JRE MMA Show #3 with Brendan Schaub
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1 hour and 36 minutes
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208.68571
Summary
Brandon and I discuss the UFC 246 main event between Justin Gaethje and Eddie Alvarez. We also talk about the upcoming UFC Fight Night event between Khabib Nurcayang and Dana White. And we give our predictions for UFC 246 and what we think of the UFC's future in the UFC. We also give our thoughts on UFC 246, UFC 232, UFC 246 & UFC 246. We finish off the episode with a quick Q&A with some of our favorite UFC fans. Thanks to everyone for all your support, stay tuned for the next episode! 5:00 - UFC 246 Recap 8:30 - Who's the favorite UFC fighter? 9:00- UFC 246 Predictions 15:00 Canelo vs. Gegal vs. Alvarez 21:30- Who is the best UFC fighter in the world right now? 26:15 - Who are the most underrated UFC fighters? 27:00 UFC 246 predictions 28:15- What's the biggest UFC fight of the year? 29:30 UFC 246 Previews 31:40 - UFC 244 Recap 32:10 - What's next in UFC 246? 36:40 37:20 - What s next? 39:15 40:10 41:00 Thoughts on UFC 244? 42:00 | UFC 246 45:10 | UFC 232? 46:30 | UFC 243? 47:40 | UFC 244 45 - UFC 243 48:00 // UFC 246 ? 51:00: What's your favorite UFC Fighter of the Decade? Theme song of the Week? 49:00 / 50: What are you looking forward to see in the future of UFC 246/ UFC 246 or UFC 246?? 55:00 + 56:00 & 57:00/56:00 Is there a better chance of winning the next UFC fight 58:00 What do you think you're going to win the next Fight Night? , & so much more? Music: "I hope you guys like it? " - 6:00, 1:00 :00 - Canelo Alvarez and I hope you like it's going to be better than the next one? & 6,000/ 7,000 / + , 6:15,000,000
Transcript
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Got to be on top of that social media account, bro.
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Yeah, that's the one I'm thinking about maybe more than even the title fight.
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As much as I love Gaethje and I should root for him more.
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I just feel like at a certain level that stand-and-bang Leonard Garcia type of style at the upper echelons can get you in trouble.
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And if Eddie Alvarez wants to play that game, he's going to lose.
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You know, to win by decision, outsmart them, not play that meathead game.
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I don't think that Justin Gaethje really plays a meathead game.
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I think he's skillful, but when there's an opportunity to get someone to do a battle of wills, he's more confident in his will.
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And I think at the upper echelon, you can't play that game.
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Because think about the other guys at 55. Play that game with Tony Ferguson, Khabib.
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I think at a certain level, you can't play that chin down, you know, throwing those bows.
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So it's only him, and he hasn't faced the top guys yet.
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So we're going to see what he's capable of doing, or whether or not he's capable of switching it up, if he has to.
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But he's been able to survive 18 professional fistfights.
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First of all, 17 of those are in World Series of Fighting.
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The Michael Johnson fight was the first big test.
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He got tagged and Michael Johnson eventually succumbed to the violence.
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Well, you know, they were talking so much shit to each other before that fight.
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It was so, like, Gaethje just dragged him into a war.
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What Gaethje, I don't think a lot of people realize, is he's an all-American wrestler from northern Colorado.
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Only at a certain level is it going to get you in trouble.
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It's got him this far, and he's a fan favorite, but...
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I think at the upper echelon, it's going to be tough.
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Say, if he's in there with the Nance and Barboza.
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That's a nasty card, but that Barboza fight is so fascinating to me because Barboza is so goddamn fast.
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Remember when Barboza fought Anthony Pettis and you're like, ooh?
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You realize, like, wow, this is some next-level striking.
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Yeah, he's lost some kind of key fight, so he hasn't really had, you know.
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If that Habib shows up, though, looking like that, you know, he's just got to keep his weight down.
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Daniel Cormier said that he's got a new nutritionist, and he's got him on point, and he's in the 170s now.
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Which is way lighter than he's ever been before, you know, this many weeks out of a fight.
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I swear to God, if Tiramisu ruins that fight, I'm going to bust.
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Well, what you really have to be concerned with, and take this with a grain of salt, because clearly I'm not a doctor, but I would imagine that if you've had not one, but two instances where your body shuts down from cutting weight, two, he had it with the Michael Johnson fight...
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And then he had it again in the fight with Tony Ferguson where he had to pull out.
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But they said it was similar to what happened in the Michael Johnson weight cut.
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If you're from Russia, if you're from Russia, he would have fought with one leg.
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And he got so bad he had to check in with the doctor.
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I'd read liver, but I think I'd read it from like a teammate talking about it, so it might not have been like that.
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Usually it has to do with weight cuttings, the kidneys.
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Right, and that's what fails people, right, when they have like real issues.
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Okay, so Usman Emil Meek, that is this weekend.
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See, this is a fight that people aren't fucking talking about enough.
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But Emil Meek, it can't make it, right, because of a visa.
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First of all, Emil Meeks, first team, all body.
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I feel like this card, though, has been kind of under the radar a little bit.
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I think Sean Munday went, bro, you know Francis and Overeem fight Saturday?
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Did you see Francis break the world record for the hardest punch?
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I'm just saying, how many guys have punched that thing?
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I saw that company responding to Joe's Twitter.
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And then we found out that Tyrone Spong came in second.
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I don't think Crow Cops kicked it, but I'd like to see the hardest kick, right?
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Yeah, but I'd like to see if Mark Hunt hit that bitch with a left hook.
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But he might be the hardest-hitting heavyweight alive.
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Did you see Mitreone call out Carwin for steroids?
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Because for the Bellator heavyweight tournament, Matt's fighting Roy.
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Coker to be an alternate on there if someone gets hurt.
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And then they ask Matt about it and he's like, I mean, they need to test that freaking guy.
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There's no way he's clean and just went about this whole business.
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Ooh, yeah, because even if he's clean, good luck.
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I need to see what other heavyweights hit that thing before I celebrate.
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Man, how many fucking great guys have backs given out on in their prime?
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So the rumor was Kane fighting at UFC 220 in Boston against Kane and Stipe?
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Stipe will fight the winner depending on the good win of Francis over him.
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So it's some sort of recovery issue, some injury thing, something?
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Especially if it's a heavyweight title fight, you want something on there.
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And I'm hoping for a big fight announcement because I'm at the Wilbur the night before, sir.
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But you know Boston, Dana's hometown, so he's not going to disappoint.
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Gleason Tebow back in the house after passing hot.
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Because he's the freakiest of the freaks at 155 pounds.
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And you'd be like, how the fuck are you at 155 pounds?
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When Paul Harris was a middleweight, he looked like Gleason Tebow looks when he's a lightweight.
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But I was disappointed that Stipe and Kane wasn't going to go down.
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Because I think if Stipe beats Kane, then there's argument for Stipe as the best heavyweight of all time.
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Well, if he beats Kane, a healthy Kane, that's...
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See, the thing is, what we really need is a time machine.
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We need to fucking take Primetime Kane and stick him in Pride with Primetime Fedor.
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I don't know what the fuck they were doing over there, but I know the result.
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If I'm just looking at the result as a person who's an analyst, I gotta look at primetime Fedor as number one.
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Primetime Fedor throwing bombs on Noguera when he's pinned against the fucking ring apron.
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Noguera's in the corner and Fedor's on top of him just dropping those casting punches.
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Those crazy Russian punches that come like this.
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It's like, alright, well, we going off pre-snitch?
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If you don't know who the golden snitch is, it's Jeff Davitsky.
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Yeah, when I say going snitch, I'm just playing around.
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Before, it used to be who had the best cheater?
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Who had the best guy that could make you test positive, or test clean, rather, after the weigh-in?
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He's a guy, you know, fighting this weekend where, obviously, he's...
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He's done some stuff, some gear in his life, and he's tested hot and he's paid the price.
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And then the Golden Snitch comes in, and his team goes, alright dude, you can't just rely on power, you gotta start using a technique, which you have, so let's focus on it.
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He had that one loss before, that lost Stipe, he was smoking dudes.
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His loss to Stipe wasn't that bad because he had Stipe in a lot of trouble.
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And he actually thought, you know, in the post-fight...
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Yeah, he thought he got kicked, but he also thought he choked him out and he tapped.
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And then he goes on, you know, beats Verdum, his last fight.
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And now he's fighting Francis, where, you know, that's not, obviously, it's a tough fight.
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Francis is the favorite, but, dude, Overeem's the best striker, most decorated striker of all time in the heavyweight division.
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You know, I broke down on my podcast how many times Overeem's been stopped on the last podcast, last MMA podcast.
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I think it's like 13 in MMA or somewhere between 11 and 13 in MMA and an additional 3 or 4 in kickboxing.
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It's a lot, but I think he's been fighting more than anyone too.
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Yeah, but if you look at the last few years, there's an exorbitant amount of losses by stoppage.
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It's all the wear and tear in the ring and also not being able to do gear.
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See, look, Ben Rothwell, Travis Brown, the Bigfoot Silva one, all those happen inside of a couple of years, man.
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So in one year, from February of 2013, Literally to September of 2014. That's not much time and he's been brutally knocked out three times in that time.
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The Ben Rothwell fight was like he got cracked with a big shot and dropped and then they stopped the fight I think at a good time.
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But the Bigfoot fight, that wasn't a regular KO. That was goddamn ruthless.
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Travis Brown got him pretty bad, too, with that front kick to the grill.
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The Bigfoot fight was so interesting, though, because it was so obviously post-snitch.
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He went from being Uber-eam when he beat Brock Lesnar.
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In that fight, when you look across the octagon, 265, maybe 10% body fat, jacked to the tits.
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And best kickboxer to ever fight in MMA. Yeah, I'm out.
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And, you know, now, before, back Uber-ing him up, when his Uber-ing, before they go and snitch, good luck back If you did, you're paying the price.
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Now, that motherfucker will turn his back and run out of the way.
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Hey, he just gets the fuck out of there by any means necessary.
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I wonder if he would ever be, you know, that was one of the things that Mitrione brought up about Joe Silva.
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He said that Joe Silva told him that he got a small ring, or that it was going to be a large ring when he fought Roy, Big Country.
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I've worked a ton with Joe Silva, obviously, over the years.
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You make demands on the cage and ask for this and ask for that.
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And you might prefer something like, yeah, maybe.
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But Joe Silva's dealing with so many different dynamics.
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I don't think he purposely lied to Matt and was like, it's a big cage, take the fight.
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But I wonder what fights would be like if the cage was much smaller.
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But if you're a technical guy like Mitrione, who's crazy athletic with footwork, or a Barboza, or a Conor McGregor, you don't want that small cage.
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You get smothered, and it cuts all your angles short.
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Everything off the exchange, like if you're too close to a cage, anything off the exchange, you're cutting short.
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So now you can't go back that way because you won't get out of the way of the shot, and you can't go back that way.
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So you have a limited amount of movements that you can make.
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Khabib, if the fight was done in a smaller octagon, Khabib would never lose.
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But I think also one thing that it would favor is like real high-level Muay Thai guys.
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Yeah, they're always clinching and going after each other.
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You know, and I think that style, like the Muay Thai style is not like Wonderboy style where they're sliding out of the way of everything.
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They're standing right in front of you and checking things and attacking and clinching.
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I don't think you'd be better for the sport maybe not better for the sport But it would be interesting to see how it favors certain styles and I think that it would favor a good wrestler with real good Muay Thai I think would be a real good Environment for them you think if let's say Francis were to just start Starch Overeem, which, listen, Overeem needs to watch his P's and Q's for 15 minutes.
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He needs to use his technique, run when you have to, even if people don't like it, win by decision, great, man.
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But if he doesn't watch his P's and Q's and gets starched by Francis, you think Francis deserves a shot right away?
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If Francis starches him, Francis is the hottest commodity in the heavyweight division.
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Okay, so he's number one, which is crazy for him to take this fight.
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Because that fight, like those two had, boy, that was as close a fight as you can get.
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But Verdum hurt him, and Overeem never really hurt Verdum.
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I thought that one round where he rocked him and hurt him, that was the most significant moment of the fight.
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So how do you not make Francis go through Verdum to get to Stipe?
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Because that's a tougher matchup for Francis than Overeem.
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I mean, because I had heard that there was some contract negotiation shit going on.
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I'll let you rub it on the outside of my mouth.
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Maybe they'll try to do it for January for Boston.
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They're hoping that, you know, Francis and this Overeem thing work out.
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Yeah, because listen, a rematch with Stipe for Overeem is a very interesting fight.
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You can sell that, especially if he beats Francis, who everyone's so high and mighty on.
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Have you seen him knee fucking Mark Hunt into...
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The Brock Lesnar fight was probably the scariest one because I was like, this guy's the greatest heavyweight of all time.
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When he smashed Brock Lesnar like that, I'm like, oh my god, what if he could do that to Kane?
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Yeah, but you're watching a superhero where I was like, ah, fuck, I don't have the resources to get on the same shit.
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But now that he's off the shit and he flatlined Mark Hunt, that's scary to me.
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Like, he was able to make the testing requirements as minimal as they were back then.
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Francis is as natural as fucking coconut water.
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He shreds city, hits harder than anyone now, eating frickin' plantains.
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Yeah, he doesn't look the same, but he doesn't look bad.
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Like, if he was just a heavyweight fighter, and he was built the way he's built now, you would say he's a powerful guy.
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I mean, if you see him in his last fight, pull up the last fight with him versus Mark Hunt.
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I mean, he definitely doesn't look like a small guy.
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He's still somewhere around the 250-something range.
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Eric Silva was a big one that people kept bringing up.
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Yeah, but see, you look at Alistair there, he's just got more body fat, more stomach fat, less muscle.
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He has almost a dad bod that works out on the weekends.
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But what's interesting is that he's such a fighter that gear or no gear, I mean, he comes to fucking fight.
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Because he has the best technique in the world.
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You know, Mark Hunt flew to Vegas to get all this stuff checked off, the brain scan and all that.
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But he at least made the effort to fly from Australia to there so he can clear this up and get back in the cage.
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because again, I think for Francis, unless he, there's an argument, if he just goes out there and starches over him in 10 seconds, like, alright, we've got to figure out what he's worth, let's give him Stipe.
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But if he doesn't, man, you could give him Mark Hunt, that's a great fight, you give him Verdum, because you've got to walk through some fire, because look at the fire Stipe walked through to be the heavyweight champ.
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It's a good point, and he really has only beaten Arlovsky.
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It's just we're looking at him at the magnitude of his performances against guys that ruin in his league.
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You know, it's like you just see the magnitude of his impact.
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He's a guy that you go, who the fuck's going to stop that?
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It's like your favorite baseball player, he's only hitting off the pitcher who we know he can hit home run off of.
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When you give him a guy who actually can throw some junk and he's not as good, or if he hits that guy, all right, then he is what he's worth.
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Well, primetime Kane would have showed us what was up.
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A primetime Kane versus him where you can get him down, hold him down, beat him up.
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Primetime Kane, I also think Stipe right now, he's in his prime, might be at the end of his prime.
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I don't think Stipe's at the end of his prime at all.
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But again, from sources, they say he's a nightmare to take down.
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Your window of opening is so little, and your mistakes are so costly.
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Anytime you make a mistake with him, you just get bombed on so hard.
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But when you got a guy like Cain or Stipe where they go, I know you got power.
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I'm going to put my chest in your freaking chest for 25 minutes.
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I'm going to put my head straight in your chest.
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And when you do fire off, I'm going to take you down.
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At least keep you busy so you can't just fire off.
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And throw ridiculous combinations on you with constant barrage of strikes.
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Hammer fists, elbows, punches, punches, punches.
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Francis is similar to me as a JDS. Similar where decent footwork.
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I don't think he's athletic as JDS, but good footwork, power puncher.
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But when you get a guy like Steve Bear Kane who don't play that game on the outside with you and just want to get dirty, you're in some trouble, man.
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Well, it's going to be interesting to see if he's in some trouble.
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Because if he can stuff to take down, if he can keep those guys standing up with him, then you're going to see some nightmares.
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The thing about Francis, he hasn't even really been fighting that long.
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And the UFC was like, you might be something special.
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Let's come to Vegas and you just work out in this...
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Sports center while we inject this Bain supplement in you, whatever the fuck it is.
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You don't even use protein powder he's worried about testing hot.
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He's like, you know, we were talking yesterday about Bo Jackson.
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There's certain athletes that in their prime, they're just like, we're just a notch above everything else.
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See, my problem is, we can't put Francis in that discussion yet.
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But Francis scares the shit out of me when you watch him hit people.
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He's just so big and so powerful and so undeniable.
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When he comes moving in for the kill, he's undeniable.
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Overeem is a test, but Overeem's a guy where for 15 minutes, if Francis lands that frickin' bomb of his, Overeem's probably going out because his chin's not the same.
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He's been in so many up and down wars, you know?
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I mean, you gotta remember Alistair fought at 205 before.
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He fought Chuck at 205. He used to be real skinny.
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Yeah, that's a dangerous guy because in the beginning of the fight, especially, if he pushed pressure and he moves forward and puts pressure and he's like real explosive and fast, something gets in there.
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There's no one better than the heavyweight division.
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We haven't seen Francis in the clinch with a world-class guy like Overeem.
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Because again, Overeem we forget because the Demolition Man's been around so long.
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He gets in that clinch, those elbows, those knees.
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The kickboxer that he fought over in K1, where they decided to make it so he could only hold one hand behind the head.
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Alistair would get two hands behind your head, and that was night and night.
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See, that's the funnest fight on the card to me, Francis Overeem.
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Just where they go, their career paths, stuff like that.
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The Aldo Holloway fight is a giant fight for me.
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I like the fight just if we're going off Aldo's words saying he did have issues with his legs.
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I don't, but because in his previous fights and fights after that, he hasn't been using all of his tools.
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Well, I think there's a strategy for that, though.
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The Frankie Edgar fight, I really believe that he didn't use his kicks because I think he felt like Frankie was training for those kicks.
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And he was training to take him down off the leg kicks.
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We know all that, but he's so goddamn good at it.
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To me, he's become very fundamental in just boxing, playing his feet.
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He's gotten away from what got him to the dance.
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Yeah, if we're basing it on those two fights, and if you have to believe him, and I'm just going to believe him just for the sake of believing him, if he says his leg was hurt, it makes sense.
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It also makes sense how he was getting tired quick.
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Which, if he had a leg injury, it would make sense.
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There was a huge speed advantage for Aldo early in those rounds.
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He measures you, and he starts putting it on you, putting it on you.
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What Max is really good at is distance control.
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Really good at movement and distance control and just not being there.
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Hits like a truck and he's just got that thing.
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You're going to have to kill him to get him out of there.
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It's he's a fascinating guy cuz he's like Hawaiian to the bone, you know?
00:29:14.000
And you go over to Hawaii, man, and he has the next shot at being like the new BJ Penn.
00:29:21.000
BJ Penn is a legend and he's a legend from the early days and he's a legend when he went up to heavyweight and fought Lyoto Machida.
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So it's going to be a while before Max gets into those lofty grounds, but he's on his way.
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And what's interesting is both BJ and Max are two of the nicest guys in the world.
00:29:48.000
No, Max could, especially at 145, because Conor's never going back there.
00:30:06.000
You know, in Dana White's Scrum, he goes, listen, if it was that big, there'd be more video of it.
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Dana's basically saying, I'm skeptical of hip lies that happened.
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People that I know in Dublin and that are blowing me up are saying, dude, it's real.
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Because he has a friend from one area of Ireland that's in this mafia and that got beat up by these guys.
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Conor finds out the guys who beat up his friend are in this bar.
00:30:30.000
So Conor comes in there and beats the hell out of that guy.
00:30:32.000
Well, that guy's associated with this pretty intense, We're good to go.
00:30:57.000
Here's the background of the guys that he's messing with, and they've done some gnarly shit.
00:31:01.000
There was a boxing promotion that they just came in dressed as masked men and shot up the whole thing.
00:31:12.000
But then, again, I guess in Dublin, especially Conor being who he is, you can have these associations with this underground world, stuff like that.
00:31:30.000
I don't, you know, and Dana again said this in his scrum.
00:31:32.000
It's always fascinating when Dana does those scrums because it's all hearsay, stuff like that, but then they go, you know, what's next for Conor?
00:31:39.000
He goes, listen, man, this guy's $100 million in the bank.
00:31:43.000
I don't know if he's ever going to get punched in the face again.
00:31:49.000
But A hundred million dollars can go a lot faster than you think if you like the ball.
00:31:54.000
Because here's the thing, you don't really get a hundred million dollars.
00:31:56.000
You get a hundred million dollars, but then you got to pay taxes.
00:32:03.000
So let's say you have 70. You want to have 70. After taxes?
00:32:08.000
If you make a hundred in America, in America if you make a hundred, I mean like realistically, I think it's everything over $250,000 a year is taxed Find out what that is.
00:32:27.000
Here's a question that I should know the answer to, but I do not.
00:32:29.000
When you make money, if you're from Ireland, you make money in America, do you have to pay taxes in America?
00:32:34.000
Because I know you have to do that if you make money in Canada.
00:32:36.000
If you make money in Canada, like you do gigs in Canada, you have to pay taxes in Canada.
00:32:40.000
I had to pay taxes in Dublin and England and Australia when I did comedy out there.
00:32:44.000
And then you also have to pay those taxes when you get home.
00:32:48.000
So I don't know if you get double taxed, but there's ways around it.
00:32:52.000
So let's say he makes 60. Let's get to 60. I was going to say 40, being cool.
00:33:01.000
He can go through 40 million dollars in three years.
00:33:08.000
No, if you're the same type of guy that is Conor McGregor.
00:33:12.000
I don't know about that because we're basing off his Instagram, which is a persona of him, right?
00:33:18.000
So you see the Royals Royces, these watches, a lot of the stuff.
00:33:22.000
Remember, a lot of those Royals Royces people give to them.
00:33:29.000
They're like, bro, we gave that for you for the day.
00:33:34.000
So I think, I don't know if he's that stupid with his money.
00:33:38.000
Well if that's the case, if he's not really completely balling out of control and all those Bentley photos and everything like that is all just for show and it's part of the persona and part of the act, that makes sense.
00:33:47.000
Well if that's the case and he just wants to live Like a fairly large?
00:33:54.000
But he's not Mike Tyson stupid, John Jones stupid.
00:34:03.000
I mean they're not even saying private jets do but if you got a hundred million dollars do whatever the fuck you want sir.
00:34:07.000
What I'm saying is if you want it to last for the rest of your days.
00:34:10.000
Well if you just invest it right you're straight.
00:34:12.000
See the other thing is that the amount of possibility for him to make money it's so staggering right now that I don't see that this is going to be the end.
00:34:22.000
I just do not agree with anybody that thinks he's not going to fight again.
00:34:29.000
I think he's going to realize there's a tremendous amount of money out there to be made.
00:34:33.000
Dana White's crazy because I think he's going to fight again.
00:34:35.000
Dana said he doesn't think he's going to fight again.
00:34:39.000
I actually think he's going to fight again because I think he's more than just about money.
00:34:43.000
I think he's more about his legacy and what his Kind of footmark in the sport is and I think he knows he has to defend that 155 pound title but he also knows Manny Pacquiao called him out and he can go make a quick whatever 50-60 million fighting Pacquiao.
00:34:59.000
So there's a lot of opportunities there but I also know for a fact he has a shitload of opportunities in Hollywood as well.
00:35:08.000
So he's gonna be fine either way as long as he doesn't get shot by a Dublin gangster he should be fine.
00:35:17.000
The other thing is, is GSP's not fighting Whitaker.
00:35:22.000
The rumor, Mel, from what I hear, is he might want to see if he can cut to 70. See if he can still get to 70 and do a super fight with Conor there.
00:35:38.000
I'd say that GSP would be like the biggest financial boom.
00:35:42.000
If I was WME, I'd be like, listen, can we make this happen?
00:35:47.000
In a dream situation, that's what all sides would want to have happen.
00:35:52.000
And GSP, he's taking time off now, but I know he's going to see if he can cut to 70 to possibly make that happen.
00:36:02.000
He is thicker than the Three Musketeers right now.
00:36:10.000
Luke must be doing a lot of strength and conditioning.
00:36:15.000
He's getting older, too, so the weight comes on.
00:36:18.000
But I wonder what he's doing for his weightlifting routine.
00:36:23.000
Also, I bet he could do it, especially at 70, if he realizes the possibilities on a super fight like Conor.
00:36:29.000
Because, have you seen the numbers on his fight with Bisping?
00:36:33.000
I think he came in at about 865. That's not bad.
00:36:40.000
Well, it's not as good as the pay-per-view blockbuster stars.
00:36:49.000
See, the thing is, and you and I were talking about this, is that we both agreed, like, there's a lot of fans that are fans now that don't have a fucking clue who he is.
00:37:01.000
I think Ronda brought a gigantic group in, and then Connor brought another, even more gigantic group in.
00:37:06.000
And especially the kids today that are like 18, 19, 20, 21, they have no fucking idea.
00:37:18.000
People will talk, and it'll build it up, and then the next one will be bigger.
00:37:22.000
See, even if he fought Whitaker, I don't think it breaks a million.
00:37:30.000
I think it's probably going to be close to a million for that fight.
00:37:38.000
I think he has to have a partner, a dance partner like Conor to break a million.
00:37:44.000
Well, the Conor fight would be a million if Conor fought your mom.
00:37:48.000
Yeah, no, if Conor and Jamie Fudd be two million.
00:37:52.000
Anything he does after that Floyd Mayweather, there's so much, you know, just hype.
00:38:02.000
Yeah, there's not a lot of, like, giant matchups right now that are looming that make me excited more than that one does.
00:38:13.000
That's like a, like, I want to sit down and think about that one for a while.
00:38:16.000
Well, see, I have thought down and thought about it, and it's not a great fight for Conor.
00:38:23.000
70 is not where Conor belongs, especially with the greatest welterweight of all time who can grapple his balls off.
00:38:38.000
When I put my arm around him, when I was doing the interviews with him at the weigh-ins, I was like, what in the fuck?
00:38:43.000
And this is like weighed in, rehydrated all day, and then I get to him at like 6 o'clock, which is what they're doing now, which is kind of interesting.
00:38:49.000
But I was like, wow, he's like 200 pounds plus.
00:38:54.000
And everybody thought that Bisping was going to have this big advantage over him size-wise.
00:38:58.000
George also has a very long style, keeps his legs wide, bounces around a lot in and out, and so he accomplishes a lot with his distance and his ability to close the distance.
00:39:10.000
It's only the size and reach advantage that Bisping had just didn't play in at all.
00:39:15.000
That being said though, not Bisping, GSP has no business being a middleweight.
00:39:24.000
Dangerous fight for him at 185. But it's really the only fight.
00:39:37.000
He's good at everything, and he fires fucking bombs at your face.
00:39:43.000
He's tactical striking just to the opening is there.
00:39:45.000
It's very interesting with Whitaker because he's the smaller guy at 85 in the land of the dinosaurs right now, the land of the giants with Rockhold.
00:40:00.000
Then you have a guy like GSP who's your interim champion.
00:40:03.000
And then you got Kelvin that people are talking about where Kelvin's the undersized guy too.
00:40:20.000
Take four years off, you jump the queue, you fight a guy that's a perfect matchup for you, and you win.
00:40:26.000
You've got Whitaker, who walked through fucking monster land.
00:40:34.000
Right, but if they could not have made the Whittaker vs.
00:40:36.000
Bisping fight any earlier, because Whittaker's knee was fucked up.
00:40:40.000
So there was no fight to be made other than this in the middleweight division unless you wanted to have Yoel, who just fought for the title and lost, fight Bisping for the real title after he lost for the interim title.
00:41:05.000
I'm just saying, to me, the real champion at 85 would be Whittaker.
00:41:25.000
We like it as guys who are Dan Anderson fans, but let's be real.
00:41:31.000
1 guy in the world at that time to fight for the no-weight title?
00:41:35.000
It was exciting to give Bisping what he wanted, which is a shot at redemption.
00:41:43.000
You know, I could see Dan definitely hurt him more.
00:41:49.000
And what Dan said after the fight, I wish they judged fights on how the other guy looks after the fight.
00:41:55.000
Bisping should go down as the top three middleweights of all time just based off doing this with one fucking eye.
00:42:05.000
Yeah, he's got oil in his right eye, right, to keep his retina in place.
00:42:14.000
I'm just saying, if you look at what Whitaker...
00:42:19.000
Well, it's a little more impressive because he beat Yoel Romero.
00:42:21.000
And he beat Yoel Romero in a fucking tough fight.
00:42:24.000
And he beat him after Yoel Romero hyperextended his leg and blew his knee out in the first round.
00:42:34.000
So it's like, you know, he's walked through the fire.
00:42:37.000
You know, like, you gotta walk through that fire, man, to me, to get there.
00:42:48.000
GSB says he wants to come back and fight Bisping.
00:42:56.000
And what's interesting is you have the smaller guy being the champ right now.
00:43:00.000
And for Kelvin, he doesn't match up great with anyone freaking six through one.
00:43:07.000
So you've got to decide what you want to do with him.
00:43:09.000
Because Kelvin can be world champion at 70, not at 85. Unless he fights Whitaker.
00:43:15.000
You don't think that Kelvin could beat GSP? GSP's not fighting at 85, brother.
00:43:24.000
We should have that conversation because GSP is going to fight at...
00:43:31.000
Kelvin is competing at 185. But that's what it is.
00:43:42.000
He just knocked out the former champ, Michael Bisping, who's No.
00:43:46.000
I don't care if Bisping was coming off of a tough fight with GSP. It's definitely probably hampered his performance.
00:43:54.000
Kelvin should be at 9 and Bisping is at 2. That doesn't make any sense.
00:43:58.000
Hold up, but you're saying Kelvin should be at 2?
00:44:03.000
No, what I'm saying is there's no way that Bisping should be 2 if Kelvin just knocked him out.
00:44:10.000
Kelvin shouldn't be 9, but he should as fuck shouldn't be 2. He should be past Bisping.
00:44:21.000
If a guy beats you in a basketball tournament, right?
00:44:27.000
Yeah, we don't look at someone's past and say, this is who you are forever.
00:44:32.000
The last performance that Michael Bisping had was against Kelvin Gaslam.
00:44:36.000
Kelvin beat him in a decisive, very clear and dominating way.
00:44:51.000
The contest itself was very obviously won by Kelvin in a spectacular way.
00:44:56.000
He drops that right jab in and that straight left hand.
00:45:22.000
If I put money on somebody, Luke Rockhold's going to be the champion of that division.
00:45:37.000
I think he had him hurt, but Rockhold showed what a fucking animal he is and came through it.
00:45:41.000
But what happens if someone like Yoel Romero catches him like that?
00:45:46.000
What happens if someone like Robert Whittaker catches him like that?
00:45:50.000
My thing is, Rockhold is a beast, but anything can happen in that division when these guys are that good.
00:45:55.000
Even David Branch, who's a very good fighter and hadn't lost in like Five years?
00:46:02.000
But gave, until he got tired, gave Rockhold a very tough experience.
00:46:20.000
Then you fight this middleweight champion, light heavyweight champion for the World Series.
00:46:30.000
Went in the storm, took his back, and smashed him.
00:46:45.000
No, he's one of the most underrated guys, especially at getting you down and holding you down.
00:46:49.000
Look what he did to Lyoto Machida, look what he did to Weidman, and look what he did to David Branch.
00:46:53.000
Those guys are all very good at the ground, and he smashes them.
00:46:55.000
And you go back to Strikeforce days, his Jock Ray fights, Tim Kennedy, he's fought the best of the best, man.
00:47:01.000
He's definitely been a savage his entire career, but you still have to realize Bisping did knock him out.
00:47:07.000
You're in a division where you're talking about a ton of psychos.
00:47:11.000
Like, you've got Robert Whitaker, Yoel Romero, Chris Weidman.
00:47:15.000
You've got GSP if he decides to stay in the division.
00:47:22.000
You've got these killers, and then Luke Rockhold might be the best out of all of them.
00:47:32.000
I'm excited about, you look at him on paper, you go, yeah, Rockhold might be the best of the bunch, but goddamn it's hard to root against Whitaker.
00:47:41.000
Especially after he stuffed all the fucking takedowns from Yolo Romero with one knee.
00:47:44.000
I'm on that Whitaker train just like I'm on the Darren Till train.
00:47:48.000
85, 70, and 55 in the UFC is so goddamn good right now.
00:48:05.000
We should find out if that fight's actually been canceled.
00:48:20.000
Good luck at 70. That's what we were just saying.
00:48:22.000
Kamaru Usman is fucking terrifying and no one's even talking about him because there's so many killers in that.
00:48:29.000
Emil Meek explains status of 219 fight with Kamaru Usman.
00:48:36.000
That must be tough going through training camp.
00:48:38.000
Either a 10-day thing or it takes six months or anything in between.
00:48:43.000
The question's not about if I'm going to get it or not.
00:48:45.000
It's just when I get it and if I can get it in time.
00:48:52.000
I mean, I feel like you should have some fucking power.
00:49:05.000
It seems like there are no interesting fights and I'm not getting younger.
00:49:17.000
It's odd to be healthy and unable to compete, yet able to compete when so unhealthy.
00:49:30.000
Oh, I guess we end with never knowing what could have been.
00:49:34.000
Sombra would be the best way to describe the emotion...
00:49:38.000
Thank you all for the love, the insults, and the great times.
00:49:41.000
I will sink back into the mode of being a Redditor and my quest to become a mod here.
00:49:59.000
Seriously, thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being amazing and for making this sport amazing.
00:50:05.000
And then I thought he was coming back out to try and fight.
00:50:13.000
He literally, like, two days ago, he just said he wanted to fight as an alternate.
00:50:17.000
It says, it's odd to be healthy and unable to compete, yet able to compete when so unhealthy.
00:50:23.000
I mean, it's odd that he's healthy now and he can't get a fight.
00:50:26.000
That means the commissioner, maybe someone told him he can't fight?
00:50:29.000
Or maybe Bellator was like, nah, we're good, son.
00:50:31.000
Well, I would never say he couldn't fight in terms of the punishment he's taken.
00:50:36.000
I mean, it was like the Junior Dos Santos fight was tough to watch.
00:50:40.000
He's had some tough fights, but I mean, a lot of guys have.
00:50:43.000
If you're going to let Obrey fight, how could you not let Shane Carwin fight unless it's like the spinal surgery stuff?
00:50:49.000
Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on in that, but also he could fight in Ryzen.
00:50:54.000
I would imagine that they would take him, but you know that they had an issue with him where he was getting divorced and he had some personal issues, apparently they were saying, and he had to pull out of their tournament.
00:51:11.000
Yeah, and they said some things about him not having warrior spirit or some crazy shit like that.
00:51:18.000
Yeah, I mean, not only that, you don't even have so many fucking heavyweights.
00:51:22.000
Yeah, you're also rising, so let's relax and have Shane Carwin back, though.
00:51:25.000
Have Shane Carwin over there and let him go crazy.
00:51:52.000
We should have a league where some people are not.
00:51:55.000
Daniel Cormier faces Volkan Ozdemir at UFC 220 in Boston.
00:52:06.000
Ozdemir's scary, but there's a guy who's got the quickest rise to the top ever.
00:52:14.000
I love DC. I love DC. And I wish he was a bigger star.
00:52:19.000
But he's going to be phenomenal as a commentator.
00:52:30.000
Good luck dealing with DC when he gets you in that clinch.
00:52:35.000
DC's the best light heavyweight of all time, not named Jon Jones.
00:53:00.000
By the way, DC, how dare you treat our legend like that?
00:53:04.000
How dare you take an old-weather Dan Henderson and spike him on his head, you son of a bitch?
00:53:15.000
I think he'd be hilarious if he was champ because he had 700 Twitter followers, but I think that DC is going to mop the floor with him.
00:53:22.000
Unless it's a bar in Florida, then it's a different story.
00:53:25.000
I'm just interested in seeing what happens if he gets hit.
00:53:29.000
Because Ozdemir is very fast and hits very hard and has a shocking reaction.
00:53:39.000
Hit him with that overhand right in the first fight and head kicked him in the second fight.
00:53:47.000
I'm just interested because I think Ozdemir really does have special power.
00:53:54.000
And according to everybody that watched him and Rumble train, he was the guy that trained with Rumble all the time.
00:53:59.000
He was one of the few guys that wanted to spar with Rumble.
00:54:07.000
They said that's one of the reasons why Ozdemir's so good.
00:54:14.000
How did they not just knock each other out every day?
00:54:16.000
They hit each other just hard enough to let each other know they're hitting each other.
00:54:20.000
And look, you want a valuable sparring partner.
00:54:24.000
Look, it's benefiting the both of them, obviously.
00:54:28.000
How about Rumble once come back at heavyweight?
00:54:34.000
You can't really do that because he just fought as a light heavyweight and then quit.
00:54:51.000
I mean, what happened was, like, first of all...
00:55:03.000
He unquestionably has enough power to knock out any human being on the planet.
00:55:06.000
If DC and Jon Jones are out, yeah, he's the guy.
00:55:10.000
If DC got hit with that uppercut that Glover got hit with, he goes night-night too.
00:55:21.000
But I think he realizes that anybody in the world, I mean, he literally, he might as have a 100% chance to beat anybody in the world.
00:55:30.000
Not a 100% chance to beat anybody in the world.
00:55:32.000
But I'm saying, he might have like a 60% chance.
00:55:36.000
Like in any fight with anybody, he could connect with a bomb and put your fucking lights out.
00:55:41.000
So that alone in his head means if he fought Jon Jones 60% of the time, he might be able to catch Jon Jones.
00:55:50.000
If he caught Jon Jones or anybody, he hits so fucking hard.
00:55:54.000
But he definitely froze up against DC in the second fight.
00:55:58.000
He did not look like a guy who was there to do or die.
00:56:01.000
Did he hit that pad that they keep jacking off to?
00:56:14.000
Especially, you put Anthony Johnson on that healthy diet, and he's the 240 Anthony Johnson?
00:56:25.000
Dude, Francis Rumble Johnson, black on black power!
00:56:39.000
No, you get him that Russian dude that likes to choke people.
00:56:44.000
Who lets people in the mouth and he chokes them out?
00:56:53.000
The Russian has no idea I'd fight black men and just fucking get starged.
00:57:10.000
He's gonna encourage his mouth so he can get a choke.
00:57:24.000
Dude, 50 to an 11. He's been through the fucking works.
00:57:30.000
You think he gives a fuck about how hard Rumble hits?
00:57:47.000
We see him in sidemount working on a rear naked choke from the side.
00:57:54.000
Rumble's in trouble if you get mount on him, man.
00:58:06.000
There's certain dudes who just can squeeze your neck in a way out.
00:58:09.000
Yeah, Rumble in the first round might be the most dangerous man in the world.
00:58:13.000
I wonder, maybe, look, I mean, I don't know how much weight he was cutting to make 205, but if he's really walking around at 230, 235, and that doesn't have to cut anything, he might be better at heavyweight.
00:58:44.000
He doesn't give a fuck about the going snitch because he's never been caught.
00:58:49.000
You get some issues, Verdum comes hunting for you.
00:58:59.000
Remember I was supposed to fight Derrick Lewis.
00:59:02.000
We're talking about Derrick Lewis social media.
00:59:16.000
But remember, Derrick Lewis was supposed to fight for Doom in the hours before the fight.
00:59:32.000
It was a beautiful transition when he took his back and then took the arm off the back.
00:59:35.000
It was like he was teaching his students in Venice about the arm.
00:59:46.000
That's why he won't be ready to fight Stipe in Boston.
00:59:56.000
See, Tabor caught him a few times, but it never got rocked.
01:00:05.000
And, you know, Verdum won if he didn't get injured.
01:00:20.000
Hey, you want to fight Steve Bain for the title, or you want to wait for this monster, Francis, that we're not sure about?
01:00:25.000
Yeah, it all depends on how much damage he took in that fight.
01:00:32.000
Like, is there anything fucked up in his wrist?
01:00:36.000
Little shit that happens in a fight that nobody even knows about.
01:00:45.000
There's Holloway-Edgar, which is very interesting.
01:00:58.000
Paul Felder and Charles Oliveira for the FS1 prelims.
01:01:07.000
He was fighting at 45, two-drained at 45, and just choked out Will Brooks.
01:01:12.000
Will Brooks having a tough time in the UFC now.
01:01:15.000
Tough time in the UFC. I thought he was going to do really well, too, with his fighting style.
01:01:21.000
Look, man, this is the highest level of the game for sure.
01:01:25.000
It's weird because Brooks is having a tough time in the UFC and a lot of the UFC guys are having a tough time in Bellator.
01:01:30.000
I think 70 is probably the strongest over there in Bellator.
01:01:34.000
70 right now, especially with Roy McDonald there, I think is as strong as it gets.
01:01:38.000
I think you got Douglas Lima, you got Rory McDonald, you got Lorenz Larkin, you got Michael Venom Page, you got Paul Daly, who just knocked out Lorenz Larkin.
01:01:52.000
Paul's the most limited because of his ground game.
01:01:54.000
When a guy like Rory gets you down, he showed how to beat Paul.
01:02:00.000
But if you stand with Paul, he's got a chance against anybody in the world.
01:02:14.000
And you know Roy McDonald wants to be an alternate in the heavyweight tournament.
01:02:19.000
Think about him versus, you know, fucking Mitrione or something like that.
01:02:24.000
He's more technical alone, but at a certain point it doesn't matter.
01:02:56.000
I don't know why they made Matt and Roy on the first round.
01:03:01.000
I would have put them on opposite sides of the round.
01:03:03.000
Because we've seen that in UFC. I would have put them on opposite sides.
01:03:05.000
Well, I think they wanted that fight to happen.
01:03:12.000
If I was in the Fedor camp, who's Fedor fighting first?
01:03:37.000
Well, okay, so you got Quentin Rampage Jackson, Chael Sonnen.
01:03:44.000
But the Mohegan Sun Arena, Mitrione Roy Nelson, suspect.
01:03:55.000
But if I was Fedor, I'd only want to do it in the middle of the Indian Reservation.
01:04:01.000
I want to be as far from the outskirts as possible.
01:04:05.000
Yeah, we're going to move the arena to the virtual center.
01:04:09.000
But juiced up Frank versus juiced up Fedor, that's a dream match.
01:04:21.000
They got to get those doctors that they brought in for that Icarus movie.
01:04:27.000
Mitrio and Roy, the two guys who have never tested hot, end up in Mohegan Sun.
01:04:30.000
Maybe because they knew they didn't have to worry about them testing.
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Yeah, I know, but you put Fedor and Frank in Mohegan.
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But they don't want them to be able to go fucking hardcore.
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Bobby Lashley is the one that goes, yeah, it's just, um...
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That is the body of a man who's been to the Mexican pharmacy.
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Or bought it from a dude who went, he got it at the gym.
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Those dudes from Prometheus that had those ridiculous bodies that brought the DNA to Earth to make new people.
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Pull up one of those dudes from Prometheus and put it right beside him.
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Put him right beside him, the Prometheus jacked dude.
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Or he looks like the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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In that image, he literally had the body of one of those Prometheus guys.
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Like right there, with his shirt off by the ocean.
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I would say Bobby Lashley steamrolls that dude from Pro Meets.
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If he's the same size as that guy, go one more Bobby Lashley.
01:06:46.000
But can you bring up Bobby Lashley college pick?
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I mean, he's definitely got phenomenal genetics, but the idea that there ain't nothing going on but the rent You're out of your fucking mind.
01:07:03.000
You talked to Jimmy Smith about where they have him fight.
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But I think there's a reality to Pride that made it exciting and made it fun.
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You know, and I would like to see one of those things today, whether it's Ryzen or...
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But part of me, I want to go back to the old Arsenio Hall days.
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Look at the size of them up there with the elbow straps above that.
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Bob Sapp in his prime was not even a human being.
01:08:07.000
There's a time where, at the beginning of the fight, Noguera is standing there ready to fight and Bob Sapp is standing there.
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And Bob Sapp's gloves look like miniature gloves because his body is this wide.
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My only thing with Bobby Lashley is I've seen guys in the NFL who aren't hot that look like him.
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He was at one point in time, I think he was 300 plus pounds.
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I thought he was 400. Oh, I don't know about that.
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Oh, dude, Noguera almost had to retire because of that.
01:09:10.000
That's one of the things that really fucked Noguera up.
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He almost got taken out because of a fucking head spike.
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Like, you were allowed to throw those crazy kicks from when you were on your back then.
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Think how much of a badass Nogaris goes, you know what?
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I'll fight freaking Bob Sapp even though he's juiced to the gills.
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But if you hit him, when you hit the bully in the face, they go away.
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Remember, he almost had him in a triangle and he got slammed.
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The Ricardo Arona Rampage Jackson Triangle Slam should be shown to every kid who wants to hold on to a triangle.
01:10:27.000
Dude, Bob Zapp beat some of the best ever, bro.
01:10:38.000
And again, this was a fight that Fedor wouldn't take.
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Yeah, even when they want Noguer to do the rematch, he's like, dude, it was spiking with my neck, man.
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Well, it's amazing, but now knowing, I love this, when he hit him with the Gramby roll, whoop, whoop, on your back, son.
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When he won, I remember watching it, we were going crazy.
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And then when he straightens it out and bob taps, it's like, no fucking way.
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His warrior heart that allowed him to get through getting spiked on his head like that and battered and...
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This 350 pound juggernaut on top of you, dropping bombs on you.
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This is a Bob Sapp, though, that has started to lose his physique.
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This is into his career, where he had been fighting.
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The levels of juice that he was on during those days of glory, like when he fought Noguera, those are just not sustainable.
01:12:39.000
I have a friend that actually has an ultimate fighter with him, and he used to train with Bob and said towards the end of his career, he would barely train at all.
01:13:00.000
Dude, in Tokyo, he was on the fucking Wheaties box and stuff.
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You'd buy his used shit-stained undies and stuff.
01:13:10.000
Something happened with K1 where he had a contract that he was supposed to go out and fight, but they hadn't given him the contract yet.
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I mean, I'm not fighting without a fucking contract.
01:13:23.000
There was some sort of a contract dispute and wound up leaving before the main event.
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I don't know whose story's correct, and all I know is the story that I've read.
01:13:47.000
And the story that I'd read was that, you know, he was upset they hadn't given him the contract yet, and they wanted him to just fight and deal with it later.
01:13:54.000
Listen, if they can get you to do something, it's just...
01:13:56.000
Especially right before you're like, Goddammit, alright, boom.
01:14:00.000
Well, when I talk to people that are Japanese about the way they would do business over there, he says, it's really interesting.
01:14:04.000
He's like, one of the things that, like, when the UFC was talking to Pride, it was really interesting because they would have these, like, meetings and they would talk about selling it.
01:14:13.000
You know, but they really didn't want to sell it.
01:14:14.000
They just wanted you to say that you wanted to buy it.
01:14:21.000
Like everybody in the UFC started talking about Vanderlei was going to fight Chuck and they were bringing him together.
01:14:25.000
But these Japanese businesses, they were playing like super high-level, sophisticated, three-dimensional chess.
01:14:34.000
I'm not happy that they did this, but they essentially sold the UFC $60 million worth of nothing.
01:14:41.000
They got a fucking video library of fights and they got pride to be out of business.
01:14:52.000
That's why Fedor was never in the UFC. And the Mark Hunt thing, they were willing to pay Mark Hunt out.
01:14:58.000
They were like, we're willing to give you your money.
01:15:03.000
I remember when Mark first got the UFC, it wasn't pretty days.
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His first fight in the UFC. His first fight in the UFC. Submitted him.
01:15:40.000
But, yeah, Mark struggled for a little bit there, and then he had the walk-off home run knockout of Chris Tushashir.
01:15:48.000
That fucked everyone with Ben Rothwell because they both got so tired because of the altitude.
01:15:52.000
And then I was asking Joe Silva, dude, let me fight my hometown.
01:15:55.000
He's like, we will never do heavyweights in Denver again because of that fight.
01:15:58.000
Meanwhile, they have Ken fight Verdum or they have...
01:16:02.000
Ken fight Verdum in Mexico City, which is 2,000 feet higher.
01:16:31.000
Dominic Cruz obviously got injured, but he was supposed to fight.
01:16:34.000
But guys who are working as analysts and fighters at a certain level, are you going to be able to continue at the highest level and compete?
01:16:42.000
He's not doing analysis enough where I think it's going to hurt him.
01:16:45.000
And I think, in fact, it's enough so it probably takes his mind off the training a little bit, lets him relax, and lets him analyze fights.
01:16:53.000
And when he did do the commentary, he was really good at it.
01:17:00.000
Once he decides to retire, Paul could be an amazing commentator.
01:17:08.000
I think he has a higher potential in commentating than he does being the world champion of the UFC. I'm not willing to sign him off yet.
01:17:16.000
I don't know if he's world champion, but he's a phenomenal fighter.
01:17:24.000
Paul Felder versus Gagey would be maybe like a perfect style matchup.
01:17:32.000
Because Oliveira is very technical on his feet.
01:17:37.000
He's super technical, and he's sneaky on the ground, but he just can't get over that hump.
01:17:42.000
He has so much problems, he just couldn't get over that hump.
01:17:46.000
Where there's so much promise and we thought they were going to be this and it just hasn't aligned for them.
01:17:50.000
The Cejudo Pettis fight's a very important fight too.
01:17:53.000
When you look at Cejudo when he came off of that fight with Wilson Hayes, he looked sensational.
01:18:00.000
But also what screwed, not screwed, it was the good experience, but when he fought Demetrius Johnson, had no, you know, seven fight mixed martial arts fights.
01:18:07.000
He should not have been in there with Demetrius Jones.
01:18:16.000
For Pettis, it's a tough one for him to take on here.
01:18:28.000
Well, with a few wins, his brother's still a former world champion, both in Strikeforce and in the UFC. His brother just lost again, though.
01:18:36.000
But still, he's fighting at a way higher level, up until this fight at least.
01:18:40.000
This fight is, this is like a world-class level.
01:18:43.000
For Pettis, this is like the most difficult fight, I think, he's ever faced in his career.
01:18:48.000
It's a little too much too soon, I think, for Pettis.
01:18:51.000
And that David Tamer dude, he's fighting against Rakkar Klose.
01:19:20.000
Nobody has more composure in their Instagram videos.
01:19:29.000
She's like when she says, well, Cyborg's been saying that I haven't been tested.
01:19:39.000
So, some of us are out here training and not worrying about who's being tested.
01:19:53.000
It's such a direct contrast to her fucking back flips.
01:20:03.000
Like, you look at Holly Holm, she's got freckles and shit.
01:20:12.000
If she beats Cyborg, to me, she's number one of all time.
01:20:25.000
Listen, Misha Tate strangled her and she was still punching in the air while she was going unconscious.
01:20:37.000
And Misha got her in the fifth round of a fight she was losing.
01:20:57.000
Because that's your headliner on there right now.
01:21:01.000
Well, it's going to show you the power of top-flight women's MMA fights, and then there's the cyborg aspect.
01:21:12.000
People tune in to see, like, oh, that cyborg chick.
01:21:23.000
Her last fight wasn't that violent, but she wanted to show more for her boxing.
01:21:36.000
Had mom bod and also would not go away like The Walking Dead.
01:21:40.000
That's a chick that if you were watching like a YouTube or a live...
01:21:48.000
Some chick gets up, puts her fucking cigarette down and rolls up the sleeves of her flail shot.
01:21:53.000
Probably wearing your shirt, the very shirt you're wearing, and just throws haymakers on some chick, and she's got her by the hair, and she's fucking dropping Muay Thai elbows on her.
01:22:04.000
She'd be like the Kimbo slice of soccer moms in the backyard brawls.
01:22:15.000
And she fucking had some whistling shots swinging by Cyborg's chin.
01:22:24.000
And took a fight that a lot of people didn't want.
01:22:27.000
Yeah, I mean, look at fucking Jermaine Durandam.
01:22:49.000
See, Jermaine Durandamy is a very technical striker.
01:22:52.000
That's why I thought her versus Cyborg would be interesting.
01:23:06.000
She's like, I'll fight a man, but I'm not fighting Cyborg.
01:23:14.000
When you give up the belt and say, nah, fuck it, she's too much.
01:23:22.000
She should have been champ in the first place, though.
01:23:25.000
And I think she should have been penalized for sure.
01:23:28.000
For at least one of those after the bell shots.
01:23:36.000
I think you've got to take into consideration what scoring system they were using back then.
01:23:42.000
Because I do not think that they were using a new MMA scoring system.
01:23:50.000
I think the refereeing could have been better because I do think she should have been penalized for those shots after the bell.
01:23:56.000
And when Holly head kicked her, that was one of the most significant moments in the fight.
01:24:00.000
The other most significant moment of the fight was when Holly dropped her with a straight left hand.
01:24:04.000
So those were two giant moments in the fight and they were both on Holly's side.
01:24:07.000
And then there was the two shots after the bell, which you could conceivably penalize her for at least one.
01:24:18.000
Because other than that, Holly did the most damage in the fight for sure, but Doreen Durandamy, Jermaine Durandamy, was controlling the action at the beginning of the fight until Holly landed that question mark kick.
01:24:33.000
You know, if you're good at it, if you get that over-the-top, like Rockhold's beautiful at that.
01:24:42.000
I feel like Donald's the one who kind of made that his thing.
01:24:53.000
I think Justin Renn posted, but ESPN blasted, that the wheel kick that landed knocked that dude out.
01:25:03.000
Oh, the one where the dude ducks down and throws an up-wheel kick?
01:25:10.000
And the dude ducks down, almost like a cartwheel kick, and throws a wheel kick up.
01:25:24.000
It's almost like that, but what it's like is he just knew where the dude's chin was going to be and ducked himself.
01:25:30.000
So, you know, you bend your body, but it's just very rare that you see someone landed at that angle.
01:25:42.000
It's almost like it's hard to know whether or not that was perfectly placed or just crazy lucky timing.
01:25:59.000
It's almost like he adapted to it and went straight up.
01:26:04.000
I mean, really, you'd have to see him fight more to see how good he is with his kicks, but that shit is perfect.
01:26:18.000
See, right here, a Taekwondo guy would see the shifting of the hips and then the shoulder moves towards the left.
01:26:34.000
With Wonderboy to throw that, you don't see it.
01:26:40.000
Yeah, but he's also doing it in timing with this left high kick, which is so brilliant.
01:26:44.000
So the left kick is coming, he sees the left kick, and he's like, yeah, check this out, bro.
01:27:00.000
I mean, he either improvised in the moment or he did it exactly like this on purpose, like saw it coming.
01:27:07.000
Dude, to dodge that kick and land this, I mean, it's some skillful shit.
01:27:13.000
Docked a head kick and landed a perfect, like, crazy 90-degree angle.
01:27:26.000
Fucking A. Made ESPN as an amateur fighter in ESPN. I know, right?
01:27:35.000
Everybody's looking for the head kick, the next one.
01:27:40.000
Dude's getting married to a thing really early on, right?
01:27:46.000
You're known as, like, if Gaethje just decides tomorrow to fight like Tyron Woodley...
01:27:52.000
Just move around a lot and get the fuck out of the eyes.
01:27:59.000
Like what if Gagey got a title shot against Tyron Woodley and they both like mirrored each other.
01:28:06.000
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, have you seen how hard your boy Colby Covington's been going in the paint on Instagram?
01:28:19.000
He did a Black Friday sale of these sandals mocking Woodley.
01:28:24.000
I don't get how he's mocking Woodley with sandals.
01:28:30.000
He's just like, hey, make sure you get your sandals this Friday.
01:28:33.000
And it's the sandals of Woodley saying one thing why he'll fight Nate Diaz, but saying another thing why he won't fight Colby.
01:28:44.000
Ariel, I'm not ducking Colby or anyone at 170. I want to fight Nate because it's a money fight.
01:28:58.000
I want to fight Nate because it's a money fight.
01:29:10.000
Make sure I'm right on this before I get destroyed on the underground.
01:29:13.000
But I think Dan goes, we never offered Woodley the Diaz fight.
01:29:30.000
Tyron Wooley responds to claim Nate Diaz fight was never offered.
01:29:33.000
Delusional Dana constantly demotes me as a fighter.
01:29:40.000
Because it's the claim that Nate Diaz fight was never offered to him.
01:29:46.000
Constantly demotes me as a fighter when the job is to promote his fighters, especially champions.
01:29:55.000
Why would Nate give a $15 million purse request if there was no fight?
01:29:59.000
It's obvious they haven't found their blockbuster headliner yet.
01:30:04.000
The inability to come to financial terms with Nate killed it.
01:30:07.000
Oh, but there's Dana going, one of our attorneys here started playing matchmaker, which is weird.
01:30:12.000
He has a good rapport with the Diaz brothers, and he basically said to Nate, what if you could fight Woodley?
01:30:18.000
Me and Sean Shelby were like, how does he deserve to fight Woodley?
01:30:21.000
There's no effing list of guys that are waiting to fight Tyron Woodley.
01:30:36.000
What kind of slapdick attorney tries playing these games?
01:30:39.000
That's what I would do if I was at UFC. I'd have a bunch of fake attorney Twitter accounts.
01:30:43.000
I'd just say, I'm an attorney with UFC, and I'm interested to know...
01:30:48.000
Ben Askren, I know you say you're retarded, but how retarded are you?
01:30:59.000
Yeah, well, for whatever reason, they couldn't work it out.
01:31:05.000
They had their disagreements and also his fighting style.
01:31:07.000
But for him never to compete in the UFC is crazy.
01:31:11.000
If you're a fan of fighting, that style is important.
01:31:28.000
It's such a bummer he never got in the UFC. And you know what?
01:31:31.000
I think if that same GSP showed up that fought Bisping, shows up to fight Askren, Askren beats him.
01:31:44.000
If I had one wish, to get a guy in the UFC that's never been in the UFC, he'd be the guy.
01:31:50.000
Because Fedor, it's like, you were already getting to see him in Bellator.
01:31:57.000
At this stage, I would say, without doubt, it was Askren.
01:32:01.000
I would use my golden ticket if I had one with Dana to get Askren in there.
01:32:07.000
But you know, he called Dana like a fat, bald, steroid monkey.
01:32:22.000
I understand that they're in the business of fighting.
01:32:26.000
But, I mean, I kind of am, but I've kind of not.
01:32:33.000
And I'm not just a fan of fighting like I like to watch fights.
01:32:37.000
I want to see what the fuck really works the best.
01:32:40.000
And when a guy can do what Ben Askren's been able to do time and time again in his career to world-class fighters, take them down, smother them, beat the shit out of them.
01:32:55.000
You've got to know that a guy can do that to a guy like Lima or a guy like Cora Correct, but also, Ben Askren, he speaks well.
01:33:02.000
He can hype the fight up on social media, and he speaks very well.
01:33:08.000
Floyd Mayweather does not win fights because he's exciting.
01:33:13.000
Yeah, people want to see him lose because he's a good trash talker.
01:33:31.000
Eddie would definitely be the matchmaker, but first you have to listen to a 45-minute seminar on the latest false flags.
01:33:40.000
If we had a sitcom, though seriously, think about how crazy different we all are.
01:33:44.000
If we had a sitcom where there was all these characters, you would want to have the crazy conspiracy guy.
01:33:50.000
Who's also one of the best jiu-jitsu instructors in the world.
01:33:58.000
Who's like all about Operation Mockingbird, Paperclip.
01:34:02.000
He's successful, so you gotta take what he says pretty serious, but it's also batshit crazy.
01:34:24.000
We haven't done a fighting painting in a while.
01:34:25.000
We need to do a good one with our big, giant-ass screen.
01:34:28.000
We did one with the big, giant-ass screen, right?
01:34:32.000
What fights are coming up that we might be able to do that?
01:34:34.000
There's one every weekend until the New Year's.
01:35:22.000
But what's up with that December, the December 9th one?
01:35:45.000
Guess who's going to be in Boston at the Wilbur Theater on January 19th, the day before UFC 220. I heard it's Brendan Schott.
01:36:11.000
Alright, let's wrap this up because I gotta piss.