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UFC Macau Immediate-ish Reaction!
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Jan 20, 2025
We woke up bright and early to bring you this afternoon episode breaking down UFC Macau (right after co-producer Butcher the dog tried to destroy the set when Jess attempted to put headphones on him.) We saw some killer KO's, huge wins, and a couple stars get back into the limelight after great showings in China. What's next? What happens with a week without fights?? Family time during the holidays, baaaah! Well until then enjoy this respite as we break it down so you don't have to rewatch UFC Macau! 1:52 Petr Yan vs Dievison Figuredo, Yan is back! 11:47 What’s next for Yan? 16:24 We got 2 Yan wins this morning! Tabitha Ricci not able to get things going in big step up. 20:43 Is Xionan Yan next for the title? Weili Zhang looking hungry in the crowd. 25:33 We’re on a role with our picks! Use code ‘2Straws’ on Duelbits as a thank u for being awesome. 27:20 Muslim Salikhov’s huge wheel kick (we think) ko vs Song Kenan was *chefs kiss* 31:31 Huge favorite Wang Cong finished by +600 dog Gabriella Fernandez, what happened?? 40:10 Zhang Mingyang vs Ozzy Diaz (aka Ozzy Davis) 42:19 Carlos Ulberg vs Volkan Oezdemir proved that Ulberg has been spoiling us with nasty finishes. 49:27 Ming Shi vs Feng Xiaocan, road to the UFC fight ended with huge collision. (We think she’s ok) 54:28 could Shi help usher in the atomweight division? Powered by Duelbits. Join us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FaPU4wQCG9RdbNlMBI-fA/join
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[Music] sorry
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your good boy good are we cool now early morning activities oh my goodness it's
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because we've been up since before we were ready to before the sun told us it
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was time to be up after our friend's giving on top of that I know was just it was a recipe for disaster what were we
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thinking we weren't we were in a food coma and now we're here and now we're
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here and I hope everyone's been enjoying their uh kind of holidays it's almost the holidays now right I'm sure they're
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doing a lot of friendsgiving I'm sure that there's like a lot of M dayss of work yeah a lot of staying up late at
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night to watch youi maau yes how early did you wake up to
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watch it oh I did not I did not wake up early I um I woke up and I realized that
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it was 6:00 a.m. when the fights ended oh okay so you knew you had a little bit of time yeah I thought it was
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when they begun but it actually happened when they ended got um 6:00 a.m. was the
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start time for us and or was the end time for us so I was like waking up
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thinking oh I'm going to catch the main card now and it was
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over but I did get to uh look back and watch all the fights that kind of went
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down in the first one I watched because that was the one that was kind of wrapping up when I turned on UFC was
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figgy versus Yan yeah well I had been up since before 4 just oh my God just you
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know in case you cared punctual as as always is is my M Mo how was it watching
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it live it was a great fight yeah Yan and figurado put on an amazing
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performance um I think Yan reminded everybody who the [ __ ] he is in this
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performance the [ __ ] he is he looked like a classic Yan he really did and I
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wasn't I I was going for Figaro by decision yeah and just you know just
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comparing their body of work in the last few outings I'm like man I I don't know I don't know how it's going to go and
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Figaro's been more assistant he's been you know he's the shiny new toy at
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Phantom weight as well and we've seen uh Yan just kind of
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falter a bit get discouraged lose close decisions I feel like ever since the
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omali won he's just been off yeah it's uh but he found a stride in this one and
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he had his his son watch his fight live for the first time it made my ovaries dance a little bit made made my eyes
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water a little bit I was like oh my God it's so cute I love that you're going to have people
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sliding into your DMs I can make your ovaries
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dance I was like oh so cute I can rewind that uh what is it called that clock the
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biological clock I'll I'll wind that thing up for
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you I I do get such a good troll you're so good in the DMS you yeah you need to make a a fake
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account or something or just like have your Alter Ego just Angela Trill and really Own It sliding into people's DMs
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like Bobby green King King an just sliding into get himself in trouble I
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can't believe I just heard about that for the first time God really just for the first time he's been uh getting
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messy with a lot of things but the McKenzie Dar thing was really funny like
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he uh which one was it it was yeah it was um McKenzie
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he was saying shees during the weigh-ins it kind of went viral and it was like I
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felt like it was a compliment like I felt like it was just a very candid
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moment where he was being very much himself and like he's not one of the
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people who are always on the way- in show he was brought in as a color commentator and that's what he did and
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he was colorful he was very colorful in that moment and then her boyfriend was it her
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boyfriend at I I've heard that they're engaged or married now she get married a lot
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they're they're Brazilian it's kind of their M Mo um it's like we don't have to date we'll just get married yeah we'll
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see how it goes after that and then we'll get div we'll get the force it's easy and then we'll be on to the next yeah it's just cultural thing it's just
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easier that way I get it that's kind of how Adam locked me down for 15 years
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yeah right yeah we'll just get married it's fine and if it doesn't work out we'll get divorced yeah yeah stuck now
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don't fall into that trap yeah so she uh her husband troli um
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was really mad at that and then what did he like he tried to lure him in through text messages he tried to lure Bobby uh
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King Green excuse me formerly known as Bobby um he apparently Bobby green King
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Green God damn it is [ __ ] early guys all right put some whiskey in my coffee [Laughter]
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I'm awake after that butcher Fiasco so um so apparently after after the
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fight or after the weigh-ins uh King Green received some text messages uh from a number that he didn't he didn't
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realize or didn't know and he thought it was D but it was her man oh okay yeah
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that's funny I love how he just assumed like it'd be so easy to scam by Bobby green King Green just uh think of the
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thickest girl in the UFC and then act like your her and just be like hey you
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want to meet me around the corner just bring your credit card just send me the last four digits
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of your Social I'll be there in a
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Flash oh my God anyway um what are you talking about somehow we got on to this
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from Yan and Figaro I'm not exactly sure the transition we'll have to watch the playback but we we took a few twists and
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turns dude we have more transitions than figgy this this
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morning oh but that fight was [ __ ] awesome like it it really was I was kind
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of sad that I didn't get to see it live because I already knew the results watching it but watching Yan just uh
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slowly pick him apart it looked like the first round like the very first moment figgy was on him just like you know uh
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just really aggressive early starting strong and then did they say that uh he
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took it on a month's notice I don't remember hearing that okay I thought I heard that but maybe not but it seemed
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like uh figuro just kind of slowed down a ton after that first round but the
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first round he was on until he got reversed so it was it was really nice to see that opening moment just to see how
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good figuro is but then Yan took over the fight yeah it was uh two really
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impressive veterans former Champions putting it all on the line uh just
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putting on a masterpiece really they make great dance Partners I I wouldn't mind seeing that fight again a couple
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times speaking of dancing what was that move that uh Yan hit that uh what is it
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the Jon Jones thing you you called it last timeo gari we've seen these two fights in a row I'm like what is in the
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water it's it's an amazing it's an amazing backwards throw um he gets great
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momentum he comes in with his um like a left hook and it's not really thrown a punch but he just kind of hops in with
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it and bats the head and then reaps with his um left leg so it's all Left sided
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um and he does it on his right side too but he's just so so good at it and he's
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he did it really early on in his career it's kind of his signature move um I've seen J Jones do it in previous fights as
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well if I recall correctly but um it's an noo gari it's it's a great throw it's really nice that I think maybe we need
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another technique breakdown I think so I love an oari yes it it's one of those
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moves that you feel real stupid if someone gets it on you too and it hurts yeah it it's it it the shock value on
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top of the feeling like a dope value definitely makes you stop for a second on your back and you're like
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[ __ ] you know there's just some moves like that that just make you pause but that fight it was so constant uh Yan was
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just on top of everything really getting his Groove going after he was able to get up and I think he needed that moment
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to just be on but figgy was still able to attack and still able to hurt him
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every now and then to he would have to charge up yeah he was um and we've seen this kind of consistently with feretto
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with his uh in five round fights he tends to slow down a lot I thought that him going up and I mean those are hu
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like greatly fast-paced fights so it's no wonder that he slows down a bit but I
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thought that him coming up a weight class would give his body a little little bit extra but it could possibly
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be the way he trains he may need to just do a little bit more Sprint work a little bit more live goes in the
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wrestling and the up down is so hard I mean no matter how you train it and try
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to condition yourself that is it's an energy zapper um but figaredo was still
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in the fight he dropped Yan in the fourth um you know depending on how the judges like score it he could wobble
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yeah I would call it a drop um they didn't score it for him on the cards but
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it could have completely you know disrupted the scorecards for sure um
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figara was in it until the end though he was still trying to put it on um he was still you know fighting through the
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adversity and it was a really it was a close fight although we did see Yan pulling ahead after like around the
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third round we saw him really just like getting that momentum yeah he started finding that uppercut too oh it was so
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nice it seemed like uh figo's Corner was screaming for him to get the taked down
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again and he did such a good job in the first round with that inside trip they were both just getting their clinch
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takedowns their Judo sweeps and Judo trips going in that fight but um once he
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started trying to change level Yan read that really well and just started Landing those step back uppercuts um
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just Landing uppercuts when he shelled up too like he would throw a one two and then fainted and then throw an uppercut
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right where the elbows were parted and it was really nice because it kept figureo standing up like Not only was it
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rocking him Not only was it hard but he had to stand up and respect it instead
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of being able to shoot or change level or just change level to throw something as a counter like those few uh right
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hands that got through they were nasty so you know Yan was trying to shut all that down with his striking and he did a
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really good job of it yeah it was it was a great great fight to watch yeah super great fight what do you think is next
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for uh Pon because uh I think did he just beat song
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Yong let me look at his thing and I'll pull up the rankings yeah
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so P Yan with with a classic Pon
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performance yeah he just beat song in March so he's kind of getting a
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Resurgence right now yeah so he's ranked number three um and then we have Umar
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namag medov and then we have sha Ali ranked number one and then we have morab as the champion and I mean I don't know
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if it's it's putting Peter Yan in the conversation of him potentially having
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you know maybe one fight and then a title shot that went over Figaro just I
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I think that it put him ahead I wouldn't I I'd like to see the the ranking shift
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you know maybe like two spots um come so he's number one n he could no oh what number was he
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I thought you said you know what he's number three he's number three and then we have sha Elli at number one and then Umar at number two so yeah I guess
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there's not going to be movement to be honest um but you could put could put
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him against sha Ali I mean I would love to see that rematch I thought Yan won
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that um I know it was you know a hard fought close fight but I had Yan winning on those scorecards so I would you know
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I would love to see it run back normally I don't like rematches too fast but this
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one just makes a little bit more sense and then we have Umar you know most likely he's gonna get that title shot
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next yeah he's 18 and0 he just beat Corey San Haagen uh there he should be
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getting the title shot next um but I really like that I really like that Pano
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Mali rematch because it was long enough ago that we'd want to see it again let's
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see when was it was it two years it was yeah two years ago October 2022 good
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JB Split Decision loss um after his Split Decision loss to Alaine Sterling
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so it I'm excited about this for p because before he fought aljo the first
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time before the illegal KNE DQ he was such a Devastator like he was such like
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the guy that you look at for who is a perfect fighter yes yeah and then those
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losses even though they were close even though they were controversial even though um you know they were good people
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they really took away from his shine and I think every time he lost a decision he lost faith in the sport and like I've
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been there a bunch of times I cannot imagine how it would feel if it were for a title shot or if it were for the title
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rather it'd be completely Amplified magnified it would be devastating um you
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just want to go hang out with your kid yeah this shows what a true champion he
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is you know um and I mean he may you know stumble a little bit he may fall
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down in the rankings but he showed us you know today you know that he still
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got it no he's definitely got it and he showed out against Davidson it was definitely a competitive fight so it
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wasn't like he was given somebody that he could showcase against and he proved to a lot of people that he still got it
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he's still that guy and I think he's improved a lot too like he pushed the pace in a way that he usually doesn't
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really early on in the fight and I think usually he kind of waits to assess everything and then he takes over he
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took over pretty fast in this yeah he normally does have that kind of um like Thai style fight Pace first we're
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dancing yeah he'll like he'll get the read by the third round and then he picks it up and often times you know
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that could be considered too late so uh yeah I love this version of yan that we saw I'm excited to see him uh matched up
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next yeah and I think omali might be interested in that fight too just because of the the power that figuro was
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able to get like respect from him he was able to rock him he was able to hurt him in a few of the rounds I think three of
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the rounds figure was able to hurt pan so omali might be looking at that as a
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snack you know the the best possible rematch before you get that title shot
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again because this guy could possibly be knocked out so I'm excited to see what's
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next and what did you think about the other fight on this card the other Yan
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also was Victorious Yan put on on two Yan two
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wins we're talking about it on two straws uh Yan put on a perfect
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performance essentially she used her her jab uh beautifully um as a rangefinder
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and to keep REI at Bay and she was really patient in this fight she made
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REI have to cover the distance because she's the little bit shorter uh fighter in there and every time that she got REI
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to try and Blitz in she countered perfectly yeah I was I was really
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impressed with that I was annoyed because because she didn't try to close
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the distance as fast as she did when we fought and I think that really cost her
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she waited a lot I think um they they mentioned that they trained together for a wrestling class and even though REI
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said that she didn't get much from that reads from that I feel like she felt her
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strength and J is a big girl she's big she was probably 135 140 on F yeah no
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she's big and like I I didn't feel that when we fought but it was a while ago I
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think it was preco yeah yeah so so that she she hadit a spurt I'm like what are they feeding
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that girl over in China laboratory food laboratory approved by uh new usada
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food yeah they've got her they've got her hooked up they got her in the Ooze she's definitely on the Ooze but uh
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whatever that is she has really filled out since then and she looks more brck
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in the shoulders her legs look thicker her her like six-pack looks like more defined she definitely looked like the
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bigger girl in there and REI looked afraid to close that distance she didn't want to get in and smash her up against
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the fence eventually she did when she ran out of options like at the end of the second but it was too little too
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late like she needed to do that right at the beginning to try to like get some of that speed off of yan get her feet a
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little more planted make it so she wasn't able to control distance as well but she wasn't able to close that
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distance so Yan was doing a great job and this is something that I wish I had done when I fought REI she did a great
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job of picking where she wanted to be in the cage and staying there she didn't
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chase she didn't back up every time REI came forward she either popped her with
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the one two or hit the check hook she had a nice check hook really nice really nice I loved it she didn't just check
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hook she checked hook and then she moved herself all the way around like she hit
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like a 180 so a lot of people they hit the checkbook like um oops oberg orberg
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oberg for instance he would hit the check hook but he would still kind of have his back against the wall um Yan
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she didn't wait that long she stood in the middle when Richi would come forward she would check hook and she wasn't so
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close to the fence that she would bounce off of it before so she never got count or cornered by RI and it had her looking
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like a like a bull in y looking like the Matador yes there
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it is I got you girl I got you wait wait she's not the bull that the other one's
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the bull so yeah it was really impressive I was I was um watching it gritting my
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teeth but there were some key things that she was able to do in that fight
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that made it looks so dominant and uh I think the staying in the center of the
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cage um hitting her as she came in and then waiting a lot too she waited for
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Richi to push in and her speed was just able to get her before she could get
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into that range I think also the the use of that long jab was is annoying um and
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really effective yeah so it just it made her have to be even farther back uh in
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reachi so yeah it was it was a great game plan um expertly executed by Yan uh
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I you know she's got to be next in line she has to be and we heard that thing
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about um uh who is it supposed to be Vera versus Suarez is supposed to happen
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it got moved back way is still waiting for an opponent for some reason I thought whey was fighting uh Tatiana
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Suarez but her fight with vut got pushed back um so whey is waiting for an
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opponent wayy was there she got up and you know she looks like she's on the
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Ooze too she's looking very very androgynous
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stop oh dude they look they all look like they're on the Ooze man like I'm I'm
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saying they got they got some like uh government issued stuff over there that
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I need to get a hold of they do it differently over there I want some hair on my chest like let's go
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you know you don't um but uh going back to Yan's
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performance uh the sidekick too was really effective she was able to throw
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that sidekick and keep her away and landed a lot of body kicks which is something that I didn't expect to be
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part of the game plan but she had so much confidence in her ability to fight
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the clinch if the kick got caught that she was just throwing them at will and
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every time REI would come in and try to grab and get some kind of momentum going
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off of it she was able to get away and end up back into the center and I I like
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the pointing at the ground thing too because this is one of those people who when they don't want a fight fight they
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want a point fight they'll do everything they can to just like kind of sit on the outside and then come in or make you
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chase them and then zip underneath it's a good uh tactic against Fighters like
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Carla sparza or Fighters like um I'm trying to think who else does that uh Tisha Tes people who really like to stay
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on the outside and then jump in and get their points she just stayed right there she waited she waited for that uh for
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reachy to go and then she was fast enough to counter and beat her to the punch yeah it was it was a big step up
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10 to two is it is a big jump when you get up you know to the top
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five um the the competition gets a lot tighter you know um and we just saw the
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the competition and experience Gap I think in this fight it'll be a good learning experience for RI and hopefully
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it'll catapult Yan up to a title fight yeah I think that's what's next and uh maybe RI can get that rematch she really
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wants with me next she's been saying she wants it so bad
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what she's been telling everyone she wants to rematch me what why it's true oh okay it's totally
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true she wants to prove to everyone that she really beat me oh it's it's a thing
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it's fact because I said it and it's on a podcast oh okay yeah there you go bucket
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me um who do you think is next for Richi maybe someone uh on the lower end do you
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think she'll get another chance to step up the thing is she's pretty much fought
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everyone that is on the lower end I think that EAS
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mean chick might be something that they try to set up next just because uh she
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just recently fought the one who uh beat Marina Rodriguez uh and they're both kind of in
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that same generation of New Blood in the UFC so I feel like that might
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happen next and as kind of a let's see which Contender Rises to the occasion it
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could be but that would mean that she's skipping up again um ahead of like Marina Rodriguez again Amanda heas yeah
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I mean I could see them making that fight I think that that would be a well- matched fight and make sense
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about where they are in their you know in their fight life in their fight age
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in their uh fight Evolution they're not quite at final form yet they're still
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budding they're still little bulbasaurus they're not quite a I forget
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what the next level is but whatever a Bulbasaur evolves into I
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don't know I know you're talking about a Pokemon though it is a Pokemon so I get the reference good job okay I just can't
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pick which one it is well what other fight were you super excited to watch uh let me let me consult my
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notes um I was pretty keen on the song
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Keenan versus salikov fight um that was also one of our picks we picked um Muslim salikov to win by KO and so he
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did good job because I was just like uh yeah what she said what she said that
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sounds right we're hitting above like uh they
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say that 60% um of your bets Landing is really good so you're freaking welcome we'd
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like some tips at some point because we know we're helping no for sure and the straw fights are the hardest to pick
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so nailed it foam nailed it listen to us next time just saying so I have been
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doing um in the last couple weeks I'll go on only fans live and I'll do like penise picks ooh um so you guys should
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tune in to those let me know if you if you like it I'm not getting naked on it at all um even though they've been
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requesting Angela might though she'll throw a little bit more skin than I will tune
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in might see a slip but I I do like the idea of us doing a little bit more since
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get $10 for every $20 you spend yes ma'am I finally know it by heart good job I didn't yeah there you
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go do it do it do it do it um but yeah that was an awesome pick uh solakov what did you see in his previous fights that
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made you think that was going to happen so whenever I'm looking at fights and trying to do you know some some homework
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study I look at you know past fights but I try to find their their tendencies in
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those past fights and what I saw was um song relying a lot on the boxing
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charging in um he'll try to go for takedowns but I thought he would have
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trouble with salikov distance and just using his legs so much and everything he throws is power he's always looking for
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that knockout so I just thought that matchup wise stylistically it might you know favor salikov which it did yeah it
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was a good call um I love how song Kenan which which one is his last name k song
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Kenan song I love how song uh threw the head kick and sakov just went thank
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you just like caught it like that and took him down off of it and didn't even get on top of him he's like no that's
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not where I want to be get up get up you're kick sucked get up try again um
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and another thing I really liked about that was the sportsmanship I I like how song kneed him straight in the crotch it
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was a really bad one it was like a taint knee it wasn't even a ball knee it was right in the right in the goet but uh he
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backed off and allowed salikov to recover and I it made me wonder did he
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regret that maybe maybe he regret when he woke
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up he was like [ __ ] I should have followed up with a one two should have followed up with the big elbow instead
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of giving him some time to let his balls drop again you're listen it and that's that's
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a big you know Learning lesson and I I appreciate sportsmanship but also you
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have to think about it this is this is a fight would your opponent do the same
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not if he's Michael Chandler oh Chandler he would not he he definitely
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would not I think there was definitely respect between the two fighters though they definitely seemed uh very humble
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and the guy was even in his post-fight speech when he's talking about the kick
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he was like oh it was just it was a very beautiful kick and not in a cocky way but just like it was martial arts yeah
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you know he was very proud of being able to land that on someone who was also very skilled and the setup was really
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nice because you saw him Landing that spinning back kick to the body over and over again not quite the Jon Jones like
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kind of jumping one but he spun into it and like stepped and kicked a few times
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got the range and then when he landed the big wheel kick the whipping one I'm not sure which one it's called but it's
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like a spinning I think it's a wheel kick spin a wheel kick or a spinning heel kick to the head I'm not sure which
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I think which you would categorize it depends on what uh what martial arts
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religion you adhere to but yeah if the whe kick came out you could tell that
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song was blocking the body kick again maybe had done some damage already and
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then whipped them right in hill right in the jaw it was really nice really nice
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makes me want to learn how to spin a little better yeah yeah like I got my
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little wonky spins but I don't have like the I just think there's a time and
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place for spins you know yeah like I I feel like if you're someone like salikov
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you've been spinning your entire life he's must he must have thrown a million of those on like the kick paddles he has
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perfect Precision he knows exactly when to throw it he probably got him in a bunch of competitions where do it with
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his eyes closed yeah and then meanwhile I just like saw it on TV like I could do
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that what was that it but it makes me want to try it
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definitely makes me want to try when you see stuff like that it's really pretty to watch I got you I some Jackie chin
31:27
[ __ ] well another fight we have to talk about is Wang Kong and Gabriela Fernandez Fernandez was a plus 675
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Underdog yeah like ouch dang how does that feel it hurts to both so her
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feelings and then it's a lot of pressure on the other side yeah that's what I was going to say it it's really hard on both
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sides I think it might be easier going into a fight when you're a huge Underdog because you have nothing to lose yeah
31:58
everybody doesn't expect you to win yeah everyone thinks I'm gonna fail and my goal is to upset them it's going to be
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fun it's going to be great I'm going to win or lose is going to be a good time
32:10
the favorite on the other hand has all these expectations to live up to and
32:16
meanwhile like she's undefeated so I feel like she probably didn't feel that pressure this time as much as she's
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going to feel the pressure next time because next time the odds won't is crazy but if she does what she's been
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doing in the next few fights she gets like a two or three fight win streak gets a bunch of Kes that's going to
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happen again Y and she's going to remember this fight and it's going to be rough but I do think that uh until the
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moment that she starts started to lose she probably wasn't feeling the pressure as much as someone who has lost before
32:52
no she was um she was doing well she was doing what she does she was you know looking for that knockout as she's you
32:59
know landed so many times before um I I think that you know for her what I saw
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is I saw somebody who was elevated from that um that big favorite kind of
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position yes and and it showed in her fight she was you know doing what what she does best and um yeah the the kick
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started it off with uh Fernandez and then she caught her with um what was it
33:25
a right hand I think it was a left big old left hand it was a big left and then she jumped on for the Finish yeah
33:31
like stepping into it cuz she's righty right yeah yeah so she like had switch stances or it was just a she kind of
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fell from the kick yeah it was a she landed the kick they both fell over it looked like she pulled a salak off for a
33:45
second like it looked like she just caught it but then the momentum had her fall over but then when they stood back
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up and she was trying to box she was about a foot away from where she needed
33:56
to be her her hitbox was off you know so you could tell that she was a little
34:02
rocked and uh Fernandez picked up on that her Corner picked up on that she landed that big left hand jumped on her
34:09
and choked her out it was it was pretty awesome to watch especially because she wasn't winning like she she was in the
34:16
fight the entire time but she was definitely getting backed up she wasn't able to change level get to the takedown
34:23
like she wanted to uh she wasn't able to land as much as
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uh Wang Kong Kong was able to land and
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it was oh it is Kong Wang or Wing Kong well it's written Wing Kong but they
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always pronounce it the other way you know what I mean so so when you say it you say Kong wng
34:46
I I know it's very confusing but I think so how it's how it's for for us to see
34:53
oh no you say KH I'll say KH I say Kong yeah Kong Kong you say Kong I'll say Kong you say Kong I'll say
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Kong well they have say Kong so well but uh K was doing a great job I
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like even knowing the result I'm like I don't know how that happened when I was
35:13
watching it because Kong was doing everything right she was defending takedowns really easily um she was just
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standing her up with body shots doing really good body work the entire time I like the grabbing of the hands into the
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clinch but then going low with the body shot like really hard it felt like it
35:33
was or it looked like it was taking the steam out of Fernandez um but her post fight speech oh my God oh my God you
35:40
kind of understood why she was still firing on all cylinders after that rough first round yeah she um so for those of
35:49
you you're bless you so sad it was such a sad story I was like do I keep talking
35:54
or do I it was so no seriously no I was like
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tearing up her her story was was sad it was rough she's been a lot she two family members um and then she said that
36:07
she has you know a bunch of nagging injuries and um just she she was facing a lot of adversity leading up to this
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fight um not to mention being a huge Underdog you know with all this pressure coming in um and you know dealing with
36:20
the with the family side and having to compartmentalize those emotions and not being able to fully grieve it can just
36:28
it's it's hard you know yeah have you ever had a moment like that before a fight where you just had a lot weighing
36:35
down weighing you down and oh of course yeah it's um but you know it's we're Fighters we have to suck it up and and
36:41
keep going and um I mean sometimes that's to our own detriment um some people don't compartmentalize it as well
36:47
and we've you know heard people coming off of losses and just you know speaking about what they were going through you
36:53
know it could be something like you know a divorce a death m you know just um you
36:58
know natural disasters it's it's a lot of um of weight on a fighter shoulders
37:04
and not only that but they have to handle that and deal with that and train for a fight and getting there with
37:11
somebody's trying to take your head off it's it's hard yeah it does uh make
37:17
you dig deep though I think especially having the fam's blessing and saying no
37:24
we don't want you to pull out of this fight we want you to do this I think it makes makes it a lot easier to to just
37:29
try to go in and be a hero and when you're the underdog by that much that's
37:34
kind of what you feel like you feel like you're going in there to prove that the impossible is possible and I'm so happy
37:42
for her to get that win because like Kong will be back she's a huge uh she's
37:48
she has a huge amount of skill she got rocked I feel like her grappling would
37:54
have looked a lot um better if she hadn't gotten hurt before it went to the
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ground because her takeown offense looked awesome so I know Kong will be back I know she'll still have that huge
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um following because she has the whole country behind her because she has her like crazy like Joker thing that she
38:12
does but I felt really good for uh Fernandez to be able to be that hero for
38:18
her family and to come in and do what a lot of people didn't believe she could do yeah and I mean saying that you you
38:25
look at Kong's record she has less than 10 Pro fights and you look at Gabrielle Fernandez and somebody that is being
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promoted as much as Kong is um and somebody that is kind of
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relatively unknown or unpromoted um you don't know what that would have done a
38:44
loss on uh Fernandez's side you don't know what that loss would have done for her for sure You' be looking like uh Aid
38:53
Diaz if if you lost on Fernandez aside I I think that's probably like another
38:58
huge Underdog that was on the card and it didn't go his way unfortunately but
39:04
uh yeah it was that was really cool to see and um those guys at MMA Masters I
39:09
got to hang out with them in uh where were we we were in I think we were at UFC Paris or something the first time
39:16
they did it out there and they're such a cool group like they have that like okay
39:22
yeah you know you know firsthand experience they have like that small gem kind of feel like that family fill so
39:28
whenever I see them cornering a fighter I'm like oh yeah they're they're an easy team to get yeah no they're they're nice
39:36
they're um I've I've gotone to hang out with them at I think two or three fight weeks and they're just they're great
39:42
energy very supportive always um you know inviting people to train with them during fight week and um you see the
39:48
relationships that they have with their Fighters and it's really nice to see the only man that could pull off a top
39:55
knot he does it he MMA Master at Top
40:01
Knots well um another since we mentioned it maybe we should talk about Ming Yang
40:09
Zang or Zang mingyang as Jess would correct me versus
40:16
DAV or Davis a if Diaz No oh the Diaz oh
40:21
that makes more sense I have Diaz I'm sure it's Diaz yeah a Diaz and
40:27
I'm like aie Davis do you have a blues
40:33
yeah I'm like you you played a tuba um yeah azy Diaz uh versus mingyang
40:42
Zang that fight um was kind of like what everyone expected yeah I believe I I
40:52
think that's fair to say um the you know Diaz just he came in and he overextended himself a little bit and that's what um
40:58
allowed meing to counter him coming in and drop him for the Finish yeah yeah that elbow that he landed on was really
41:04
nice I didn't even see what it was in real time like it looked like it was just a punch or you it even looked like
41:12
maybe it was the right hand you couldn't really tell but then when they slowed it down he just kind of folded right over
41:19
that lead hand and just like your coach shows you to do yeah just a little fold
41:24
and about right over the top maybe that'll be another technique breakdown because it's pretty easy to do but
41:30
there's a lot of ways to get it wrong and he did it perfectly yeah it was beautifully timed yeah good job mingyang
41:37
uh Zen Zang mingyang Zang mingyang Zang mingyang M what is he a steak is he a
41:45
juicy juicy steak Z how do you take your Z well done no medium rare medium rare
41:53
Angela Hill sorry I was channeling Jamal Hill oh he hates it when we bring that up he's so mad at it we can never not
42:00
bring it up though we can't unsee it because he gets so angry I know it's not even about it being true or not because
42:06
it is just own that [ __ ] just own
42:12
it anyway we digress uh the oldberg versus uh a deir deir deir a demier that
42:22
fight was a little less um exciting than I thought it'd be but then we came close
42:29
yeah it's like when big things happen you're like oh [ __ ] I forgot these guys are really like scary you know you get
42:37
you kind of got lulled into a sense of safety for both of them like oh they're
42:42
just going to kind of dance around just like oh God yeah now I get what you're
42:48
saying I mean you watched it live so I bet you were like oh something happened
42:54
what happened no it's um it's it's like when you go watch the highlights you're like
42:59
oh [ __ ] but then you look at the whole fight you're like oh it wasn't it wasn't all the Highlight corrected up to be um
43:05
but it's hard to continually put on those those big fireworks kind of um
43:11
performances the more footage people can see on you the more people know what you got like he can't just rely on that
43:18
beautiful check hook that has devastated so many opponents no it's amazing he's going to have to start adding you know
43:24
some more tools because people are going to expect it and yes he is so good at it sometimes it doesn't matter if you know
43:31
what's coming he's so precise with it he can still land it um it's just it it's
43:36
time to start adding to your tools yeah he did call out khil Round Tree O
43:44
afterwards you going need some tools for that one yeah I'm like man buddy I I I
43:49
like it it's a it's a tall order but I do appreciate you know the um the call
43:56
out I thought that was a fun one well he was supposed to fight uh Jamal Hill and
44:02
then that fight got cancelled and watching that I'm like man I think Jamal would have would have gotten him with
44:08
that type of performance just because he allows himself to get backed up and yeah he looks for the check hook but when
44:14
you're going with someone who has a weird Rhythm who has good faints I think it would be a lot harder to plan that
44:20
out what uh Vulcan does that fed right into that is he gets on his
44:27
and he goes forward like he runs forward at you in the straight line and you can kind of tell when he's going to keep
44:33
going so Berber was able to throw the check hook but vulcan's chin was tough
44:38
his chin was tough and a lot of times just because of the way he throws his shoulder was in the way he wasn't
44:44
getting clean shots as he was trying to like check hook and exit so those uh
44:49
check hooks weren't really Landing with the same force that they have in the past yeah and um when you start to fight
44:55
better people too you can't just expect them to run into your traps it's it's really hard to do that that's why uh his
45:02
teammate Adisa is so um regaled for that because he was able to set traps against
45:09
the biggest and the best the most technical but it's really hard to do and
45:15
especially like you said when you see more and more tape you get to figure out what those traps are you're like okay there's a booby trap there booby chop
45:21
there don't do that don't do that and a lot of his opponents in the past have done exactly what you are told not to do
45:28
they just wanted to get in there wanted to get it done quick and then ended up face forward or face flat on the ground
45:35
so uh I think V Vulcan showed him that there is a little bit of vulnerability
45:42
in his style and he can't rely on that power he has to switch it up but it was
45:47
really nice seeing them both like throw big combinations throw like those high kick combos too like really getting
45:53
loose in there I think uh I think that might have gottenberg to feel that need
46:00
to go forward a little more because it was a close fight like the second round it was neck and neck I wasn't sure who
46:07
won that round so that could have easily been a loss on his side well luckily
46:12
this learning experience comes with the win so it's um not as devastating but he does have a ton of footage fight
46:20
experience and feedback from that fight to move forward and and progress yeah I
46:25
think you only had one decision before that and it was probably another one where he was just able to kind of say
46:31
stay safe in his own style so now he'll start opening up and against someone like khil rentry you can't really afford
46:39
to give up that space you got to go forward yeah or stand your ground you
46:44
got to do something do not be at kicking range with that man they'll just lean back and go no no there's there he can
46:52
reach you he'll he'll figure it out he'll get you he has kind of that like Mike Tyson way of waiting into the range
46:59
and and he is all power you cannot you cannot be like finesse and and
47:05
nice nice little punches with that bite down bite down and get in there like I
47:12
dare you to punch me Maul you afterwards and kick you in the
47:18
ribs yeah so that that would be a fun fight I'm really excited if that happens I will tune in for that I think they'll
47:24
make it yeah that would be great well is there any other fight that you want to talk about before we go to our bonus no
47:30
ma'am let's head on over no uh uh okay uh well maybe we should talk about that
47:35
uh straw weight fight and then you want to talk about that on the next I mean we could save the bonus for like the
47:40
preview and just do like a quickie pre wow okay giving them it all the sh I
47:46
just feel like nobody's gonna like see it because everyone's going to be
47:51
excited about next week which is we don't have fights next week oh the
47:59
week after next December 7th December 7th we're on a break oh [ __ ] aren't we
48:04
okay yeah we we shouldn't have it cuz it's Thanksgiving duh they're giving these Fighters a break normally we fight
48:11
on Thanksgiving like it's you know normally there's there's a fight but um in the last couple years I think that
48:17
they've uh had mercy on the fighters even though they just get to sniff and stare maybe chew and spit out the
48:24
turkey I don't think it's Mercy on the fighter I think is more so Mercy on the people who work the card like Heidi
48:31
probably fought for it she's like no these babies need time off oh I love Mama Bear yes she's the greatest she's
48:38
the The Voice you always hear on the way in when she says okay baby Poe look at the camera pose three two one thank you
48:45
baby thank you baby yeah that's Heidi Heidi is the best she keeps everyone in check like she will make
48:53
sure Conor McGregor is on his best behavior and everybody listens to her yes nobody [ __ ] with Heidi nobody you
48:59
you think Conor would throw a dolly if she was in the bus hell no he would run if he saw her in the back hell no boy he
49:06
would hight tail it out of the country if he knew she was on the bus 100% okay
49:13
no shenanigans on Heidi's L all right let's talk about sheing huh oh yeah yeah
49:18
yeah yeah it's three okay yeah but let's talk about sheing before we go to a bonus where we'll talk about 310 and
49:24
maybe give you some picks all right she steing versus Fang
49:30
Shaquan oh that sounds shakwan shakan Shan
49:37
shanan well it was not a good night for her um but we had um road to the to the
49:44
Octagon road to the UFC sorry thank you uh road to the uh Road whatever whatever
49:51
you [ __ ] the uh so we had the first ever straw in
49:57
this tournament and shiming won by a devastating head kick KO in the third
50:05
round um it was it was a pretty pretty scary knockout to watch um it had shiming kind
50:12
of in tears in her post-fight speech she was um she herself is a doctor her
50:18
parents do not know she fights and she has no plan of telling her parents that she fights even though she just fought
50:24
on National Television on on worldwide television yeah but no they won't see you at all no I'm like even if your
50:31
parents don't have a TV they're gonna get a newspaper at some point somebody's going to tell them they're going to see you on a billboard you see what your
50:37
daughter did yeah yeah someone's definitely going to tell them at the local market did so did your daughter
50:42
kill that girl they'll be like what in surgery
50:48
what what are you talking about oh yeah that's that's that's going
50:54
to be a fun conversation they should they should do a documentary on that revealing to my parents that I'm
51:00
an MMA fighter and I almost killed a woman in the Octagon she was on on in the
51:08
way well she got out of the way she was in the middle of the road to the UFC and I ran her
51:14
over dude that was nasty so what I love about this kick is that she was
51:21
struggling to get some offense going she got a good takedown in the first round
51:26
but uh you know Fang was able to wrestle on top and then kind of get on her back
51:32
and just not make it look like that's where she wanted to be so it looked like
51:38
she was frustrated going into the next round just like trying to figure out how
51:43
to land how to do something and then the next round there was a lot of tentativeness they weren't really
51:49
attacking each other but Fang was so long and and skinny and lengthy that she
51:55
was able to keep her at Bay and uh she just couldn't get anything off then finally in the last round she did that
52:03
dip it was the same thing we talked about with Bryce Mitchell that dip to the punch but it was a dip to the kick
52:11
and it landed so nice and boom goes the dynamite o you you can see Fang was just
52:16
ready for that takedown she was ready defend it all good and then the kick came up landed right on
52:24
the chin dropped her so so nasty and the funniest part afterwards was just how
52:31
she was standing there for
52:37
minutes it must have been like 10 minutes right she was just standing there it was a long time they were putting um they were putting Fang on the
52:44
stretcher and and Tien her up and carry her out of the Octagon so it was it was a long time and we still like throughout
52:51
the the broadcast we were getting like random updates on F status and they were
52:57
very vague they were so vague I'm I'm a little worried because of how vague they were they were like oh she is she's in
53:05
the hospital and she's there back to you yeah she's being
53:14
watched the broadcast progresses oh did they ever say anything about her status
53:19
like after the broadcast cuz I just saw they mentioned it during the main event well after after um they were after the
53:27
broadcast they were interviewing shaming and they gave an update just saying that there were no fractures there were no
53:34
this and the other but we still didn't really get to hear about like how is she
53:39
like was she awake was she was she responsive
53:46
she it's a great question right it's like blink twice if you know your name
53:52
just like it just droll drops down from her mouth dude it was a scary knockout
53:57
like it was really scary and we're making light of it but it's it's a scary thing it's how I deal with
54:03
trama don't we all I have to make I have to make light of it we we make fun of
54:08
everything in my household whether it makes us cry or not it'll make other people feel better yeah no because it's
54:15
a very real thing don't be selfish
54:21
no oh man yeah it that was rough that was definitely rough and but another
54:27
thing about this fight um those girls look like two weight classes smaller
54:32
than the other straw weights that fought tonight see so in road to the UFC in the
54:37
contender series lately they've been just they've been looking for the youngest upcoming talent and they've
54:43
been bringing in these women who are walking around at 115 their natural
54:49
atom weights so yeah let's talk about the anim division again what are you guys doing you're you're you're like
54:56
cursing that the Adam weight division really should happen you're making a a great case MH and I'm I'm still lobbying
55:03
for it yeah we we need this to happen just because we didn't get to do it doesn't mean the Next Generation
55:09
shouldn't be able to do it because there's a lot of tiny girls coming out of the woodwork just because there's
55:16
opportunity and just because they think they can beef up and and hang at straw we and then they come and train and they
55:22
realize they can't but true story it's it's it's a real thing but if there was
55:28
an Adam weight division there would be a heap of talent I guarantee
55:33
Mick we need to talk to Mick we need to get him on the show we're going to yeah
55:39
Mick Mark our words we're putting in a hot seat good old Mickey blue
55:46
eyes yeah so uh I those those girls are definitely small and um you have the
55:53
winner to the road of you road to the UFC getting a killer knockout in her win
56:01
that's a great person that can Usher in the Adam weight division yeah because who are you going to match her up
56:06
against yeah at strawweight yeah you're going to have to be really careful
56:11
extremely careful like everyone is bigger everyone's going to be able to manhandle her sweep her in guard like
56:19
come on she's so tiny yeah she's tiny give her a chance give her a chance you'll you'll get some really cool
56:26
Knockouts give her the division she deserves yeah give it to she she deserves
56:36
it you couldn't help
56:42
yourself okay I think we're done on that note Angela needs to reup her coffee wh
56:50
any more whiskey I mean coffee they know they know they know we
56:57
drink on this show uh this has been another two straws
57:04
um we have a lot of interviews coming your way we're back on the interview game and uh just let us know in the
57:12
comments who you want to hear from next we got a few up there we just interviewed Aon blanchfield Bryce Mitch
57:19
I mean not Bryce Mitchell [ __ ] I think I called him that earlier hey we should try shoot your shot I bet I bet
57:25
he'd come on the show uh Chase Hooper I called him Bryce Mitchell earlier but I meant Chase Hooper I'm so sorry Char
57:33
Ros and we have um you know a few interviews lined up that are going to be
57:39
really exciting stay tuned for those the little surprises for the holidays yeah so uh let us know who else you want us
57:45
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