YFB MMA Takedown: UFC 296

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about MMA, and we're inside the octagon

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the next. And this week it's
all about the octagon. It is all

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about gloving up and getting into the
cage. So if you're listening to this

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podcast, I am your host.
My name is Brian Little. I am

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a true MMA enthusiast that loves this
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to spread some holiday cheer, that's
the way to do it. This episode,

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it's all about Mma, It's all
about UFC two ninety six, And

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as much as I want to cover
every different nook and cranny that could possibly

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be covered, I'm gonna do my
best just starting with the main card and

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moving forward because ultimately we did have
a pre main event that has been upgraded

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to the opening main card that easily
could be a main event on any other

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day except today. I'm talking about
Josh Emmett versus Bryce Mitchell. Originally what

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we had was Josh Emmitt versus Giga
Chagatzi, which that in itself is main

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event caliber that itself had me super
excited, thinking this is jerking the curtain.

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How can you not want to tune
into UFC two ninety six. Ultimately,

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Jigazzi's out and we have in steps
thug, nasty Bryce Mitchell out of

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nowhere. This is something I was
not expecting but certainly won't turn down.

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But I'll put this out there.
Chaill Sonnon has done the Chail curse,

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WYFB is gonna put out the WIFB
curse as well, Meaning I'm gonna have

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to go with Josh Emmett on this
one. Not because I'm especially favoring Josh,

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It's simply that when you look from
a veterans standpoint. He was talking

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on Fox forty Sports the other day
where he's used to the pivot. He's

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very used to we make a change
of plans, we go with this guy,

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and if you underestimate the strength of
Josh Emmett, you are asking for

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trouble. So when it comes to
Bryce Mitchell being explosive and being an incredible

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character that comes onto the scene,
I'm excited about it. I certainly believe

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we've got a banger that's gonna happen
tonight. Neither one of these guys is

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afraid to bang. I just believe
if you underestimate the power that's in Josh

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Emma's hands. You're in trouble.
I truly believe that if Bryce is going

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to charge forward, we've got an
issue on our hands. And Josh once

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again talked about how he's looking for
main event guys. He already had one,

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He had one, Chagatzi. They
were getting together a beautiful plan.

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But now we're gonna shift things up
a little bit and we're gonna take a

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look at Bryce. So in many
ways, you gotta look at his camp.

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I don't overlook Team Alpha, and
I don't overlook his coaching staff.

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So in reality, I'm going with
that for the wife be curse, I'm

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going with Josh Emmon on this one, but I expect that to be a

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heck of a brawl. I would
perfectly find if Bryce Mitchell comes out on

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top. That's just the reality for
a lot of these fights. Moving forward

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into what we could have had,
we could have had Ian Gary versus Vicinte

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Luke. I'm gonna let sleeping dogs
lie simply because Ian Gary's out, not

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by his own free will. If
the doctor is gonna say that you have

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contracted pneumonia and it's to this extreme, then I don't have a lot more

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to say as a fan. I
remember Matt Hamill begging with the doctor,

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begging for him to go in for
his fight, but Tito Ortiz having to

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say, hey, look this is
out of my hands. This is a

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medical issue. If the ammonia is
to contracted that much, it just doesn't

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help the narrative for Ian Gary.
I look at his track record, I

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look at the MMA record. I
look at the guy who thinks he's only

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good enough to do this, when
in reality he's probably good enough to be

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not only a championship material, but
long term championship material. But we have

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Sean Strickland, for some reason,
who decided to stir the pot, who

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dug deep into the emotional world of
Ian Gary and certainly found, not to

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say the least to find some juicy
gossip on that one. We'll just leave

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that alone until that starts to transpire. We'll see what happens down the road,

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because I think, honestly, Ian
Gary and Vicenti Luke will be a

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main event down the road. I
have to tip my humble hat to Kevin

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Holland going straight to Twitter and saying
here's the deal, because he's done that

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before it would have been awesome.
Just seeing Kevin Holland and Vicente Luke come

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in and just give us a show
would have been amazing. Either way,

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something happened. There's gonna be another
transition down the road. Maybe this has

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more firepower as we give it time
to just marinate. Maybe there is something

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to that, But Ian Gary Is
Luke will save until another day as we

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get into the man that is WonderBoy. Stephen Thompson, sometimes I gotta just

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wait until we get to the press
conference. Upon being asked if Rockmanov is

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going to be his toughest rival to
date, without a moment's hesitation, you

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got wonder Boy saying, yeah,
that's definitely the hardest fight I can be

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given. Maybe not his hardest flight
ever, but certainly currently what's been given

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to him on the roster, you've
been given the roughest night out. But

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I'll throw this out there. As
much as we want to discredit wonder Boy

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for the undefeated streak and the the
going in for the kill and the finish

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record that you have from Rockmanov,
don't don't underestimate what we call it the

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crossword puzzle or the actual jigsaw puzzle, that is WonderBoy. Just ask Tyron

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Woodley if he could figure that one
out. So if you look at the

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trajectory here, wonder Boy as a
thirty nine year old who has a chance,

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one last shot to go for a
title, it's intriguing. I appreciate

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it. But when we look at
Romanov, I still just go is this

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gonna be too much for him to
endure? And Rotmanov certainly seems to be

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the guy. If you're gonna put
the guys that are undefeated, you got

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Ian Gary, and you got Rotmanov
and you got Shamayev, who are easily

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the roughest night out for anybody that's
on the roster. So Rotmanov is the

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one I'm giving the head nod to. I would love to see wonder Boy

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pull this off. Either way,
tune into this one and tune into it's

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really not It doesn't have any bad
taste of it, ain't no bad blood.

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This is just straight up competitive and
Wonder Boy probably won't get another chance

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if you can't get past this guy. But again time will tell. As

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we roll forward into Tony Ferguson and
Patty the Batty, I believe Patty has

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already made it clear. Even with
the press conference, even though they tried

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to make it look like there are
some issues between these guys, Patty realizes

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something early on. Even if Patty
wins, he cannot win. Hear what

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I just said, Patty cannot win
even if he does win. Why because

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anybody who is an MMA fan appreciates
the legacy of El Kakui. But we

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also realize with the losing streak that
he is on, that this is probably

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gonna be his last ride. It
is hard for us to watch fighters that

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we love have to go out on
a low note. We've watched it so

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many times where they have to take
their gloves off after a loss when it

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really hurts, and we just have
to appreciate what they god. They don't

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go out on a high note.
There's very few that have. Henry Sehudo

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supposedly was going out on a high
note. Kabeb supposedly was going out on

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a high note. These are very
few and far between. They're more like

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the Randy Couturs. They're more like
the Chill Sons. They're more like guys

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who have agreed, have agreed that
we're gonna go off into the sunset on

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a loss. That's more typical in
the MMA world. It's going to sting

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if this is how we see El
KAKUI Tony Ferguson leave Vegas. And again,

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this is not the UK, this
is not Patty's fan base, this

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is Fight City, Las Vegas.
So either way, I will go ahead

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and tell you that I am going
with Patty the Batty, not that I

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want to, not that it is
intuitively something that I want to do.

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It's simply that Tony Ferguson doesn't have
the record going into this fight against a

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protected investment that Patty the Batty is. But either way, am I okay

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with Tony Ferguson win this fight?
You bet you one hundred and eleven percent.

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I would love to see Tony Ferguson
pull off the upset and be able

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to say this is how I want
to leave the organization, and then to

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do what go join Anthony Pettis and
Benson Henderson and make more money in PFL.

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Go for it. At this point, the more money you can make

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on your way out, the better. I wish nothing but the best for

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Tony. Patty has agreed before he
even stepped into the press conference and started

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to start the trash talk that he
cannot win this one even if he wins

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this one. So if we're gonna
go back, I'm giving it to Josh

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Emmitt, I'm giving to Shopcott Rockmanoff. I'm giving it to Patty the Batty

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Pimphlet Now into the co main event. I have been waiting and chomping at

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the bit all week to talk about
this one. Why because I certainly believe

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this is wife BEA's prediction. I
don't have one that I am gonna choose

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until I watch the first round.
I believe that this is a diamond in

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the rough that so many fans are
overlooking and have no reason to overlook it.

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For some reason, the flyweight division
has been seen too long as expendable.

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Why because there's never any bad blood? Did you see any with Demetrius

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Johnson. If you are a true
MMA fan and been following this for a

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while, did you see a lot
of bad blood when Brandon Moreno defeated Figerato?

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Not necessarily, And I'll tell you
this when it comes to Pantosio.

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Pantosia is absolutely Brandon Moreno's kryptonite.
I'm not sure if it was Dana White

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con Tender Series or Ultimate Fighter,
but those two fought each other and Pantosa

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had his hand raised. They make
their debut in the UFC and once again

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Mirano versus Pantosia, Pantosa gets his
hand raised. They face each other for

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the flyweight heavyweight from Flyweight Championship of
the World, and Pantosia has his hand

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raised. Pantosia is his kryptonite.
But if you look at his opponent,

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Brandon roy Val, who absolutely could
get done tonight, Brandon Reval having one

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of the best knockouts at twenty twenty
three and coming off I lose a three

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win fight streak. This is a
guy who believes him kill or be killed

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if he is a killer, be
killed if he charges too much. Pantoja

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is a guy who methodically could get
this done, especially if you take it

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to the ground. But is there
ever an easier story to get behind for

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Alexander Pantojo when he won the title. If you didn't catch this, when

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he was on the microphone, he
spoke these words and he said, now

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did he have some broken English?
I guess you can call it that.

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There were definitely some language barriers that
happened here, but ultimately what he said

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was, Dad, are you proud
of me? Dad? Are you proud

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of me? Now? Now that
I'm the flyweight champion of the world.

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Pantoja's dad was never in the picture, and I'm going to take it back

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a few years. This is just
easy for a man who didn't have a

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dad in their life to appreciate that. This moment is kind of similar to

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that scene from Freshpence of bel Air
where the dad skipped down again. And

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now Will Smith has his outburst,
but ultimately in the end, after he

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said all he needs to say,
he breaks down says, how come he

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don't want me? Man? It's
really hard. It's a kick in the

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stomach. But this has happened before. If we go back to one of

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my favorite audibles that I have on
my phone, I'll listen to this story

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quite often. It's Chris Leban,
Chris Leban versus Patrick Cote. This was

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a specific chapter in Chris Leban's book, and it talked about how the entire

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night went by and Chris Leban is
fighting and every time he go to his

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stool, he looked to the audience
and he'd see an empty seat where his

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father was, and his brother would
just shrug his shoulders and he continued to

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have to play. This thought is
my Maybe he's late. Somewhere in there,

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the coach slaps Chris Levan in the
face and says, Chris, let's

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go. This is your time.
Forget all that. And as we watch

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the scene, if you ever go
back and watch that fight with Chris Leaving

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and Patrick Cote, every time he
would crack Patrick Cote's skull, it was

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forget that man who calls himself my
dad. Forget the pain, Forget all

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the neglect, Forget everything that stood
in my way. This is my night.

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Pantojia got that chance against Brandon Moreno
and was able to hold the flyweight

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championship. Now he's got a chance
to retain it so methodically. Now that

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we are patent, we have a
story here, a narrative that anybody who's

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ever been neglected in their life can
appreciate. For it, Pantosia. Pantosia

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is the more methodical fighter. Brandon
Royval is the or be killed fighter,

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and sometimes that can be detrimental.
So until I see the first round,

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I am not taking a pick on
Pantojia versus roy Baal, but I believe

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This can easily be fight of the
night. I feel like it's being overlooked

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moving into the main event, Leon
Edwards Rocky versus Chaos. Colby Covington.

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Okay, Coobe Covington has ruffled so
many feathers so many times that what else

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can you expect from this guy?
But can I take a minute just to

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go to the press conference and say
that I was already chomping at the bit

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wanting to see Leon defeat this guy, and you'd think I wouldn't because a

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diehard American from Texas who appreciates the
American Revolution. And I'm watching this guy

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acting like he's going to the Philadelphia
convention to help write the Constitution, and

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he's got what the wig on and
the red suit on, which I'm pretty

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sure the British wore anyway, and
he's given this whole spill about how you're

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here to support this guy or he's
supporting the revolution? Colby? Did you

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never learn history? Are you missing
the fact that if it wasn't for the

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French and the Spanish providing US supplies
and providing US reinforcements, that we probably

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would not have won that revolution.
That we won the fights that were the

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most crucial, meaning Saratoga, meaning
Yorktown. But most of the battles in

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the South, we were getting demolished
tremendously. You do have a Christmas Day

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defeat where it's crossing the icy Delaware, the Battle of Trenton. That's all

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true. But Colby, you act
like America didn't have some help to be

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able to pull off the revolution.
You act like we did on our own,

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a bunch of disgrunted thirteen colonies versus
the greyest British army and navy in

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the world that dominated five continents.
Just throwing that out there. But you

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know, he acts like this is
some revolutionary thing that he's doing, and

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he's gonna teach everybody a history lesson. And I sit back and roll my

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eyes the whole time. But it
gets even worse when we get to the

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point of Colby telling Leon Edwards that
I'm gonna take you end I quote,

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to the seventh layer of Hell and
we'll say hello to your dad. While

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we're there, a water bottle is
thrown. You can hear all of the

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cheers leave the room. It's almost
like all the air got sucked out in

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that split second, and you would
think you would know anybody that was given

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the sense that God gave Geese that
there's a difference between business and being personal.

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Isn't there a line to where your
credibility is on the line when you

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go personal like this? Haven't we
had Colbe Covington saying things about the Brazilian

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fans, about Matt Hughes who was
literally hit by a train and telling him

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to stay off the tracks. He's
already said distasteful things that led to this

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point, and now you've gone so
personal to attack a man's dad. Let's

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remember that the that the mom is
still alive and had to hear this.

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I understand a psychological edge, but
I am disgusted by the edge, the

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cheap heat. I guess you can
say that Colby Covington tried to accrue here,

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and he's not getting a lie of
defense either. Even somebody like John

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Jones is saying that that was not
necessary. Sean Strickland is saying, I'm

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a guy that's a Trump supporter and
I don't support what he just said.

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How can I get behind a man
who would say that? So I'll give

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you one advantage. I want leon
Ewars to win this fight. So bad

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that I can taste it. And
if we're gonna we're gonna leave in one

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common denominator. The one common denominator
is this guy named Kamaa Usman. You

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tell me who lost two times to
Kamara Usman and who won twice to Kamara

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Usman, who arguably is the guy
who led the welterweights in the absence of

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GSP. I'm just throwing that into
the pot something to consider. And I'm

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gonna tell you, with the comments
that were made at the press conference,

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if Kolbe wins, you definitely can
strike while the iron is hot and you

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could get Strickland versus Colby. Title
are not Trump supporter versus Trump supporter.

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This is something Uncle Dana could literally
scrape up together and make a main event

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at some point in twenty twenty four. That already has me salivating. Since

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you had three different press conferences to
get interested into January, February, in

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March, and you already have this
discussion that's going on. There's just no

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page that's left unturned. But I
have to throw that out there. When

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it comes to Leon Edwards, he
has my pick tonight. But do I

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believe that Colby wants it bad enough
he can utilize the same chain wrestling he

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did with hore Masvidal. Certainly do. I certainly can see that. I

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can see that disgrundling the entire Vegas
audience that was expecting a banger and had

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to watch this and a scramble on
the canvas for about five rounds. Could

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this still be a reality. Certainly
so, And all of this can be

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attributed back to what's called the YFB
curse. So if you're needing my picks,

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my picks are Josh Emmitt, shot
cut Ropinoff, Patty the Battie.

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I am not choosing Pontoya versus Royval
until we get to the first round,

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and for the main event, I'm
choosing Leon Edwards. If you want to

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know, there you have it,
Blockhead Nation. I know this feels a

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little different since I'm coming to you
from a very different location, but I

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kind of like it. I think
that to change it up a little bit

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and just to try it in a
different location, why not. But again,

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I'm gonna stand by what I said. If we have the sense that

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God gave Geese, you would think
that somebody would realize that there is a

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line between personal and business and my
answer to that is, Leon Edwards looks

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like he's coming in ready for business
tonight. If there's ever a way to

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move away from these disgraceful comments,
it's for you to go in and take

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care of business tonight inside of the
cage. You go get done, Leon,

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But we'll see what happens. How
much I eat my own words and

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eat crowing like the taste of it. Come next week, well, actually

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that's not true. Next week there
will be no episode. I'll probably do

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a bonus one. Why because that's
gonna be the day before Christmas Eve.

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So therefore I will probably come to
you with a bonus episode before Christmas,

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so be watching. I'll make sure
I make my updates. I appreciate all

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the love you guys continue to give. And this is your favorite Blockhead.

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Sign out with another yf B MMA
takedown and we will catch you next time.

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I want to say, same Blockhead
time, same blockhead channel, but

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be watching for a bonus episode.
Very sm