Feb. 2, 2025

An Uneasy Feeling About An MMA Fighter's Downfall

An Uneasy Feeling About An MMA Fighter's Downfall

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that being said, the little Redhead girls giving me the

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go ahead, so we see we go ahead and start

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the show, shall we.

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Broadcasting? Live? Good evening, Blockhead Nation. Thank you for stopping by.

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Once again, I apologize for the delay and I will

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explain my tardiness to you. Briefly, you are listening to

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your favorite Blockhead, the only podcast in the podcasting world

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that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute,

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and then me talking about MMA and Warriors inside the

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Octagon the next. I am your host. My name is

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Brian Little. And for those that are not familiar with

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this show, let me clarify something. Three things are always

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talked about on this podcast. Number one, God is King.

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Number two, Peanuts is the single most successful comic strip

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in American history. And number three, mixed martial arts is

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the greatest sport under God's hot sun. Besides that, I

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am a teacher by day and a podcaster by weekend.

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It means Monday through Friday, I'm in the classroom with

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the kids. On Saturday, I'm on the microphone talking to

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you Blockhead Nation. But there are those weekends when you

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have an extra call to duty. For those that are

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not familiar with this, there is something called the University

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Interscholastic League.

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Most of my listeners know what.

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UIL is is a long competition day that usually gets

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drawn out from sun up till sundown, and so it's

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my only excuse for not getting this episode out earlier

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to you.

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But here we are.

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I fired up the microphone and we're ready to go.

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So thank you for bearing with me as I got

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this episode out and starting with what's going on with

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the Peanuts? Because I've been away from the Blockhead mansion

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all day, wasn't exactly sure what I was going to discuss,

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And just like always, all I gotta do is pull

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up the Charles Schultz Museum either on Facebook or Instagram

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not quickly, have a few talking points right away. And

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this is actually really exciting news from the website and from.

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The social media pages. It shows that the Charles.

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Schultz Museum has been nominated by USA Today in the

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top ten Best Reader Choices Award to be nominated for

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best pop Culture Museum. I mean, let's go ahead and

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give them a big round of applause.

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Very deserving, very exciting.

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But that does mean that the Charles Schultz Museum needs

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our help, Blockhead Nation, So guess what I'm gonna do.

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You have a link today in the blog your favorite

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Blockhead dot com slash blog. You will see the link

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for ten best dot USA Today dot com and you

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will see where the Charles Schultz museum. You can vote

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for them to win for Best Pop Culture Museum. I

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love that because the museum, as it says here, is

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filled with exhibits and celebrates Charles Schultz's delightful animated characters

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and very much portrays his life. So if you not

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check this out, please go to the link in the

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blog and vote for the Charles Schultz Museum.

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That's exciting.

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So I wanted to mention that one right away. If

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I'm going to utilize a comic strip, well, I was

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given one once again by Charles Schultz Museum a couple

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of days back. This one is intriguing. This was back

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from January twenty seventh, nineteen seventy four. You have Snoopy

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typing out a story, creating his narrative like he normally does,

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and the title is a cry of anguish by one

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who's been there.

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Now.

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What's unique about this is normally he's writing in first

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person or in third person narrative, usually in the masculine sense.

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If you look right away to the comic strip, it

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says what can I do?

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She moaned.

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It's not commonplace for Charles Schultz to use the feminine

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approach here, but if you follow this out. This might

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have been something that was created by maybe his wife

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Jeane at the time. It could have been a fan

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based male that had been sent to him. And it

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says this continued. What it says something Sometimes it seemed

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that life was too much for her. Sometimes she felt

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that it was no longer possible to cope with her problems,

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a very identifiable problem. And he starts with the phrase

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she wanted to go outside and scream. Well, apparently whoever

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this person in the story is must have either stepped

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out on their porch or opened the back door and

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started to shriek at the top of their lungs to

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where the exclamation of uugh. Not only if you read

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it from a grammatical approach, it's totally misspelled.

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It looks like it's just typed.

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Out in an angry fashion.

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But second of all.

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It does something else that's not commonplace, that y'all schuls

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only didn't do.

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It elapses over to.

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Boxes. It's not confined to one. It carries over to

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the second comic strip box and you see Snoopy sit back,

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square up his shoulders and say, I have just written

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the longest scream in the history of English literature. I

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can't confirm if he did that, but I can tell

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you right away that reminds me of a story of

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a friend of mine that I served.

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With on my ship.

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A lot of people have forgotten that I was a

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US Navy sailor at one point in my life block

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in nation, served on the USS Pearl Harbor, proudly did

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two deployments from two thousand and seven in two thousand

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and eight, very much proudly served my country, and very

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much proudly served the survivors of the Pearl Harbor attacks.

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But there was a sailor on board my ship that

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I remember that decided that he wanted to go straight

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to the front office of Dorito's.

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It's gonna sound ridiculous.

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But hear me out. He said that he wanted to

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go up to the CEO have a meeting with him,

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to where the owner looks at him and goes, what

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did you want to see me about? And he would

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shrug his shoulders and go, oh, nothing except.

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And then just rear back.

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And come with a beautiful overhand right right to his temple.

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And if you're drawing this out in a comic strip

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or a comic book, narrative, then this punch, this super smack,

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would actually carry across maybe twenty four comic book pages.

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And what do you see in the last page of

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the comic book the CEO of Dorito's laying in an

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X on the floor.

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This was what he talked about.

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And I finally, as I walked in on the back

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end of that discussion, I said, why would you want

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to go to the CEO of Dorito's and knock him

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out cold the way you're talking about? And he said,

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have you looked inside of a bag of Dorito's lately?

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It's fifty percent chips and fifty percent compact air. And

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this is why I would like to snack him.

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And leave him lay it out on the floor. Fair enough.

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So as far as if he were to go on

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and create that comic book, then his punch would surpass

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the longest scream in the history of English literature that

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you can only find in the Peanuts comic strip. So

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I don't know if he has lived out that dream

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or not. I couldn't tell you, but to conclude on

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one more basis for Snoopy. A few days after that

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comic strip was put out through social media on the

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Charles Schultz Museum. Another one surfaced from nineteen fifty five

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that was talking about the year of the Snake. We

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are in a lunar new year as of this point,

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So the Pants comic strip did that It's due diligence

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by showing Snoopy fantasizing about being a snake and slithering

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along the ground and sneaking up on his prey, only

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to realize that that may not be a great idea

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because these kind of things are hard on the stomach.

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You can see him walking away from the scene with

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his lower abdomen completely discolored from all of that. So

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anytime that I need just to pick up some ideas

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about the Peanuts, even it's from my own mind, I

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guarantee what I'm gonna do is next week I'm gonna

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spend a surmountable amount of time looking at my valentine,

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Charlie Brown. We are looking at the fiftieth anniversary of

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this TV series. I promise I will go into detail

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on that one when I've had a chance to catch

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my breath. I appreciate this isn't my best work today,

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but either way, those who suffer it out with me

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through ul competitions. They know this is one tired blockhead.

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But I would never neglect the Blockhead Nation, and I

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promise I will give it my very best when I

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take a look at me, my Valentine, Charlie Brown in

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detail come next week, if you would please stick around

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as we go into the scripture of the day, which

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is absolute truth, and then a few thoughts of what's

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going on inside of the octagomy. Our scripture for this

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podcast comes from Malaka four verse two. But unto you

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that fear my name, shall the sun of righteousness arise

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with healing in his wings, and he shall go forth

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and grow up as calves of the stall. Now there's

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a lot to unpackage of that Blockhead Nation, but I

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will use the reflection from Bluelair Bible that says this,

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rejoice in the Sun's warming rays and remember the comforting

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power of the Lord of Hosts. Find your joy in

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the way of righteousness Blockhead Nation. Now, because of the

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fact that I was preoccupied throughout the day, that doesn't

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mean that I'm going to be giving you accurate, minute

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by minute live action breakdowns or any highlight reels that

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I can convey to you when it comes to mixed

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martial arts. But I will tell you we have got

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a very important event that just took place as of today.

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Where you have.

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A lot of people that are calling it the downfall

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of arguably the second greatest middleweight in the history of

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the UFC. If I can just go to the co

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main event for a second, I will start with that

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by simply saying, the undefeated streak for Shara Magametov has

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been defeated by former Belator, MMA champion and phenomenon very

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hard to identify with his style, Michael Venom Page. So

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we've gone to a unamus decision here, and I wouldn't

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say the hype train for Shara is over. Is just

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that the streak doesn't continue. But getting into the main

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event Israel Adasanya versus Not Certain and Amovov round two

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KO with thirty seconds to go. This is what I'm

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determining from this fringe contender against Adisaanya. Now, as I

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thought about what's just happened to Izzy, I have this

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uneasy feeling when I saw that and went, WHOA are

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we experiencing the end of an era? Are we seeing

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the end of a career? I started to think the

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same thing that too many that are casual fans in

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the world of mixed martial arts might be currently thinking

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as we spot and I started to get nots in

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my stomach thinking about it. I started to feel uneasy.

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I started to even feel slightly sick by the fact

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that this might be the ultimate downfall that a guy

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who I had mentioned pay attention to, who Israel au

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Desanya is I had mentioned that if anybody is going

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to be the achilles Heel for this guy, it's going

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to be Alex Perera. But thinking about who is he was,

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who he became, the rise and fall, and where we

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currently are with this fight against Imovov, it started to

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really feel uncomfortable.

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And then why have be cracked gas?

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And started to feel just a little bit better about

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where I stood on this because I know the background

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for Izzy. When I started to find other MMA fans

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who are so caught up in recency bias, and they

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say it's time to have the discussion that Israel Adisanya

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just wasn't that great. So I start to get relief

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as I think about the loss to I'moov, But then

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I read things like this and I have to have

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it with a retort. I have to ask questions of

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So you're telling me if Israel Adisanya wasn't that great,

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then are you saying also that Alex Perera is not great?

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Are you telling me that direct Is Duplessis is not

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that great who withstood four rounds with Anasaia until he

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got a submission. Are you telling me that Sean Strickland

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is not that good that it took five rounds to

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get a unanimous decision. You're telling me that, oh, I

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don't know, Jared cannon Ere isn't all that great. You're

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telling me that Robert Whittaker isn't all that great. Marvin Vittori,

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paul A Costa? Do I really need to go down

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the list? Do I need to go down the hit

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list of Israel Adisania just to have a retort and

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show how pathetically weak your argument is If you say

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that Izzy wasn't that good, I can tell you two

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things about Israel Adisania. Number One, Heavy is the head

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that wears the crown. I don't like the persona that

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he took on after he attained and retained the title

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for middleweight over and over again, and then would lose

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it and then gain it back. I don't like who

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he became and who he portrayed.

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I can give you that.

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And second of all, nobody stays champion in the UFC forever.

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There's some that last longer. This is why when we

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speak in longevity that Anderson Silva, a guy who has

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shared the cage with Israel granted post his prime, but

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has shared the cage with Israel Atisanya. Anderson Silva will

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always hold the title for us die hard MMA fans

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and for many casuals as arguably the greatest middleweight in

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the history of the UFC. When you look at any

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Mount rushmore that you accumulate for the best fighters of

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all time, Anderson is normally in the top three. Israel

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Atisanya has been the number two guy that's been constantly

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knocking on his door. And all of a sudden, when

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you have a loss to Sean Strickland, all of a sudden,

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you have a loss to outside of his weight class,

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to Jan Belohovich, all of a sudden, you have oh

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my gosh, Alex Pereira, who becomes his achilles heel where

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the cracks in the armor start to really show. And

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then you have a loss to DDP. And now we

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have a loss to Imovov, And this just spells the

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end to the lineage, to the title defenses and to

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the record that belongs to Israel A Deasnya. Regardless of

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how you feel about the man as a person, with

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the persona that he shows, regardless of all these things,

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the numbers in the track record can speak for themselves.

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And you come back and say, he wasn't that great?

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You better explain that one. And he doesn't need wy

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f B to defend him in any way. But to

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hear that so quickly, to hear the recency bias that

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I don't want to believe is always true in this sport,

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but it continues to rise back to the surface constantly

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in this sport. Now I can tell you as I

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wrap up and bring some closure to where we were

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as of yes as of today's fights that have already finished,

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and the fights are already in the books. If we

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look at the upcoming February twenty second bout for fight Night,

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you got a lot of recognizable names that might be

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worth looking into when they make their way to Seattle.

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You got Henry Sahudo versus China's song Yadam. You got

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Brendan Allen, you got Anthony Hernandez on this card. You've

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got Rob vont You've got Dominant Cruz, You've got Curtis Blades,

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you got Edson Barbosa. So you've got recognizable names that

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are just popping off of the screen. As I start

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to look forward into what is waiting for us on

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the horizon with this year with the UFC, and we're

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already starting to build toward an eventful summer and leading

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to Alex Pereira facing the one guy in the lightweight

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division that he doesn't have a win over.

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In the top five.

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You have Pereira versus Uncleath coming up soon, so plenty

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for me when I'm at my best, for me to

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load the chamber and start to really come at you

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with some really strong content for what's going on in

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the world of MMA. So just bank on that blockhead

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Nation that I'll bring it to you with my very

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best efforts. As when we come back next week, we'll

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focus a lot more on be my Valentine, Charlie Brown,

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and a little bit of the upcoming events. We'll see

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what happens in the fast paced world of X and

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Twitter and everything else that's coming out through the MMA

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dirt sheets. I'll comb through all that and start to

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give you some better emphasis on the most beloved sport

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of my life. And with that I wrap it up.

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I bid you a due block in nation. We'll catch

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you next Saturday, same blockhead time, same blockhead chat.