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I feel too excited to call this
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fight and John Way's Bruce Buffer
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impression was quite
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good all right five rounds to decide the
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Undisputed UFC strawweight Championship
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fan anticipation for this matchup is
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truly off the charts Tatiana
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Suarez finally fighting for the world
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title she is in Blue Jean Way Lee
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counters in the red with gold so this
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was a long time coming for Tatiana
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Suarez the question is can she take her
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down Suarez won The Ultimate Fighter
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back in 2016 many people were anointing
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her back then as a future Champion
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yep took a long time lot of ups and
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downs obstacles she really does believe
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though in terms of her range and
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distance management and footwork she
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gets not a monum of credit for it so
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we'll see how her striking holds up she
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does have good foot work excellent
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wrestling of course but the speed is
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different but look at that the first
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attempt yep takes her down clean into
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side control well she got to the body
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like the moment she gets to the body and
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that's what separates her from most
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wrestlers right they're shooting singles
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and doubles whereas Tatiana Suarez will
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shoot a single or double to get to the
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body and drag it to the
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mat so no doubt Jang is prepared to be
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in this position endlessly but but
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honestly watching Rose namun take Jean
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Way Lee down and hold her down is
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probably what give Stana so much
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confidence that she could wrestle her to
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the mat four years ago but yeah yes but
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you know sure well already janga's
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got she's got half guard she's going to
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try and get full guard create a little
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separation off the Box she just can't
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let Tatiana settle her Tatiana's far too
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strong when she the fight to the mat in
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top control we's kind of getting her
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hips up there yeah there's an
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interesting battle for God going on
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there Jang actually reclaimed it for a
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second there but
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Tatiana again passed to half guard
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tonight's social media post are brought
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to you by Mickey 17 staring Robert
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patson today he'll live and die tomorrow
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he'll do it again only in theaters March
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7 with the butterfly guard now I'm going
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to try and Elevate Tatiana
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she needs to do she has to do things
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that incorporate both wrestling and
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grappling because if you're just doing
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Jiu-Jitsu under someone like Tatiana
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Suarez her base will just kill you and
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like hold you down and she will allow
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you to move because Tatiana Suarez
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didn't wrestle just freestyle she
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wrestled collegate so she understands
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how to ride people on the map well we
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just saw a couple of elbows from way Le
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that's what she needs to do and that's
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the difference you can't do that in
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wrestling drop some elbows off your back
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that will cause the person on top to
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back off a little bit and then when you
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back off that's when you make your
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move and guys since we're talking
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wrestling I want to give a shout out to
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my giloy Mustangs 14 weight classes 14
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champions in the league championship won
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every single weight first time in league
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history so boys congratulations thank
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you two minutes to go in round one
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Suarez working off of her first Tak down
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and that that is probably the biggest
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danger in Janu Le take in this fight is
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knowing how difficult it will be every
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time she gets you down to the matap like
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right here side control is an
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opportunity to get away she's got to
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start to dig her right hand under and
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start to Buck and Bridge to knock
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Tatiana off of her so J's actually doing
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a good job of you know
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creating the initial scramble she's
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escaping the positions
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momentarily but Tatiana Suarez is just
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moving one step ahead every single time
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is there you go there it is she got to
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watch the guo and that's her n she will
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drop down here yep she's jumping it no
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not against
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Jan's way too good to do that and now
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taana lost the
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position Suarez does like chasing
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submissions off of her back this is big
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for Jean Le because Tatiana took her now
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but didn't do much oh she's jumping
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again
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again yeah but it's over the arm it's
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over both arms she's got to try to sweep
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this thing yeah she going to try and
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sweep it but the difference is that when
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Janu Le gets on top oh yeah she's
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aggressive she's nasty she goes for it
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well and Tatiana got a take down but she
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didn't do much with it but control corre
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Jang Le can land some punches she can
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win this
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round it'll be scored as an effective
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grappling round
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progressing to mount
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almost almost got it good job by Suarez
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preventing that
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fi nice response and striking here by
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Jean Way Lee late in round one
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as we see here she's going to go to work
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Suarez Left Eye's got swelling already I
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don't know if there an elbow from the
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bottom or or if was one when Jean got on
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top of Tatiana as she left around the
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corner she was already kind of pwing at
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that left eye now we see Jean going to
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work trying to capitalize on these
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moments the moment being on the feet she
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is faster and quicker yes she is when it
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comes to the
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Striking yeah you're right champ that
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left eye worth keeping an eye
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on we good slowly slowly walk it out
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Suare closes the distance again there is
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again not on the hook look at not under
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the hook there dude watch she's getting
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taken down bro no she is the hands it
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together right Tatiana's too she's very
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strong for the weight class she's big
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and strong it's going to be difficult
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wayy needs to make sure her legs are
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spread apart nope you cannot take the
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underhook out that was the only thing
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saving
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it it oh oh good job wow straight
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into wow we leave with the scramble
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[Music]
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there s is defending the position here
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but what a result for the
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champion oh and look at Suarez's right
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knee got completely opened up yeah what
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I was wondering what that blood
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was but you see here these moments
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anytime There's an opportunity to do
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damage Young
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she's El she's doing whatever she
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can Suarez's left hand should be under
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the butt of waye trying to wrestle a
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single leg right now yes right there now
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if she can get to her knees she can
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start to try to wrestle the leg big
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STK big shot by The
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[Applause]
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Champ about taking the Box drops
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nice knee by Jong way
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leez trying to clasp those hands she's
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got them yeah she's in on the legs again
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hands are
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together she's gonna get it but even if
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she takes her down how much energy is it
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costing to work this hard for every
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single take down I did a five round
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fight that's something she's never done
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which way Le has a lot of experience
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right some separation out just over two
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minutes here to go round
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[Music]
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two oh young with a massive one two and
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very light on the
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feet Champion starting to settle in
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[Music]
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taana has this ability that take down
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was really Telegraph yeah was she wants
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to get she still got the clinch she get
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to the body yeah she's trying to get to
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the body Well's got to avoid letting her
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lock her hands around her waist now
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Tatiana is going to be able to wrestle
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in these positions where she can get to
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these underhooks then she can take it
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down and control but I mean I think
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she's getting tired yeah so do
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I well we hear all the time that to out
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Suarez has her way with man in the gym
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but she's never train with Jan way Le
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[Applause]
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no it never have to deal with this in a
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fight it's
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unfamiliar this is a big
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from even if you did lose round one
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there's no question that she's won round
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two yes she
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did and the momentum is just shifting
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over yes to Jean Way Lee like massive
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under a minute to go now in round
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two py mix in the corner of Tatiana
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Suarez continuously telling his
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girlfriend to
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breathe look at her
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KN sty where you're wrestling constantly
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it is going to wear you that's have to
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have been there preist right there's no
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way that you shoot or anything and then
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it opens like that in the gas that size
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look at her knee it's like Open complete
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I'm surprised it's not beding a whole
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lot more than it
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[Music]
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is I mean way Lee is really starting to
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show why she's the best in the world man
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yeah what a response by the champion
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all right ladies third round fight fight
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but now round three of a possible five
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for the strawweight titlean way Lee in
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the red Tatiana Suarez and
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blue so I think with the approach that
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Tatiana is using she's gonna have to
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find something different because it
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failed in round two and as as each round
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passes by she's going get more and more
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tired yeah but Mike if she can't get
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take down she's done yeah yeah that's a
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nice head kick it's the only way she's
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going to win this fight is if she can
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take wayy down and slow her down wayy is
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just far too good on the feet to be
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standing
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there yep there it is so on our
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isolation monitor we just saw Tatiana
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suz's knee hit the base of the fence and
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that is what cut her knee open
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thankfully it's not becoming a major
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factor I tell you what is a factor the
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shots that jangi is throwing she is
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fighting down on that mou piece and
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she's going work now she too fast she's
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so fast and
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nasty oh oh right for Shan way Lee early
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round three Tatiana is in a world of
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trouble desperation shot thrown off
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[Music]
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by she better shoot again nice job by
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suarz to the body Brad Rell was call for
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that earlier
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another shot way Le def F again yeah
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really nice movement away from the fence
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for the
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chump Way's not waiting to defend she's
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defending before Tatiana even gets
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started she's better to keep that on the
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hook this time though and really poed it
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up see right here Tatiana's Corner
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toward the wrestler single
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leg but right now she feels much more
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comfortable trying to get a double
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because she said way Lee is too slippery
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she's too sweaty but way Le just keeps
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that underhook and lifts her off the
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double
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leg she's letting it go though this
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could be a
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mistake six successive takedowns
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defended by Jean Way Lee nice KN the
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body by Suarez oh oh and a good uppercut
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left hook so fast yeah she
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is and it's in times like this now J is
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dangerous knows it well now she's got
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confidence that she can defend taked
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down
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and knows that yes she can hurt her and
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knows that there's not much coming back
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in her Direction in terms of strike yes
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and that right hand almost knocked her
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out that was a solid connection jang's
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growing in
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confidence playing with her now a little
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bit Suarez maintaining composure of the
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storm that is her first UFC title fight
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yeah you know Tatiana is not going to
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quit on herself
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she's not going to quit she's going to
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keep trying to fight keep trying to
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chase those
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takedowns like a little slip from J way
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Le unable to take advantage she landed
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an inside kick there as John tried to
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enter oh I didn't see it yeah because
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ref was in front of us that one two is
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landing clean for J every
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time to put some kicks on the end of it
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we's ability to close distance is as
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good as anyone that I've seen across any
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weight class in female fighting and
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you'll know just now the takedowns
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becoming less frequent for
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Suarez because they wasted attempts I
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mean there's one there shooked off very
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easy Jang straight away on the
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attack the Corner's telling Tatiana to
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move forward and I'm not sure her moving
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forward is a good thing cuz wayy is
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teeing off on her well she's just out of
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range with that right hook and if she
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connects with it it's over yeah I mean
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cuz she is swinging she's swinging dude
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she knows that she can hurt
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Tatiana Tatiana's gonna have to throw a
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punch or two or some kicks to try to get
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way Le getting her hands away from look
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at how low she's carrying her hands
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because she knows that she's got to get
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to underhook so she's not even carrying
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him as high as she normally
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[Music]
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does the credit though of Suarez she
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justes find the clinch does create these
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transitions I mean this J Lee is so good
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yeah I mean a couple of elbows
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there labor kick from Suarez 20 seconds
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of the
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round very close first round but the
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Challenger might have taken it two great
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rounds followed by the champion John
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even that she beat she still defend time
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perect somehow someway can get a take
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down not sure there appears to be any
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other path what it
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is yes it is and honestly you know for
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as bad as it may have been these last
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two rounds if Tatiana won round one and
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it's only a matter of two takedowns in
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these rounds to try to win the title
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still so she cannot lose hope on the
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idea that she can be the champ well
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that's what being a champion is all
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about you know you go down a couple of
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rounds you bite down on your mouthpiece
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you don't give up on yourself and that's
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a beauty in five rounds
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[Music]
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exactly oh that's it that's the shot the
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one good left hand Connection by Johan
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way take down down by way Le inside trip
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she does that so good and that's kind of
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insulting she does such a good job of
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Landing that inside
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trip but again the story has been how
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much better Tatiana is as a wrestler and
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she's the one that gets a Tak down on
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Tatiana the first time Tatiana's been
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taken
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down but again where whenever she has
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the opportunity I we see it here with
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the left hand now and again just
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dropping a couple of little punchies
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anytime there is a target she's going to
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work trying to finish the fight not
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position you know the reason I say WR
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with a single is because then she's on
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the shorts of way Le it's hard to take
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people down against skin when they're so
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look Way's legs are glistening yes but
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if she can wrestle her around the shorts
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she gives herself an
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opportunity but we saw this against uh
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Amanda limos when when wayy gets you out
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it's hard to get away from I mean that
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was a sickening by joh way
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and we've talked a lot the three of us
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all week about the strength component to
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this fight you weren't going to really
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know until they got in there and got
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some answers yeah we're getting the
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answers I mean tatio looks really strong
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and
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certainly around a bit in round
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[Applause]
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one she's going to have to try to pass
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the angle's not correct it's not really
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locked kind of in half guard she's
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moving towards an angle she can finish
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if you could step over that leg of
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Suarez or if Suarez is just that
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exhausted this could work it's much
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worse than it it would normally be if
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she was fresh because she's tired but if
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she allows wayy to pass her leg she's
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going to be in a lot of trouble she fine
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yep nice job by Tatiana Suarez to say in
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the fight two and a half to go round
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four that cut get nastier by the
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minute yeah it
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is that's kind of deep it is she went
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right to the bottom of the fence
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like it really is amazing
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because John you said we're getting some
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answers right but the answers are always
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the same Jan way Lee is just that good
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and she's showing it once again that
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she's that
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good and you
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do yeah I mean it's interesting when
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Suarez was starting that round one bad
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out of hell going for the takedown I
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thought maybe she would be a little bit
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more measured early yeah obviously she
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got that taked down right wasn't able to
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do a whole lot with it but yeah I mean
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she's not trying to there's no secret
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there's no secret she's going to try and
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take it down so there's no point being
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kg about it she got the take down but
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she didn't do yeah the only the only
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reason she lost the position was because
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she went to that gear team right up
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until then she had controlled the vast
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majority of that round and she has
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finished people multiple times with that
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Guillotine right now J is thees fire she
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keeps doing it she went for it
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again but this is all experience right
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for Tatiana Suarez right there I always
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say when these guys are these girls get
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into these fights in most cases with the
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Champions there's a moment in there
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where you go okay now I know why this
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guy's the champ or why this grows the
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chant because they're just a little
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better than everyone else the thing is
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do you learn from it and if you are
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lucky enough to work your way back do
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you make the necessary changes right to
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prepare for it once you felt it Suarez
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got here along the way finished three
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former world champions Jessica andrj
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Carla Esparza Alexa Gro and she'll still
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be favored to beat most other straw WS
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but John way Le giving her all she can
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handle around four
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absolutely 30 seconds to go on the
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round and if history shows Tatiana
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Suarez can work her way back but she
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asked me more hasn't fought for a while
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this is a big
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time well in round five I think Suarez
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is just going to go For Broke on the the
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take down approach isn't going to work
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it hasn't worked so far it's not going
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to work in the last round she's going to
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land something big he's got to hurt her
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and try and finish her like that
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wrestling
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only you
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can talking about the KNE or the
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that did she get I mean if she's talking
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about the knee she's not even willing to
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look at it so she feels it so you don't
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know how much of an impact that's having
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on her mentally right because right now
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she's asking how it looks she won't even
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look down there right twice asking how
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bad is it the corner says chin down chin
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down hands up she's got to go forward
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and take some chances wrestling I would
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abandon that you never know Suarez has
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got big Power so Jan Le what a shot that
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was I don't know what you want her to do
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Mike if she can't ru because right now
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the Striking you got to try is so far
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behind you got to try you got to make
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something happen you got to swing for
21:35
the fences a chance because we is so
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fluid though it makes her look like
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there it is and even that she can't be
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the HPS scolls perfectly engages LS an
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elbow but look at that wayy is so fluid
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in the strike and it makes Tatiana look
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like she's stiff robotic yeah like
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robotic and she's not yeah
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excellent take down
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[Applause]
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def 12 to this point she's got to use
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her hand oh Way's
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balance
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incredible oh it's the ferocity though
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she is ferocious it's the ferocity
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that's just the difference here so Mike
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in terms of Reckless AB Bandit on the
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feet right if you're Suarez you got to
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just be willing to get knocked out and
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go for it well well listen you get one
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tit shot she's waited her entire life
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she's worked very hard to get to this
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point more than likely she doesn't get
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the job done she's not going to get
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another one go out on your sword on your
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Shield go For Broke take a chance she
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does have power you know and maybe that
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shot that she lands that sets the take
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down maybe she takes the back and gets
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the
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choke John wayy putting all the Weaponry
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together now knees elbows
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strikes the defense has been
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exceptional since round one
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def every
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a even there it is again way Lee
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actually rolled and oh she's got a
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choke takana had to give V to
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Matt was under her neet
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go yeah drop some left hands now your
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right El
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right
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elbow sleep unbelievable hard exuded by
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taana Suarez but as we cross the
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midpoint of round five Jean Way Lee
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largely has been way too much you can't
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question the toughness and durability of
23:42
Tatiana again Jean Way Lee is doing what
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she has done on so many different
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occasions she's been trying to get this
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Mount position the entirety of the fight
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Suarez did a really good job of
23:53
Defending it but if she gets it through
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I'm telling you we might see a finish we
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is dominating this fight yes
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no other Nina nunz is really the only
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previous Tatiana Suarez opponent that
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has been able to stem the tide a little
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bit and stuff take downs but Johan way
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Lee looking like the greatest 115 pound
24:13
fighter of all time gold standard right
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she is the gold standard and she is the
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way everyone will be judged and I I
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really don't know it we always get these
24:25
women that become so dominant we go well
24:26
who who's gonna be
24:28
but if wayy just keeps improving every
24:32
single time against the toughest person
24:34
she's ever supposed to
24:36
fight it's hard to imagine that
24:40
someone's GNA really challenge well
24:42
she's dominating this fight to your
24:44
point Dom every fight she was talking
24:46
about even going up Valen next because
24:51
she's beating everybody but outside of
24:53
Rose D those times she done this
24:57
dominated and as we've gone on she's
25:00
just gotten better and better and this
25:02
is the type of performance that lays the
25:04
foundation to try to become simultaneous
25:07
champ well John 224 of 272 strikes she
25:11
is landing at an 83% clip at least
25:14
unofficial 83% of her strikes are land
25:17
and she has stuffed 14 successive
25:19
takedowns from Tatiana crazy man that's
25:22
a crazy number and you could have had
25:24
plus money if you wanted to oh yeah yeah
25:26
exactly she was1
25:30
I mean 35 seconds away here but again
25:33
she doesn't rest she won't lie here
25:35
she's not going to accept this position
25:37
going to try and finish her off with
25:38
some damage here the last few
25:41
seconds Tatiana Suarez Valiant yeah in
25:44
defeat but Jean Way
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Le adding to her Ledger here tonight
25:50
with a dominant performance in yeah
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stylistically this was a very very
25:55
difficult match up we saw that in the
25:56
opening round and then after that she
25:58
figured it out and she did her
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[Applause]
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thing
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and ladies and gentlemen after five
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rounds we go to the judges score cards
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for decision the judges score the
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contest 4946 4946 and
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4945 for the winner by unanimous
26:31
decision
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and
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still the
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Undisputed
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UFC TRW Weight champion of the
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world Magnum John wh
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