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00:02:30.000But there's one guy that's super famous for doing it, too, and he was supposed to go through, you know, they go down cans, and he went between two rocks, and his leg clipped one of them.
00:07:22.000I found Taekwondo because of baseball.
00:07:25.000I went to a baseball game and passed by the Taekwondo studio because the line for the tee was really long to get on the public transportation.
00:07:32.000So he said, let's just go up there and watch.
00:07:34.000And so we walked up the stairs and this guy, John Lee, who's a U.S. national light heavyweight champion, was kicking the back.
00:07:45.000Dude, I was walking up the stairs and I heard, ka-wump, ka-chink, ka-wump, ka-chink, and the ka-chink was the chains of the bag, just ka-chink, because he had this 150-pound bag flying through the air.
00:07:58.000Dude, I came up and I watched him kick that thing and I was like, I gotta learn how to do that.
00:08:06.000But the guy who was famous in Boston from what I remember when I was in high school was this guy, Tony C. Tony Conigliaro, and he was hit with a pitch and became, like, you know, disabled.
00:08:19.000He got hit in the head in 1967, I guess.
00:08:53.000But that story, how crazy that story, you're going to a baseball game and you hear these cluck cluck, or you end up going to a taekwondo school.
00:09:32.000Big ad of the yellow pages are like oh that must be the spot man.
00:09:35.000That's gotta be the spot when I was a kid Right next to our neighborhood McDonald's was a karate studio and Man, I was as poor as poor can be.
00:09:45.000I mean we didn't have any money So but on Fridays when my mom would get paid we'd go to we'd go to McDonald's That was our that was like we're celebrating.
00:12:18.000But the difference is they emphasized a power style.
00:12:22.000Whereas as it got more and more competitive, guys realized with that chest protector on, the best style for scoring is like really quick kicks that don't have as much power, but you score and you win tournaments like that.
00:12:37.000And so the game changed and the kicks changed.
00:12:40.000Because to throw a kick that's hard, you have to plant yourself.
00:12:43.000And it does take a little bit more time.
00:12:48.000So it's better to spend more time on just getting points?
00:12:51.000Yeah, in a lot of the Taekwondo tournaments, because those guys were really good, and they knew how to play that game so well.
00:12:56.000They were so fast with their legs, but they would just touch you.
00:12:59.000They would just slap, slap, slap, slap.
00:13:00.000And some guys would kick harder than others, but the whole hard style of the early Taekwondo was kind of missing in a lot of their approaches, because they were just trying to win.
00:13:09.000And if you really dug in and tried to kick hard, a lot of times those guys would outscore you.
00:13:13.000You're dealing with really fast, really skillful guys.
00:13:18.000When you apply that to fighting fighting, the real problem is like in fighting fighting, you have to land hard shit because people are not just going to play taekwondo with you.
00:13:27.000They're going to try to take you down.
00:13:28.000They're going to try to kick your legs.
00:13:30.000They're going to try to do a bunch of shits.
00:13:31.000All that flippy flippy shit, that flippy flippy shit, you got to make a hard transition.
00:17:57.000You see that knee coming at you, you're gonna react in that second knees.
00:18:01.000That should be something that you'd see way more often.
00:18:04.000If you're trying to get in the UFC and you're not adding as many different weapons, you can't add them all at once.
00:18:13.000So you take the most important ones, your one-two, and your leg kick, and maybe a head kick, and then you slowly, obviously you would just add them, but you should be If you're making a living in the UFC or that's your goal, you should be always working on adding a new strike to the mix.
00:18:39.000It's just so hard to get really good at one thing while you're doing everything.
00:18:44.000You gotta kinda do, focus on the basics, and then have 20 minutes a week, where you're just working on, and over time.
00:18:52.000Over time will fly, and if you spend 20 minutes a week on a new technique, It's going to, within six months, it's going to be something that you've mastered, maybe a year.
00:19:03.000If you're consistent with it, you could just keep doing that.
00:19:05.000You could just keep adding another one.
00:19:08.000Especially with all that's available with striking, it seems like the days of just going out there boxing and throwing a leg kick every now and then, that's only going to get you so...
00:20:47.000So that throws your opponent's game off.
00:20:52.000He's got to constantly worry about that instead of not having to worry about that.
00:20:56.000If Dennis Seaver had all the rest of his skills but you just deleted that turning sidekick, then you wouldn't really have to focus on that much.
00:21:05.000You can focus more on yourself and your game plan and how you're going to impose your game plan.
00:21:11.000But when you have something real dangerous like that, like with Edson Barboza, he's got that spinning wheel kick that he's knocked out a few people with, right?
00:22:54.000We don't normally do super fights in EBI because I take all the purse money that we have available in our budget and we put it towards the winner.
00:23:04.000The winner take all in the tournament, we don't have extra money for additional super fights.
00:23:08.000But this one, we had to figure out a way to make it happen.
00:23:13.000Gordon Ryan against Vinny Magalhães in combat jiu-jitsu.
00:23:18.000Combat jiu-jitsu might be the next big thing.
00:23:20.000It really could be the next big thing.
00:23:22.000Because as far as, like, preparation, jiu-jitsu preparation for MMA, without kicking and punching a knee and standing up, it's the best preparation.
00:23:43.000But the way I look at it, nothing is as good as the UFC. That's the best.
00:23:50.000There's nothing better than the UFC. But there are jujitsu fanatics that just want to see jujitsu in the UFC. They're really not that into a kickboxing match.
00:24:00.000If Junior Dos Santos fights Cain Velasquez and it's a kickboxing match, that would be an all-time great match to watch.
00:24:07.000But there's a group of jujitsu fanatics that just want to watch the jujitsu.
00:24:22.000When you watch just pure Jiu-Jitsu, that's not MMA Jiu-Jitsu.
00:24:24.000It has nothing to do with MMA Jiu-Jitsu.
00:24:26.000Well, what people don't understand is if people that don't do Jiu-Jitsu to listen to this, like, what are they talking about?
00:24:30.000There's places where you're going for a submission, but someone could easily hit you in your face.
00:24:35.000And it makes the move kind of unrealistic.
00:24:37.000There's a lot of times where guys do unrealistic things, and really you could just be smacking them in the face, and they would have to stop and protect themselves.
00:24:44.000When you're doing jujitsu without strikes, it's just pure jujitsu, you get into a lot of positions that would be dangerous if strikes were allowed.
00:25:34.000It's like, after two minutes, no one...
00:25:36.000Because if we had a 10-minute or 15-minute combat jiu-jitsu match, and they were just standing and wrestling the whole time, that match is...
00:26:32.000People are just tumbling and then there's no strikes and they're all over each other's legs and they're just pulling guard and flipping and doing all this stuff that when there's strikes, when there's strikes, boom, it just, we get into full guard now and we get, oh, the mount becomes very important.
00:26:50.000Mount is, you could win a million EBIs and never mount a guy.
00:26:55.000You know, you could just be a leg lock fanatic.
00:27:29.000Wagner's a very accomplished MMA fighter.
00:27:32.000Yeah, so so again my point with them in Jiu-jitsu without strikes full guard totally unnecessary you could win Abu Dhabi Ten years in a row and never put anybody in your full guard.
00:27:43.000If you never want to play full guard ever in regular jiu-jitsu without strikes, you never have to play full guard.
00:27:49.000You just open up your legs and you just get into some Z or some kind of spiral, Delahive or whatever.
00:28:21.000Now full guard becomes the most important guard.
00:28:24.000It was the least important guard in grappling.
00:28:27.000Now it becomes the most important guard.
00:28:30.000So if you weren't playing full guard when you were doing jiu-jitsu without the strikes, and now you're doing jiu-jitsu with the strikes, guess what?
00:28:37.000That's the guard that's gonna be the most important one when a guy could smack your head.
00:29:30.000Now, the mount, from jujitsu with no strikes, to jujitsu with strikes, combat jujitsu, the mount just turns into this monster.
00:29:39.000Well, it does, but what's really interesting is you're only allowing slaps.
00:29:42.000Think about how much more of a monster Slapping they're not going When I say you're not allowing elbows no, I give you loud elbows.
00:29:54.000Yeah, then it's let's exactly yeah Depends on depends on what kind of guard we're dealing with it depends on who's in the guard I mean but like if you allowed the back to be taken and you allowed elbows Would you go to what we've always said?
00:30:11.000You said this a long time ago, that if you had elbows, if elbows were allowed to the back of the head, they would change the whole back mount.
00:30:18.000There would be nobody going for rear naked chucks.
00:30:20.000You would just get the back and just elbow the shit out of the back of their head and the fight's over.
00:30:26.000That's what was happening early in MMA, before they outlawed those elbows.
00:30:41.000Yeah something something spiker Yeah, the judo guy had called him in his hotel room all through the middle of the night Fuck with them and and he got so pissed that when he choked the guy out He smashed him in the back of the head and then stepped on his neck as he walked off of him He took it.
00:32:30.000Elbows to the body, a guy who really knows how to throw an elbow, that's nasty.
00:32:34.000You know, I mean, combat jiu-jitsu, you're opening up the door.
00:32:37.000What you're doing is, like, you're opening up this door to letting jiu-jitsu guys understand, like, where are the positions where they'd be vulnerable.
00:32:44.000But they're not going to take the kind of damage that they would in an MMA fight.
00:32:52.000It's a few things on a few different levels.
00:32:55.000It's great for grapplers, whether they're wrestlers or jiu-jitsu players, to get into if they're aspiring to be an MMA fighter.
00:33:04.000Also, guys that have done 30-40 fights and they're like, dude, this is just too brutal.
00:33:08.000Guys coming out of MMA, it's a great place for them because generally, before combat jiu-jitsu, all...
00:33:18.000MMA fighter had to retire to if he wanted to keep competing in grappling is like sub only or the points game and if you're not working on that every day You know the last ten years they were working on striking most of their time and and the purest like the pure sub only guys the leg lock guys and the pure Points players they're working on that every day to win those styles whether whether it's to win the points tournaments or the sub only tournament those The athletes that are winning those titles, they'll work on it every day.
00:33:47.000So when an MMA fighter retires, he's not going to really want to go into subbowl.
00:33:51.000He's like, dude, I'm just so far behind.
00:36:50.000Unless you have metal plates in your hips or something.
00:36:54.000Contortionists are skilled at stretching their bodies into different shapes, mostly due to their spinal flexibility and strength.
00:37:00.000You may think that you need to be born flexible or double-jointed to become a contortionist, but in fact, with enough practice and stretching, you can learn basic contortion movements.
00:37:10.000Hmm, I feel like stretching is one of those things where people just aren't willing to Dig in and really like feel that that That like borderline edge every day.
00:37:20.000They don't like that feeling it hurts It's uncomfortable like certain stretches like it's hard to breathe like we do hamstring stretches.
00:37:27.000It's like it's hard to breathe Yeah, yeah, but you know some I think That everyone is born flexible.
00:37:36.000I think all babies can get into Full Lotus.
00:37:39.000I just think that some people keep using it and some people don't.
00:37:43.000I always thought, because people would ask me, why are you flexible?
00:37:47.000And I just thought, I thought it was because...
00:37:49.000I was super insecure as a child, and I still am.
00:37:53.000But I would put my legs behind my head to like, you know, like, this is my trick.
00:39:47.000He's got his leg wrapped over the back of his opponent's head, and then he's wrapped his arm around the ankle area, and he's going all the way around the dude's head and under the chin.
00:39:56.000My little T-Rex arms couldn't do that, dude.
00:41:44.000And you gotta think, he's constantly training with all those Donaher, death squad, leg lock masters who are going after each other every day.
00:42:58.000He was with Nick Kurson from Speed of Sport.
00:43:01.000I know he's done some work with other people too, but he did a lot of it with Nick Kurson.
00:43:05.000And Nick Kurson's from the Marinovich camp, you know?
00:43:11.000Remember when BJ Penn was trained by the Marinovichs?
00:43:14.000So he's doing like this kind of shit, like pushing up on all these bars, a lot of foot strength drills, a lot of stuff where they're doing jumps over hurdles and, you know, those horses.
00:53:38.000I don't know who, I don't remember who it was, but Gilbert Ivo knocks this guy out, or standing TKO, they stop the fight, and then the guy's complaining to the ref.
00:54:03.000He put Gilbert in one corner, the other dude, and then once that guy, you see it in his face, once he realizes that the ref restarted the fight, he sinks back into the corner and goes, oh, shit.
00:55:04.000See if you can find Don Fry or Big Daddy Goodrich KO's Don Fry with a beautiful head kick.
00:55:12.000On that card that I commentated, it was Pride 10, it was Sakurab and Henzo, that was the main event, but also it was Gilbert Ivo versus Gary Goodridge.
00:55:20.000If you could find Gary Goodridge against Gilbert Ivo, it's a 10 second match.
00:55:26.000And it's one kick, boom, he clips him, shuts him off.
00:55:29.000Here's the Gary Goodridge, Don Frye one.
00:55:33.000He hit him with a couple of leg kicks.
00:55:37.000Big Daddy had one of the most brutal KOs ever in the history of the UFC, too.
00:55:41.000Remember that from the fireman's carry?
00:56:15.000What if we're all living in parallel dimensions all around us all the time and one move left or right, one dream, one action propels you into the next door?
00:56:26.000What if he was on death's door and they decided, look, he's gone from this dimension.
00:56:31.000We're going to put him in a nightclub in Toronto and let his consciousness ride out this experience from here.
00:57:44.000So if Tyron Woodley goes out and then they have to put an interim title fight in, I would like to see him versus somebody in an interim title fight.
00:57:51.000Like, how about Rafael dos Anjos versus Colby Covington?
00:57:56.000All the anti-Brazilian hate, all the shit that he said.
00:58:05.000And it would be a big fight, you know, because of all the shit Colby talked.
00:58:10.000You know, they only fined for Doom like 500 bucks for hitting him in the head with a boomerang.
00:58:14.000600. 600. Fabricio's probably like, that is so worth it.
00:58:21.000You get to hit somebody in the head with a boomerang on TV, you know?
00:58:25.000Yeah, you know, the opposite of a fight like that, which would have a lot of hatred, is in Orlando, the UFC in Orlando, it's going to be Ben Saunders versus Alan Joban.
00:59:59.000There were two guys that I never heard of.
01:00:00.000I think one of them was Williams, the other one was O'Sullivan or something like that.
01:00:04.000I didn't know who they were and I was waiting for the main event and I was watching this dude and Roy Jones was pointing out all the shit that he was doing with his jab He's like he's staying right there after he throws a jab He's gonna get hit with counters and then you see boom the counter start dropping on him and the guy was getting hit was the guy was favored He was like it's a really hot prospect And Roy just starts pointing out all the shit he's doing.
01:00:27.000He's like, he's playing tough guy now.
01:00:28.000He goes, I don't want to see you play tough guy.
01:00:38.000And you see the guy starting to wilt shots to the body.
01:00:40.000It was really interesting to watch like a world champion, top of the food chain, one of the greatest of all time, boxers, see some shit that you're not going to see, you know?
01:00:51.000Like, he sees vulnerabilities that you don't see.
01:00:53.000Are there any high-level boxers that are openly talking about transitioning to MMA? Do you know?
01:03:51.000Until I see what happens with Barboza and Nurmagomedov, right?
01:03:55.000The problem is, if Barboza and Nurmagomedov fight and Nurmagomedov smashes Barboza, He's got to be next in line for the title fight, right?
01:04:51.000You know, like when he was fighting Kevin Lee and he's walking towards him with his hands down and just pot-shotting him and slowly wearing on him, slowly chipping him away.
01:05:39.000They asked Tony, did you notice his staff?
01:05:42.000He goes, yeah, I was trying to punch it.
01:05:47.000But the way Tony got up off the cage, when Kevin Lee put him up against the cage, he actually can openered him from the bottom in full guard.
01:08:37.000All they have to do is be super dedicated, but they have to have a motivation.
01:08:40.000And right now, the motivation in boxing is, you know, if you get to a high level, you could be a world champion, you make a shitload of money.
01:08:46.000And there's a lot of money at the highest levels of boxing.
01:09:26.000Yeah, but to do your sport, if you're a really good boxer, you probably have more of a chance of making it as a top flight boxer than you do of learning all that other shit while you're already 29. You've got to learn how to check leg kicks now?
01:09:42.000Okay, you've got to change your stance.
01:10:22.000Like you go to the ground, you can only go to the ground for like 30 seconds, and if the fight, if no one won at the end of the fight, it was a draw.
01:12:41.000Like, somebody brought this up online.
01:12:43.000Like how Conan, when he was young, they made him push that wheel, and that's how he got so strong.
01:12:50.000Francis Ngannou was working in a sand mine.
01:12:53.000He was digging sand when he was a young guy.
01:12:58.000Like, that literally might have had an effect on how fucking powerful and strong he is.
01:13:02.000It really might be like an epic fantasy novel.
01:13:06.000Like, he's like, if you were gonna go into a lab and design a perfect heavyweight, you'd say, want him about 6'4", 265, maybe a little heavier as to cut a little bit, maybe 269, cuts down to 265, crazy freak athleticism, fastest shit for heavyweight, knock anybody dead with one punch.
01:13:27.000People are like, you're asking for too much.
01:13:43.000It was grueling and dangerous work spending hours shoveling sand into the backs of trucks so it could be shipped to big cities for use in construction.
01:13:50.000Sometimes we would stand all day in water up to his shins, scooping sand out of the riverbed.
01:13:55.000Other days we spent at the bottom of a steep quarry where large chunks of earth often broke free from the high cliffs and tumbled down onto workers.
01:14:25.000How did he get into MMA? He was in Africa, and he had decided that he was going to take a trip to Europe, and he wanted to get away from where he was.
01:14:40.000He doesn't exactly know what he's doing, and somehow or another he makes his way into a gym because he wanted to learn how to box.
01:14:45.000And he made his way into an MMA gym, and the coach was like, look, you should try MMA. Like, you know, like you could really get good at this and he realizes the guy's a sponge.
01:17:19.000Then you have a guy who just gives up his whole life for this.
01:17:23.000Like, he just moved from France to Vegas.
01:17:25.000Then the UFC puts him in this fucking state-of-the-art laboratory, this performance institute, where they've got all kinds of crazy shit in there.
01:17:35.000I mean, they have therapists and food.
01:17:37.000They have all these strength and conditioning coaches.
01:17:39.000I mean, these guys are starting to do their camps down there.
01:17:42.000They're going there, and they're like, holy shit!
01:19:56.000Beat Mark Hunt by TKO. Orlovsky by TKO. Fabrizio Verdun by KO. Overeem, KO. Junior Dos Santos, TKO. That's a fucking hell of a win streak right there, man.
01:24:54.000Because, like, if you think about it, they're cutting it with all kinds of different stuff, right?
01:24:57.000They cut it with, I mean, I'm not a cocaine doctor, but I've got to imagine they take some white shit that looks like coke and you can make more coke, right?
01:26:01.000And if you look at Tim, he even lifts weights.
01:26:04.000He doesn't remotely look like a guy who uses steroids.
01:26:07.000And they tested the stuff that they found just randomly in the store, and that tested positive.
01:26:11.000So he only got a short amount of a suspension.
01:26:14.000Yeah, it was pretty quick like six months or something like that, which even then if you didn't do anything wrong, why would you get six months?
01:26:20.000And so you're saying that the steroids are in creatine on accident, not like they're not doing it on purpose, right?
01:26:30.000All I'm hearing, I'm hearing a rumor, right?
01:26:32.000But the speculation is That these labs, where they make creatine, they also make a gang of other things, right?
01:26:42.000They'll cook up some steroids for you, whatever the fuck the order is, right?
01:26:45.000And they're not cleaning those vats out right.
01:26:47.000So if they're just pouring another bag, and they pour out the steroids, and they pour a bag of creatine in there for the next batch, and they're mixing everything up, it's entirely possible that trace amounts of those steroids are getting into that stuff.
01:27:00.000When we first started doing AlphaBrain, we had...
01:27:04.000Some of the early versions tested, and when we got the stuff mixed from a place, the place didn't do a very good job of cleaning out their equipment.
01:27:13.000We had vitamins in our alpha brain that weren't in there.
01:27:17.000We had some stuff that's not supposed to be in there.
01:27:19.000So when we tested and we found trace amounts, we had to switch what we were doing.
01:27:22.000We had to change how we have the things manufactured.
01:27:25.000That's a super common thing when you're dealing with these overseas laboratories that are making all your shit together.
01:30:07.000You're going to have some fucking chip that you put in the back of your head that's going to store all the stuff directly from your nervous system.
01:30:14.000You're going to be able to review it in HD. Dude, the moment they can give you eyes that work better than your eyes.
01:31:50.000People would chop their fucking legs off for sure.
01:31:54.000Imagine you got some Iron Man legs, like literally you could jump over a building.
01:31:59.000First of all, just stop and think about living in the year 1500 and someone somehow or another takes you to a place and shows you a Hayabusa motorcycle.
01:32:20.000You would never believe that could be real.
01:32:25.000You could take someone from the 1700s, the 1800s, even the 1900s.
01:32:29.000Maybe the 1900s they would kind of get it because they had bicycles.
01:32:32.000But if you go back like a thousand years ago and show someone a motorcycle, they'd be absolutely convinced there's no way that could exist.
01:40:36.000Cell phones now, they don't have a headphone jack anymore.
01:40:39.000They have this little lightning thing on the iPhones, and the only ones that have headphone jacks are, you can get them off of, Samsung has them, the new Google phones, they don't have them anymore either.
01:42:40.000Well, do you remember when people's car stereos, like the car stereo you would get, they were always the shittiest fucking sounding things ever, and then you had to buy a stereo afterwards if you wanted something good?
01:43:53.000People forget how good her grappling is because of the fact that she wins so many fights by KO, but she's competed in grappling.
01:43:59.000I know she was a brown belt just a few years ago.
01:44:02.000I don't know if she's advanced past that now, but she's legit on the ground.
01:44:06.000And if you look at what Holly's weakness in the Misha Tate fight I'm sure she's gotten better since the Misha Tate fight, but Misha controlled her on the ground in one round.
01:44:16.000Took her down, controlled her, and then took her down with just a little bit left in the round in the fifth round and choked her unconscious.
01:44:22.000So the ground game, although I'm sure she got better at it, she's got such a good personality and she's such a good sport.
01:44:32.000After that, she showed a picture of her with a white belt on, training.
01:46:47.000I don't know how many he's got now, but I want to say it's definitely more than one.
01:46:52.000It was like a known name in the karate world, you know, and then when MMA came around they adapted They adapted and they put out some real good fighters.
01:48:21.000That fucking dude's got some crazy cardio.
01:48:24.000I mean, Rafael Dos Anjos, for the barrage that he put, see if you can find some highlights, like Rafael Dos Anjos versus Robbie Lawler highlights.
01:48:33.000He was just ripping him to the body with...
01:49:13.000Darren Till, I want to see him get a second fight in the UFC. After that cowboy fight, I was hoping that he was going to fight Wonderboy Thompson.
01:49:19.000But Wonderboy apparently fucked his hands up in that Jorge Masvidal fight.
01:51:57.000When it comes to people that know how to do that, boy, there's like four or five different people right now that are like prominent people.
01:54:34.000When he teaches a class, it's dark arts.
01:54:38.000Just cuz he's you know, he's got all kind of game, but he does specialize in his own He's got his own special leg lock game that no one else is doing.
01:54:47.000It's it's pretty extraordinary And he's the best at it and he's teaching he's got all his his crew that he's teaching and I've actually implemented that into the curriculum We practice his best stuff.
01:55:21.000I mean, there's so many different styles of just leg locks.
01:55:25.000Just leg locks alone take a lifetime to master so much.
01:55:30.000And over the last four years, it's just exploded.
01:55:34.000I mean, since EBI won, when the Danaher death squad came in and just started dominating, boom, that's when the leg lock game just exploded.
01:55:44.000It was always around, because Abu Dhabi and Dean Lister was crushing people with heel hooks, and so was Vinny Magalas.
01:55:49.000They've always been around, but I think maybe people thought...
01:55:54.000Okay, Dean Lister is leg-locking dudes because he's so strong and so big.
01:55:59.000And Paul Horace is leg-locking everybody because he's so big and strong.
01:57:12.000You got Eddie Cummings Gordon Ryan Gary Tone and Nicky Ryan and then the guys from TriStar which are affiliated with them to like Ethan Krellinston I was messing with him.
01:57:24.000GSP? GSP did a lot of training with him?
01:57:50.000You know, sometimes you'll see a lot of like hand to the back of the head type shit that was just super sunken and tight.
01:58:00.000Our rivalry with them, 10th Planet and DDS, it's only because they're so goddamn good, and we're trying to catch them.
01:58:07.000Right now, in the sub-only game, no doubt, they are the best, and we're trying to catch them.
01:58:12.000So if we catch them or not, if we surpass them or not, regardless, we're going to be as good as we can.
01:58:19.000We're getting better and better every year.
01:58:21.000And what's important is you need someone like that.
01:58:22.000Yeah, the sport needs someone like that to have a team that's that dominant It's great for the whole game because then you realize like wow, this is possible and you got to take it to the next level Yeah, they're elevating everybody's game and when Geo beat Eddie Cummings That was it was so huge for me and for everybody attempt.
01:58:40.000It was so huge only because they were so dominant.
01:59:45.000It's been over a year maybe since his last fight, so I don't know.
01:59:48.000And when he was on my podcast, he made it clear that...
01:59:53.000He, at the very least, wasn't certain where he was going to go with MMA. He talked about how the training and the lifestyle is just not fun.
02:00:03.000He goes, I just beat a guy, and I'm like, this wasn't fun.
02:00:47.000He's right up there with Damien Maia, right there.
02:00:49.000I mean, that guy is finishing fights with jiu-jitsu consistently.
02:00:53.000And he just took, you know, what he did in his last fight against Cub Swanson, when he just took just your basic ass front headlock, head and arm, he just takes that and just closes the show with that.
02:01:26.000Because the guy on the bottom, he knows he's caught in an arm and guillotine, and he knows, okay, I'm safe here, but look, there's a little opening.
02:01:33.000If he switches really quick, there's a Marcelotine there.
02:03:05.000You would think, why isn't there more guys like Brian Ortega out there just taking little simple front headlocks with head and arm and then taking it home?
02:03:21.000But actually, manhandling a professional fighter with it, the amount of time that you need to craft that clinch and polish it, you actually need physical time.
02:04:55.000It has nothing to do with the time you spent on the front headlock and taking that all the way home and closing the show just from the front headlock.
02:05:04.000Now, Cabrinha did it against AJ Agazzar in Abu Dhabi.
02:06:21.000He drags him down to the ground, and then before he could pop up, he lets go and jumps on a front headlock, and he has a cradle and a front headlock, and then boom, and that's it.
02:06:43.000Slowly, he had the front headlock with the cradle, and then he sprawled on him for a while, maybe a couple minutes, and then slowly jumped on his back.
02:07:02.000Most guys can get in there and hold that single for just a little bit.
02:07:06.000It's only a little clinch, little tiny clinches, a little second here, two seconds here, a little wrist control, but when Cabrinha gets in there and clinches on that leg, he couldn't pull it out, and then he jumped on the front headlock, and then he wasn't gonna...
02:07:16.000A lot of dudes, you put a front headlock on.
02:07:18.000Most guys, you could peel that shit off and get off my fucking neck.
02:11:39.000Yeah, when you think about, like, you know, getting, let's just say you were a politician or a person that were like a truther or whatever, and then you're thinking about, man, what if I get suicided, you know?
02:13:41.000You can watch the last EBI 1 through 14 on UFC Fight Pass.
02:13:48.000The next one, EBI 15, the featherweights, February 17th at the Muscle Farm headquarters here in Burbank.
02:13:55.000Eddie Cummings, Gio Martinez, and also the Combat Jiu-Jitsu, the EBI Combat Jiu-Jitsu Bantamweight title fight between Nick Holmstein, who's the current champion, and Ben Eddy.
02:14:07.000The next fight companion we're going to do is the 14th of January, it looks like.