To Be The Man, You Have To SLAP The Man?

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Broadcasting Live, good afternoon, good
evening, Blockhead Nation, or whatever time

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you tune in. I'm so thankful
that you're here listening to this podcast.

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If you don't know, you are
listening to your favorite Blockhead the only podcast

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in the podcasting world that can somehow
incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute and

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then be talking about MMA and Warriors
inside the Octagon the next. I am

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your host. My name is Brian
Little, and once again here we are

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in the Blockhead Mation. Wow,
I really am struggling with my words today.

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What's going throwing a laughter in there? You can have that at Mike.

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We are here in the Blockhead Mansion, in the living room with four

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dogs that might very well interrupt everything
I'm trying to do, and we'll make

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it work the best that we can. So thank you for coming by.

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Come on in, take a seat, relax, and enjoy listening to a

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very unorthodox, a very different,
unique podcast that talks about three things.

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Number One, God is King,
Number two, Peanuts is the single most

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

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the greatest sport under God's hot sun. I thank you those that have been

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listening in all the downloads. I
thank you for those who've been going to

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the blog. That link is in
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dot com slash blog. There are
links there for the koffee page, there's

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things for the hoodies, there's links
for the other podcast networks that I am

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associated with. So it's just it's
been a great ride, and we're almost

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coming to the end of the year. And that makes it easy for me

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seasonally speaking when it comes to try
because I can always talk about Charlie Brown

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Christmas. And as much as I
enjoy watching that episode, as much as

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I enjoy watching them skating on the
ice in the skating rink, as much

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as I enjoy Sally irritating her older
brother and asking her a ride a layer

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to Santa Claus, as much as
I enjoy all of the different significant moments

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and the small little shenanigans that happen
along the way along with Snoopy even playing

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a part of a penguin that does
happen. Of all those different things,

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I have to admit everything about Charlie
Brown Christmas is a parable. You don't

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think, so I can prove it
to you. You have in the middle

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of the episode, Charlie Brown throwing
his hands up and saying, can anybody

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explain to me what Christmas is all
about? And you all know what's about

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to happen. Linus is going to
take center stage. He's gonna have one

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spotlight on it, and he's going
to quote the Gospel of Luke. And

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that is very much the style that
our Lord and Savior would speak to listeners

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and followers of his time in the
Middle East. I even have proof of

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this if we talk about a book
known as Robert Short, who wrote The

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Parable of Peanuts, and when he
talks about there's a comic strip that I

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will specifically use here where Linus is
reading the Gospel of Luke and talking about

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the Angel of the Lord coming,
and it gets to the part where I

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bring you good news of great joy. It's to all people, and that

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we have a savior that is born. And it ends with Lias saying,

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like I've said before, that's what
Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown,

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and Charlie Brown says, you're right. And the next part, because I

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think he's still salty about the Great
Pumpkin being second place, he says so

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who needs it. And the older
I get, the more that's true.

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I am not against Santa Claus.
Don't think that blockad Nation. I'm all

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for your kids enjoying presence around the
tree. I'm all for you guys leaving

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out cookies for the big man to
come down the chimney tonight. I'm all

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for Santa Baby for all these things. You know, in the spirit of

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fun, I really am. But
when we look at what this time shows,

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the Gospel means good news. This
cartoon, as it says in the

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Parables of Peanuts, contains the whole
of the Gospel and one in a nutshell

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for Christianity in the world to proclaim
the good news of a great joy which

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will come to all people, all
people. Yes, you heard me,

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blockad Nation, all people. And
as it says here, Christianity is not,

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nor has it ever been, the
bad news of a cosmic penal system

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bent on selling fire insurance for eternity. It is instead the good news that

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any and all penalties against us have
been dropped, and there will certainly be

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no fire for anyone, but only
the great joy for all, that all

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men may begin even now to live
in this joy. By living towards this

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future that's even talked about in a
Christmas carol. It's that time of year

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that men and women seem by one
consent to open up their shut up hearts

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freely to celebrate the joy of the
season. I pray that that falls upon

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your heart today, Blockhead Nation,
Yes, the Christmas Spirit is coming out

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of me, but the Holy Spirit
should be working daily and should be trusted

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and obeyed as commanded. Now,
I have a fun question to end.

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If it seemed like I got a
little bit too heavy with that one,

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I'm gonna share one with you.
You can just see if I can get

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some comments. One thing that gets
a little lonely up here in the podcast

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in world is when you talk to
a blind audience. If you don't have

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any interaction or any engagement, then
we really don't know what you're thinking.

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A lot of you are very smart
listeners that just don't say anything. You

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give me the downloads and I appreciate
that. I'm gonna throw it out there.

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I'm gonna ask you, Blocking Nation, which one had less logic with

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their Christmas tree. Charlie Brown goes
to look for a nice Christmas tree and

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they end up in those search lights, and there's a whole bunch of trees

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on display. Some they're painting pink
thumbs in the air polka dot. Some

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that Elias banged on with his knuckles
and it rang out, And they choose

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a tiny, small woodland Christmas tree. Unfortunately, the needles fall off as

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soon as he picks it up.
But as you know the story, we

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get to the end and last makes
an important observation. I never thought it

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was such a bad little tree,
gives it some support, puts his blanket

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around the base and says it's not
bad at all. Really, maybe it

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just needs a little love. Now
you've got Charlie Brown's tree, Which one

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would you say has less logic?
That's the first one that's Option A.

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Option B would be Clark Griswold.
If you don't know the scene, I

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hope you do. If you've never
seen National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, the first

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part of the movie is going out
to find the Griswold family Christmas tree.

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And sure enough, when he gets
out there, he sees the tree that

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he wants, But does he have
the proper tools to get it out of

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the ground. You got a question, how strong is Clark Griswold to pull

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the roots out and be able to
attach that tree to the top of his

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station wagon. So option B would
be Clark Griswold. Or you have the

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third option, which would be a
Christmas story. The old man, knowing

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how to negotiate his trees, gets
the guy to tie it to the roof,

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puts it up in the house.
But as you saw, that star

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is just not properly put together,
and he nearly falls and nearly crushes the

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entire tree. So I'm gonna put
it out there. Of when it comes

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to logic, who had less logic
with their Christmas tree? A Charlie Brown,

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B Clark Griswold, or C the
dad in a Christmas story. I

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know him as the old man,
so it doesn't hurt to throw that out

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there, just for a little bit
of engagement. You could also do D

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none of the above, or you
could do E all of the above if

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you want to engage that one.
I know this one's not very overwhelming.

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I want to make sure that I've
put up the important message of the parable

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of peanuts, and I've given you
a chance to engage. I'll make sure

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that you have those options. But
as we get into the next part,

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I'm gonna go ahead and read my
scripture the day, and I'm gonna move

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into a whole lot of things to
discuss that are more applicable to the title

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of this episode as we get into
the wacky world that is mixed martial arts.

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Our scripture reading for this podcast comes
from Revelations chapter twelve Versus twenty six

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or twenty seven. And he that
overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end.

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To him will I give power over
the nations, and he shall rule

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them with a rod of iron,
as the vessels of a potter. Shall

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they be broken to shivers, even
as I received of my father. Reflection

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from blue lair of Bible says,
even though the believer tastes the fruit of

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this glorious promise, even now our
lives and our souls can be caught up

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in the very life and soul of
our Lord Jesus Christ, block of nation,

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we gain every conceivable blessing. This
is talked about in Ephesians chapter two.

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Even now as we are reigning at
the Lord's right hand in the heavenly

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places, so then shall those who
are of the name of the Lord reign

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in majesty and honor at his coming. At his glorious coming, we celebrate

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a time blockad nation where our Savior
has come, He's ascended, and he

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will return. Until then, maybe
rejoice in the Lord's goodness as we go

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through a few things. To just
get caught up. Now, if you've

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looked at the title of my episode, I'm saving it for the last segment

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to talk about what I mean to
be the man, because there are plenty

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of contenders that showed up at UFC
Austin last week. Just as a quick

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recap, you had a performance of
the night with Sean Brady, Sean Brady,

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Kelvin Gatslom. Kelvin looked really good, but his gas Tank just wasn't

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able to keep up with Sean Brady. Brady was always three steps ahead of

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him, especially in the grappling game, and he finishes Gasolom in the third

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round with a beautiful Camora Locke.
It took more than one attempt, so

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give it to Gaslam for his toughness. But once again, Sean Brady just

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very much my prediction that night,
and that worked out. I guess to

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my favor and always as I watched
at the Loud Nappian Aid Mansion. That

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would be a fellow podcaster of mine. That's a friend that we do a

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lot of shows together. And we
move on to the bantamweight bout, the

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debut of Davison Figaredo against a very
accurate and very dangerous bantamweight from Puerto Rico,

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Rob Font. Now, Rob had
plenty of answers for Davison Figureedo in

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the first round, but come to
second round, he just was missing shots.

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He was missing punches. He just
wasn't landing anything at the Moody Center.

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But Figuredo just showed that he can
be extremely comfortable in the bantamweights.

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So the talk now is moving forward, now that he won this fight in

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desirable fashion, who do you put
him against? Because Rob Font's last fight

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was against Corey Sandhagen, and Corey
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So it just comes our submission attempts. Would we put Faggaredo with a

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win against Corey Sandagen? With a
win, it's a chance for redemption in

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the eyes of Dana White personally,
but a lot of fans are calling for

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the fight for Figureta versus Pewter Yawn
that still has some flavor to it and

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some firepower. Former Champion of the
flyweights versus former Champion of the bantamweights not

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a bad matchup. It's possible,
so that seems like that's what the fans

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are begging for. I'm just looking
at contenders who have a w and since

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he beat font, how would he
do against the Sandman? But either way

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that's gonna work out. Figuredo looks
like he is home at one thirty five.

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Moving on to the biggest moment in
my opinion of the night, so

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much that I can talk about.
I know, we have a main event

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where our monster Rookion showed who he
is, but we've got to slow it

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down and we got to pump the
brakes a little bit and just talk about

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Jalen Turner versus Bobby Green. I
don't want to say I counted out Jalen

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Turner. I just like many of
us expected on an eight day notice that

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he would show up and give a
good performance. But Bobby Green would be

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triumphant and Jalen Turner has some of
the longest legs and one of the most

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inescapable. I guess you can say
ranges of any fighter that I've seen lately

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in the lightweights. So one p. Fifty five as dangerous as it is,

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Boy, did Jalen Turner make a
message this night? Out of nowhere?

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Bobby hits the canvas. And here's
the problem when if those of you

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that are listening in again, I'm
doing this very composed as I say this,

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but I'm still confused on those who
defend him. When you have a

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fight, a actual organized combat fight
in the free format combat world, whether

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it's MMA boxing, you've got somebody
there that's supposed to be thinking for three

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people. You got the referee.
If Bobby Green is knocked down, this

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is it's a hypothetical question, and
it's a rhetorical question, and it's stating

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something that I watched this night as
I was getting furious, like steam was

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shooting out of my ears as I
was watching this. Bobby Green hits the

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ground. Jalen keeps on punching.
There's about four or five, maybe six

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unanswered punches right there. Bobby rolls
over, He's given an opportunity to recover.

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He's got his head covered still,
ten eleven, twelve unanswered shots.

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Somewhere in there, Jalen finds another
opening and puts him out, and then

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there's three four unanswered shruck and finally
the referee steps in. Now, I

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don't want to come at this as
a parent in the stand screaming at the

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referee. We've got enough of those
going on in any sport we're talking about.

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You can get irritated about fouls all
day long when a man's life is

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at stake because you can can only
take so many uncovered, unanswered punches without

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some type of drain injury, some
type of CTE that we've studied now,

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and it just isn't good for a
guy who's already down. It's bad enough

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for boxing when they get back up
and getting more head injuries from more shots

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to the head. And we have
not had a single death inside of the

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MMA cage, but a lot of
people are contemplating that will be one in

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the future, and then we're really
going to be in trouble as an organization.

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Didn't happen in the dark days of
the MMA, days when we had,

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you know, no regulation at all, hasn't happened. We've had people

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that we've lost for unfortunate reasons.
We've had some that lost for weight cutting,

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some that were unfortunate. There were
other circumstances, but again getting back

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to this, what we don't need
is a televised death in the cage,

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especially one that can be avoided.
And I don't want to sound like I'm

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being weak because I've got a friend
of the show. If you listen to

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this, smiling Sam Alvi, Sam, I love you, and I want

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to give benefit of the doubt because
it's been a week. I've had a

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chance to be able to have a
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thinking this through and watching. Sam
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the referee. But this has been
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there was a fight. I want
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or somebody that had a guy in
a guillotine and the referee, Yamagatzi,

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never stepped in. It's like the
fighters looking at him going, are you

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kidding me? Are you going to
stop this? Because he's not submitting,

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he's not tapping out. We've had
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before. It was talked about on
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there every We've already got times where
we're suspending fighters and we're finding fighters for

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their actions. When's the time gonna
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It's bad enough when we have judges
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even worse if you have a referee
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in time. So you see how
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I'm looking for ways to not demolish
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to think for three different people.
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canvas out cold, I'm expecting like
John McCarthy or Herb Dean to dive in

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and go that's it, break it
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He's given a chance to recover.
He rolls over, he covers his

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head, and Jalen's still throwing bombs. This isn't Jalen's fault. Again,

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my rhetorical question was whose job is
It is up to the referee to stop

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the fighting. Jalen kept fighting,
Bobby kept defending until he could defend no

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longer. But I can almost hear
like when Paul Felder's and the commentary going,

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oh, come on, this has
happened too many times, and Sam

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had made a comment about how some
of US M and A fans are so

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soft. It's not that Sam,
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It's we don't want overpowering, prolonged
head trauma or something that would send

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this guy to the hospital that was
not necessary. I don't care if it's

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Bobby Green or somebody I can't stand. I don't like Kobe Covington. I

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wouldn't wish that on Kobe Covington to
be faced down on the canvas. I

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wouldn't wish that on Tito Ortiz to
have that many unanswered punches. But we

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have the referee that knows he did
wrong, Dana White, who was asked

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in the post conference and said,
and I quote, one of the worst

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I've ever seen, but he knows
what he did. There's remorse here,

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but again it all comes to a
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Later on, none other than Bobby
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gets on, he does his video
and says, well done to you,

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Jalen Turner. You did a thing. What's the phrase that they use now,

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keeping it og or keeping it real? And then there's the next day

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where he says, man, my
phone was blowing up. Everybody asked me,

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am I okay, and I'm fine, and I'm accepting that I lost.

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If Bobby Green isn't dwelling on the
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then there's nothing else to be said
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a problem in the top tens of
the lightweight divisions pretty soon. But I've

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had time to go between all worlds
of wanting to watch this guy get an

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inquisition, to have him on his
knees begging for mercy to I have no

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say because I am just an MMA
fan. I'm not an analyst, I

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am not a journalist, I am
not a professional fighter in any WAYSON have

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no reason to go into the cage
and fight a killer. I don't have

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any of these interests at all.
I just had the interest of Bobby Green

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in mind. Okay, So he
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him be on the canvas that long. It was really hard to watch the

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replay. And I guess that that
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a guy who doesn't want what's worst
for this MMA fighter wants what's best for

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Bobby Green. But Bobby Green certainly
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there's nothing else to say now.
If Bobby Green isn't pursuing it and he's

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praising Jalen, there's nothing else to
say here. So Sam, I love

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you. We're gonna have to disagree
on this one. But who am I

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to argue with an MMA fighter who
has a fight coming up soon in karate

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combat. God bless you, and
I certainly wish the best for you,

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But we'll just have to be on
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won't we. I'll have to probably
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Uncle Dana. May it clear that
this is one of the works he's ever

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seen. But at least he has
remorse from what he did. And well,

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the problem is he'll probably be working
again. I thought there was enough

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time for Mike Beltrand, who was
judging. I felt there was enough time

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for him to get up out of
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jump across the cage, and stop
the fighting, and to accost the

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referee for not doing his job.
I felt that there was time for that.

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I'm sitting there waiting for somebody to
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It just didn't happen. It just
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after too many unanswered shots. So
it was tough to watch Blockhead Nation.

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So catching you up either way,
Jalen Turner has cooled the jets for Bobby

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Green or Monster Roukion throws a monkey
wrench. I guess you can say into

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the top five discussion now that he's
beaten Banil Do Rouche in very desirable fashion,

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very quickly miss is the knee but
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and now Banella is out. He
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and now it's a matter of could
he face Islam again four years later for

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the strap. Do we have Justin
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Do we have Dustin Poorrier who could
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it's a win versus a loss,
Because you look at the rankings, what

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have you got to work with?
I'm pretty sure the UFC is harping on

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the next fight for Islam is going
to be Charles oliverra Itz gonna be the

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rematch, So you already got that
tie up. Gechie's been called out.

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I think one of them was Bobby
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But either way, the BMF is
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But justin Geachie's waiting in the rings. But our monster Rookion has really thrown

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some things into upheaval. And now
the war room, I guess you can

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say in the UFC, even myself, I as a fan your favorite blockhead,

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I have in my own head a
wife b war room where I think

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about what the next matches are gonna
be. I'm already doing that with tonight's

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match. If Young Sadong is gonna
walk away from the Apex with a win,

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or if Chris Katy's is gonna walk
away with a win, then where

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do they come into the matchup?
Where do they come into the discussion At

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this point that's really in the back
of my mind. But I've prolonged this

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too long, So thank you for
letting me just vent about my frustrations with

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the coin event at UFC Austin,
and let me just put it out there.

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You got a guy in one point
fifty five that has now emerged.

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I wonder what was going on?
Where is Michael Chandler, Sure he does

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his videos, his workouts. Well, what's he been doing lately? Apparently

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he's had a run in according to
a leaked video on social media with the

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Nature Boy, the limousine riding,
jet flying, kiss stealing, wheeling,

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dial in Son of a Gun that
is Rick Flair. A video has been

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leaked that Michael Chandler and Rick F. Flair are at a bar somewhere,

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And this is where the muddy waters
get even muddier. This is where in

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the world of professional wrestling, where
you think that everything's a work, nothing

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is a shoot, crosses over with
the world of MMA with Michael Chandler,

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who is begging for a chance to
face Connor McGregor, probably logically would be

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UFC three hundred, but it's not
confirmed yet. I know the fight's been

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offered because these guys were coaches on
The Ultimate Fighter. But Michael Chandler has

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some words and a verbal exchange with
Rick Flair, who clearly has had quite

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a few to drink that night.
But when you watch it, it gets

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to the end where they have been
sharing back and forth, back and forth

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words or exchange. Next thing,
you know, Rick Flair shows how to

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throw a wrestling punch to the face, but then in the next instant,

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Chandler throws a slap and shoots for
a double leg and puts this seventy plus

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year old man who's had many bumps
in his life onto the ground. It

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looks very staged, it looks very
acted out, It looks very wwdesk.

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It certainly does. But now,
if we're gonna get Connor's attention for a

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guy who slapped an old man in
a bar, apparently for real and had

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to stand trial for it, you
might as well have the scripted one with

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the sixteen time champion or ever many
times that he's worn the belt for either

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NWA or WWFWC, whatever it might
be. Again, I'm sorry those that

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are wrestling fans if I'm off on
the lineage of championships for Rick Flair,

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but Rick Flair will always be in
the top two or three, always for

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him to have a chance to speak
to quite arguably the greatest wrestler of all

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time and get an actual single double
legged takedown on Rick Flair. This is

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what I mean by it to be
the man, Woo, you gotta slap

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the man and shoot for a double
leg takedown. And put him down,

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and people are swarming in now on
you, and the video stops. Like

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I said, it's not prolonged.
This is why you question it, because

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the video comes to a screeching halt
as soon as they're on the ground.

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I don't believe that is the cameraman
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You question it. It looks like
a work, could be a shoot either

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way. It's all speculation. It's
all building up for a chance for Connor

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and Chandler to have some type of
narrative to bring them back together and face

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each other at UFC three hundred.
But that's how you do it. To

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be the man. If you're gonna
beat the man, you do it at

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UFC three hundred against the golden goose
of the UFC, which is Connor McGregor.

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To be the man in social media, you got take a punch from

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Rick Flair and then put him on
his back and have people peeling you off

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and the video comes to a screeching
halt. Hmmm. Connect the dots follow

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La La lah as Pee herman once
said, but to be the man,

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you gotta do this. So it's
intriguing narrative. And this is where we're

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left, and this is where I
leave you blockhead Nation to contemplate all of

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this, and we will pick up
on it next week as we get closer

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to the holidays. I certainly hope
you enjoy this next week. I hope

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that your Christmas trees are up.
I hope that those of you that are

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celebrating the first and second night of
Hanukkah are having a wonderful evening. Much

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loved, all you blockhead Nation.
We will talk to you next week,

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same blockhead time, same blockhead.
Chin can