YFB MMA Takedown: Bonus Episode - UFC 303 Recap "Dan Ige/Alex Pereira"

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Well, Blockhead Nation, I said
I was gonna give you a bonus episode,

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and that's what we're here to do. Normally, you're tuning into your

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favorite blockhead podcast. But with the
events that unfolded a week ago at USC

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three oh three, I promised that
there would be a bonus episode, and

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I'll go ahead and say it.
You are tuning into a very special bonus

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episode of the yfb MMA Takeboak.
I'm the same host. It's still me

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Brian Little coming to you on this
podcast on this microphone. Normally, what's

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been happening is I go to my
friend's man. I go and invade the

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loud and Apeonaid mansion, in other
words, a fellow friend and dear podcaster

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that I know very well. I
go to Russ's mansion and I go to

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his study and I use his equipment
mostly just to kind of get a feel

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outside of the Blockhead mansion, just
to be able to kind of branch out

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a little bit and try some other
different venues and just see how that works.

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And what happens is I end up
missing being behind my own microphone.

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So I normally would be coming to
you with updates on the Peanuts, which

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there's plenty of that that will happen
next week. But since we are in

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a week where there aren't any fights
going on, I take that back.

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You do have some events going on
in the world of boxing, as in

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Nate Dias and Hora Masvidal are going
to continue their story outside of the cage

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and in the squared circle. But
I can also tell you now that there's

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not any mma going on. There'll
be one next week, and I'll bring

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updates on that one as soon as
I can. But with all the events

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then unfolded, just how I couldn't
leave everything that I had said from where

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it was. So you're listening to
the bonus episode and here we go.

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So if I'm going to go back
through this particular card, I can say

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this, We're getting a little tired
of seeing Andre Arlovski having a heavyweight bout

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and once again another loss. But
you know he's put in many years on

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that vehicle. But another one.
We have a retiring of Michelle Watterson Gomez,

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which would be known to many as
the Karate Hotty. I mentioned that

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I believe that Gillian Roberson was going
to do a fairly better job inside of

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the cage than she would, and
that's how that transpired. That happened to

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be the truth. I didn't talk
a whole lot about the bantamweight that became

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one of the performances of the night. A Dana White Contender Series prospect known

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as Peyton Talbot who got the knockout
in nineteen seconds. Didn't mention that one

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too much, but you know,
that was quite a big moment coming out

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of that that night. And funny
enough, even though I watched Cubs,

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Swanson and Andre Peeley as I talked
about this, I I thought it was

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a good fight. I just thought
it could have even been better. There

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could have been more fireworks behind all
this. I believed wholeheartedly that Cubbs wantson

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won the first round, but Pheely
easily dominated the last two. So this

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was by split decision. It was
the right call, and Pheely and Cubs

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wants to end up gaining fight of
the night, so if we're gonna be

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perfectly fair. It wasn't as exciting
mikes as I expected, but it did

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receive by the night. I gotta
give him credit for that. And boy,

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right after that, Joe Pifer not
only defeats the Canadian that he faces

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Mark Andre Bitterall but in a dominant
fashion in a menu in twenty five seconds

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and on the mic, he calls
out Paul Craig. He calls out an

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infamous barge. Now on paper,
that doesn't look really good. That's a

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guy with the W coming up against
the L. But for the sake of

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notoriety and name recognition and as far
as two monsters who can get in there

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in the cage, I'd love to
see Piper versus Craig, just to see

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if this is a real hype train
or if this is something that Paul Craig

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can get in there and throw hands
with. Well, that wraps up the

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pre Lambs getting us into the main
card. Okay, we had Ian Gary

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against Michael venam Page and so all
these things that I'm bringing up to you,

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this isn't why I'm doing a bonus
episode. It's so easy that I

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could save this for another day,
but I can't. So if I can

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just go at this, and I'm
going to go with this completely cold turkey,

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and just kind of mentioned that Ian
Gary had mentioned some controversial comments about

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something post conference. The remarks that
he made about MVP were you had MVP's

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team that somehow penetrated into Ian Gary's
team and it looked like it was looking

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for weaknesses of some kind. This
is really some harsh stuff that Ian Gary

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said after the fight. I don't
know if it's because he felt like that

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MVP was anticipating him too much.
I mean, he pulls off the win,

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gets a decision over Michael vindam Page. So let's just say in all

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respects, he won by m's decision, but he didn't really beat him soundly

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the way he would have wanted to
do. And again, this one I

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was expecting to be a lot more
of a war. I mean, you

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did see the different styles. You
saw MVP with his kicksboxer style and his

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his feints that were down at his
waist. But you had Ian Gary,

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who many times went for submission attempts
and definitely had an advantage, went against

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the fence a lot of times.
They went into the clinch. It seemed

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like it was favoring Ian with his
feints and all. But again, just

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I expected a better fight out of
this one. But there has been some

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serious calling out of MVP's camp by
Ian Gary, and I'm going, well,

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isn't that kind of dead in the
water if you've already won. So

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it's a little confusing. You win
the fight and then you come out and

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make these calls and say this is
an embarrassment to the sport. I could

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see a little bit more of instead
of you know, heavy high brow in

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it like that. I can see
that a little bit more if you had

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lost the fight. But it's strange
with Ian Gary to call this out after

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a w so we'll see how that
plays out. It looks like if anything

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would make the most sense now,
it would be going for whoever has the

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who wants to get rid of the
easter egg, who wants to get rid

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of the zero in their name.
You could easily have Ian Gary versus Rotmanov

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coming up next, two guys of
an undefeated streak facing each other. So

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Ian Gary just was a little bit
of a let down. But I can

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tell you this performance of the night
was the very next fight you had the

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women's bantam way about Macy Kyson versus
Baino Silva. I didn't really talk about

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this one because I really kind of
underestimated that one falls on me. After

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Macy threw a slicing elbow right above
Maro's face. And I'll tell you that

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that is a classic ending cut.
Anything that's above the eyebrow that is spewing

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blood into the eye, you're already
fifty percent impaired. And when they checked

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it out, the doctor makes the
right call. It's a doctor stoppage that

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means a TKO. But here's where
it got strange. Mayra Bueno Silva jumps

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the cage and goes and starts demanding
or insisting that Dana run that one back.

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Now, there's a couple of things
I can discuss that might be why

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there's been a lot of begging for
a chance to be on the three oh

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six event. This is timobile arena. The next one they're going for is

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the Sphere UFC three h six seems
to be kind of a brass ring for

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a lot of these fighters. That
being said, she goes over to Dana

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White and surrounded by a bunch of
executives while she is dripping blood off of

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her face, almost like in a
plea for mercy. Now, whatever her

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stipulations were, it was strange.
And what's worse about it is Dana White's

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getting her blood over and he doesn't
want a fighter's blood over. The blood

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belongs on the canvas, it doesn't
belong outside of the cage. Even worse,

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this was a fight that we had
to bring out of the ashes in

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many different circumstances. You had a
main event that was scrapped and guys had

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to come in saved the day.
At the end of the day, you

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had a guy who took a fight
on eight days notice and a guy at

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even less times notice. And I'm
sure that Dana has these executives nearby that

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are showing this is still worth the
investment that the show will go on.

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Whoever, they were not a good
time to raise your hand and state your

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case, wouldn't you say? But
that was ultimately just a weird turn of

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events that happened. But you know, props to Macy on that one.

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For as far as Anthony Smith versus
Roman to Lee's day Light Heavyweight about this

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one, again just unanimous decision to
Roman, I would give him props for

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it. But again it's one of
those for you to pull it out over

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eight days notice when Anthony Smith hadn't
been in there that very long either.

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This was supposed to be originally a
Jamal Hill fight, so both guys to

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step in on last minute notice for
a unanimous decision to go the whole three

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rounds. Again, not as much
as I could praise about that, but

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I don't want to overlook either one
of them. So for simple fact that

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on eight days notice to les Day
gets the fight, you know, And

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that's a whole lot to cover before
I even get to why I insisted on

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a bonus episode. Why not insist
on It wasn't Andre Feey versus cubs Wanson,

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it wasn't Paul Viver in his call
out. It wasn't the controversial post

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comment remarks where Dana had even said
that Ian Gary MVP could have been a

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draw that was even talked about,
and with the slicing elbow and Deliza,

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that isn't why I wanted to stop
and talk about all of this in a

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bonus episode. And it's not because
there's no fights this week. It's because

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of this two words, Dan Egan. We're watching fights over at the Loud

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of Pain Aid Mansion, and out
of nowhere I see Bleacher Report comes up

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on my phone with a update from
Ariel Hajwane. Now, anybody who's been

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following the sport lately for the last
month at least you might want to know

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who Ariel Hawane is if you don't. As far as not only an MMA

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journalist who's been doing this a long
time, this is a guy who tends

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to get at least one home run
every time he comes up to bat.

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This last month, he's hitting grand
slams because he has been on point,

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and a lot of the listeners and
a lot of the guys that are content

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creators and other fighters didn't want to
give him the time of day, saying

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that the Connor McGregor versus Chandler fight
was in jeopardy and he ended up being

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right. So I look at the
Bleacher Report and I see this on my

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phone and I go, I got
to pull this up. It's Ariel hajuanning,

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and I realize what I was afraid
of. You had a scheduled bout

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between Brian Ortaga and Diego Lopez,
which ultimately will become a catchwaight bout that

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was supposed to be on the bantamweight
level. I believe just kind of throwing

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that out there since I'm going on
this with very little notes, but I

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just Brian Ortaga, as of that
morning, was having a hard time making

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way and we found out that he
was extremely sick. So by the time

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that Swanson and Feeley are in the
cage, there's this update. It looks

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like we might have to be pulling
Brian Ortega. I'm not going straight from

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what the tweet said on X I'm
really not. It's just simple the fights

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in Jeopardy now. I mean,
how many more plagues have to hit this

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venue before we can call it a
night, you know? And I'm listening

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and I go okay, So soon
I find out that Daniel Cormier and John

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Annick and Joe Rogan, who are
at cage site at the broadcast, both

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are already talking about this and that
is officially been announced before Joe Piffer even

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had his fight, that we have
a guy coming in on three hours notice,

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three hours first notice, and it's
going to be fifty k It's gonna

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be one of my favorite fighters as
of today, it's Danny Gay. Of

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all the guys that would step in
that would become the epitome of anytime,

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anywhere, any weight class, you
give them to me. So ultimately it

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becomes a catchweight of one sixty five
to get these guys. But what we

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find out later is behind the scenes. The UFC war room is the one

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who can really take a bow for
this one, because by three o'clock am

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they already had Dany Gay ready to
get on the scales as backup. Because

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there are other fighters that have done
this in the past, the most recent

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one I can think of that was
ready to go on weight but didn't have

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to do anything, so he just
set there for a commentary was Michael Chandler.

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He showed up on weight ready to
fight, didn't have to. In

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this case, Danny Gay steps in
to replace Brian Ortega. So my last

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bout I was talking about this becoming
a grappler's delight. What this ultimately was

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was mad respect to both guys.
I believe it went back and forth through

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the whole thing. There were a
lot more submission attempts. It seemed like

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Diego Lopez went for rear naked chokes
several times, a Dar's choke here and

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there, But either way, I'm
not surprised that Diego Lopez pulled that out.

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This doesn't feel like a loss.
This feels like a hat tip to

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Danny Gay to be paid to be
able to fight somebody on three hours notice

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that he is not trained for.
I had not any training camp whatsoever,

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just a little bit of time to
warm up and make the walk and go

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out there and show these executives that
are cleaning the blood off in front of

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them from the women's fight earlier,
that this is what this sport is about.

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People who will step up at any
time I am, when necessary.

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So it's kind of hard to know
if and ultimately when it's at the very

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end, it's not. I'm not
sure where we're gonna go with this,

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because these guys arm in arm go
up to Dana White at cage side,

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they kneel down, and I'm sure
they're mentioning something about the sphere once again.

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The reward as of lady. That
carrot that's being dangled in front of

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these MMA fighters seems to be at
three oh six at the sphere. So

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many of them that I've seen that
have posted videos poses of themselves selfies with

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friends in front of the sphere of
the sphere waiting for the chance to see

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what this innu is like. So
we'll find out in September if that one

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we'll get run back onto the man
event. You got some potential history that

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can't be overlooked here. What do
we see when we see Alex Pereira,

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the baddest man walk in the face
of this planet, And not only that,

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let's keep some things in consideration.
Both men come out to the cage.

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There's no expression from either Alex or
Yerie. From the second they like

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lock eyes and make eye contact.
There's nothing, just a cold stare and

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ultimately we have the first round.
Last second, Alex Pereira knocks ery Prahsca

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down, either knocks him out or
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leg kicks while he's mounted on his
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but saved by the bell in every
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They go back in, they engage, they start to move into ranch.

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Alex Pereira throws this beautiful kick to
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How ironic that Alex not only wins, but apparently either dislocates or breaks his

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toe, reaches down and snaps it
back into place while he's still in the

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cage. We thought it was something
to commend him for when he was grazed

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on his cross shot by Jamal Hill
just to look at Herbian not even look

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at herb Did he put his hand
and go nope, nope, don't stop

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anything. Reload knocks out Jamal Hill. We thought that was amazing. This

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man okay, Conrad Gregor pulls out
for a pinky toe being broken. Alex

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Pereira literally breaks his toe inside the
cage on Yuri's head or dislocates it,

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whatever it is, and it has
to be snapped back. Alex Pereyra takes

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care of it himself. Now,
this has happened in other instances before.

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A video that came out a few
years ago of a world class powerlifter where

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she lifts the weight it's up to
her chin and somehow dislocates her finger.

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So instead of gasping for breath and
screaming out in pain, she positions the

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bar on her arm towards she can
snap the finger back into place and just

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keep going in the competition. Awesome
stuff. This happened once inside of the

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Square Circle with Brett Hart and Rick
Flair. They faced each other for the

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championship in nineteen ninety two. Rick
Flair kicks Brett off, he falls into

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the turnbuckle and dislocates his finger.
You can watch it if you go back

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and watch the match. He's laying
on his back and you can see he

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snaps it back, and you can
see even mister perfect Kurt Henning from ringside

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going, oh, that's not good. So these things do happen in other

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instances throughout combat sports or other athletic
competitions. But for how ironic And I'm

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not the only one to say that
that Connor McGregor is out with a pinky

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toe. The man who saves us
is once again the baddest man walk in

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the face of this earth, Alex
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heavyweight. Now this is why he's
gonna make history. The only other guy

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that I know that can be so
dominant across three different weight classes is George

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Saint Pierre alex Pereira if he goes
up to heavyweight, because now the question

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comes, what's left for him to
do in light heavyweight? The only one

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I'm seeing that makes any sense is
number two on caliath Okay, and that's

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not a guy who's known for grappling. Maybe he is inspiring sessions, but

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that's not what he's known for.
He's known for his stand up game.

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How's that gonna fare So I guess
that one does make sense. Dana seems

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like he's a bit reserved on that
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versus Steve Amyocic that is penciled in
from Madison Square Garden. You do have

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UC three oh four in Manchester where
the intim title will be defended Tom Aspinall

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versus Curris Blades. That's a fight
that needs to happen. But if Alex

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Prayer is gonna go up to the
heavyweight now, that'll be his third division

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to cross so many rivers that he's
crossed now in the world of MMA,

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and he's gonna go into heavyweight and
dominate. So if I'm gonna go off

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of what we do with Alex if
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we can sit here and talk about
how he could face John Jones. That's

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where the buzz is. Is that
the biggest fight to make in history as

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of right now? I'm sure you
could say that. But if we're gonna

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throw him into when it comes to
the rankings, what it seems like to

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me is, once we get the
interim championship figured out, a guy who's

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coming offful win, if you're ready
to throw him into the top ten with

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guy who has a win under his
belt. You've only got two of them.

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A mismatch in wait, which is
Marsine Taibia, but the other one

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that does kind of make sense if
you look at it. Just from building

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a narrative, you can go with
Alex versus Alex, Alex the Great,

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Volkov versus Alex the potential greatest to
ever do it. So I just to

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have a little bit of a warm
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I'm in as far as anybody else. Now it's a matter of who is

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he gonna be facing in He's gonna
face Blades or Aspinall. Ultimately, we

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can't wait around forever for John Jones. But it seems like John Jones continues

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to put stipulations in place. Well, we got to figure out what's going

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on with aspinall that. I think
whenever I face steep A, I might

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end up retiring. After all.
Let's face it, I don't think John

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Jones wants any of Alex Perera's smoke. There's really no way for me to

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put that. So laying out what
I've seen from the event that was UFC

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three oh three. It's quite a
bit to lay out potential history in the

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greatest to ever do it, and
a co main event on three hours notice.

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Mad respect to fifty K Danny Gay, along with all the other small

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little nuggets that I had to throw
in there for a UFC and for the

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MMA takedown this time, so I
can guarantee you next week we're gonna go

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back to what's scheduled as usual.
I hope you've enjoyed this little breakdown,

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this little wifey MMA takedown. If
you got the mid roles that came in

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or early in between you and I
apologize, but this had to be given

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out into the world. This had
to be given out to the Blockhead nation.

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We will catch you next week.
And as they always say in MMA,

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that is the way the cookie crumbles
was send