The YFB MMA Takedown Makes A Comeback!

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Broadcasting Live. Good morning, good
afternoon, good evening. Wherever you happen

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to be tuning into this podcast,
I appreciate you stopping by. You are

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listening to your favorite blockhead. This
is the only podcast in the podcasting world

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

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MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the
next. And if you are looking at

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the cover art, if you're looking
at the introduction the discussion notes that are

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for this episode, you'll notice that
I am putting everything aside just so I

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can focus on the world of mixed
martial arts. A few years back,

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I tried starting another podcast called the
WYFB MMA Takedown, And if you'll notice

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the cover art, I can give
true appreciation and thanks to mister Drew Turner

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from The Paddler's Playbook who provided this
awesome artwork for me. But it was

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suggested that since I'm such a huge
fan of mixed martial arts in the UFC,

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why don't I spend more time directly
in that content, just niche it

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down and really focus in laser point
what's going on in the world of mixed

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martial arts. And I decided to
do that. But what I'm doing is

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I'm sending people in another direction.
So what I've decided to do is every

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once in a while when I need
to just stop the presses and just come

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all in on the world of UFC, Bellator One Championship, PFL, Dana

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White's Contender Series, the Ultimate Fight, or whatever we need to discuss,

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even on the local level, maybe
Legacy Fighting Alliance, I'll stop and I'll

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do that. So you're tuning in
to a special segment. You're tuning in

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to the Wife Being MMA Takedown.
So if you are not a fan of

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mixed martial arts, my hope is
by the end of this episode, you

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will give this sport a try.
Not too long ago, I was speaking

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with the guys from the Against the
Fence MMA channel and we are going to

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be doing a lot more segments together. I'm not sure how many of My

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guess is probably once a month.
That's the big news that I had announced

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on my TikTok not long ago that
there'll be something big coming up. Well,

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that just means that ash Sy and
JK are going to ease me into

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the world of MMA with them on
their channel to an extent. We'll do

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it very slowly, but surely down
the road. So to begin with,

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before I even start, I won't
be talking about peanuts today. I won't

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be talking about the comic strips or
the TV show. I'm diving right into

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mixed martial arts. But I know
there are plenty of you that have been

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tuning in, that have been watching
the news lately. I know a lot

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of you are heavy laden and heavy
burdened by what you see, and because

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of that, I would like to
bring you back to the truth. First,

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I'm going to start with the scripture
of the day. I'm starting with

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Genesis, chapter fifteen, verse one. After these things, the word of

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the Lord came unto Abram in a
vision, saying, fear not. I

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am thy shield and am thy existing
and exceedingly great reward. When God appeared

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to Abraham, as it says in
the commentary for Blue Letter Bible, he

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told him not to fear. Fear
is not a freu of the spirit blockad

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nation. God was both his shield
and his reward before Abram became Abraham,

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under the covenant that God established with
him. Later on, there will be

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a dividic covenant given to David,
King David and then there will be the

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new covenant that we are under under
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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But Abraham has just taken spoil from
his recent victory. Yet God has declared

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that the real reward, as it
says in Blue Letter Bible, is found

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in the greatness of God himself as
he was to Abraham. So God will

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also be our unfailing protection and our
great reward. Now, as I'm sitting

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here, I also have four dogs
in the background. So I'm gonna do

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my best with the content. I
do my best with keeping it somewhat audio

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quality. But again, I haven't
stopped and done an MMA takedown for a

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while, and boy do I need
to and just start with last week's event,

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and I have to begin with Drew
Dover. Oh my goodness, the

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hammer that is in the fists of
Drew Dover. So we had UFC Fight

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Night last week, Dawson versus Green
and in that bout we had Dover taking

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on Ricky Glenn by the second round. I'm sorry, by the first round.

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Then two minutes left to go,
he delivers a man as if beat

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down on Glenn. And to be
fair, my beloved little red haired girl,

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when I mentioned the name Drew Dober, she ghost in another direction,

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and I'm gonna have to stop and
address it. If you ever grew up

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with the old Looney Tunes cartoons,
there was a segment called the Dover Boys

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or the Dover Boys probably spelled incorrectly. If you ever go back and watch

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that cartoons, considered one of the
top one hundred cartoons of all time.

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You got three guys from a university, the jock, the scholastic one,

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and the fat one that brings up
the rear. You had Tom, Dick

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and Larry kind of like Larry,
this is my brother Daryl, my other

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brother Darryl. So when I sent
her the message that Drew Dober has absolutely

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dominated this fight, she goes,
oh, the Dover Boys, Well,

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she's wanting me to turn that into
some type of content, and maybe we

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can do that. Since my guy's
overed against the fence. Love to call

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me L Cucumber since I mispronounced el
KAKUI Tony Ferguson, then and maybe that

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might work that when I'm talking about
Drew Dover, then I'm discussing the Doverer

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Boys. But you'd have to go
back and watch that cartoon. If you're

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not sure of what I'm talking about. And because at the end it's a

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beatdown on Dan Backslide, well,
I guess you can say in this case,

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Dan Backslide, who got the beat
down was Ricky Glenn by Drew Dover.

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But again that's trying to work with
what the little red hair girl asked

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me to do, and maybe I
can turn that into more segments in MMA

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later on. But Drew Dover's performance
just incredible. This is one of those

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fight nights that could easily be Fight
Night of the year. You have fights

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of the year, performance of the
year. This could be easily fight night

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of the year. Starting with the
performance by Drew Dober. You need to

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be watching for this young man coming
up in the future. Wasn't able to

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get past Matt Ravola, who called
out Patty to Batty. But if they

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were to go for a rematch,
I wouldn't turn it down. I'd love

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to watch Ravola and Drew Dober run
that one back. Joaquin Buckley is the

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next one up on the card.
Now, if you don't know, there

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are probably five great knockouts in the
history of the UFC that the world knows

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what happened. You may not know
the name, but the guy did a

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spinning heel kick where the opponent was
holding his heel, and he turned around

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and did this phenomenal kick to the
chin and the opponent just turned into a

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board and dropped to the floor.
That is Joaquing Buckley. Joaquing Buckley has

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really been building up a massive highlight
reel. And now that he has won

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his recent fight that he had at
UFC Fight Night, that was against Alex

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Morano in the third round by unanimous
decision, I mean good moments in it,

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but not really much of a highlight
reel. He says at the end

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that he wants to have a main
event that I'm not being treated well by

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the UFC. I understand getting on
the mic and speaking for yourself. I

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don't know if Buckley has more than
a highlight reel than he then he does

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significance in the rankings as of right
now in the welterweights. So I almost

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want to say, scratch it,
move on to the next one. But

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we should keep an eye on walking
Buckley. Not exactly a laser focus,

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but you know he's there. He's
hanging around in the horizon and he might

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rise to the occasion pretty soon.
If anybody you should be paying attention to

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from UFC Fight Night from last week, it is none other than Joe Pifer.

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Performance of the night against Abdul al
Hassan from Ghana is Joe Pifer.

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By the second round, absolute dominance, total dominance in the rankings. For

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if you were gonna go on DraftKings
and make your bet again anybody, Joe

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Pifer just absolutely tipped the scales and
he his world. I will tell you

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that you need to know this name
coming from the Dana White Contender Series,

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still a force to be reckoned with
in the middleweight division. If anybody could

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come up soon in the rankings and
absolutely dominate, it is Joe Pifer.

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Okay, if you're not following Joe
Pifer, if you're not invested in Joe

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Pifer, you better get on the
Joe Pifer bandwagon quick. Thus saith wyf

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B on this podcast. Continuing into
the main event, this is where the

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conversation gets really good. Grant Dawson
versus Bobby Green lightweight about so the lightweights

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are already heating up with guys like
Drew Dober and Matt Fravola. And if

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we're gonna put Patty the Batty into
that mix somewhere, which I don't believe

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the UFC will. Dana White will
not mess with his investment when it comes

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to Patty, They're putting him against
Tony Ferguson. That should tell you something.

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At the end of December, but
we've got Bobby Green and Grant Dawson

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and easily a knockout to be remembered. Bobby Green is standing tall, blows

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water in the air, almost in
reference to Triple H in the Wwe gets

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it all over Keith Peterson, which
you know, I'm sure that guy could

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use a shower after all the cigarettes
that he has inhaled over the years.

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But still, either way, Bobby
Green comes with a moment of a lifetime

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in UFC Fight Night at the Apex. Bobby Green just lives for these moments.

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And now what this does is opens
up the topic could we possibly put

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Bobby Green in the discussion of a
BMF bout now here? What I'm telling

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you, we've had a shakeup that's
happened at Fight Island. We have Islam

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Makachev, who's the current day lightweight
Champion of the World. He was supposed

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to be fighting Charles Olivera, but
he's out on an injury and we'll address

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that in a minute, and in
steps Alexander Volkanowski for a rematch. So

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the actual championship is in a tie
up. Does Bobby Green have enough stardom

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to be faced seen somebody in the
rankings in the lightweight division for a possible

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BMF title. Now, let me
kind of take you back a little bit.

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The last BMF bout we had was
against Dustin Poier and Justin Gai Chee.

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Justin Gai Chee wins with a phenomenal
headkick, and the now lineage of

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the BMF title has begun. That
was my hangoup for the longest time.

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Nate Diaz birthed this idea. Horiy
Mohsvedal wins be of doctor stoppage at Madison

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Square Garden. The Rock puts the
BMF title around Hori Mahsvedal's waist. Most

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aren't happy with it. There's no
defending the of the title until we get

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Dustin Porier and Justin Gai Chee.
So to piece this together, could Bobby

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Green be one to ask for a
BMF bout? And who would you put

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it against? Now? Going back
in historical context here when we look at

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guys who are consider the BMF,
it's either by speaking into existence the way

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Nate Diaz did, or it's having
a performance that lasts a lifetime. Perfect

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example of that. There are a
few things that I believe truly saved the

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UFC. One of them is The
Ultimate Fighter Season one. These face off

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between Forrest Griffin and Stefan Bonner,
especially round three. By the third round,

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the ratings for Spike TV are shooting
through the roof the world is going

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you gotta go watch this fight,
and everybody tunes in. We have our

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Ultimate Fighter. Both guys get a
contract and we move on for season two,

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and the UFC now is banking and
making money. They're off to the

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races. The rivalry that's going to
really save the UFC really could be argued

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to be Tito Ortez and Chuck Ladell, But that fight, that round,

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especially between Bonner and Griffin, stands
out in the attles of time. There

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has been another bout since COVID started
to change everything and alter the world of

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sports. While COVID's going on,
you have a second round between Dustin Pourrier

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and a guy named Dan Hooker,
if you go back and watch the second

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round, it is very possible that
round two is the greatest bout, the

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greatest second round in the history of
the lightweight division in the UFC, And

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this happened during COVID. I would
put it on the same playing field as

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I would Bonner versus Griffin round three. So what am I telling you to

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bring all that back around Bobby Green
versus Dan Hooker for the BMF strap?

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Are you in? Are you not
blockhead Nation? Are you not entertained?

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If you're an MMA fan, I
hope you're frothing at the mouth when I

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say Bobby Green versus Dan Hooker should
be the match they make up for the

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BMF title, for justin Gaechie to
put the strap around one of these guys.

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And the lineage continues. Gaechi is
gonna be waiting in the wings for

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whatever happens now with Islam versus Volk
or islams olivera down the road, if

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we have the injury that fix up, and so that bleeds over into what's

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happening a week from now in Fight
Island. What a difference a day makes

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what we were originally supposed to have
for the comane and the main event was

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supposed to be Islam Makachev versus Olivera
Part two, the rematch, and somewhere

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in there, right at the end
of sparring before Olivera goes This is according

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to the articles I've read and only
as good as the information presented to me.

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I see that Olivera has a cut
that causes them to pull out of

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the fight, to which it's unfortunate. A lot of the fighters are upset,

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a lot of the fighters are given
their input, and Nate Diaz says

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it's a crotch injury, similar to
the kind of Dustin Fourier. Gotta give

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it to Nate to use that kind
of rhetoric, but either way we have

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Olivera is out and in steps Alexander
Volkanowski on eight days notice after three weeks

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of recovery from a shoulder injury,
and he's gonna face the champion. What

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I have to do is give props
to Vulk for taking the fight, since

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it was offered to him. I
don't know who else it was offered.

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I don't know if that would be
if Islam's pulled out, do they call

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Justin Gachee and he's not ready I
don't know if they're calling Michael Chandler.

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I don't know if they're trying to
call the goose who lays all the golden

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eggs. Connor McGregor now that apparently
Usada has allowed him back into the testing

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pool, and Usada is throwing deuces
and leaving. That's another story for another

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day. But Islam versus Vault too
is really revving up quick and in the

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ko made event, you have Homsat
Chamaiev that was supposed to be facing Paula

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Costa. He has an injury on
his elbow that the doctors pull him out

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for and in steps Comaro Usman.
So here what I'm telling you in the

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last twenty hours of the UFC from
the time that they were having a main

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event of oli Era versus Islam and
Polo Costa versus Hamsat chimayev ol of Air

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pulls out, Volcanasi skips in,
Connor McGregor re enters the Usada pool.

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UFC is going to be in Saudi
Arabia and Paula Costa now has to pull

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out. In steps Commado Usman with
one of the greatest records in the history

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of the welterweights. And this is
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are you not entertained? The co
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The main event is now Islam versus
Vulk And if Volks somehow were to

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win this on eight days stepping in, does that make him the pound for

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pound greatest in the UFC and they
put him above the self proclaimed goat that

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is John Jones. What do you
do here? So my biggest takeaways for

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all of this is I have an
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be a BMF bout. If you
can't put a strap on that's a legitimate

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strap, put some pay per viewpoints
on these guys, especially somebody who's been

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around as long as Dan Hooker,
as much as he's done for the organization,

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and him having the second greatest round
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with Dustin Poirier who got his chance
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And you got Bobby Green, who
was having a meteoric rise to the

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top, who should be excited enough
to watch for a BMF bout and for

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Gaechie to hand it off to one
of these two, I can see that

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being a reality as a fan of
MMA. Fight Island has had shakeups in

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both the Cole main event and the
main event, but at the end of

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the day, the show must go
on. I don't want to see at

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this point Islam versus gamrot or.
I don't want to see somebody like Jared

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Cannon here have to step in last
man who he would because he's tough as

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nails. It makes sense if we
go by the rankings on who's ready,

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who gets the first call, and
who takes the offer. So in steps

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Camado Usman for Chimaiyev. Does that
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Not necessarily. Anything can happen this
sport. One thing is for certain.

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Certain nothing is for certain, And
have I talked you into the building?

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While tonight we have another main event
that's going on with Edson Barbosa that's

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gonna be at the Helm. Who
needs this moment to be honest with you

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when it comes to that, so
I have to I have to give props

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to the shows continuing that Yusuf versus
Barbosa and tonight at the Apex has its

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big moments. I'm kind of looking
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fight. I'm looking to see the
bantamweights go at it as far as Yusuf

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versus Barbosa featherweights. I mean,
Volk is continuing just to recycle this division.

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I'm still kind of waiting to see
what's happening with Max Holloway. But

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these guys are not even in the
top ten rankings. But again, a

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story could be told right here in
Las Vegas tonight, So therefore, blockhead

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Nation. It's been a while since
I've done an MMA takedown. I know

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this is a lot of information coming
at you fast and furious, but my

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hope is you'll give MMA a try, is specially at Fight Island in Abu

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Dhabi, where Islam already has the
advantage against all of Era, but now

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it's an advantage against the pound four
pound possible number two guy who could be

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number one in eight days by defeating
the very best there is in the lightweight

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division. What a card, what
a turn of events, what a difference

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of day makes, and what a
sport I've decided to follow. It gets

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exhausting, but it gets exciting simultaneously, and I hope you've enjoyed yourselves blockad

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Nation, and we'll see you guys
next Saturday, same blockhead time, same

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blockad channel. Another wife, The
MMA takedown done, and the books