YFB MMA Takedown: UFC 299

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Broadcasting Live, coming you to once
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much ground to cover, so we're
gonna spend another episode of doing another exclusive.

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Why if be MMA Takedown. I
hope if you are not an MMA

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fan, that you will stick around. You will check out this particular episode

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and you'll see why this sport,
especially tonight, is proving that it's the

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greatest sport under God's hot sun.
Now all week long, blockad Nation.

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I have been following all of the
events of UFC two ninety nine, Okay,

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And even though I want to say
that UFC three hundred in a way

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kind of amber heard of the bed
just because we don't have have a super

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fight that would bring in the casual
fans, I will tell you us loyal

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MMA fans are being rewarded tonight with
UFC two ninety nine. That's because everybody

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got to the scales, everybody made
weight. We've had our stare downs,

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and the countdown has begun for a
UFC two ninety nine in Florida, and

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so I can only begin by starting
with I wish I could tell you that

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I will cover every nook and cranny, that I will leave no stone unturned.

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It's just not going to happen,
because if I just begin in the

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early prelims that are starting soon come
seven o'clock, you have a match between

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a man named Pedro Munos, ranked
number thirteen in the bantamweights versus Kyler Phillips

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and friends. I have been following
this all week long. When I say

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that the betting odds have stayed in
Kyler Phillips's favor, I am not exaggerating.

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And what that tells me is that
recency bias is so true in this

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sport. It tells me, just
like Ariel Holwane has said so many times,

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that fans do have a recency bias
and they don't have a historical trajectory.

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So for the people that are listening
to this podcast, to show you

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how stacked this card is, you
start with Pedro Munos versus Kyler Phillips.

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Now granted Kyler's coming off of two
wins recently, a third round submission and

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a third round unaimous decision over Barcelos
But if we just go into Pedro Munos

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for a second, Pedro Munos is
the same guy that has fought both of

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the bantamweights in the main event tonight. Pedro Munos is the same guy that

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didn't quite get his hand raised against
Cheeto Vera, but did an exceptional job

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with him inside of the cage.
This is the same guy that received an

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ipoke from Sugar Shan O'Malley and could
not continue his fight. And this is

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a prelim fight. Pedro Munos is
not getting near the recognition he deserves and

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he should for being an exceptional number
thirteen bantaweight working for his position to make

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break into the top ten. So
I wanted to start just with that blockad

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nation. So if Pedro Munas versus
Color Phillips doesn't talk you into the building,

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let me keep going a little bit. Moving into the lightweight division.

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You have my suit Camerot versus Huffields
Onios number six versus number eleven. If

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you're going just strictly by the rankings
for the UFC, Huffields Onios, this

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man has not been in a pre
limb fight since twenty fourteen. Are you

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are you hearing what I'm telling you, everything that's in the prelim fights could

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be a main event or coalmane event
on any given night if we go to

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the Apex, or if we go
to T Mobile Arena, or even if

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we went to Fight Island, these
could be fights of the night or possibly

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a main event or a colemane.
Huffield does on this versus Caamra. And

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again, Gamro is the guy that
finally in some ways humbled our monstorouki On

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and he's gonna be facing Olivera for
a number one contendership at UFC three hundred.

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So Gamroth versus Alreda is something everybody
should be paying attention to. Now.

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I could go into the girls fighting. I got nothing against the goals,

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nothing against Macy Barber, but I
have to jump forward into something else.

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Our main event for the prelims tonight
is Curtis Blade versus Jelton Almeida.

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Okay, Almeida being fair here,
did have a lackluster fight against Derreck Lewis

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Westward the whole time pretty much was
a human blanket on him. He did

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actually defeat Rosenstrike as well. But
if nobody's watching this fight, not only

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should you be watching. There are
two I can tell you right away who

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should be watching everything going on with
Blades in Almeida. One of them is

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Surreal Gone might recognize who I'm talking
about. Another one who should be watching

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happens to be the current interim champion
of the heavyweight division. That should be

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tom Aspinall. Because one of these
two is either gonna face so Real Gone

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and then we'll have a contendership or
Blades if he were to win this fight,

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if we're gonna get technical, not
by a TKO, but would have

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probably should have been a doctor stoppage, Blades has a win over tom Aspinall.

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That has to be acknowledged. So
this is just talking about the prelams

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to get you excited and to talk
you into the building, which is what

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I do with these MMA breakdowns,
with these wife b MMA takedowns. I

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hope you know that. So this
is what's jerking the curtain for two ninety

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nine. And if you're gonna do
a comparison to be fair of UFC three

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hundred, this is a reward to
all die hard MMA fans, But three

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hundred still doesn't have that super fight
that brings in the casuals us die hard

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MMA fans are getting our reward tonight
even as we start to fight. If

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I take a look at the first
opening card of the main card, which

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is rate number four bantam Pewter Yawn, former champion of the World against a

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China prospect known as Young Sadam so
number four of versus number seven, it

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seems like as I watch these as
I watched these stairdowns, as I watch

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the wayns that the Florida fans watching
seem to agree with why f B that

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there is a lot more excitement surrounding
this fight that could easily be fight of

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the night or performance of the night. I hope you're hearing me on this

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one. Don't let this diamond in
the rough pass you by. The opening

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fight for two ninety nine could be
the best performance you see yet, and

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certainly the stock by the China marketplace
would say that that's gonna be Young Sadong

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tonight. Peter Yawn, who's fighting
for redemption is happening here. So I

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hope you realize that is what I
think is my pick that could be fire

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the night blockad nation. As we
roll right into Gilbert Burns and Jack Delamdela.

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Now that's number four ranked Walter Waite
versus number eleven Walter Walter Waite.

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So if I'm gonna look at who
has the most to gain, it's definitely

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Jack Della. And if you want
to sway which side who favors who,

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it's pretty easy to say who it
is. When it comes to wrestling,

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that's gonna clearly go to Gilbert Burns. But if you check every other docket,

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Jack Della seems to have every other
advantage going into this fight except one

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thing we're not sure about. It's
the cardio. It's who is going to

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bring the most for this entire fight
to get to the end of the bell

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when they blow the final whistle.
Cardio can be very much a determining factor

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between Burns and Jack Della. And
we haven't even gotten to the Coal Maine

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event yet. This is why I
couldn't spend any time on anything else except

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what's happening in this fight, Except
what's happening at two ninety nine. I

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hope you hear not only the excitement, but I see that there there's an

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analytical game we're having to play here, especially the debut of one Michael Venom

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Page. The last time I remember
being this excited was the debut of another

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Beltar flagship known as Michael Chandler.
So if we're gonna go by Michael Venom

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Page versus Kevin Holland. So we
do have his debut, that's happening tonight.

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But you want to talk about being
thrown in the deep end of the

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ocean right away? What this sounds
similar to can be dated back to when

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Anderson's Silva first came to the UFC. He'd only thought in Brazil and Japan.

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They automatically put him in against one
of the most dangerous men of that

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time. They put him up against
Chris Leban. Now, of course he

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wiped the floor with Leban, but
it's hard to know where the favorite from

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Fort Worth of Kevin Holland is going
to stand. And you know he can

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handle grappling on the ground. You
know that this guy has the punches,

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he has the kicks. But there's
something to be said about him who is

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not only a legit kickboxer, but
he's not just to be a striker,

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but what's known as a sniper.
You don't recognize where his next fight's gonna

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come from. When we saw the
early pre shows coming out. This is

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what was debated between Anthony Smith and
shell Son, and they talked about him

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being a sniper. You never see
where it's coming from, and it's something

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that unorthodox as how much he drops
his hands. You would think that'd be

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so dangerous for him as he's charging
forward towards against Kevin Holland. So the

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debut of MVP and Kevin Holland,
I have to take a pass on that

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one. I'm not going to pick
who's being rewarded anybody who's an MMA fan

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that has followed this point to two
ninety nine. So as I get into

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our co main event, I've covered
a lot in a very short period of

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time, all the way from Munos
to Gamra versus already a the Curtis Blades

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versus Almeta, to what possibly could
be the fight of the night, which

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is Yawn versus Sadong, and the
fans certainly seem to give off that energy

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to the wrestler versus the striker Jack
Della. But it comes down to the

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cardio and the debut of Michael vinam
Page against a very dangerous walterweight and Kevin

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Holland. We get to the Comaine
event, and this is really hard for

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me to wrap my head around.
It shows me what I said earlier about

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recency bias. And I'm not taking
anything away from ben Wan Saint Dennis,

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but you got the ranked number three
lightweight in the world, Dustin Pourier,

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the Diamond versus number twelve, Ben
Was Saint Dennis and blocking nation. I've

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been following the rankings, and I've
been following the betting averages from DraftKings all

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the way to bet DSM, everything
else that's out there, I've been following

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it. They all favor Ben Was
Saint Dennis. But here's what I can

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expound on on that one. I
can understand that you might give him the

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advantage in the early stages of the
fight. First round, Ben Wah is

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coming out explosive. He's coming out
ready to put you away early. But

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is Ben wasa Saint denis part of
the five round club. I'll tell you

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who is Dustin Pourier. You want
proof of that, all you gotta do

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is go back a few years and
see how he did in a quiet arena

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known as the Apex, with only
a few coaches shooting out some instructions against

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a man named Dan Hooker. What
are we gonna think when we get to

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the fifth round of this Cole main
event seeing the gas can tank of Ben

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was Saint Denis who has never gone
five rounds. How are we gonna go

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against that when you know this is
the same man that dismantled Connor McGregor twice.

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And when people say like, oh, he's talking about this might be

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the end of his career. No, what he's saying is every time you

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fight in the cage, you lose
a piece to yourself that you never get

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back. That's a realistic approach for
Dustin Pourrier. So Ben Wall is definitely

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coming off of a couple of wins
and his belt starting with that. When

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it comes to Dustin Poirier recently,
all he did was drop his hand.

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He won the first round against Justin
Gaichee. Round two he drops his hand,

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high kicked to the head and he's
gone. And that solidifies our new

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BMF, which is Justin gai Chee. So I'm not saying there's a farsitie.

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I'm saying it's a fair assessment that
Dustin Pourier being overlooked is something I

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can't get behind. If you're gonna
say early in the fight, if Ben

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was Saint Danis is gonna get done
early, then I see the odds being

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ever in his favor. The longer
this fight goes, the veteran MMA IQ

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will be there to favor Dustin the
Diamond Poorier. That is one that I

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will stake all of my picks on
tonight, the longer this fight goes.

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As we roll into the main event, Sugar Shan O'Malley, current day bantamweight

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champion the World versus the man who
has dethroned the reign of Sean O'Malley,

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not for the title, but just
for the sake of the MMA train that

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he was on. He was riding
out and getting the taste of that gravy

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on top of the plate. You're
getting all of that with Sean O'Malley.

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He's clearly got a huge following in
his favor. And if we go off

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what his last opponent, the former
champion of the world, Al Jermaine Sterling

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says, he tells Cheeto Vera that
Sean O'Malley is and I quote, very

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good at what he does again broad
stroke here, but Al Jamaine Sterling against

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Sean O'Malley, if you're gonna go
off of If Cheatovera charges forward and puts

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his chin out there and he gets
touched by Sean O'Malley, we've certainly got

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a problem. So is there any
advice that why f be or anybody just

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as a fan that could give to
Cheeto Vera, who now is facing a

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much more evolved Sean O'Malley. Is
there something that I can give him?

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I would say there is, and
I had to go look for it.

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The most in depth analysis that I
can give to Cheatovera. Tonight, it

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was back at UFC one ninety six. It was an interview by ABC News

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ten. They had a microphone in
front of Nate Diaz and said, Nate,

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what is your game plan going in
against Connor McGregor. If you don't

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know this, RDA, who's on
this card tonight is out with an injury.

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In steps Nate Diaz, who asks
to fight Connor McGregor. Now you

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have the whole world is watching.
They're about to face each other, and

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they ask the most important question for
Nate Diaz that he could possibly get your

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game plan for defeating the notorious Conna
McGregor. And this is what he said,

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It's the most brilliant thing that I
can give to Chito Vera tonight that

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does have some historical significance to it. Nate Diaz said, and I quote

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my game plan is and he started
to he started to shoot, He started

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to punch the air, hit him
with some good stuff, don't get hit

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and walk away with a pocket full
of cash. That's Nate Dian. As

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much as I'm chuckling through these words, blockand nation, is there any more

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applicable approach that I could give to
Cheato Vera, which is, don't get

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hint, just like Nate Diace says, walk away with a pocket full of

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cash and preferably the title strap.
So I hope you know tonight that I'm

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careful when I put the wife Be
curse, but I'm doing it. My

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prediction is he will get careless and
O'Malley will catch him on the chin.

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This is wife Bee's pick. The
Chail curse is real if you follow Chaill's

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son and analysis and his picks.
So the wife Be curses real. I'm

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putting the curse on the head of
Sugarshaan O'Malley and hopes that chewedo Vera might

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hear the advice of a veteran Nate
Diaz, don't get hit, walk away

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the pocket full of cash, and
my hope is you're walking away with the

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new UFC bantamweight strap around your waist. But if we're gonna speak hindsight,

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if Sean O'Malley wins this fight,
that opens him up for a fight against

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Morob, as I mentioned in my
last episode, where Morob will be facing

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him hieovera sitting cage side Sean O'Malley
wins again, now we have a chance

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for them to make eye contact from
inside the cage and outside of the cage.

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That's time for number three, the
best two of three. The third

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fight to determine the number one guy
is what always makes the UFC organization and

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the fighters the most pocket full of
cash. So if I'm going to just

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go off of what on paper would
make sense, it would be O'Malley winning

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and cheetover could get a third shot, get redemption and to find out who

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the true the best man is.
But that all can be derailed tonight.

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You Chido Vera and the support he's
getting from Florida can go in and finish

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the job. And I've laid out
the prelimbs all the way up to the

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main event as quickly and as efficiently
as I can Blockhead Nation because I gotta

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get this podcast out and start watching
the fights. I will see y'all at

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UFC two ninety nine as I'm sitting
watching cage side from the Loud Opinion Mansion

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from the TV set up outside,
and we're gonna enjoy this. I will

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catch you next week, same blockhead
time, same blockhead cham