make money in UFC like they can cut you for way less reasons and that's why
48:09
you got to kind of get your money grabbed while you can and try to hold on to it and try to just make it bigger try
48:16
to grow your money with your own money and it's hard to do that when you're giving it out to people yeah I think um
48:22
I I think it's really unfortunate if if in fact that is the case that
48:27
um his his family is behaving this way because they're not getting what they
48:33
are are asking for because a lot of people just don't realize that we don't have it like that it's uh it's different
48:40
and I know that you know currency exchange and all that kind of stuff and I know that a lot of um I've seen it before like people from other countries
48:48
like especially their sons are meant to support their family you know um and so
48:54
I just I think it's a miscommunication I think it's an assumption I think it's really unfortunate um that a family
49:01
would be torn apart over something like that yeah I wonder um if he has a core
49:08
group out of those people who who ride with him no matter what because it seems
49:14
like he's really cut up about it so I wonder if he feels like he has no one or
49:19
if he has cuz with my family like I have a pretty small family but I know that my
49:24
mom and my brothers are always going to be on my side win lose uh whatever but
49:30
uh yeah there's always the outliers you know the extended families
49:37
the cousins that can be a little weird you know and have you experienced that
49:42
uh not really like I'll just get like I have like one uncle that I've had to
49:48
block because he kept saying dumb stuff but it wasn't it wasn't that he didn't
49:54
believe in me it was well it kind of was but you know how people can care so much
50:00
and do no um research on the subject they just care and so they'll say things
50:05
that just make you annoyed and think because it's online it's like o
50:11
pluck goodby don't need that little bird in my ear no thank you but uh you know
50:18
it doesn't like because you talk to your close family more often they understand
50:24
what things are going to trigger you and what aren't and and if they love you they try to just support you in a way
50:29
that's not going to trigger you and like my my family's really good with that like my my like core like people and
50:38
it's it's important to have that um because if you don't well it's not
50:44
important to have it but when you have it you're it's it's really nice because a lot of times it doesn't work that way
50:50
like a lot of times people don't understand what you're doing they don't understand that the the risk that you're
50:56
taking taking the effort that you're putting in and they can be flippant with with things like oh why don't you quit
51:03
or oh why don't you get a real job or why why don't you give me some some of that money that you made you made all
51:08
this money like give me some and it's a very like that's the only money I made this year you know and maybe for the
51:16
next couple of years like I need to hold on to all of it and half of it going to taxes coaches gyms all that stuff so
51:23
it's it's a tough idea for lot of people to wrap their head around and when when
51:28
your family can understand that then you feel really grateful for it no I think it's important for for athletes to have
51:37
a core group of people that support and understand and you only I mean you need a handful of people if that yeah you
51:43
know one or one or two people that can hold it down for you and understand and and hold space for you is really
51:49
important and if you have more than that then then you're definitely a very lucky person but um it can be really a a a
51:57
very lonely place when you're you know striving towards a goal that people don't understand and a lot of people
52:03
tend to make assumptions and uh project things and see things from you know
52:09
point of views that that aren't necessarily accurate um and just put a lot of negativity into that space so
52:16
it's important to um you know stay grounded it's important to have a really
52:21
good circle of people around you that you know you can feel safe with and protect your
52:27
energy yeah and people who aren't going to go oh yeah I hope you don't fight that Ronda Rousey cuz she's just
52:34
breaking everyone's arms this will never happened oh God
52:39
yeah sir please stop this is the fifth time you've said this on my on my
52:46
post thank God for that block doesn't mean I don't love you I
52:51
just I don't want to hear that I just can't I'll see I'll see you at Christmas maybe there you go
52:57
you can tell it to me in person oh oh my goodness God and if they
53:03
catch you during fight Camp it's over oh no I stay away from anyone who doesn't
53:09
understand the drill during fight week that you got to understand the drill the
53:14
the the code of conduct for things you can and cannot say to a fighter during
53:19
fight week if you don't understand that then the worst are are you nervous oh
53:25
are you excited well do you know anything about your opponent you know you know what's funny
53:31
some people can ask you those questions like your coach can ask you how you feeling are you nervous do you like like
53:38
they're your coach they're going to be there to calm your nerves if you're just a random
53:45
person I'll kill you right now no you want to fight yeah I need to release
53:50
some steam it's the worst yeah don't ask that
53:57
[ __ ] like just be like can't wait you got this going to be
54:04
great I'm I'm going watch you can do it don't don't say anything about betting money oh my God that's the worst I put a
54:12
bunch of money on you so you better win it's like guess what you're not going to lose more money than I am if I lose so I
54:20
don't need that incentive that is not anywhere on my
54:25
conscience why do people feel the need to share that before or after a fight
54:31
like they don't choice they don't know it's ignorance it's not if I feel like
54:36
if people knew what ticks people off before they said it then they wouldn't say it but you're like hey I would say
54:43
something cool that they've never heard before and it's the same [ __ ] I think that that can be the most
54:50
frustrating thing cuz it's like you hear it from everyone yeah you've we've all
54:55
heard these things like per fight Camp yeah that would be a good skit actually
55:01
like things you hear things everyone says let's write that down that they think no one's ever said to you before a
55:09
fight oh we should do that one oh my God I so many there's so
55:16
many oh guys just you know put the put the hands up emojis up there and leave it we don't
55:23
need coaching we we don't need words we don't we don't put an emoji up there it'll do it'll do thank
55:30
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