Episode #290: Can Lightning Strike Twice In The Octagon?

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Broadcasting Live, Good afternoon, Blockhead
Nation. It's great to be talking to

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you after a great week of camp
with the kids. I'm coming back with

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very few notes in front of me. We're just gonna roll with it.

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You are listening to your favorite blockhead, the only podcast in the podcasting world

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that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic
strip one minute and then be talking about

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MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the
next. I am your host. My

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name is Brian Little. In case
you happen to be new to this podcast,

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have stumbled across it, or if
you followed it for a while,

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there are three things that are always
covered in the show. Number One,

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God is King. Number two,
Peanuts is the single most successful comic strip

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in American history. I not only
talk about the comic strip. I talk

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about TV specials, the animated movie, the Charles Schultz Museum. Sometimes I'll

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refercent throughout American history or maybe in
marketing some sort. Either way, Peanuts

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is very dominant. It's probably a
part of your life in some way,

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shape or form. Maybe it's just
for the holidays. And number three,

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Peanuts and MMA are brought together on
this show. It's the only one you'll

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ever find that combines these two that
are as far as East is from the

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west. But mixed martial arts is
my sport. Mixed Martial artists is the

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greyest sport under God's hot sun.
See them still learn how to do this

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stuff again, I'm already stumbling over
my but I'll get to MMA on the

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second part of this show. There's
plenty to talk about. It's a fast

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moving train. But I will tell
you since I don't have a lot of

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things to discuss on this end,
because I'm coming back from camp, I'm

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still kind of getting my bearings a
little bit, you know, after a

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wonderful time out there in the sun
and out there in the water, out

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there just going back and forth with
the kids to different events, and they've

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grown closer to Jesus. It's just
been awesome, and it's just there aren't

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words to describe that, but I
can describe this. Peanuts actually had something

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that came up on the Charles Schultz
Museum website a few days ago, and

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it talked about beauty tips. Now, I'm not sure how many of you

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are into cosmetology or if you're into
beauty tips of any kind, but would

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you believe Snoopy has a few things
to say about it. He actually started

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to write an article on his typewriter
on how to look younger. Now,

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from a comedic standpoint, I think
that was Walter from Jeff Dunham who said

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mean to look younger. That's Thompson's
water seal. I think that was him.

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If but if we look at Snoopy, he's got beauty tips how to

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look younger. He pauses, looks
into the sky, thinks for a second,

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and then he writes for his beauty
tips. I kid you not.

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I think this was released in nineteen
eighty two, something that the first time

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that was ever published by word of
Snoopy. We have a beauty tip which

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is don't be born so soon.
That's his exact verbicge that's the wisdom of

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Snoopy forre the day. And second
of all, on a more serious note,

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I'm really happy to share this.
I know, I know it's belated,

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and I wish it wasn't there since
we had to go to summer camp

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with the kids, there was no
way around doing a belated contributing contributing peace

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to D Day, June sixth has
come and gone. I'm not sure who

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all took the time to stop and
think about that. But I want to

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share something that Charles Schultz himself said. This is an actual quote because sometimes

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people go, yeah, we got
too many holidays celebrated. Some of y'all

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have months. I won't go into
detail. I won't get political with you

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on what this month is supposedly representing. When it comes to commercialization, that

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one can be for a different Probably
you want to go to Loud, to

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Pena or the Empty Slate. You'll
find it out. Speaking of which,

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the Wife Being Networks pranked out a
whole bunch of episodes, all of them.

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We're talking RAA JG casually kicking it, Empty Slate, Loud and Opinia

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put a great episode out a few
days ago. So if you haven't checked

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out the Wife Being Network, they're
in the blog, make sure you go

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do that. But this is an
exact quote from Charles Schultz, and I

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quote, sometimes we do have too
many monuments, we have too many holidays

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and thin of this kind. D
Day is not one of them. No,

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it's one of those days we must
not forget. Absolutely true, as

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it was said to those heroes that
day as they were getting into combat boat.

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They were being told, look to
the left of you, look to

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the right of you. Only one
of you was going to survive this invasion.

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Moving forward on the backs of the
words of Churchill himself, we will

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fight on the beaches, we will
fight on the landing grounds. You know,

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Churchill coming in and cleaning up Neville
Chamberlain's mess, allowing Hitler to run

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amok. That's just going back into
the addles of history. But June sixth

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should be commemorated the historic Normandy invasions. This was very much a pivotal moment

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during World War Two. So if
you're not familiar with Charles Schultz's service,

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he did serve on the twentieth arm
Division. He was a machine gun squad

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leader along what's called the European Theater
of Operations. So Schultz was very much

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hands dirty, knees deep into the
trenches, into the action. He was

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very heavily involved in the combat.
So his service remained an integral part of

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his life and that carried over into
his comic strip now, the one that's

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up on the Charles Schiltz Museum that
has Eisenhower given instructions to the troops as

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they're getting ready. You can see
Snoopy listening to him explain what's going on.

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But that was released in nineteen ninety
eight, So even though he's paid

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homage to them so many times throughout
his career, his comic strip in nineteen

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ninety eight is still two years before
his death, so that is a very

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big part of the comic strips keeping
those alive. But he had mentioned D

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Day on many other situations, so
one of them that absolutely stands out.

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Besides the famous invading Normandy with Snoopy
in the trenches, there was even a

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scene from You're in Love Charlie Brown, I kid you not. There was

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a part where Charlie Brown is trying
to convince himself that he has to go

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talk to the little red haired girl, and he said, and I quote,

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it's the last day of school.
I've got to do it. Tomorrow

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is D Day, so he's going
in full force, and of course,

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sure enough, he misses the bust. So that really worked against him in

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that episode. But I want to
make sure that I had covered those that

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there were beauty tips put out by
Snoopy of all people, that Snoopy is

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very much in the commemorative D Day
comic strip with Eisenhower instructing those who are

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about to storm the beaches, and
so it's very much an integral part of

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his career and part of his comic
strip. This is a cartoonist that did

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not let this day get forgotten in
anyway, and this podcast won't either,

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So very belated respect and homage being
paid to those of D Day and Operation

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Overlord, And as some of you
know, on a lighter note, they

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probably appreciate this summary is here.
And for Charlie Brown, summer was always

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baseball season. I will tell you
there is a stark contrast right now.

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I happen to be from local Dallas
Fort Worth area south of Dallas. A

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lot of the guys that are part
of this networker either from the Dallas area

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or by the Houston area. We're
spread out throughout the state. Okay,

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Texas is very involved in podcasting and
along with some of you other ones that

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are out there. Just in case
you come across this and don't realize where

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I'm coming from. Even though Charlie
Brown's team is known for having one of

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the worst ricords ever, I think
it's nine hundred and nine and nine straight

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games that are lost here pretty dismal. That's not the case right now for

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the Texas Rangers. It's definitely not
the case for a couple of other teams.

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It looks like Will solidified the wild
card. But you know, I'm

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only speaking on behalf of where we
stand currently. I still think that Tampa

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Bay looks like the team to beat
at this point. But it's great to

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see that baseball season has started up
where Charlie Brown and his team fall short

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for us here in Texas, in
the Arlington area, the Texas Rangers certainly

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have not let us down. It
has been nice to see. So I'm

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given a round of applause to be
already phenomenal season and the hot street that

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the Texas Rangers are on. So
this is exciting for me. I normally

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talk mma on this show, but
it's befitting summertime this year. We should

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all be going out and checking out
a few games, whether it's on your

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big screen or whether it is at
the stadium. Either way, when it

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comes to Charlie Brown, that's a
different story that he has a lot of

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polishing to do. But I wanted
to make sure I figure that out that

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I talk about that with y'all.
That MS baseball season for Charlie Brown,

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and so far it's been a beautiful
season for the Texas Rangers. That makes

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this Texas boy extremely happy. So
that any further Ado, thank you for

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sticking with me for the first part
of this. We'll go ahead and get

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the scripture of the day, in
which is always the most important part.

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God is King. That's parable that
I'm working in with you, and then

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we will get into what's been happening
in the world of mixed martial arts.

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We're almost ten episodes away from episode
three hundred. For sure, I will

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be taking a breather for three weeks
on this podcast, not because I want

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to, but because I will be
preoccupied in West Texas taking care of my

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mother, taking care of Senora Blockhead. I will pick up back with you

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guys before three hundred. We'll walk
through how that episode will work. If

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you're still interested in being part of
the top ten things I've always wanted to

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say to WIFB. I need nine
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of them filled now I still have
four slots open. So if you're interested,

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reach out, contact dm me,
let me know and we'll keep this

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podcast going, but we will start
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going on in the world of mixed
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notes for today's show. Let's get
back to the episode. Our scripture reinf

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this podcast comes from Romans, chapter
eight, Verse thirty moreover whom he did

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predestinate them. He also called,
and whom he called them, he also

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justified, and whom he justified them, he also glorified. Reflection from Blue

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Layer Bible says the Lord will glorify
those whom he has already justified. The

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use of glorified here presents the act
of our glorification as being something complete and

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finished. Even though we cannot view
it as a completed action from our human

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vantage point, God views it as
already complete. Now to ship can the

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mix martial arts where there's a lot
of incomplete chapters, some of them are

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going to be fulfilled tonight. But
what I need to begin with is we

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had a discussion with Daniel Cormier about
whether or not Jim Miller should be inducted

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into the Hall of Fame, and
his reasoning was that being in the UFC

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for a long time does not alray
solidify for you to be in the Hall

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of Fame. Now that's kind of
I'm not gonna say that Daniel Cormier speaks

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out of turn. Sometimes I understand
that there's no way he is not going

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to be remembered as one of the
greats. But when you have a lot

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of people who are coming out and
defending Jim Miller's ability to be into the

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Hall of Fame, from his debut
against David Baron to one of his bloodiest

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fights with Jools On. I mean
that you want to talk about a fight

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itself that's almost like Rory and Robbie, Rory McDonald and Robbie Lawler two,

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solidifying that these guys belong in the
Hall of Fame. Jim Miller can easily

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be a name that ends up in
the UFC Hall of Fame, regardless of

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Daniel Cormier's credentials. The credentials to
get in don't belong in his hands.

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They belong in the hands of the
UFC. So in due time we will

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see if Jim Miller ends up in
the Hall of Fame. For an illustrious

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career and now he's coming off of
a big knockout, which just says he's

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far from done. But we'll see
how that plays out. I mean,

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I really didn't care for the way
DC addressed that one, but that one

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can be debated. What's not debatable
is how staged and how there's a word

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I'm looking for here and I don't
want to use fake. What I can

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say is staged. What I can
say is scripted predetermined. I can say

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that this is too obvious for anybody
that has the sense that God gave Geese

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is to realize. Is that Jorge
Mosvial and Jake Paul put together a YouTube

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video of a confrontation between these two
which culminated in either before or after that

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Jorge had been on Jake Paul's podcast
bs I. You can't look at this

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and not see how perfectly timed it
is. How Jorge comes around the corner

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with his hands behind his back and
they're there's enough distance to where the cameraman

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is perfectly steady, almost like he
is filming a Sunday morning church service where

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the quote unquote Lord is working and
the Holy Spirit is coming through. Y'all

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know what I'm talking about. I
am a person who believes God is King,

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but psalms, you gotta ask the
question. Look at the cameraman.

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The cameraman here gives all of it
a way that this is nothing but a

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planned, friendly promo confrontation between Jake
Paul and hor and Mosfinol nothing more.

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When we look at tonight's main event
UFC two eighty nine in Vancouver, there

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are three of them that already stand
out to me. These are the three

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that I will be watching. These
are the three that I'm joined in the

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Loud and the p and a ad
Mansion, and that will have my undivided

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attention. To begin with, We've
got a fight between Dan Gay and Nate

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Land where I'm gonna begin and say
with this. As much as I am

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a Dan Egay fan through and through, I happen to love fifty K.

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I think it's great. He's coming
off of a beautiful second round knockout from

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Damon Jackson in his last fight Nate
Land, where Nate the Train has me

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nervous. He's coming off of three
wins. He's shown that he's a submission

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artist against Austin Lingo from Dallas.
He has If you look at him on

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the scale when he got up for
the Way Ends, this guy is a

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tall house of bricks. Nate the
Train has me very nervous for Dan Egay,

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but it will be a fun matchup. Nonetheless, Now we get to

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the co main event, number one
ranked Charles Olivera versus number four ranked Benel

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do Rouche. If I just look
at how this has panned out, Charles

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Olivera is ranked number one. Beneath
the champion, you have Dustin Pourier and

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Justin Gaichy, who are going to
be facing each other for the quote BMF

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title that's been resurrected for whatever reason. And we have one of the nicest

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guys in the history of the lightweight
division coming off of an eight win fight

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streak, Benel do Rouche. If
ever there was a chance for Benny to

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insert himself back into the championship talks, this is it and it will be

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his hardest adversary for his entire career
coming up tonight. Charles Olivera has proven

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to be many times over the very
best in the division. There's not a

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guy who needs a BMF strap.
Then the same thing goes for Benell do

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This is a guy you can't get
to say something negative about you. He

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doesn't use that at press conferences.
He didn't do that with Tony Ferguson.

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He just went in and won and
you couldn't seem to It's almost like if

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he if he lost control, he'd
been upset with himself. That's Banel Daruche.

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So in every way, this Comaine
event is promising to be whoever wins.

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It has every right to grab the
mic and say I don't care about

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the BMF title. I care about
the lightweight strap that is on the shoulder

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of Islam Makachev, and I am
coming for that belt. Benny has missed

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opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to call
himself Banel Darrouche the lightweight Champion of the

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World. Charles Olivera has only missed
one opportunity either way. Both men have

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plenty to lose, but the one
that has the most to lose, the

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one last chance to get in a
championship run, is Benelda Ruche. Both

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guys are so likable it's hard to
pick aside. However this transpires, is

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going to be fascinated. Moving on
to the main event, Amanda Unyez and

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Irene Aldonna. It is easy to
look from afar and say that there's no

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way that this girl, this Aldonna
has what it takes to go against the

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very best female fighter and the history
of the UFC, they have given her

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the acronym of the goat. I'm
not the one saying it. The Ultimate

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Fighting Championship has said it time and
time again. John Anik has said it.

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Joe Rogan has said it. Dana
White has announced it many times and

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it is on her name for the
promotion for UFC two eighty nine. But

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to give some of you that are
watching and hoping maybe there's a chance for

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Irene Aldonna. Does she have the
opportunity to win the fight tonight? And

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I'll tell you this by textbook.
You've always been told that lightning never strikes

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twice in the same place. What
I can tell you it may not strike

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in the exact location, but three
times lightning has struck in the UFC in

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the same country. And the country
I'm talking about is Mexico. Brandon Moreno,

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Alexa Grasso, Yaya Rodriguez. This
has been the year for Mexico and

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is not slowing down at all.
And when you look at the track record

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for Irene Aldonna, she is known
to be a striking and submission artist that

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comes at you by surprise. She
can defeat you on the feat, she

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can defeat you on her back,
she can defeat you on the fence.

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The most impressive one not too long
ago, was she is on her back

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and delivered an up kick straight into
the liver of her adversary. Fights over,

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she's done the same thing she's got
the track record that says I am

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the one that she has to defeat. Now, Amanda Nunez has made the

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actual comment, you don't get to
be a champion when you don't have an

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opponent or a worthy adversary in front
of you. She now has a challenge,

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and that challenge is in the surprise
knockout and submission artist who is Alrin

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Aldonna from Mexico. Lightning could very
much strike in the octagon tonight when it

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comes to Nunez versus Aldonna, Julian
opinion has done it. Usually the greatest

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fighters do not go out with a
burst, They go out with a whimper.

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Usually the best go out of this
sport with a loss. I'm not

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saying that will be the case for
Amanda Nunez. It just means the majority

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of the percentage of those who are
the greats leave in that manner. And

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could this be another strike for Mexico. Easily it can, but that just

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means that she's facing the very best. So Amanda Nunez, who has proven

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to be the very best in the
sport versus the best competitor that she can

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ask for, where she has to
be prepared for the challenge ahead of her.

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Al Donna is not somebody to sleep
on. She is not somebody to

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overlook. She has somebody to be
watching attentively with every five of your being

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until the final whistle blows and we
have a decision or we have a knock

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cut or submission. This fight is
going to be an amazing headliner. I

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hope I've talked to you into the
building now as I can't wait to go

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check out the fights tonight. As
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