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Two Straws on Fightpass! Episode 40: UFC 299 reactions
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Nov 6, 2024
We react to UFC 299 which is going to be a hard act to follow for UFC 300. We saw some changing of the guards, some staying of the guards and O'Malley shaping up to be one of the biggest UFC stars (like it or not). Also Francis Ngannou being humble in defeat, shorts color privilege and how impressive it is to do a full dance number before you KO someone. 00:55- Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou :( 09:43- UUUGE gate numbers in Miami according to Dana 10:45- O’Malley fk boi season is upon us 16:30- Merab got the cold shoulder 20:18- another Champ Champ callout?! 23:00- Where’s our pink shorts? 26:25- Wild walkouts & MVP debut 32:58- Our Duelbits pick wins! Porier jumping the gilly 35:35- Burns vs Jess’s friend JD 40:00- Yan vs Blonde Yadong Watch on UFC Fightpass for our breakdown of our favorite 299 prelim fights, which wrestlers have Megan knees and a preview of our upcoming interviews! Brought to you by Duelbits.
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[Music] recording hey Yes we made it we made it
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we here after a night of hanging out like young people oh my goodness you know what I I
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went home and I started eating my um no no hangover pills and took my liquid IV
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that is standard protocol now that I am in my um fancy 40s oh nice what I have
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to do to survive good job I I did not do that we came home and I played hell
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divers with the husband is that stupid video game that I said um I was
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referencing when I was talking about theanu knockout I was like that I didn't understand at all yeah it was it was a
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pretty sad ordeal but the way that Anthony Joshua hit him it look like this
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uh stratagy that you can order down and it's an orbital rail strike and and it
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just B just zaps the biggest guy in the arena out of existence just like if it's
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a tank if it's an armored guy if it's one of those big bugs it just and that's what Joshua did to uh
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Port Francis and GH did you watch that fight um I got I I got to see the
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highlight of The Knockout repeatedly everywhere I looked um that was on a
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loop everywhere um yeah they they love they love of a heavyweight knockout yeah
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and um I just heard what happened in the first round and the second round so it was yeah I think the boxing Community
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was kind of like super excited just because he had done what he did to Tyson Fury they're just like ha got you back
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we're still on top when it comes to MMA versus boxing in boxing yeah it's the
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crossover fights are are just challenging it's super hard it's um I
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understand why they're happening I think it's a great opportunity for MMA fighters to make money especially more
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money than they could possibly make in in MMA in any organization uh boxing has
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has the market on you know big paying fights so I understand it it's just it's not fair it's not fair it's
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not and I hate saying that because I sound like a whiner but I mean [ __ ] just it's I come in the [ __ ] cage and see
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how you do you know I feel like that should be in every contract with the
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crossover it's mandatory so if I'm going to go into a boxing ring it is mandatory
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that the opponent come and do an MMA match it's the only way these happened that's that's a clause that I would want
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in that contract yeah but How likely would that happen I feel like that was supposed to happened with Connor and
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Floyd Mayweather they joked about it happening they like flirted with the idea but I think Mayweather did one
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kickboxing class one grappling grappling day w why does this
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hurt so much private grappling session like the kind that uh that Zuckerberg does and he was still like
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nah about that life yeah I don't like being on the floor bro and it's uh it was supposed to happen with uh Diaz and
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Paul they you know flirted with the idea of having one for in pfl and it's I I
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doubt that will ever happen oh my God I lost my I'm sorry ah hey you're still
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here we hear you okay we hear you you just I don't hear myself okay we we we
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we'll fix it up okay um so yeah that was supposed to happen with Paul and Diaz
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that's not working well now it is don't don't no no touch it touch it okay don't
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touch it no stop don't touch it don't oh okay you're giving me mix signals you're
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like touch like dude no wonder you're
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single you said touch it I said don't you said touch it three times the don't
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was silent that means don't we got video replay I'm like I feel bad for all your
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exes right now I'm like dude how did you know what she wanted listen I wasn't the problem all
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right okay it was never the problem okay guys it was never the problem my picker is
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the problem your picker my picker oh who's that isn't that you yeah
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exactly oh man my picker is the problem she has
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terrible taste I never heard that before but yeah it that'll that'll damn you for
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sure oh it has it it's it's the worst repeatedly sometimes you just got to
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tell him to shut up take a backseat yeah and then you end up married for 20
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years one one can help yeah I'm just uh yeah it it is what it is no it is what
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it is I guess I'm still learning yeah and growing well you can't pick who you love but you can pick who you fight
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sometimes and that's what Francis and Gana got to do and uh you know people can shame him or try to talk [ __ ] or
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whatever but he is rolling and dop he can retire he is we were talking about
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the Scrooge McDuck and he can Scrooge McDuck for life right now yeah off yeah
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do whatever he wants good for him yeah good for him abely good for him might have a little headache but it's all
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right happens it's all right just you know wipe your tears with your big water of [ __ ] cash and your swimming pool
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full of full of money yes they need to do that uh Dave Chappelle gift where he
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has like the money and he's like ah they need to do that with Francis and Ghana exactly no good for him good for him
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yeah and he he holds himself so well um in Victory and defeat so I you know he's
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one of those guys that I just I like to get behind I I want to support I want to cheer for him when Bru I he has has my
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respect and I think a lot of people share that sentiment yeah I love what he said in his uh postf fight press
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conference he someone asked him like did it hurt like that how bad was that punch
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did it hurt and he was like um it didn't hurt at all I don't
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remember and he's just like that's how you know who's The Knockout CU I didn't feel it at all so it didn't hurt what
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can I say I love that I love that he's able to joke about that so on to the next bag of money you think he's going
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to do MMA I mean after that or you think another big boxing match cuz he could I
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always thought that if Tyson Fury were to like get a win or even if no matter
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what happens with his next fight uh he can kind of campaign for the rematch just to take that off of his record and
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it's not on his record because he won but just to take that embarrassment off of like wipe it clean wipe the Slate
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clean because everyone was trying to make make the storyline that he didn't train that hard for the fight he didn't
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take Francis andano seriously and that's why he lost because he went in out of
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shape yeah the way that they match boxing fights is a little bit different
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than the way they do MMA they like one fight doesn't necessarily cancel out the
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desire to see another fight right like um I don't think it it hurts Nano's like
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case because he got knocked out right I think that it it's a it's still a viable match because of you know the back and
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forth with it and how well he did so yeah I could see them wanting to do it again why wouldn't they want to do it if
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they can make a ton of money yeah um although Tyson Fury you know says he can retire and buy airports and you know
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whatever else he needs so I think it just depends on on his motivation and you know what kind of Legacy he wants to
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lead but um I wouldn't mind seeing ningo in a boxing match I would love to see
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him in MMA again I just you know it just depends I feel like he can just call his shot right now and do whatever he wants
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to do and do nothing if he wants to do that yeah I think after that crazy knockout he might want to sit out for a
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little bit especially because uh that crazy hard-hitting Brazilian dude uh f
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um that guy knocked out Ryan B Bader in like 20 seconds so that might not be the
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most fun match up to come off of a violent knockout like that I mean I would if I was his his coach his
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promoter his manager whoever else I would absolutely recommend some time off
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chill um you know go on vacation or a few of them you know spend some of those Millions to just maybe go you know go
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buy a yacht and go around the world ones yeah just just do something just chill because you know I mean head head
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injuries are are a serious deal and we talk about it often about we don't
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necessarily know how long the effects last but we do know that once you get knocked out badly it tends to keep
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happening yeah and that was the first time that's happened to him so in his entire career heavyweight MMA boxing
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first time he's ever been dropped like that yeah I wouldn't be surprised it was the first time in like training too you
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know CU sometimes a violent knock out like that you don't even really know what happened and he kind of seemed like
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surprised yeah I'm I'm sure that it was it was shocking and jarring um especially if he hadn't you know
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experienced that in any other time in his life so I just I I hope he you know
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takes the loss as well as we think he is and I think that you know he has a lot
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of room to just you know relax and enjoy what he's what he's done for himself in the short period of time yeah so
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speaking of a big bag of money UFC raked it in this weekend with the Miami box
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office I think it was the highest in Miami and maybe did they say highest uh
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highest gate in UFC history or just like one of the top four something like that but they
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were just saying that it was like the highest gate equal to Madison Square Garden next remember saying that W that
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is really impressive so yeah that's a that's a lot of money that they raked in this weekend and well that's probably
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why they were so generous with the performance bonuses yeah they gave everyone 50k yes thanks wow so nice a
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fraction of the gate yeah now it's it's good though because I think the more
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things like this happen the higher that ceiling gets for everyone on the card not just the top earners not just like
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the Shao males the big stars like that um but a lot of it was due to Shao Mali
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St him and even though he got that kind of favorable matchup upbringing the the
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big push with the UFC he really did rise to the occasion in this Cheeto fight I
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think he did I um so I I picked him in our dual bets picks for for who was
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going to win not because I necessarily wanted him to win but you don't want
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Shadow Ali to I'm sorry do his Mumble rap white boy thing and and wear pink
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shorts and dance all over the Legacy pom pom for a jacket no no and then speak
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badly about women no absolutely not um I you sure I'm very sure my heart was with
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Cheeto but I just thought that the way Cheeto had been showing up and fighting
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and the way om Ali has been showing up and fighting I just thought that om Ali would would get the decision which he
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did um I didn't want to be right about that though yeah I I really felt like
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omali had been given these kind of weird wins in the same way Alo was really like
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he had that weird win with uh with Pon with DQ and then he won a Super super
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close split decision and then again he won a Super close Split Decision against uh sjo so I felt like Alo was kind of on
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borrow time too just because he wasn't getting those big devastating Knockouts those quick finishes like he was um on
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the come up to getting the belt and om Al kind of had that only he didn't have to fight as much and he didn't have to
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fight as many ranked people he was able to get that weird win over Pon get that
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uh uh weird Q over well not over but just a no contest with um um Munos uh
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Pedro Muno and then the Alo fight I might just be an Alo fan
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but early stoppage I wanted to I I that's what I saw that's what I saw he
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was building up um you know the the ref had of what was it cigarettes and and
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Liquor on his breath well it should have been Dan mgad cuz he was was letting people die out there yesterday oh my
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goodness can you imagine yeah it should should have been merata yeah let him let
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him uh build up and get punched in the back of the head he's fine he's fine give him a minute just to make sure he's
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not dead yet yeah let him conf on the ground Jesus that's what he would want
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as a fighter so let it happen yeah just let us let us die especially when the belts on the line you know absolutely
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you have earned the opportunity and the privilege to go out on your Shield
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exactly exactly what I was going to say blow up yes it's like uh when I'm swarmed by bugs and Hell divers and I
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just unload all of my grenades to take out the Swarm for the team before they
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call me back in um but uh you a nerd Cheeto on the other side of that I felt
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like he had a lot more Wars he had a lot more tough challenges and he was still
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able to win win most of them except for the Cory sandhagen fight so that's why I felt like okay even though Cheeto hasn't
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been starching people every time he has had a couple big wins and he's been
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fighting tougher competition but I really felt like the weight of the opportunity was on him especially in the
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first couple of rounds like the the difference between the fifth round and then the first three was crazy to me and
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I think it was just his approach maybe he was uh you know kind of taken aack by
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by just the opportunity by the weight of it by the fact that he's been waiting by the fact that he's been watching this
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guy who he beat get all the accolades that he felt like he should have I think it's really easy once you finally get to
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the top and you finally get that opportunity to just kind of be blinded by the lights and I felt like that was
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happening a little bit just with how uh he was approaching like he was a little more stiff he wasn't uh closing the
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distance as much he wasn't hitting angles or moving his head as much as he usually does and I know he usually has
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that kind of tight style where he closes and walks him down but I felt like he was just a little hesitant in this fight
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compared to the other ones I can see how you s like why you feel that way um I've
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I've always seen Cheeto as more of of like a slow starter kind of like Yan does he needs
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to like get a couple rounds so five rounds can be favorable to him but just the way he was fighting just he's been
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throwing more like big like one big shot one big shot and om Ali was coming back
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with with range and volume and moving so much that um I just feel like that's
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where he was going to get ahead of Cheeto and he did yeah it it was um it
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like all of his big moments came when he just kind of threw caution to the win it was just like you know what [ __ ] it and
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he went forward and he threw big and he uh threw longer combinations and those are the moments where where he really
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started getting something going um but I think uh the hesitation is what caused
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the the wobbles in the first few rounds like that big knee came because he wasn't committing he wasn't pushing
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omali back and uh you know om Al's good at fighting off the back foot but once
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he really put that pressure on you can see like oh okay this is how you would want to beat him if he were to do it
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again so I'm interested to see if they ever do a third fight but something tells me if that happens it won't be for
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the belt it's going lot of people in line yeah and a lot of bad matchups in
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line too to fight Ali for sure next one coming up the fingers crossed oh my God he's
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not my boy but he's my boy he's my boy he's our boy I don't know him I've never met him but he's my boy I've met him a
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few times and he was just so freaking nice and I'm like why do you why are you so nice to me like
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you're treating me like I'm a celebrity like a big like a bigger celebrity than you are you're like the guy so he's he's
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definitely really cool um and uh I love like what he's been doing in the media
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his last fight was phenomenal against audo um got a little hurt but just was
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didn't care and I think that's how you have to fight omal because alali is on
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this level where he does not give a [ __ ] like he is not he got up there so fast
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he believes in the [ __ ] that he talks so much and I think that's such a
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superpower and it doesn't really hurt you until you find you fight someone who's technically better who also
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doesn't give a [ __ ] yeah and that's what morab is and uh I think if he doesn't
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get hurt on the charge he's just going to mop the floor of him but the fight
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has to happen there's always A Punch's chance omali has has really good um just
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sniping ability on the common he can make people not want to charge in I just
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feel like Mor Rob's style the the pressy style that he usually brings to the table will shut someone down if he could
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shut down Jose Aldo with that I feel like he could shut down Shao Ali no I agree I think that um Mor Rob's tenacity
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and his pressure his relentlessness um he may have to kind of
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take a few shots but once he gets in there he's going to be on om Ali and I don't think we've
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seen om Ali be very impressive off of his back or on the ground um you know
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maybe in some scrambles and stuff like that but I think morab of course is going to have um the ability to
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capitalize with the wrestling with the ground and pound and just the the pressure I feel like once he gets into
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the pocket once he gets past that range it's going to be it's going to be his fight yeah I'm excited about it I've
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I've felt bad though because he kind kind of uh got snubbed I saw that why
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did they do him like that too they put it out there in Al's defense he looked
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kind of [ __ ] up like he looked he was also wearing really dark glasses he was wearing really dark glasses he had a
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boot on like yours he was booted up he had a cast on
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his arm he was just trying to get to the next spot so he could get home and morab
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waltes up and he's wearing a little pink suit you know he wore that because he saw the shorts he was like oh let me go
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get a pink suit for omali it'll be like when I stole his jacket and and he
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grabbed him he was like Hey congratulations brother when can we fight and he's like oh
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hey he didn't I don't I don't know if I believe him or not but it was definitely a good way to kind of throw shade at the
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call out yeah for sure I would have been sad I I don't think Rob cares I think I
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don't think cares he's too cool to care I'm just saying I personally would have been
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like acknowledge me notice me champ notice me um but
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he'll notice him in the cage he he will and he did even though his uh post-fight speech he was saying that he wanted to
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fight Toria in Spain he did acknowledge that morab might be next it's uh he
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needs to be next like come on I don't like that's why I wanted to ask you actually what do you think about the
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champ champ fights because tooro also was calling out uh Isam makev so it's
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like Bros yeah chill chill out defend your belt and then we'll talk um in my
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opinion but again I'm not I'm not the boss I'm not a Matchmaker I'm not you know seeing what those numbers can
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necessarily do I just know me as a fan I I want to see people fight for their own
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belt yeah because the crossover stuff or or uh not the crossover but like uh the
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champ champ fights yeah those kind of fights just they they back up the division for people who who have earned
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that spot who are waiting and I want to see those fights yeah there's a log Jam
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at the front of the line for banam way especially um and so many people haven't
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fought toore yet at 145 is like dude just fight the next guy in line yeah let it happen yeah yeah I mean got
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eventually I think that would be a really cool fight to make but I just want to see a little bit more from each
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champ MH before we get to that yeah Islam mv's first title defense was
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against volkanovski yeah come on it's it's crazy the way that these uh these champ champ fights are are working out
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it's almost like if they like you as a champion then you can do a champ champ
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fight yeah for sure because then even if you lose you still keep your belt and
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that's the obvious obious reason that's the loophole that's the yeah that's the obvious reason all these guys wanted
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they're not offering to fight lower or like to go down they want to move up
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have that excuse of oh well I was I'm the smaller guy and then still keep their belt and be able to defend it
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still bring home money still get pay-per-view points too um I think right
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if you're challenging but you're a champion you get pay-per-view points right you freaking should yeah I I think so we're gonna have to ask Brian about
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that now I'm curious um but yeah it's a good business move and you can't be mad
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at the good business move but I do feel bad for the people who don't get a chance to at least fight for the Belt
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have to wait morab already waited for so long because of his boy having the belt so I feel like he deserves it this year
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yes 100% And if that doesn't happen if if the champ champ fight does happen
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he'll probably be waiting until next year to fight for the belt yeah lame uh
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what did you think of oh my these pink pants were you
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jealous no I was not no no it's was
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jealous bubble gum pink not of the color but just the choice so so yeah and I
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mean so you have om Ali who's the champ who you know gets pink Trunks and then
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you have um what thug nasty who gets camo who's not the champ who hasn't been
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in title contention picture but he still gets camo so I'm just like he just a lovable Critter a lovable Duck Dynasty
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looking yeah so you just I I want C shorts K cloth shorts
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yeah it's just I don't I don't like the picking and choosing I think if you're
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going to do it for one person do it for everyone or if you're going to do it for the champ do it for all the champ
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yeah let them all pick maybe they're all okay with the champ colors the the black and the gold but uh it'd be fun to go
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crazy like I was stressing out just because I wanted to wear red pants last time I fought but then they were like
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okay well you have to pick a country to represent I'm like America we have red in our flight it's
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the first one it's the first color you red white and blue why why y'all trying
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to make this complicated like yeah so it's it's funny how some people are able
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to see that's what I don't like because that even when they're not Champions that creates a divide it creates uh
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competition and I feel like you know we should be you know championing each other we should all just be able to
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choose colors it's it's so simple and that's kind of what they said they would they were going to do when they first
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introduced Reebok do you remember that yeah they were saying oh everyone's going to be able to uh customize their
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own fight kits and pick what colors they want and do this that yeah never
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happened we get a choice black blue or white I don't know why
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black that's not in the flag it's because I'm black isn't
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it you can wear that color Missy um oh
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Dana did say that uh Brendan Allen could have purple pants in his in the press
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conference though he was he was like really suggestable that day so I feel like we need to get
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our press passes so we can ask Dana for stuff yeah we're getting our our signature blue color yeah that would be
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fun the two straw Tiffany bluish ooh green aqua color that we have it's like
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a teal almost but more of a sky blue teal yeah it's very nice it pops off my
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skin too I like I like wearing that yeah it's a good one it's my Aquarian color so I like it I would like a all gold
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fight kit but not like the UFC 200 canvas because that was horrible it was
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yellow it was like P yellow but I want like metallic gold just the entire thing
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I want to look like like uh the Silver Surfer only gold you want to look like one of those like Asian Diner cats yes
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and that could be my walk out just be like so lucky what about that walk out
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dance oh yes so that was another thing Dana said that he didn't like and the
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press and I'm like yo lien up yeah he was he was mad about that and he was mad
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about um the uh MVP walk out that was a little long but it was long wind it was
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a little long but I did like the contrast between his walk out and Kevin Holland's like his took like 20 minutes
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Holland was like Zip right in there he like keep it under one yeah he didn't want to lose his glisten from to warm up
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so he was right in there ready to go yeah that was a little much I did like that fight that little uh dance though I
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thought it was really cute I always wanted to do that for a fight but I feel like I'd be too nervous it was so well
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executed it was really good it was really good and then he went on and got a knockout that was um Mi Michel Pera
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uhuh um he went and got a knock out really nasty knockout a really fast one
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it was really good like he was throwing stab kicks he was just kind of floating into him and then uh and then he threw
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this huge body shot and I think the stab kick set it up but dude that guy was hurt and he just jumped on and got the
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rear naked it was really cool to watch and whenever I see someone just flow from one move to the next I'm like they
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were Loos in there and I think it's because of the dance number yeah it could have been it could have been I
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feel like that was his whole backstage warmup was like the dance routine did not hit one M it was so cute too it was
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like I love how like kind of am it looked but then it also looked professional at the same time there were like moments there were different levels
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of uh uh difficulty it was like I could do this part but then I couldn't do the
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floor stuff and the leg shuffling and yeah I wonder who choreographed it I
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wonder there I was really impressed though so you weren't a fan of the MP MVP walk out no were you a fan of the
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fight I I I always thought it was going to be a fun fight okay and again that was was one of my picks where I
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was not betting with my heart because I wanted Kevin Holland to win yeah but I
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thought that mvp was was going to show up and he was going to make it a really tough fight which he does he's so
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unorthodox he has such a unique way of moving and striking and every time he
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threw like he was bouncing moving bouncing moving and then like shot putting in with the big right and then
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the step behind knee that was money he kept going back to the well with it too and it was
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Landing every single time yeah that was a really cool move I I videotaped that cuz I want to put it in my uh Playbook
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repertoire my repertoire we we've been doing something like that like it's one of the fil takedowns where it's like a
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two- steeping double leg but he was doing it without and it's kind of like how Phil shows us like he he always says
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you can just use your body to trip them over the leg you don't need to use your leg or your hands on their KN you can
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just use your body to trip over that knee but then the hands help and the way MVP was doing it he was just just like a
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demonstration of how to move your body he's just really aware of where he is in the cage and that's super unnerving to
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fight someone who's that aware who's that confident to and I think it's similar to the omali thing where he got
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to build his style off a lot of lesser competition in bellad and get some
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really really nasty Knockouts like I feel like if Kevin Kevin Holland had the
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same kind of buildup that mvp had and it's it wasn't on purpose it was just he
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was levels better than the people that he's gotten those nasty Knockouts over but I think if uh Holland had similar um
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fights like that you could see that he would just come in with a really confident style because it just looked
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like a more refined version of what Kevin Holland does aside from the like
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low hands and everything Holland likes to come in with like you know the karate style with the just the kind of free
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form movement and about shut up and on a podcast here
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and MVP was just able to do it a little faster a little more confident and a little better so it was interesting to
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see that matchup it was really good matchmaking I thought because it gave you a good sense of uh where MVP was in
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this whole uh welterweight mix and uh yeah I I just I know it was good
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matchmaking style-wise but when it comes to personality I wish it was someone
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else I wish it was someone I didn't like as much as Kevin Holland cuz he he just seems like such a cool dude he seems
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really cool super entertaining like little little [ __ ] like him talking in the cage uh uh watch the Press on that
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mvp did and he said what he said to him in the cage remember we saw it and we're like I wonder what he's saying he was
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was like hey you're a little slippery and MVP is like you're slippery
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you were slippery too and uh and Holland goes must have been that black people
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cocoa butter and I'm like you're not supposed to say that in the press conference first of all don't
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tell them our secrets about we're just trying not to be ashy in there that's the only reason we do that it's not for
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an unfair Advantage but I thought it was cute that he's just like kind of messing
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around he does the most adorable [ __ ] talk in the cage I feel like Kevin Holland does he's one of
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those personalities that can get away with it yeah anybody else does it they're freaking [ __ ] but he doesn't
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I'm like oh you're just trying to have a good time yeah that's just him and and we're all having a good time now it's
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not just me or it's not just you we're all enjoying this conversation while we try to fight each other I just want them
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to mic him while he's fighting yeah right CU I I want to know that'd be really good well I think uh all the co
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fights that's where he really showed how crazy he is in there because you could
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hear it there was no one there yeah yeah they didn't they need to mic him somehow there needs to be a mic somewhere on him
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just braided into his cornrows somehow there we go there we go I don't know put
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in his gloves something something we we need to hear it we need to hear it um
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then the col was pretty insane
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one of my dual big pics got Dustin porier got the KO I was
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super happy about it um but I was kind of surprised at his approach with all the
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geing I was screaming at the TV for him to pull guard I was like just jump it you grabing the ne just jump it and he
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did he didn't get it but he jumped he went for it and that's funny because you're probably the only person who went
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into the pool guard he said all of his coaches and his teammates are like
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it was a very Jessica move I just I I saw an opening yeah and
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I figured you know what if you really want it you really commit to it and you might get it you got to go get it he got
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a deep a few times too I was flipping out like everyone in the bar was
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flipping out every time he locked that locked it in the first few didn't look
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that close but the last one when he had the arm the the high elbow oof I thought
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he was going to get it it's really funny it reminds me of like every white belt who learns the guillotine first and then
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they just that's all they want to do in class and the teach and their coach is like okay no no more what have I
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done stop I've created a monster stop trying to make it a thing and he just
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kept doing it and it's I mean he's he's so talented he's so high level so I mean he obviously you know felt and saw
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something in there but it just seemed not quite as strategic he was
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forcing it he he just wanted it really bad he like he really wanted a submission I feel like he told someone
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to put a bet on him to win V and he was just like I'm going to do it I'm going to make a lot of money I'm going to get
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it and then unfortunately he knocked him out but they'll still get the money off of the the Finish yes yeah yeah so I was
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really happy about that especially because uh benan St Den he's like one of the new guard people coming up uh it was
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a big deal for Dustin to fight fight down because losing to a guy like that
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can take him out of title contention for like huge risk the rest of his career yeah you know he's one of the older
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Fighters he's been up in the top five for a while and um it was cool of him to take that fight but also yeah it it just
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shows what a g he is for being able to do it and then come out on top uh just
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trust in his abilities and beat someone who's just been slogging everyone
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absolutely yeah um what do you think about the H there's another one that
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made me sad Gilbert Burns versus Jack Dela madalena another new Guard versus
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Old Guard fight it it's one of those um I'm am I'm a fan of Dela Melena oh are
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you I think he's been I think he's been making like a name for himself and he's been really impressive I love watching
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his boxing he has good grappling he's just I really enjoy watching him fight he's super clean and but I'm a huge you
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know Gilbert Burns fans too so I I wasn't super happy but I also you know
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was like you weren't surprised [ __ ] yes a well I was you you
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might have been surprised that Gilbert was uh tooling them in the first two rounds no Gilbert Gilbert is he's he's a
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veteran he always shows up to fight he's always condition he's always on one I
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just saw that Dela mother oh you're such
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a fan I know I'm always trying to trip over people's names all of them Jack you
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you guys are super close Jack T you guys are super close name he goes by
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JD yeah me and JD you know been following closely I I just saw him like
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really having the advantage with with the boxing m and with the angles yeah and um he had some really impressive
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scrambles too because Gilbert was getting in on those doubles and and he was not necessarily conceeding he was
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like creating really cool almost like female fighter type scrambles I don't
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want to dis I don't want to be disrespectful I don't mean that in a bad way no cuz we like female Fighters
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unlike some people but yes there were some un
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Orthodox scrambles and I was like huh I really enjoy those no it was cool I
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think uh a lot of people were surprised me including just because uh he had a split decision versus uh Bassel Haz um
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and he's supposed to be like you know a decent Grappler but not the best so you have someone like Gilbert Burns coming
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in and he's proven on you know uh grappling stages to beat some of the
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best in the world and he's transitioned that into MMA so you felt like if he got
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his hands on JD then he was going to have his way with him and he's obviously
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been working on his scrambles been working on you know just getting kind of loose in there and that's the part of
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MMA that's really hard to learn once you're on the big stage once you already
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made it to that level because everyone's just game planing against you they have like all the best resources and stuff
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and for him to just get weird in there and and just kind of understand where to
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scramble where to explode where the outs are it's like something you can't really learn by okay this is how you
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defend the rear naked this is how you escape the back this is how you escape the mount he just had to understand
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grappling better and that's what he did against Gilbert he just really was able to pick places where he could rest there
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was like that one time where he was on a single leg and he kind of grabbed his leg and kept kep himself from being
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taken down right away and then that weird scramble against the fence right before the big knee so he he just had a
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really great understanding of where he was and that's why he was able to get that comeback win it was real real cool
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to watch like and it's like even if he hadn't done that i' I'd be saying that
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guy has a high ceiling just because of all the trouble he put Gilbert in before he got taken down but being able to come
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back and get that win like that dude's going fire for sure and I was like yo
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that's proof that he's more legit than kayv yes like that guy got exposed by
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Gilbert burn and what about uh freaking balal who was you know sitting in the
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audience he couldn't put Gilbert away and Gilbert had like a a messed up shoulder yeah and couldn't even like
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fight even close to 100% yeah yeah yeah I'm telling you y'all better watch
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out I know he's a sleeper he's coming up yeah Jess's friend JD is coming coming after you spot got you know you know who
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else is fun to watch another one of my boys who's not my boys P Yan oh
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yeah he was really impressive and he's another notorious short uh slow starter
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yeah um and I was a little bit worried in the first round when he was going up against song Because song just looked
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huge and explosive and just just on point but Yan's like venan n just
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started showing yeah and I loved the scrambles I loved his boxing um he was
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just doing like really really impressive controls on the ground and he started taking um uh song song song Yong songs
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Yong um he just you know started taking him into a like a place of of discomfort
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and I think he started like really dismantling him and and song kind of it just took it out of him yeah cuz he came
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on strong song did I was like I don't know if it's It's the blonde hair but he
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is acting like he is the [ __ ] right now the way and he was super cheeky at weigh-ins well was he he he was talking
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a lot of [ __ ] yo why is it always the blondes man it's always the blondes
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always the blondes with Attitude do you think uh the uh no yadong matches the
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curtains I don't think so I don't think he bleached it I I don't think so but
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you should ask him I should I'm a slide into his D please slide away just for
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the podcast for journalism I would like to [Laughter]
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know I I do feel like he was trying to come out as this new persona and new
41:43
type of fighter and the way that he was super aggressive in the beginning of the fight I was like yo this guy is trying
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to prove something to everyone but then I think I I don't think you could keep up with that you know you know and also
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Pion came in with a game plan too and he was very determined to get back in there
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get back in the conversation he was on a three-fight skid but it was to to aljo the ones that we talked about earlier
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and then um Ali and then Ali another we talk about I feel like they're like kind of not really losses like they kind of
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don't count there's some Angela Hill Split Decision losses like they're there's some there's some weird ones in
42:21
there there's some weird ones right there there's some like let's let's talk to who's really scoring the fight losses
42:29
um at least theale one for sure but uh in you know obviously DQ was his fault
42:35
but still it was unfortunate um so I think he's he got that mojo back in him
42:42
when he was kind of not really excited about fighting it seemed like after his
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last loss after the AL won seemed like we might have lost him you know I mean it's a possibility you don't know how
42:53
somebody's going to like come back after those things sometimes they show up and sometimes they just it gets to them you
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know yeah yeah so I was happy for uh pan just because of that because I don't
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know it's it's not the same without him the bwe the div division no he's a staple he's like I love I didn't see too
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many of them he's he's so good at shifting um you know back and forth in and out of stance his takedown timing
43:19
was on point as it usually is um I was impressed with songs takedowns too like he was just like
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grabbing the leg and just kind of scooping it up just trying to manhandle him but Yan was ready for all that yeah
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Yan is a really solid fighter there's really no wasted movement with him he's he's very impressive to watch he um he
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has great defense he has great hands kicks grappling I just I think he's the
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total package yeah he's got it all it's like if your daughter was dating an MMA
43:51
fighter you'd want her to date someone like that Class Act Class Act just has every everything and then some um yeah
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well what else happened that night I think we should pause and then come back after our break yeah for our exclusive
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content yeah and our exclusive content Let's uh talk about some of those crazy
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things that happened in the prelims some people in the audience you know some of
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the craziness that went down and uh yeah you're going to have to tune in to
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