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Broadcasting Live, good afternoon, blockhead
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Once again, you are listening to
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minute and then be talking about MMA
and warriors inside the octagon the next I

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am your host. My name is
Brian Little, and once again we get

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to roll out the red carpet.
We not only have one, not two,

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but three amazing guests join us today. But before I introduced him in

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This show It's been a great ride for

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the last seven years. And I'll
tell you I love having guests on.

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I love being able to talk people
up. And here's my chance to talk

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three of them up. You have
heard JK come on this show before from

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the Against the Fence MMA channel,
and they are back this time. We

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have Ash, we have Side,
we have JK, we have the whole

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crew here for Against the Fence MMA
Channel. Gentlemen, welcome to the Blockhead

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Hour. Hey, no one does
a better intro like you, my man

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by I'm loving I'm gone. That's
that's gonna be exciting. I'll be excited.

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I wanted to meet myself off to
that introduction, y alter ego.

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Well, I'll tell you, gentlemen. I'll tell you, gentlemen, it

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means so much that you would take
a few minutes out of your day to

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come by and talk MMA with me. If you're a listener and you are

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not a fan of mixed martial arts, my hope is by the time you

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finished this podcast or watch this video, you will start giving this sport a

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chance. Because there are many seats
aboard this train. And what I'm gonna

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do is gonna kick around a couple
of ideas for these guys who have a

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very analytical mind and have great m
M A i Q. Inside of the

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cage, outside of the cage,
wherever that might be. These guys have

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some serious commentary that you're going to
enjoy. So what I'm gonna do is

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I'm gonna start kicking around an idea
that happened recently. We had a main

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event with Surreal Gone versus spiv OALC
and Gone is standing tall. But what

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needs to be addressed is the man
that's sitting at cage side, and his

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name is Tom Aspinall. It's very
possible we'll have a potential fight down the

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road with these two heavyweights. I
want to know your thoughts, all three

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of you, on what we can
expect if we have Surreal Gone versus Tom

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Aspinall in the near future. Taken
away gentlemen, Oh, who wants to

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go first? I guess you're God. You're in there first. Sight one.

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Well, there's something I always wanted
to say about these particular guys.

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And if you guys remember about a
year ago when we're talking about this heavyweight

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division, we talked about how there's
a new evolution of fighter we're seeing coming

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through, you know, in the
same way you've seen a new evolution of

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sportsman can't step into the industries and
just kind of really change the piece of

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things. We're seeing athletic heavyweight builds
now coming in agility, moving at speed.

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And I was always excited for the
prospect of these guys being tom aspinall

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and gone fighting each other. I
didn't want it to happen too soon.

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It looks like there's not else to
do but that fight, and I think,

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you know, it's it's about time. Well, it's quite exciting because,

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as I say, it's it's it's
the kind of next evolution of or

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fighter in this particular division. It's
it's it's they've got the agility, they've

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got the speed, they've got the
range, and they're not just heavy hitters.

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And yeah, we're gonna we're seeing
different particular problems in their headweight division

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for the first time in a long
time. Yeah, that and of course

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the wrestling of Blaze as well.
But it's just it's got that wrestling and

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then it's also got that striking combination
too, So it's exciting. Yeah,

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I think for for that particular matchup, I think It's gonna go down to

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whether or not Tom asmin Or can
take Surreal Gone down. Both guys that

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you said are very quick on the
feet. I'd imagine it predominantly probably go

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five rounds. It's going to be
contested majority on the feet. I've got

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a feeling in which case, you
know, you'd probably favors Real Gone in

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those areas because he's very difficult to
to hit. His footwork is phenomenal as

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well. It's just whether or not
Aspal can close the distance, get a

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hold of Gone, pussonally gets the
cage and then maybe use the caused to

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take him down. And I think
it will come down to his fine moments

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whether or not Aspinall can get the
job done. It'll either be Aspinal submission

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for me or a Guarne decision.
You've literally just taken the words up my

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mouth of JK. Just to just
obviously, this is why we love the

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sport mixed martial arts. Everyone has
a different opinion on a fight, and

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this is why we come together and
talk about these things. And you touched

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upon what I was about to mention
and just say I think that Tom and

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Tom Aspina will do exactly what John
Jones didn't use his wrestling, and we've

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only seen a small bit of Tom
Aspinal's game as well, because he keeps

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finishing dudes in the first round.
We've not fully seen how good he's wrestling

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is. We've not fully seen how
good he's grappling is. So to me,

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the blueprint has been set by John
Jones by just wrestling with and Francis

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and and I think Tom Asmoll gets
him down. I think he wins by

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submission. And just to touch upon
that as well, boys, do you

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remember I think we did. I
think it was a year and a half

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ago, or it might have even
been two years ago. We do a

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yearly champion prediction and I said that
these two would match up, but I

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did say would match up about two
years ago, not being to match up

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two years ago, but I said
two years ago at these two weeks and

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fight for the belt. So yeah, look, look we're up there.

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I didn't want to happen any sooner
than it has now, to be fair,

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And you're right about the whole wrestling
ability of Tom Askmore. That's going

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to have to come into play here
if you're going to sort of be a

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problem for someone like Ghane. But
you know, the point still stands is

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both both of these guys don't move
like heavyweights. Is it's fantastic. So

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someone was excited to see him five. But I guess one thing I want

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to add to that as well is
we saw frances in Ghanah turn into the

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heavyweight Damon Meyer, you know,
when he in a space of one.

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But he went away worked on his
wrest and then came back and he showed

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us he's got it. What can
sil Ghane do knowing that that's his weakness?

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Could he work on it? He
was talking before JK about some of

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his training habits gone. I think
I think he's no, No, I

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think he has. He's definitely been
working out, I think as a recent

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But one thing I should probably add
is that I think recently on Aerial Show

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Surreal, Garne had said that the
Tom Aspinall fight didn't really interest him.

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Now I think the reason why he
said that is I think he'd rather wait

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and see what the outcome of Jones
versus miochis she's going to be. I

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feel, you know, you've got
Pavlovitch who's obviously in the mix as well,

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because with Jones and miochis. You've
got potential of both guys retiring after

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that fight anyway, so you know, he might suddenly think, hang on

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if I, if I pump the
brakes a little bit here and not agree

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to anything, then I might get
the opportunity to fight Pavlovitch for the vacant

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belt, and therefore he can skip, you know, fighting Tom aspinall you

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know? For you, if you're
surreal Garne, why would you risk your

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your potential spot? Really? So, you know, but I think we

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will definitely see gone missus. It'll
hunts up. I'm with you, guys.

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This is why I wanted to have
them on block in Nation. Are

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you hearing the analysis that's going back
and forth? This is beautiful. Now.

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I don't want to sound like I
am nitpicking or if I am singling

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out somebody on here, but if
you him not tuned into the last episode

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where Jka came on, he was
pretty talented and imitating MMA fighters, and

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we have had a trend that seems
to be going on in MMA where you

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can't count out the underdog anymore.
Sean Strickland is literally holding the middleweight championship

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of the world, and I didn't
think this year that those words would come

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out of my mouth, but you
can would be possibly JK, is there

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a way that you could give us
some type of imitation of the one and

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only Sean Strickland. You're fairly well
known for these imitations, sir. You

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have the floor on now, all
right, I should probably say it was

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the swearing restrict Yeah, well I
was about to say, well, what's

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the restrictions here? Statement, I'll
forgive you for it, alright. You

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can beleep it out, bleep it
out if you will. But if we'll

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do that, like, come on, man, you can fight me on

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this fucking podcast. Like this guy, this guy right here sits in with

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a blue background and and thinks he's
a smurf or something like come on by

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my buddy Chris and I we do
a podcast together. But we're just like

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talk about man shit, you know, proper man shit. No, this

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like fighting, you know when we
talk about fighting. But we're like,

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you know, we're like experts of
this game. Man. How is it

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true you have to fix your own
belt after a day of breaking it?

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Is that true? Oh? Yeah? I fucking broke the thing after half

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an hour, Like it's like made
of plastic like Data is. Data is

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not fighting paying the fighters. He's
they're not splashing out on more money for

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these belts. And maybe I should
include a scripture of the day somewhere and

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this after asking for that little debacle. But yeah, I love that even

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duct tape can fix the middleweight Championship
belt. So not to swerve, but

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this is why I have to get
some of their talents and some of their

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attributes and as quick as I can
this podcast block in nation. You know

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how it works, but you know, any nothing's off limits at this point.

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After doing that, I threw the
grenade and here we are now with

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all the shrapnel. But when I
can't ask guys, we don't have a

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whole lot going on this weekend with
UFC, but we do have a return

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to the Apex that's coming up next
week. But I will say there's a

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lot that you could recap from our
most previous fight, everything from you know,

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Brian Battle's performance to e Gay versus
Bryce Mitchell and even unfortunately what happened

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with Gamra and Physiath. What are
some big highlights that you guys would bring

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as a recap from last week's UFC
fight. Man, you guys can take

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it. Well. Ash did the
solo watch long by himself, I think

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the only one that's probably I had
to catch up on some bits, but

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you know, my feetles flooded with
Bryce in the Bible. Yeah, so

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I don't really seen much more activity. But yeah, Ash over to you,

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bro. Yeah no, I was
just about to say, I think

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I should take take this one and
run with it. But obviously we only

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went live for the main card,
but just the standouts in the Prelian Tim

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means doing what he always does and
just putting on an absolute clinic against Fiolo,

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and I really thought Fiolo was gonna
sort of win that fight just public

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because he needed to. He was
on a two fight lost streak. It

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was a kind of fight that his
stylistically was a good fight for him because

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Tim means always likes to stand and
bang. Fiolo likes to standing bang,

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but Tim means being as crafty striker. He is getting the sneaking elbow,

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sneaking knees in there doing what he
does best and getting the finish. And

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the stand up for me was charged
your Dame for me, because I've really

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thought that Ricardo Ramos was going to
be the one initiating the grappling, and

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he was going to try and get
the submission. Threats off, but hats

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off to charge your dame to get
the guillotine, Like I did know he

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has a decent guillotine. You leave, leave your neck, he's going to

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grab it. And he did exactly
that, and hats off to charge your

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dame. It's not a too fuck
win street now, so interesting to see

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what's next for him. Yeah,
and obviously with the Phyzzy of Gamma fight.

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But unfortunate of course, we've had
knees blowout in fights, you know,

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drastic injuries during fights which has led
to them being waved off. Of

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course, last year we had tom
Asman against Blades. We had Brian Ottaga's

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shoulder pop out against the Rodriguez.
We also had yeah, Alexander Rackets,

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which I think was last year or
year before, and then we also had

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Cavalcato against Arnold Allen. So I'll
tell you that they like the worst ones.

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Yeah, I getting kicked in the
nets. Yeah, boiled justice.

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I know that as a while ago, but he's going to comeback now and

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on the rise. Yeah, the
injury itself was violent at the time,

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yeah, guide for Physiv. I
mean, I like both Physio and gam

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Rot, but you know, I
picked Physia of going into the weekend,

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I just felt that he was going
to be a lot more sharper on the

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feet. He's takedown defense is phenomenal, and I felt that he was going

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to be able to take every one
of Gammuck's attempts and shrug him off,

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and it's really pieced him up on
the feet. But you know, hey,

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hey Hope, you know we will
see it run back in the future.

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Who knows. I'm probably going to
say no, but I think Phaziv

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will probably bounced back. Maybe the
latter end of next year. I definitely

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think about. But just like you
said, Da Brian, I'm just a

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touch upon obviously Bryce Mitchell as well. We can't not talk about Bryce Mitchell.

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But for me leading into this,
I was very, very very confident

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on Bryce Mitchell. Reason being we've
seen a blueprint of defeating Danny gate eve

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Lev. Eve Lev took him down
several times and just controlled him, and

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that was just a wrestler, not
the grappler the type of Bryce Mitchell.

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Once he gets you down, he
does keep you down, hold you down

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advance, always looks for that submission. I did actually have Bryce Mitchell by

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submission, but he was closed in
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it was. It was definitely a
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and there was only one winner in
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Everyone say as well, yeah,
it's quite interesting. I actually would

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have thought he would have had that
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to see Bryce bounced back and just
say exactly for him, it's huge,

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it's huge. You had a performance
to night? Would you say that was

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a performance to night? Ash?
Who's that for I wasn't. I wouldn't

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have been my performance at night.
No performance a night for me was probably

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Brian Battle, just because every time
I count him out that I did count

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him out against Aja Fletcher because I
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that was a step up a J. Fletcher. But it's just the way

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guy lost too now, but he
got dominated and I let let me tell

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you the free round fight. I
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scales for a free round fight.
He got dominated, and he's he's just

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always always impressed me, and I've
always counted them out and he's alway proved

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me wrong. Yeah, and I
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from just the way he he kind
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the welterweight division because during I think
the ultimate fighter he was, he was

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mainly you know, hopping between middleway
and welterway, whereas now he's like properly

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homed in. And yeah, he
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in a weird way, you'll just
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I kept wondering, man, how
is there gonna be a moment where I

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can put Ash in the spotlight.
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he did the full recap and did
the entire ATF show last week on his

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own. So I got to give
him aroun applause just for doing that in

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the ball. That gives me a
chance to say that you were mentioning Brian

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Battle The Ultimate Fighter. You guys
recently had Cody Gibson on. So I'll

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tell you this. If you haven't
friends Blockhead Nation, you gotta go back

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and look at the ATF YouTube channel
and start looking at their Instagram, look

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at all of their different social media
platforms because they've got some great snippets and

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great interviews they've got, especially recently
of Cody Gibson. You need to go

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back and hear this, and here's
some of the struggles he had with The

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Ultimate Fighter that are technically out of
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perspective in my mind. But what
that is is one third little segue.

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I gotta bring it back. JK. We were talking about Danny Gay and

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Bryce Mitchell. I'm with you,
Si, I was actually pulling for fifty

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K. I'm like I was,
I'm moping for that one. But I'm

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not surprised I see that the Bryce
pulled this out. But since Bryce decided

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to walk out to Richmond, north
of Richmond and hold a Bible above his

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head, there's a chance for you
to drop an invitation here. So let

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us hear your best invitation to Bryce
Mitchell. Take it, my friend.

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Hey, I've found out a law
recently that the devil is everywhere and we

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must take him out at will.
My aunt's wife she is the devil.

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She came over my house and destroyed
my fruit trees. And also Michael Wismond

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is the devil as well. And
I f could take him out, I

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would. He's a little bit bigger
than me. He walks around like a

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cyclops. We must destroy him whenever
we can. Please help me, help

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me hold the reins on that one. So imbody give me a craft fall

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right now. That's great. I
mean time he speaks, I just like

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rallying, you know, rallying together
and say yes, said, don't worry

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whatever you need. That's it.
Bryce Springs inc controlled chaos to them,

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and I worry him about their HR
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and Bryce Mitchell and all the other
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on Malley being in those positions.
I wouldn't want that job right now,

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but I will say this kind of
to bring in what we can expect next

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week. We'll be returned to the
Apex. I want to kind of kick

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that around. Are there some hidden
gems we don't know about or some of

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y'all's perspectives on Bobby Green versus Dawson. I want you guys to take that

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and just kind of talk my listeners
blocking Nation into the building for using just

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about mate. The card is actually
stacked like like fighter wise, Like you've

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got Dru Dobos on the main card
against Wicky Glenn. You've got Joaquin Buckley

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against Alex Morono. That is a
great fight Joe Paper against I have seen

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that's gonna be a bomb banger the
COVID event. That's someone's getting knocked out

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on that fight. Yeah. And
then you've got Alex Hernandez versus Bill Algio

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like on the main card as well, Chris is on the prelimps. What

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are they doing? We've got Nate
Menus as well. He's been on the

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channel on what it is as well, Like it's it's you know, once

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you have like a week off,
it's almost like you gotta come back with

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force a little bit more, a
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both guys are like I mean,
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but he's really like found his own
recently. You know, He's had some

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really really good performances in there,
and Grant Dawson has just kept on rising.

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He's become a bit of a problem
in the lightweight division. He's not

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exactly like completely finishing dudes as such, but he's he's been dominating people in

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impressive fashion. I think to get
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kind of catapults him into some big
fights, potential fights down the line.

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is just so stacked though. Man,

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it's so difficult to to kind of
pinpoint who's who's going to be the next

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one after that? Yeah, exactly. I just I see this fight going

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only one way. Grant Dawson,
all he does is coming looks to grapple

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straight from the off. It depends
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in himself. So if he can
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then that's when it gets very interesting. I think. Obviously, Bobby Green

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definitely is going to outstrike him,
but it just all depends can Dawson get

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Bobby Green down. If he does, I can send early submission from from

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Grant Dawson. Really, yeah,
we seemably print to beating Green out there

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before. But Green's just flowy,
isn't He's Yeah, he gets in his

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groove and really like frustrates you mentally. Then he can lure you into his

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trap. You know, the fight
against Drew Doba. He made a mistake

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on that one. I think he
just got a little bit too carried away.

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He was doing well until he wasn't
there ye doing so it was piecing

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him up. He was getting better
of it, but his hands loads and

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he just you're right, got really
confident and then he left his chin out

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there. Yeah, but submit submitting
Tony Ferguson was you know, complete shot

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horror, to be honest to see, didn't expect that at all. I

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would have thought. I thought that
perhaps Bobby Green was gonna cruise his way

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to a decision against the tony Tony
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can Bobby Green kind of beat Grant Dawson

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and perhaps potentially do you mean yeah, and a rematch against some of the

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guys in the top top part.
Do you mean El Cucumbo? El Cucumbo?

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That's it? Why did I not
see that being clarify to clarify for

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them? Yeah, yeah, there's
no denying on the ATF side, But

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for the blockhead nation, let me
help you out. I think there was

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a point where I was I was
commentating on their live channel and there was

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something I was talking about and I
was using Tony Furston's word el kakui but

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autocorrect seemed to work against me that
day, and what came across the street

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was L Cucumber and that has not
gonna waste it. So I've gained two

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other monikers with at F. I've
gained Triple B and I've gained L Cucumber,

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And I've got to explain all of
those to my nation that's just going,

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what are you talking about? So
I know it's clear as mud,

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but we'll run for the L.
Cucumber moniker for a while. But I

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will say this guy's You guys are
giving me so much in depth knowledge and

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I'm loving every bit of it.
And I wish we could get in depth

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to USA versus Barbosa in the future, but we've got three amazing pay per

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views that are coming up down the
road that my listeners need to know about.

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Two, So could we take them
in to look at Fight Island?

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Can we take a look at you'll
see two ninety four Market Cheer versus Olivera

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two and some of the other big
moments that are coming out of this fight.

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I'll let you guys kick that ken
around for a while. I mean,

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like, yeah, the next few
pay per views is just literally an

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MMA fans orgasm right there. You
know, there's just after We've got some

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proper banging main events and co main
events as well. Market Chef Versus Olivera.

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For me, we've had a recent
run of new champions every pay per

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view we've had markat Chef dominated last
time out really nullified any submission threat that

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Olivera could try on the ground,
typical Sambo kind of style smothered him.

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And you know, well Maccher capitalized
on a bit of a mistake from Olivera

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and was able to get that had
an arm choking this time around. You

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know, Olivera was kind of blaming
that his mindset wasn't kind of quite there

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come fight night and all this,
and that he might feel that he's kind

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of bit reignited this time out after
the impressive win against Bernil Dariush. If

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we get that Charles Olivera, who's
you know, on his absolute A game,

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then this could be a much close, closely contested about I think,

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ye. I agree, yeah,
watching it, I Jeff, I didn't

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even hear it from Olivera after the
fight to talk about where he was mentally.

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I could see it. I could
see its like this is he just

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seems half was going on, Why
is he? Why is he? Why

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is he attacking in this way?
Like it just didn't make any sense,

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Like he should have stay kept the
range. He just couldn't run right into

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danger. And I just don't get
it, to be fair, Yeah,

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because he doesn't. He doesn't like
his pressure is so good, he doesn't

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care about getting hit because obviously it's
crazy. Obviously the Charles Olivera of old

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would have obviously wilted under like getting
hit or whatever and just wilt on of

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that pressure. But he's the one
making people will now and putting the pressure

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on on these guys, and he
doesn't care about getting taken down because there's

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not many fighters. We've seen it. As soon as he gets knocked down,

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they don't want to go down there
with him. But obviously Islam jumped

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straight in there on guard with that
with Olivera and it was it was just

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too much. But like JK said, I think I think it's gonna be

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a lot closer. I still think
Islam's gonna be too much for him.

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has not really been like tested since
obviously got lugged out years ago. But

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it's not really meant. But listen
is the thing. I think Islam done

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a lot better than more people think. Yeah, there's a lot of people

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are saying volt One and this and
that Volta up a great challenge. But

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I think Islam done a lot better
than more people thought. I see what

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you might say that. I mean, he's still yet to really prove he's

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not really been putting that, he
wasn't really putting danger too much, He's

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not been putting any dang. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right,

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spot yeah yeah, but I think
you know, I remember in the last

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breakdown from Fosters, OLIVERA. You
know, I think I highlighted some of

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the areas which OLIVERA well, some
of the things that OLIVERA needed to do

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when on the ground with Islam,
and I think one of those things was

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attacking leg locks. No, it's
more or less attacking leglocks, to be

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honest, because I noticed he was
doing that a lot against Kevin Kevin Lee.

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That's it why I couldn't think of
his name. Then it's Kevin Lee

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because obviously Kevin Lee was quite skillful
in the fee but very good wrestling as

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well. And every time when Kevin
Lee got Olivera down, Oliver was just

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attacking leglocks. You know, if
if you're able to pull it off,

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great, but you'd be able to
create a scramble so you can get back

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to your feet. And I think
that if Oliver is able to do that,

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you know he wants to be more
on the feet on this on this

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fight, and yeah, I think
that would be his his key to remaining

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on the feeture. This is why
I love breaking fights down with with you

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JK as well, because like creating
a scramble, and you've got someone as

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talented as Charles Lava that slaps up
anything just like that, and that's a

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perfect sort of game plan. Not
they would use it as a game plan,

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but if if for instance, you
get taken down one hundred percent,

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tack them leg locks, make make
Islam scramble, and then you jump on

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any mismistake that he makes. Love
that. Yeah, yeah, as long

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as as long as you don't get
if you don't let Islam get into half

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guard or side control. And I
think that's where that's where it could get

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a litt bit tricky. You have
to give some gap between the body.

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But that's what that's a sandwich style. Yeah, that's really hard. It's

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easier between the bodies, and yeah, it makes it so so nullifying.

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It's such a great and it was
really good to see them. It was

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really great to see the matchup between
Sumbo Start Wrestling and Brazilians Raorist. I

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think not many other divisions I've really
offered us that that that that's on of

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play between between those the styles so
so it so beautifully but no, I

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think exciting kind as well. The
time's gonna be great, it's gonna be

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ever Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna be doing the full,

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the full, watching a lot it's
gonna be fun. And you got Chamaiah

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as well in the Komins jump off
without not mentioning Shamaia. Obviously, we

404
00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.759
put a post on social media like
if Shamaiah beats Costa, is he there

405
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.160
for the time? Is he going
to be next in for the title?

406
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:30.920
That's big, big topic, isn't
it. You know a lot of people,

407
00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:36.960
Yeah, a lot of people saying
yes, purely because he sells so

408
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.680
and look with you have seen where
they're going these days. You know you

409
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:44.119
can easily say it. You can
make the excuse, well, you beat

410
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:47.880
he's beating a former title challenger.
But a lot of people feel that they

411
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:55.480
like Streakers du plus see and various
other people were just ahead of Hams in

412
00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:57.599
the division. Imagine is he comes
back and beats Hams out when the Hams

413
00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:03.240
the top of the belt. Just
imagine. I'm gonna hold that one on

414
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:04.519
a little bit. We're gonna get
to that topic in a second again.

415
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:08.119
These guys give me so many segues
that I want to run with and because

416
00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:11.599
even now I'm like, I know
I wanted to. I was the same

417
00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:12.960
way when you talk about Kevin Lee, I wanted to say Motown like that

418
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.559
wouldn't have helped you with the last
name. But you know, as much

419
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:19.240
as I don't want to sidestep Blades
and Almeida, I mean I know that.

420
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.599
Guys. Once again, if we
have some gaps on this show,

421
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:25.759
you can go back and watch the
at f MMA channel. I'm gonna plug

422
00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:29.200
them quite often. They are always
welcome here. But we've got to get

423
00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:32.480
to UFC two ninety five. We
gotta look at me, missg We gotta

424
00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:36.680
look at Jones versus mio Chichen.
Just that stacked card. So let me

425
00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:40.839
allow you, guys wants again to
take it and just embrace UFC two ninety

426
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:45.519
five in November. Well, yeah, I think Steve Ay is I think

427
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:48.079
a bit of an anomaly at the
moment because he's been out for some time.

428
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.119
There has been talks of that he's
put on some muscle mass now as

429
00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:59.720
well, and he's looking pretty pretty
insane in terms of shape against the John

430
00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.119
Joe Owns who. Yeah, Okay, we didn't see much of him in

431
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.200
his heavyweight debut against the Real Guard
because he made it look so easy and

432
00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:08.640
was able to take going down and
submit him. I can't Steve pay,

433
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:12.720
you know, do you think that
maybe fans might be overlooking it a little

434
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:18.240
bit because step A really caused John
some some problems in this fo He's the

435
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:19.839
thing when it was first announced,
who was I mean, we kind of

436
00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:23.000
saw the reaction immediately from Steve pay
didn't wait, and I know he kind

437
00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:26.039
of want to ignore that and the
whole kind of U turn here about how

438
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.240
this now is on. But he
just didn't really look like he wanted it

439
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.000
when I think I didn't want no. I think there's there's a lot of

440
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.000
personal probably things behind the scenes,
I think, but not only that,

441
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:44.599
I'm not sure well where his relationship
is at with the UFC currently, because

442
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:52.920
you know, he should have got
a rematch against against Gano so and he

443
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.799
was step sided, so you know, and yeah, it was it was

444
00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.960
kind of done for you know,
I think as far as a lot of

445
00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.920
things going on money wise, and
you know, once and all that sort

446
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.240
of thing, he was being quite
difficult, so he had to kind of

447
00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:08.359
deal with that as well. But
also you did touch ned on their head

448
00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:11.039
earlier when you mentioned about this being
quite unique one, not just steep paying

449
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:15.640
himself, but this matchup because we
haven't really seen much from John Jones at

450
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:19.039
this weight class. We haven't really
seen steep for a while as well.

451
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:22.960
We're really kind of going in there
on reputation. It's a legacy fight.

452
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:26.680
You know, at the end of
the day, you've got the best to

453
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.680
ever do it, like heavyweight against
the guy heavyweight who currently has the record

454
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:36.160
for title defenses in step and you
know, and a lot of people you

455
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:41.200
could make arguments the steep a is
the greatest heavyweight of all time purely on

456
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:44.079
that factor. To put him up
there, you've got to put him yeah,

457
00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:45.720
yeah, with the amount of wins
that he's had this heavyweight division.

458
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:51.519
But again, obviously the evolution of
this sport and just what we touched upon

459
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:55.599
the start of the podcast, like
the way the heavyweight division has changed over

460
00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:59.039
the years, and the evolution of
fighters that are coming up now, like

461
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:02.680
you said, like the Courts is
a blaze athletic, tom Asman athletic,

462
00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:07.039
and obviously sure of Garne athletic,
and and then the likes of Joelton are

463
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:14.000
Mader that is an absolute demon at
the moment. But for me, it's

464
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.119
gonna be such an intriguing fight because
we all saw the blueprint of of obviously

465
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:21.599
everyone when it was Jones vers guy
and every I'm saying Jones's wrestling is going

466
00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:23.680
to be a massive advantage in it. But then you look at obviously now

467
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:29.400
steep A, steep has got that
wrestling in his locker. How is Jones

468
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:34.640
going to play at this like it's
been interesting fights? Sorry? Go yeah,

469
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:37.039
and that's it, you know,
it's reputation really going up against reputation,

470
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:39.039
and that's what makes it so a
big fight. But I do feel

471
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:44.119
like maybe the style of the fight
itself probably going to be underdelivered based on

472
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:46.200
what we might all be expecting giving
that being the narrative. But you know,

473
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:50.880
you're right. I mean, the
wrestling from steep A is is going

474
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.119
to be interesting to see see against
John Jones. But the thing I like

475
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:55.880
about John Jones is he is adaptable, is quite dynamic. You know,

476
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:02.720
wrestling isn't is yawing? I think
it's no. I think Jones. Jones

477
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.319
is a better wrestler. I think
than Steeper he was his he was it

478
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.960
was his first discipline at the end
of the day, and I think he

479
00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:14.519
was. I mean, I don't
know because obviously being from the UK,

480
00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.720
we don't really know too much about
wrestling. But I don't know if if

481
00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:22.880
maybe Brian might be able to touch
point on so what Jones was like back

482
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.440
in his day in the wrestling,
whether he was a bit of an animal

483
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:30.240
at that, you know, But
yeah, I do know for sure that

484
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:34.039
was that was this sort of mean. Yeah, And we can't leave this

485
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:38.599
card without mentioning JK. You ready, We can't mention without mentioning ah ah

486
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:50.720
ah ah. Well those who can't
see, mate, they are jumping the

487
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:52.880
gun on me, and now we
have to address it. It's the thing.

488
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:58.279
What you're missing in case you're you're
not including two in blackad nation is

489
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:01.759
the question is is he fan or
not? Is he fan? That is

490
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:07.039
the question? Side Are you an
Issy fan or are you an Alex fan?

491
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.719
Because this has been the debate.
You can you can go off body

492
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:15.119
language and mannerisms. We need to
get that cleared up right here and now

493
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:21.119
let's hear the debate and Alex Perea
lay it all out, gentlemen. All

494
00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:22.400
right, So here it is.
And I'm looking right down to barrel and

495
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.800
camera for this one. So here
we go. I have to tell you,

496
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:31.880
honestly, I'm a fight fan out
of boast. Oh that's such as

497
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:43.679
you are not look is the thing
when recognized as ability doesn't strikes. And

498
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:45.199
I don't hold my hands up in
a situation. Don't hate on the guy.

499
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:49.800
I don't, but I do want
to talk about like the reason why

500
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:53.599
I'm so passionate and I sort of
stand why am a lot is because he

501
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:58.360
was one of my first loves in
the sport, Like he is my favorite

502
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:02.679
fighter statistically. I kind of also, he really resonates nostalgically with a lot

503
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:07.559
of my childoo too in terms of
like the Airbender from the Avatar and you're

504
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:12.280
pulling back his last series. I'm
just like, man, this guy's a

505
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:14.840
bit of me. Like he watches
he watches the anime and he kind of

506
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:17.039
embodies a lot of the characterisms from
it. And I've seen anime as well

507
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:28.400
and his cartoons growing up. Check
do you know I did say one type

508
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:30.639
of one stream. I said,
you know what, I don't really get

509
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.760
painting your nails, But there's only
two people in life. We're never getting

510
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:37.599
pack my nails. Potentially there would
be my daughter when mold up, or

511
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:43.559
is he. I will tell you
one person who did pull off painted fingernails

512
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:50.000
fairly well, was Chris Lieban and
now so it comes down to perception is

513
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:53.119
reality, and my perception of Israel
Artistani. I don't mean to cut you

514
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:55.480
up. I just it's kind of
like I had to kind of roll with

515
00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.559
this thought now because Israel Artistsania has
proven to me when it to the middle

516
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:04.039
weights, he's got to be the
Kobe of this generation. If you're gonna

517
00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.239
pick the MJ of the middle weights, I would have to give it to

518
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:12.000
Anderson Silver just for the longevity,
just for the legacy that he left behind.

519
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:15.880
But when it came to Israel,
is this the guy that is going

520
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:19.119
to surpass him? Because you're always
looking for that in the sport. Who's

521
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:23.159
gonna surpass Mike Tyson, Who's gonna
turpass Tyson? Fury, who's gonna surpass

522
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:28.320
MJ? Well, Kobe and lebron
are I have been working at that for

523
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:31.159
so long, and there's always the
nostalgic crowd that won't let it go.

524
00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:35.360
So that's where I say that at
this point we have to kind of give

525
00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:38.679
Izzy. Currently, I'd give him
the Kobe status just for the sake of

526
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:42.880
if he were to go in and
do a longer stretch as the middle light

527
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.480
Champion again, I'd probably give it
to him, but him and Alex.

528
00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:50.519
I told people on this podcast,
I said the one guy who could stop

529
00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:53.159
him is Alex. I didn't say
he could stop In in the redemption match,

530
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:58.000
and sure enough that's not what happened. So I just kind of for

531
00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:00.239
those that were waiting for it,
you can tune in on your favorite black

532
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:07.320
Head podcast and get the truth from
side. You just got it now exactly

533
00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:10.840
you've said it there, Like I
love the way you broke that down that

534
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:15.840
Brian, just to touch upon Obviously, everyone would have their opinions on obviously

535
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:19.039
who's the best middleway, But for
me, it's it's still going to be

536
00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:22.079
Anderson Silver, just purely because he
had that aura about him and it was

537
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.760
like, who's going to beat this
guy? And for for Izzie, I

538
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.079
don't know what it was, but
he just didn't have that nostalgia and that

539
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:35.679
sort of aura about him he did
for me. But does he have to

540
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:37.639
building cross over the way? Yeah, oh yeah, I've got I don't

541
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:42.000
know, obviously, izz he's beaten
Silver. I'm just saying during the era

542
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:45.480
and obviously that was yeah it maybe
I mean, part of it might have

543
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:51.960
been the fact that Alison Silver was
doing the whole like matrix movements and stuff,

544
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.960
and at the time it was like
nothing that we've seen before. You

545
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:58.079
know what he did to Forrest Griffin, you know when he went up the

546
00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:01.119
weight class and did all that,
and then you know fire that one too

547
00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:06.880
that just put him down, and
and like and again Againt Stephen Bonnar rest

548
00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:09.000
in piece as well when he was
against the cage, hands down and and

549
00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:12.760
then just blitched him and it was
like, you know, I've never seen

550
00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.360
it before. So yeah, that's
that element. I think there's something to

551
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.320
do with it. Yeah, I've
got so little styles are busy and the

552
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.840
way you use a kickbox and that
that for me was just quite exciting.

553
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:24.320
So that that kind of gave me
like, man, this guy's fast as

554
00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:28.039
quick and you know the head movement
he's got as well. Yeah, but

555
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:30.480
you know he's lot too flashy as
Anderson silver Stading was, but he could

556
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:35.239
back it up and you can afford
and he could afford to be right technical

557
00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:37.199
standpoint, yes, I get what
you're seeing side, and I'll go it

558
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:42.119
just comes down to when you look
at Anderson, do you have the background

559
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.320
you had of being the guy who
stopped Chris Leeban, who stopped Rich Franklin,

560
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:50.000
who had the historic rivalry with Chail's
son, and that brought so many

561
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.519
people into watching before cron and McGregor
ever stepped into the cage on this side

562
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.800
was sur probably looking through Cage Warriors. It's just one of those sometimes the

563
00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:01.280
narrative is going to be the perspective
will buy into and I he has the

564
00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:07.599
technical ability, but something about his
ability to reach people the way Anderson did

565
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:13.320
and actually go from villain to LoVa
will face. It's just he had all

566
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:17.280
those components and he definitely have the
technical ability that could surpass it. It's

567
00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:22.440
just there's a couple of roadblocks that
are just who are we to say that

568
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:27.000
he shouldn't be eventually in the top
five, top ten greatest of all time.

569
00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.000
But every time you look at a
top three list, you always see

570
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.079
three names in there. You see
Anderson, you see Jones, and you

571
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:39.360
see GSP. Three are always there. But listen, and also one thing

572
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:43.320
I do have to mention, no, did you meant you slipped Tim frank

573
00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:47.199
k in their ash, but mention
where every points of ask that stands in

574
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:50.840
that position, they all have to
stand the same test or go for the

575
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.199
same chial and that's really standing up
to the next generational fighter that comes through.

576
00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:58.239
So is he for example, has
owned the division in his time when

577
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.880
he was at the peak, we've
seen having who losses tear but definitely be

578
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:05.440
come from the next generation of fighter
coming through the division and stopping him.

579
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:07.760
But everyone who was in there when
he entered, he cleaned it out,

580
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:10.159
he was he owned it. He
made it his bitch, he really did.

581
00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:15.320
And now you really did. Yeah, read it confidently as well.

582
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:17.760
And you see the same thing with
Chano. She has stop multiple generations of

583
00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:22.440
fights coming through, but this particular
generation coming up now it's it's it's given

584
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:28.719
us something. That's the perfect example
example right for diehard MMA fans like ourselves,

585
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.360
I embrace everything you just said.
Side it just comes down to as

586
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:35.960
a whole to get more people into
the into the building. You know,

587
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.599
there's just something about that where Anderson
did this, and is he could still

588
00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:44.920
possibly potentially do that if he were
able to retain it. It's it's it's

589
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:49.800
an interesting discussion, but I from
a diehard MMA fan, I concur with

590
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:53.159
you so much. And you know
it's again these guys make me better when

591
00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:57.280
it comes to me in an MMA
fan and I don't want to forget one

592
00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.880
huge gym the Christmas present we get
for December when we go back to Vegas.

593
00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:04.960
Can we take a look at the
last pay per view for this year?

594
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.360
Just some big moments for UFC two
ninety six before I plug you guys

595
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:14.360
and we call her a day.
Edwards, finally they got it. Does

596
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:16.360
it should have happened? Do you
think this matchup? Yeah, they were,

597
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:20.440
they were there well no, I
mean I knew they were targeting it.

598
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:24.639
Of course. I think there's a
lot of politics involved because of it.

599
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:30.719
I thought this card was going was
meant for the headline of McGregor versus

600
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:36.559
Chandler. Obviously, for certain testable
reasons, that fight is not going to

601
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:39.159
take place in this date. But
look Edwards versus Coventon, I think he's

602
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:46.039
a very intrigued one. Of course, it's Colby's not has been very active

603
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:52.920
in recent years. He's only been
sort of seeking title fight opportunities. I

604
00:41:53.039 --> 00:42:00.599
think this one has presented it to
himself because he still he could deal with

605
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:05.000
the UFC. I always wonder what
he's got over the he was just purely

606
00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.079
because the must vital charges. You
know, the UFC clearly wanted to make

607
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:12.679
a fight against him and mars Vidal. Well, they made they made the

608
00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:16.559
fire, didn't they? And and
they clearly wanted to get mus Vidal back

609
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:22.400
in there and and complete I think
was didn't they? Yeah? Yeah,

610
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:28.760
And I think Colby dropping the charges
had something to do with him getting the

611
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:32.559
next episode. Yeah, that's why
I think you've got a better Mohammad.

612
00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:37.800
There A lot of people obviously may
not obviously fight a wise light bam habbit,

613
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:39.679
but obviously his resume speaks to itself, and obviously he's on that win

614
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:45.800
street that he's on for a reason. Yeah. Stylistically though, I still

615
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.039
think that the Kobe Leon is more
interesting than Leon versus Mhammad, because we've

616
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:52.559
seen a part of Muhammad versus Lyon, and we saw Leon was piece of

617
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:55.079
Muhammad up. Obviously, what would
n't with that head kick to start off

618
00:42:55.119 --> 00:43:00.280
with. Obviously we've seen what the
heck kick can do. But but yeah,

619
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:05.400
if Covie could put a pace only
and we've seen obviously what Usman done

620
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:09.719
to Leon and put a pace on
him, and but then Leon obviously struck

621
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:14.800
it up. The head shot dead. But yeah, I'm brain tragued in

622
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:17.960
this fight, obviously rooting for Leon, but I'm actually I'm not gonna lie.

623
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:24.480
I wouldn't actually mind it if COVID
one though slowly. You just want

624
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:28.800
the complete puzzle, don't you,
The end of twenty twenty three, the

625
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:32.519
complete puzzle of shan Omanley Championships,
Trickland champion, and Colby commented, But

626
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:36.920
I know, I think one thing
that can happen next after that rise Mitchell.

627
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:44.440
Yeah, I was gonna say the
end of the world, but yeah,

628
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:51.079
no, I think I think Leon's
capable of. Look, he's takedown

629
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:54.679
defriends. Who has really shown recently, you know, it showed against an

630
00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:59.639
usman. Yes, okay, you
could flip it and say, well usman

631
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:05.360
is knees and you're not quite right, and he's had injury issues and staff.

632
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:07.719
You could, you know, they
could play into it a little bit.

633
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:13.679
But I think he's I think we're
going to see Leon stuff some takedowns

634
00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:16.639
from Colby. I think we will. You have to, and that's where

635
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:20.280
he's going to shine make him pay
for it. But like I said,

636
00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:23.119
if Kobe can get his game plan
on, then it's gonna be a long

637
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:27.639
night for Leon, but then you
rolls reversed. If Leon can can stuff

638
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.639
them takedowns and make Kobe pay,
it's gonna be a long night for Kobe's.

639
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:32.400
It's the cardio factor. For me. I think there's gonna be more

640
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:37.639
intriguing the longer the fight goes on. It's because because Colby can put a

641
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:42.960
pace and maintain it throughout. It's
whether or not he can physically make Leon

642
00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:46.360
drown and those later rounds. Yeah, but how can we not talk about

643
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:52.599
L. L. Cucumber against Paddy. We've got to talk about that fight

644
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:57.960
again, I said. I said
this during the live watch long last week,

645
00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:02.440
saying that we will all go gunning
for the Paddy versus Matt Frovola fighting

646
00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:07.840
made sense in the days. Obviously
Matt Frovoli was gunning for it again.

647
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:12.960
He did not need or necessarily he
shouldn't have took like called for this fight

648
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.480
because he's hiring the rankings. He's
basically given Paddy a chance to be ranked.

649
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:20.679
But I've got to give it to
the UFC for holding out. They've

650
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.360
They've done a good fight. Obviously, sent Denis first map for Vola.

651
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.480
That's a great fight again, A
lot of people would prefer the Paddy versus

652
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.000
for Vola, but the USC are
very smart in making this fight between Tony

653
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:35.679
Fergson and Paddy, reason being for
me, they're kind of protecting Paddy like

654
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.639
they did Shawn and Malley. And
we all we all know Tony Ferguson's and

655
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:43.679
name in the UFC, and if
Paddy Pimlet goes in there and beats a

656
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:46.320
name of Tony Ferguson, we are
honestly off to the races with Paddy Pimmelet

657
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:50.400
because he's going to be he will
definitely have a rank number next to his

658
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:55.440
name on the Tuesday after well exactly. I know a lot of people will

659
00:45:55.440 --> 00:46:01.440
say so washed Tonia Ferguson and to
tend to agree he's not the same old

660
00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:05.559
Channion folks and of old, which
I do agree. But the main factor

661
00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:08.440
is bunning Virtuon is still a name, and we've got to agree on that.

662
00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:12.480
He's still a name. And I
think if Paddy goes in there and

663
00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:15.559
beats him, then again we're off
to the races of Paddy Bibleet. But

664
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:20.639
I think we've also got to cling
on to the factors of some of Tony's

665
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:24.360
recent losses, he's been really unlucky. And obviously the Bobby Green one probably

666
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:28.920
not so much. But the Nate
ds fight, he was looking great in

667
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:35.719
that until he got caught and sorry
Chandler one. Yeah, the Michael Chandler

668
00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:37.199
one as well. Yeah, to
get into to that, you know,

669
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:43.000
he had a phenomenal first round.
The kid took him down. Yeah,

670
00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:45.079
he's doing pretty Yeah he has.
Like you said, as well, you've

671
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:47.480
got to look at the resume of
who the guy who is fought as well.

672
00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:51.639
Like, like I know, I
said, he's on the dwnhood trajectory.

673
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:53.320
But the days he is fought at
the top, at the top of

674
00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:57.760
this lockwere division and spirit. We
can go on forever talking about how stack

675
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:00.840
the lower division is. It will
always be stacked. And the guys Tony

676
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:06.159
Fershon has fought by Bobby Green,
I've been killers. Yeah, to be

677
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.599
honest, you know, as an
early prediction, I would be actually in

678
00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:13.920
favor of picking Tony Ferguson, and
that that one just based off of like

679
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:16.559
previous performances, you know. Yeah, Okay, like you said, Tony

680
00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:21.039
Ferguson's lost. There have been the
cream of the crop of the division.

681
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:25.679
When you go back to Paddy Premlet's
recent fight. You know, he scraped

682
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:30.280
that Jared Gordon fighting in a fight
that not a lot of people felt that

683
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:32.360
he won. You know a lot
of people felt that Joe Gordon should have

684
00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:36.440
got the nod that night. And
if he's struggling to beat someone like Jared

685
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:38.599
Gordon, what's he going to do
coming up against the Tony Ferguson, who's

686
00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:42.960
very experienced. I hear that.
But also you can probably attack this from

687
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.280
a sort of superstition angle too,
and in a sense that you can just

688
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.119
play your cards and numbers a lot
of averages to suggest that he's bound to

689
00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:52.559
win or one of these days,
you know what I mean. After after

690
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:53.840
a little speak like that, it's
like you know, when you you're at

691
00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:57.039
the traffic lights and you're just looking
at it and it's red, You're like,

692
00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:00.840
nah, naw. It's like the
same every time Tony Cleon stepped into

693
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:04.119
the ring to the oxtagon, it's
always been like, Okay, he's gonna

694
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:07.079
win that. Surely he's gonna win
now, surely, you know, and

695
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:08.760
then and eventually it will come and
you'll be right one of those times.

696
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:12.760
So yeah, I think I think
it's probably going to also hit on that

697
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.800
on that one. Two. I
think it's it's about time he does get

698
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:22.159
a win, especially you could go
as well. It could regenerate Ferguson's career

699
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:24.599
if he goes in there and beats
a star and Paddy Bimlett. Yeah,

700
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:29.639
it might every time you fight.
So you know the same thing. I

701
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:31.159
tend to think it's going to be
leaving, he's going to retire, you

702
00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:36.800
know, maybe he's waiting to that
win before he does. That is where

703
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.440
I need my opening, because here's
the thing. I have gone back and

704
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:43.159
forth with this fight so many times, and I'm still on the side.

705
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.800
I'm gonna give you guys, wife
B's pros and cons, and I'm gonna

706
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.039
say the pros are I can't look
away. I can't look away from a

707
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:55.679
fighter that I respect, to a
guy who I am anticipating to be one

708
00:48:55.760 --> 00:49:01.679
of the next big guys that you
know, he's deaf carried over similarly what

709
00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:07.480
Connor McGregor did. He's done this
with Liverpool and bringing his fans over to

710
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:10.599
Vegas. The pros are I can't
look away. I've got to know what

711
00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:15.519
happens with this fight. The cons
for me, are if Patty wins,

712
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:21.639
it's not necessarily a great outcome for
him because he just beat one of the

713
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:25.199
most respected guys in MMA. MMA
fans, how are they really going to

714
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:30.000
accept that too? If he loses
to Patty, that's not good for him

715
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:34.880
either, because you're coming off a
guy who has a six loss right even

716
00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:37.000
though they were killers. People look
at the rankings and look at that.

717
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:40.760
Most people don't look in depth like
we do. They go always lost six

718
00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:45.480
fighters, and now he's lost to
him. I don't see a great outcome

719
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:46.719
for Patty on this one. I
see a great venue, I see a

720
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:51.679
great fight, I see a great
build up, I see post fight.

721
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:54.679
Not really good things happening for Patty
right away with this one. When it

722
00:49:54.760 --> 00:50:00.400
comes to Tony Ferguson, it hurts
because I'm like, man, are y'all

723
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:06.000
really trying to throw a beloved guy
like l Cucumber to the MMA gods and

724
00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:09.480
sacrifice him? Or two? Do
you really think that low of this guy

725
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:14.800
who has been one of the most
gritty and one of the most beloved fights

726
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.239
and fighters for it the MMA fans
as a whole, So it is so

727
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.199
conflicting for me. The pros are. I can't look away. The coins

728
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:24.960
are what real good comes out of
the out of this except for a win

729
00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:29.559
for Tony Ferguson. Take it you
can. You can dissect it and destroy

730
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:31.440
it if you want to feel free. Gentlemen, what I'm hearing from you

731
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:35.239
at the moment is and I run
understand by what you're saying, because a

732
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:37.760
lot of people have been saying what
they might like to happen and who wins.

733
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:42.159
But what you're saying here is effectively
you're looking at lose lose. You

734
00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:45.159
know, there's there's no real wins, you know it, then maybe a

735
00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:49.000
just think exciting fight on the day. That's the best thing you can hope

736
00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:50.960
for. Your best you will,
you could. The best thing can hope

737
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:52.719
for is that whoever loses goes down
their shield and it just respect and goes

738
00:50:52.719 --> 00:51:00.199
down and ensure you know. Yeah, yeah, we don't know how miss

739
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:05.320
is gonna respond to this either,
agreed, Yeah, no, it's it's

740
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:09.360
it's well said, and I reckon
the best worst case scenario, you know,

741
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:15.679
the best of a bad situation.
It's probably gonna be it's just gonna

742
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:17.760
it would be Patty larger because you
just think he's got that future. He's

743
00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:22.360
people spoke about him being like next. I just don't think he's quite got

744
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:23.880
the ability though. That's the thing. I agree with you. I agree

745
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:27.760
with you, But you know this
is I think it would have to see

746
00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.239
this and some more improvement from him
just to hope for something like that.

747
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:34.239
So there might be some hope and
Patty, But then with with with al

748
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:38.000
Cucumber, it's just it's just satisfinals
hardcore fans at least, and you know,

749
00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:43.320
maybe you can rest in peace one
days, you know. Yeah.

750
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:46.920
The thing is with Patty is I
don't really see someone who's striving to become

751
00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:52.000
a champion. I think he's I
see someone who's striving to make as much

752
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.800
money as he can in such a
short period of time. Yeah, yeah,

753
00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.159
because I mean, like I can't
see much in provements in his game

754
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:05.679
in this fight, purely because he's
had a lot of troubles with injuries.

755
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:08.440
Of course, he's had the ankle
injury since jured Gordon fight, so I

756
00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:13.679
don't think he's had enough time.
If he were to lose against Sonny Ferguson,

757
00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:17.039
I think the best option for him
would be to take at least a

758
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:22.960
year out. Yeah, just to
work on craft, you know, without

759
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:29.239
you know, without any injuries or
anything like that. I'm stay in the

760
00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:32.239
gym. You're talking about a fighter
who was offered the contractor Johnny UFC and

761
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:36.960
then said now I'm not ready yet, which which which is smart? But

762
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:39.440
now he's in the UFC. He's
got the taste of the UFC money,

763
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:44.679
you know, So there's a there's
a big there's a big leap and a

764
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:45.920
big difference there. Yeah, okay, you can go on and to do

765
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:50.599
even more. But I think if
he's mindset is really to do that,

766
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:55.320
then he needs to at least own
up to some of the areas of the

767
00:52:55.360 --> 00:53:00.840
game that he's lacking and really working. Yes, and just that just the

768
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:02.960
last little thing for me. Just
like I've said to you boys before,

769
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:09.280
I can't see Paddy him. They've
been in there with the top six,

770
00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:13.840
top five of the division. I
just really can't see it. You can

771
00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:16.280
you could you see Paddy versus Gamrol, Paddy versus by Zev. I just

772
00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:20.119
I just can't see it, just
purely because I don't think Paddy will get

773
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:22.800
there, and that's just that's on
his hands up truth. I just can't

774
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:27.400
see it. Yeah, he may
beat the bottom end of the division like

775
00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:30.519
fair enough, but just to see
him in there with the likes of like

776
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:35.960
gamrozev Dus Charles Olivera, for instance, I just I can't see it.

777
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.440
I'm sorry. I couldn't see him
being in there with Drew Dover and you

778
00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:43.840
know who Dover just got beat by. Yeah, yeah, who just called

779
00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:46.679
him out. So you guys are
saying the same thing I'm saying. It's

780
00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:50.679
just like I said, there's so
many pros and cons to it. It's

781
00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:53.880
just meant we're spoiled fans. We
wanted Metrovola to get what he asked for,

782
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:57.519
but here's where we are. This
is what we got, and it's

783
00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:02.480
still a very complex fight that I
can't watch. I can't not watch.

784
00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:07.320
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I
agree with you, But you know,

785
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:10.760
for the duration for it's gonna be
nice little Christmas present at least that card

786
00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:19.159
yes or Pantoja Roival. Yeah,
you've got rap Off versus Thompson, that's

787
00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:22.880
gonna be a banker as well.
And then of course Leo Luke against Ian

788
00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:28.440
Gary Ivan Machado Gary, who is
four Fight of the Year as well.

789
00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:34.559
I'm highlighted earlier on the socials,
So you know that's pretty impressive. Most

790
00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:38.119
value, Oh yeah, it's too
Yeah, that's gonna come around Christmas too.

791
00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:44.880
We tend to have this most valued
person player Fighter of the Year Mason

792
00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:46.880
who fights the most, who's really
increased rankings the most as well, So

793
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:51.119
we'll be doing that around Christmas time
too, so he really get a get

794
00:54:51.159 --> 00:54:54.239
a view on that our thoughts,
which that means blockhead Nation, you're going

795
00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:59.840
to be tuning in for a lot
more content coming from ATF because you just

796
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:02.119
hurt. I love those fights you
just talked about Ian Gary and Luke.

797
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:07.800
I'm in when it comes to wonder
More taking that fight against Rockmanov. Hats

798
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:12.079
off to you for showing your grit. I'm very impressed with a total respect

799
00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:15.960
to wonder Boy. But yes,
we're gonna keep on pushing ATF and your

800
00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:21.360
channel. And I will say this, Blockhead Nation, you cannot tell me

801
00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:23.920
you can't find their panels. Everything
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802
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:28.599
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803
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804
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805
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806
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:43.599
you to find these guys. But
to be fair, before we wrap up

807
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and we put a ball on this
one, are there any further plugs that

808
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you guys ash side JK want to
leave with my listeners or anybody that's viewing

809
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in on YouTube. If you want
to leave any plugs, this is your

810
00:55:55.440 --> 00:55:59.760
chance to do it. Gentlemen,
you have the floor once again. Hey,

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stick around. I mean, I'm
not sure when you're going to be

812
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hearing this podcast necessarily, but we
do have a fighter quing aligned up this

813
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coming Monday. What's the date on
Monday? I actually didn't even know.

814
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Second second of October. That's right
with Kyle Nelson, a Canadian mm A

815
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fighter uf see and he's my two
fight win streak at the moment, so

816
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we're gonna be talking to him about
his last fight and what's potentially next for

817
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:32.039
him to do. Make sure you
check out our channel and you've got the

818
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:38.199
notifications on as well, so then
you know when we're live to well when

819
00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:42.679
we're live to talk to to Kyle
Nelson and you can join in get your

820
00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:47.360
questions asked. We you know,
don't leave any stone unturned, especially with

821
00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:51.840
the fans. Fans come first with
this channel, and yeah, and everything

822
00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:53.039
else that's got to come your ways. I think that's one of the unique

823
00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:55.519
things about ATF itself, isn't it. It's just you know, we the

824
00:56:55.559 --> 00:56:59.280
way we do things is we like
to create a platform for you guys to

825
00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:01.079
have your voice heard. So so
if you're tuning live on on on the

826
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weekends, then then look fantastic.
You're gonna be in the chats, you're

827
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:07.320
gonna be shouted out, and we'll
be talking about the fights together. And

828
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if it's for these fighter Q and
as you get those questions answered and we'll

829
00:57:10.079 --> 00:57:14.000
ask an answered there and then basically
so it's quite exciting. But I have

830
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:15.159
to say as well, you know, amongst all of that, it's you

831
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:17.519
know, that's how we met,
which is I have to say, he

832
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:24.559
is actually my favorite blockhead. Yeah
it's true. Yeah, it's only about

833
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:29.480
you man, And it's fantastic And
thanks so much for this, Thanks so

834
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:31.840
much for this. You know,
this, this this incredible introductions, incredible

835
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:35.880
opportunity to share this platform with you
and talk and really get under the herd

836
00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:37.440
about what's to come up, and
you know, I am excited about what's

837
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:40.519
to come this year fight wise and
excited to do many more of these with

838
00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:44.079
you as well. Man. But
yeah, your favorite blockhead. You are

839
00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:46.599
my favorite blockhead. You are the
man. And just just just to touch

840
00:57:46.679 --> 00:57:51.039
on what Jaken so I was saying
as well. And obviously if you haven't

841
00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:53.719
heard, Brian's out already, obviously
we do weekly watch alongs. Don't watch

842
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:58.760
alone, watch along and join our
amazing community. Brian's the main man.

843
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:05.639
Now, yeah, gentlemen, have
to say flaw on the flag, I

844
00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:08.199
do. I do appreciate, Yeah, I do appreciate the con words.

845
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:12.639
But again, I have the opportunity
of a lifetime to talk to you guys.

846
00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:15.440
I hope that I've rolled out the
red carpet enough for you guys that

847
00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:20.400
we will welcome you back in the
future. But those that are listening in,

848
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:23.159
whether it's through audio or watching this
video right now, you know every

849
00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:27.840
Saturday that I'm going to come back
with you with more content. We're gonna

850
00:58:27.880 --> 00:58:30.559
talk about Peanuts, We'll talk about
MMA next week. We will continue moving

851
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:35.440
forward with this platform where over three
hundred episodes deep and we got many more

852
00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:38.079
coming, so I will say this, thank you once again guys for tuning

853
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:42.519
in. This is your favorite blockhead. I've been joined by the at f

854
00:58:42.679 --> 00:58:45.679
MMA channel and we will see you
guys next Saturday, same blockhead time,

855
00:58:46.320 --> 00:59:00.679
same blockhead ship led to the all