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Two Straws on Fightpass! Episode 37: UFC 298 and the Zuckerberg Curse
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Nov 6, 2024
UFC 298! What a card! KOs, dogfights, and a newly minted champ in sunny California. We got the good seats, and we got the goods. This week on Two Straws: 00:27 Volk wants a rematch 09:40 The crowd chants the C-word during Ian Garry fight 14:55 Merab is a likable scamp 17:55 Zuckerberg is the new MMA curse 21:10 Costa vs. Whittaker FOTN debate 27:57 Rogerio De Lima's trepidation with taking the replacement fight 31:55 Lemos/Dern... robbery? Full episodes of Two Straws are exclusively on UFC Fightpass! Go sub. Brought to you by Duelbits
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[Music] double double double record Double your freshness double your
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fun we love it two is better than one yes dou uh
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record hey what's up everyone hello oh my
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goodness so uh we had a really wild night last night yeah we have fun we got to go to UFC
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298 yes it was a little a little sad for me I mean I was sad with the bulk yeah
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that made me that be sad I I kind of wondered how he would do coming off of such um a a bad knockout and then having
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such a quick turnaround yeah that always you know peques my interest and then um
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somebody like Toria who's you know a beast a power puncher um and just a lot
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to handle in the Octagon um I wasn't necessarily surprised but what's even crazier is he's asking for an immediate
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rematch yeah I love that but but I'm not really surprised by that either because he's kind of a never going to hang it up
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never going to quit always ready for the next scrap kind of guy and it's a little different from his uh his kind of
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brother and out Ofna where he lost that fight against strick was kind of like
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you know what I need a break I need a mental reset this is a bit much my body hurts my brain hurts I
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just need to chill out for a second and vul is like you can you can you know he's hurting as he's saying these words
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but he just like I'll do the rematch please give me the rematch he's kind of
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addicted you know to the fight game and that's how most of us are we're addicted to fighting addicted to uh the thrill of
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it well people chase the high almost you know almost I I don't want to say like an addict but it you cannot imagine the
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high that one feels after winning a fight let alone winning a title oh my
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God and then the lows I want to imagine it are are the the lowest the lowest
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thing you can possibly imagine so it's just this roller coaster and you're constantly trying to to to chase it to
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achieve it and so I understand why he would want to get back in there but I really think that he should take a a
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page from Adis Sonia's book and you know hopefully his team can sit down with him and just say like hey maybe you need a
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break it was interesting watching um uh what what's his uh Eugene Eugene
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and uh Craig Jones I think uh just kind of chatting before they were allowed into the cage they were just standing by
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the door and chatting they were facing right towards us and I was trying to imagine what they were saying because it
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looked like they already saw the white writing on the wall before it happened I
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know whenever you're cornering someone you always think about the best case and the worst case and that was kind of the
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worst case but I feel like they had already mentally prepared for it by the
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way they were standing and chatting and kind of discussing seemed like discussing what happened before they
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were allowed into the cage to check on their Fighter um and it was a very calm thing so I feel like uh this gem is
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probably going to get a lot of slack and a lot of um negativity thrown at it just
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because of the few losses that they've had on a big scale but I felt like were handling it in the right way they were
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prepared for that outcome and you know you can only protect your Fighter for as
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much as they're willing to let you protect them he's not going to turn down this big opportunity even if he just got
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knocked out even if he might have gotten hurt in training or you know when you have a concussion it takes a long time
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for that to heal and a long time for you not to react as much to a hard shot your
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chin never really recovers so it was a really quick turnaround and I feel like the the body language of the coaches
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kind of told me that they knew this was a big possibility sure I mean they
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they're a really well-prepared gym they're uh very Savvy they're very in the know with you know technique reading
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people reading their Fighters reading opponents um they they've got to be aware that that was a huge risk and
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possibility um the the brain just it wants to protect itself and after such a
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devastating knocked down or knock out excuse me um it's it's no wonder that
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the brain wanted to protect itself again mhm yeah not everyone's um gonna charge
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forward like McKenzie D half concussed like a zombie well
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also and still grab the leg and and somehow wrestle up to a good position
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like people's brain usually shuts off when they get hit hard and when it
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happens once it's a lot easier for it to happen again sure and I mean she didn't have the best reaction initially um I'm
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when she got you know popped in in the nose or in the eye when you know she got that bad cut she didn't react very well
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but it wasn't necessarily um you know like a such a devastating blow that she was
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completely discombobulated it was like uh you know spinning your head on a bat and trying to run to first base kind of
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thing um so she she ended up doing what um you know what she's trained her uh
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body kind of went into autopilot on that one M um so yeah that's you know
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different scenario and somebody like that hits his hard as toore in volkanovski that's going to have a a much different reaction yeah I I just
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think the the natural reaction is I mean not the natural reaction but most people
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are going to drop like that after getting hurt you know and um yeah it just it just sucks that he had to go up
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against a such a hard hitter like Toria like that guy has been knocking out
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everyone only person he didn't knock out was Josh EMT who's another one who just
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has a head made of rock and he will wobble his way back into the fight and
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you know not everyone has that uh gift I guess that thick head yeah I did see um
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you know our coaches talk a lot about you know the followup you're not just looking for that one punch it's
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important to throw a combination maybe it doesn't necessarily land well but then you follow up you follow up again
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so kind of Staggering and uh staggering the attacks and that's what I saw last night with saporia he didn't
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necessarily catch him solid but his second attack is is what ended up
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finishing him and dropping him ultimately so it was um it was you know a little mental mental no I was like oh
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that's what that's what that's why that's why we do that that's he was talking about yeah it was similar to the
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EMT fight where he was able just find that angle that like right over the shoulder angle um when someone's long
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hair and able to jump in and out he was able to just kind of pop pop out and
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then come back in right over the shoulder it's almost like your shoulder is blocking your vision of where that
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punch is going to come from and uh it's really crazy when someone's able to land it on you because it's one of those
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punches you don't see it just sneaks right in that tiny little hole that's open and to Poria does that with
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everyone he he stands and trades with and it's really crazy that he kind of
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came in as a submission artist coming into the UFC he was a submission artist all the way up until he got there and he
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just started knocking people out I feel like he found his little spaces that he can get over on people and maybe just
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the fact that they were so prepared for his ground game they leave even bigger
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holes for them to kind of get into his punches can just sneak in there and
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catch you on the chin when you're worried about something else yeah I've got to say um I didn't exactly pick up
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on everybody in the crowd that was dressed in black with red roses but it was a really nice touch at the end
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everybody see that there were people to to the right of us where we were sitting facing the octagon and they were all
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dressed up and at first I thought they were you know I don't know maybe they were with somebody else or I I didn't
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quite get it but it all made sense at the end whenever he was rushing in whenever he was wearing all black and Roses it was kind of it was kind of cool
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I've never really seen a a family or a crew do that before huh yeah was it his
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family yeah Oh okay that's cool yeah wouldn't it be cool if uh the old man
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vulk people were just his cousins volan obs's cousins they all got
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that old man outfit and came to UFC to watch him win and then they all got to hobble in with their walkers it would
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have been like an episode of Greece or The Warriors you know everybody in their like oh I would have loved that in the ways
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what would you call the vul gang old man vul gang oh man the Geyers
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oh yes yeah something like that and then uh Toria be what matadors oh yeah
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obviously obviously the matadors yeah that'd be cool that'd be cool we got to do that next time if they
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get the rematch definitely do that have a bunch of cosplayers that would be really fun no
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it was it was was a very unique energy I hadn't um you I hadn't been to a fight in I feel like a really long time um I
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was in the fight in Brazil but it's just kind of different it just different it's it's such a big arena at the Honda
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Center so it was well and everyone spoke English that was different so you got to join in join in on the jokes different
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energy yeah when they were chanting cuck you knew what they were saying
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you're like oh I know that word man speaking of that fight um I mean Ian
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Gary I thought thought you know maybe with a win it would change people's
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perceptions you know kind of get them back on his side but I don't think he did himself any favors with that one I
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mean he's just been winning so win wouldn't change anything I think uh a
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loss maybe and a show of humility might up his um standing with the fans but he
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doesn't need it because he's undefeated he has that um he has knockouts on his record he has this big push everyone
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wants to see him lose so they're going to keep tuning in he doesn't need fans on the side but uh man what a lame way
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to win it was not a pretty fight he rode the bicycle the whole time it it is and
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you know I don't think you would judge the average fighter as harshly if they
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didn't talk such a big game on the come up talking about how he's going to do
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this to the guy do that to the guy he's going to be the next next biggest thing on the in comparing himself to Conor
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McGregor on Conor McGregor's rise he didn't run he ran once he was famous you
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know once he once he got the belt that's when he ran yeah that's normally I mean that happened with you know GSP it
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happens with people they want to keep that belt they want to you know protect their legacy so they start adapting
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their style to the safest and quickest route to Victory which you know you turn
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into to a bit of a runner um and I mean there's there's nothing wrong with that
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but as to what you were saying you know coming and talking so big there's nothing wrong with
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that okay J no I think my fighter my fighter Spirit which is gotten me in
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trouble which is why my record is not good compared to Ian gares but the
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fighter spirit is what people like to see what people like to get behind they
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don't really care about your health as a fighter no and I think Ian Gary was protecting his health because uh Jeff
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nil has hands still he he punches like a brick so you can tell he was just
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playing it safe doing just enough of what he could do it it reminded me of a
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Muay Thai fight where you watching like Lan Stadium these guys are fighting but
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they have another fight in two days so they're going to do just enough to win once they feel like they win they start
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dancing he the fourth or is it the fifth round the fourth or fifth round is always a it's a dance off yeah yeah that
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it's the last round but then they do it if they secure around they'll just kind of circle and make sure they're safe and
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that's kind of what the second and third round was for Gary the first round i f was clearly nil the second round I'm I'm
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not sure if it was the second round was Gary or the third but there was one really close round and then one clear
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Gary round and uh you can tell in the second he just started doing just what
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he needed to do and then getting out of the way of danger and Jeff nil was just kind of chasing him a lot so you can't
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just blame Ian Gary but I'm sure that wasn't the fight that Neil was prepared
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for no and if you're not preparing for that kind of fight sometimes it is kind of a a challenging adjustment yeah
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because you have these things that you've ingrain in you and your muscle memory and you're just ready for that and so if it can be a challenge to kind
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of make that adjustment on the Fly the mental toughness of still playing that game when people are chanting cuck
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though that's pretty impressive [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] I was like
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what are they saying wait what are they saying are they saying [ __ ] like
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cocka they weren't saying [ __ ] like that maybe they were saying someone else's [ __ ] somebody else's um we digress but
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uh yeah he played the game I wouldn't be surprised if he fought that way just to
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piss off the fans who knows who knows what his motivations
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were I think he was trying to win and he knew that he had you know a tough opponent who could you know possibly
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drop him and take him out of his win streak but usually he throws all caution
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to the win and just goes for it he'll get dropped he'll come back I know he's probably uh working on playing it safer
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but we've seen him get hurt and then come back and just kind of not give uh a
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damn about what his opponent is doing how strong his opponent is maybe this is the first guy he's actually respected
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outside of the previous fights when it comes to power but I wouldn't be surprised if he was just like oh yeah oh
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oh okay all right I'mma still win this fight but you're not going to be entertained he can suck
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it he might be cheeky like that who knows he's definitely cheeky in a in a press conference like that so who knows
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yes covering his tracks uh how cheeky was Rob in his fight see there's a difference with like
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how Gary is cheeky and then there is a difference how morab is cheeky he is a likable little little guy he's a little
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scramp he he's so likable he can you know a scramp a
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Scamp he little scrambling Scamp he can you know neck at Henry suo when he's got
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him in a headlock he can you know pick him up and walk him across the octagon and you know people cheer some other
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some other people might think like hey that's or form bad taste you're um you
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know making somebody look bad or you're doing too much kind of thing but everything he did I thought was adorable
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how are you going to look like the bad guy when you're fighting Henry sjo that is fair I didn't specifically
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say Henry I just said a person I think Gary would look like the good guy fighting hry siga I don't know I don't
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know I think he would I think he would he's he's a little newer he has more
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flashy Knockouts at least recently so I think I think people would be on Gary's
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side before SOS I don't know maybe it depends on where you're fighting but
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they're both pretty bad guys they they both Play Good Hills yeah but it's in a
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different way I I think that uh siudo is just so um
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choreographed and you know wresty so who would you root for S hudo versus uh
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Kobe oh God oh God um I oh no we need to
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do a bracket we need to do eight man bracket of the most hated heels in MMA
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right now and see who ends up on the top man just because I think just because
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Henry is a family guy I would you know I have to believe that there's some there's some good redeeming qualities in
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him so I would go for Henry against Kobe there are people who like him enough to not be paid exactly EX exactly my point
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for the hour yeah um I don't know I thought uh I
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thought morab was super fun to watch he's just been really killing it with the Social Media stuff too and then you
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see him get out there and he's the same fighter he's he's going out there he's having fun with it he's securing stuff
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he's putting himself in danger he didn't get wobbled a little bit in that fight and we were like oh no not our good guy
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and then he comes back to pick up cejudo and like Drop in front of Mark Zuckerberg and just go ah I've got to
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Chum or I don't know what he was saying but he was just like and Zuckerberg was loving it I felt like he was uh I forget
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his name but the the like the prince in Gladiator the prince or the king and
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Gladiator when he's waving his thumb in the air and then eventually he just
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went it's the only person he did that for because everyone else oh dude I feel
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like Zuckerberg is kind of like uh Drake in the sense that he is like really taking Fighters out with uh he's a new
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curse he is it's a real thing yeah it was uh what was it first it
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was yeah DN um he was in V's corner vul
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and was it suo or who was the other person no I don't remember third yeah
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there he was in three people's Corners um I don't maybe not corners but he was just like going for them yeah and he
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posted pictures with them I forget who the the third one was but the UFC was all over it yeah uh but yeah I swear he
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it might have been it might have been Henry yeah you may be right and of course morab being the guy that he was
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would be like hey you know next time you come out with me okay I know don't do it
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it's not worth it's not it don't fall for that morab could break the curse he'll just do like one of his cool uh
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traditional danc and and break the curse that way and Zuckerberg will be blessed and ready to
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Corner him without ruining the fight but Zuckerberg he's gonna be the
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next curse we have uh Drake curse yeah the Eminem curse which freaked me out
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once because I fought a girl who walked out to Eminem and they switched our
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songs they thought I wanted to walk out to Eminem and I was so taken a back
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because I knew about the curse like Eminem's great you know it wouldn't be my walk out choice
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but I like a little Eminem here and there but I would never walk out to the song because of the curse as well you
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know and then they switched and I was like oh no yeah but I think you have to actually pick it they someone can't
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curse you by accidentally exactly playing Eminem before and then there's the Bruce bus buffer uh fist bump fist
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bump curse so avoid all of those things if you have a fight coming up in the UFC don't do it guys it's not worth it but I
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used to be you know what I used to be really really superstitious up until I got into the ultimate fighter house and then I
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couldn't do any of my like weird rituals oh so that really like yeah that really got rid of it but for a long time like I
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mean I think there are fighters who were still like you know wear their lucky shorts wear their lucky bra you know do
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do certain things like there's all these like little checkpoints that you have to do it kind of becomes like OCD mhm I
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have my uh lucky walkout shirt that I had from my Muay Thai days I had um what
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else I think that's it I lost everything else all my other superstitions I
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couldn't find anymore but uh that was the one thing I would always bring my walkout shirt I wouldn't even touch it
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it would just be in my suitcase but I knew it was nearby and then tough house they took it away I'm like I'm not even
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going to wear it just just let me have stop it you took it away no no logos oh
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my God no logos they took most of my for you it was the logo was pretty big
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didn't want to support Evolution Muay Thai losers so rude look at them now I wish they had I know right um yeah so uh
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the co main was pretty crazy too the co-main um we had um Whitaker and Costa
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yeah Whitaker Costa that was a pretty insane fight a lot of people were
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kind of mad that they didn't get fight fight of night what were you thinking I mean I didn't think it was fight of the night I think honestly there were I
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think the ladies put on a really good fight um I think that there it was it
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was up there but it wasn't fighting a night for me for sure I I feel like when you think about um uh momentum shifts I
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think that's what you think about the most and how exciting they were and how close each person came to finishing the
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fight and I do think the girls had more of those so I I feel like like people
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always think it has to do with I don't know skill or who was able to do more of
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everything and then who else was able to do more of everything but a lot of times it's just this is a really evenly
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matched fight and these two tried to murder each other they literally had no energy left at the end of it and I do
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think the girls uh hit those marks more than the co main but the co main I
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thought was just like really technical really cool to watch had moments for
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each fighter and I was kind of impressed with Costa because to I in his Luke
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rockold fight I did not think he still had it like he's he's not shown up to to
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some of his previous fights in ways that just look like he didn't take it seriously he he just kind of he's like
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okay I'm in the UFC now no I don't have to work hard or like it it it was the weirdest thing he would um I just felt
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like he would come in and he maybe he was trying to like swing too hard and go for that like
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that big knockout he would just kind of like uh not conserve his energy properly and he would end up you know
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just um fading out and you know Adisa made him look pretty bad so I think that
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was like the most lasting thing in my mind he took his uh his virgin hole he
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did him dirty he did that guy dirty he took that
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thing and I mean that was super embarrassing but I love the fact that he
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kind of turned that around and and created a Persona after that like I don't know if he was funny before that
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but he was definitely funny after no he like uh he he's really just kind of
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embraced like um who he is being the butt of the [Music]
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joke no he really has and I and I I like that about people they can you know
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laugh at themselves not take themselves too seriously and just kind of go with it and it takes its power away yeah you
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know it definitely before he fought out of sign it definitely seemed like he took himself a little too seriously um
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and then he just kind of started doing the secret juice bits and really playing
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up things talking talking [ __ ] about other Fighters and uh not in a way that
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you're like oh he wants to fight him but just like in a silly way that just makes you laugh at a situation so yeah maybe
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after you get rode in the octagon and stuff like that everything else it just you know puts things into perspective
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matter yeah literally love you like you know what it is what it is it is we're
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all just here trying to make each other entertained but he was super
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entertaining uh last night um that Spinning Wheel kick was insane that was
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so unexpected like where did that come from and he did it again too yeah like
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what Whitaker didn't see it that thing came out of what excuse me yes I didn't know your
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body moved like that dude it it almost looked like um Kevin Lee versus Barbosa
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remember that fight Kevin Lee came back and won in in the same way but he got hit with a nasty spinning Hill kick to
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the face and did this little dance number right before getting his wits
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back about him and going in for for the for the um wrestle [ __ ] and the kicks and everything but yeah it was really
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similar Whitaker took it like a champ he was able to come back strong and then yeah it was good fight I loved watching
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Whitaker's head movement I mean he's always been you know really good footwork and in and out but I swear
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like he was on like just on the end just by like centimeters of Costa's punches
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and was just so impressive like his his timing his head movement footwork so impressive and um and then the ability
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to like re-engage after those punches MH so impressive yeah yeah it was super
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cool to watch and it makes me feel like Whitaker still got it you know I saw um in his press conference he wasn't really
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trying to call anyone out but he's just like uh ready for whatever he's always
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ready to fight ready to show up ready to do his job and he always wants to make it entertaining and that's what we saw
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it was it was an awesome fight yeah I think he's definitely one of my like top five favorite Fighters just because and
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he was talking about this in the press conference afterwards too they were asking you know
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why why do you think people like you so much or why are you so likable and I think that was our boy our boy asked
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that oh didd he who's her boy Matt Davies oh good job Matt no it was it was um it
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was a good question and his response was even better because it's just like you know I am who I am I show who I am and
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and he's just authentically himself and he knows that that resonates with people and I think that you know that's what's
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frustrating to me about certain you know Fighters like a Henry sujud where they just you know try to or a Kobe or you
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know they're just trying so hard to be something that they're really not authentically yeah and it gets really
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frustrating at really old for sure um also I started liking whiter when he was
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in that Fallout commercial for a video game Fallout oh I didn't see it a Fallout fan oh I like it you're cool
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you're cool in my book that's like my favorite video game so ever since then I was a fan gotcha I haven't seen it well
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it's a video game well I know what Fallout is but I just have never played
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never will um did you get to catch any other fights that uh tickled your fancy
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that you enjoyed no those were the ones that really stuck out I mean it was a really good main card it was it was and
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the prelims kind of delivered too they got the uh they got the crowd nice and warmed up um I I do want to talk about
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that uh Junior tafa versus rerio Del Lima fight that was pretty nasty too I
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got some inside scoop on that too while we were at The Fan Experience oh tell me more no it wasn't really that big that
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big of a deal but um you know hearing that uh what was his name tfa's
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opponent um uh Delma jeria Delma yeah um so tofa his
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brother stepped in on short notice on like a day notice because the other big
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big brother tofa had to pull out Justin Justin and Junior Justin and Junior which is easy to remember because
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Justin's a big one and then Junior's a little Justin it's a little one that makes sense they've done that well good
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job good job parents such foresight uh but they were just talking
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about how Marcus was going to turn it down oh really yeah why I don't know was
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he scared of little little Junior TAA it was just the weirdest thing like that's um I mean I feel like as a fighter
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taking another opponent on on one day notice even though he was um so this TAA
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Jr Was preparing for a fight like eight weeks out so he was you know kind of in shape but he's not Peak Performance shape right now and he's a lot smaller
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yeah not not in this weight class technically so it was just interesting to me that he initially didn't want to
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take it and then the UFC had to come in and just you know entice him a little bit maybe he just wanted to be enticed
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maybe because I feel like that's happened a lot lately where I mean that's why vul ended up fighting um
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makev on short notice he was enticed not just for that fight but for fights in the future so maybe he was playing his
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his cards a little like you know hey I'm here I'm in shape we got an opponent but
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I'm not excited about it why don't you make me a little more excited about it
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well they basically said listen you'll get like put on the back end of the rotation if you don't take this fight n
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that was that's not enticing the short notice guy got got properly enticed okay
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well that's not fun well I'm I'm wondering what he saw that got him a
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little worried I mean Junior's fast maybe that's something that he wasn't prepared for he was prepared for a
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bigger like slower fighter and when you're at light heavyweight and heavyweight and you're fighting the
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striker I feel like it's not a huge difference it's more when you're fighting like the Grapplers and
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wrestlers that if they get on top of you you're going to feel that weight and it's going to suck so maybe he just felt
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like the kid could be a little faster than him he wouldn't be ready for the combinations as well as the ones that he
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prepared for because he doesn't have the he doesn't have like a perfect record in the UFC but he's a Devastator when he
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looks good so I can see him trying to play it safe especially like at this point of his career but didn't have to
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went out there and chopped that leg down like a tree those calf kicks I was telling you I'm like I just want to do
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that to someone so bad because I felt it before so now I want to you know pay it for it I want to give back I'm a giver
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so generous um there were a lot of good calf kicks that night um uh Delmas were
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super super nasty um I was telling you I warmed up in backstage with him when he
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not with him but when he was fighting next to him it felt like I was warming up with him because the the sonic boom
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of his kicks on the pads were shaking the room he kicks so hard he kicks
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stupid hard and you can see the core underneath that belly there's a lot of
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power there there's a lot of power in his hips and in his core but then also you saw some nasty kicks in the uh in
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the D and Lemos fight Lemos was chopping that like up nasty now that's one thing
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I wanted to talk to you about because a lot of people are kind of torn online on whether limos or D should have won that
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fight and I was kind of surprised CU we were watching it and from what I saw I thought it was clearly lmos but then
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when I thought back to the first round I was like oh well she did take her down halfway through but it
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was all let me had just a little bit more control time like limos was winning
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up to the thre minute Mark and then D won the last two minutes so I was
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surprised that people were saying that but then I kind of understood it but I think the people saying that didn't see
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how nasty her calf looked her calf looked like a bicep and and those her
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Shin looked like a bicep no looked like it was flexing on mus Beach the whole time like it was it was pretty bad I
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agree with the decision and I I I didn't know how the judges would see it though I hope that they saw it that way because
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I mean I I look for consistency in the judging and now more consistently the
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consistency that I'm seeing is that the judges are going off of damage rather than like volume or you know control
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they're they're looking at damage more so now so just based off of that in
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those in the first three minutes of the opening round limos like had more damage
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she was butchering that calf she was making um D swing and Miss very wildly
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and so I just thought it the way everything looked I would give it to limos and I think that was the round
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that was in question um I just think that when D took her down there wasn't
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enough striking or damage it was it was control time it was well done it was a nice takedown but it just didn't
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outweigh what limos did in the first round and she also had a nice reversal
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towards the end of that round mhm like it was like the last 30 seconds but she still got on top so I think that that
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just solidified with the damage and then just being able to reverse and stay safe
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I think that's what stole the round yeah yeah it's it's uh funny because uh most
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people gave it 2927 to lamos and that's because that
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second round was so nasty you said she uh reacted kind of badly there and she
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did I thought they were going to stop it the way she grabbed her face this like you were talking about um before she
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grabbed her face like something got broke and it looks like it might have been luckily she's home so she doesn't
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have to worry about flying or anything if it's an orb or or orbital fracture
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but even if it's just like a cartilage or something you hear that you feel that Crunch and the pain yeah the pain is
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just nasty so um yeah that even though DN was able to kind of turn it around at
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the very end get on top and just threaten stuff and stay alive at the end of that second round um it was still a
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108 in a lot of people's books yeah and I don't think they're wrong for that yeah what was it on the actual
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scorecards on the actual scorecard it was um 2928 all three yeah and same
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rounds that we thought two second or first and second to Lio and third to D no I I agree with it I
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mean it it was a great fight it was it was a valiant effort from D trying to come back from you
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know being you know rocked or or injured you know she still really tried to dog
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it out which I appreciate but I just think that limos was was granted the win
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and I think she deserved it yeah for sure she deserved that
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one we won't talk about the we she deserved that one um yeah any other fights you want to
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chat about um I think that we should actually step over to our exclusive content and
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continue this conversation oh okay all right well let's do that then we'll see you guys on the other
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