YFB MMA Takedown: UFC 303

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Well, Blockhead Nation and other MMA
fans from around the world's time for another

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wif B MMA to the world.
I really enough she to grasst idea that

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what the UFC has done is nothing
short of astronomical. What could have been

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chicken turns ended up being salad.
I just want you to realize that if

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you are coming into this bummed about
the fact that we don't have Connor McGregor

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versus Michael Chandler for the main event, you're missing something. You're missing that

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the UFC war room just pulled us
out of crisis mode and got us back

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on the tracks and an even better
situation than we were. So before I

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get into UFC three h three,
I have to do a quick recap since

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this is an MMA takedown, since
we just had UFC Fight Night where the

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Reaper is back. Robert Whittaker came
in and gave a phenomenal performance in a

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very short period of time over a
contender that had one loss under his belt,

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and that was against a guy named
Homsung Chamayav. So we'll just say

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that Robert Whittaker is back in the
wind circle. He's back, and he

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is ready to roll. So I
want you to just realize that there are

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three things that you could do with
Robert Whittaker. First of all is the

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simple call out that came out on
social media. Homsung Chamaiah wants to get

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in there and right the wrong that
when he got viciously sick over food poisoning.

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He wants to get back in there
with Robert Whitaker. Fair or if

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you were to go strictly by the
rankings, you would see that Whittaker and

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Sean Strickland there's a lot of striking
while the iron's hot on this one.

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There's a lot of firepower behind that
one. But really, if we're going

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off of just performance and what would
make sense to build a more credible narrative,

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we have to go at the main
event coming up down the road in

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August. You have C three h
five. You got drinkst Duplessis going up

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against Israel Atisania Middleweight championship on the
lot. If anybody should be sitting cage

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side for the performance that he just
gave, it should be Robert Whitaker.

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So if you're going off Sean Strickland
last performance not his best, But if

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you're going off Robert Whittaker, it's
clear that he's back, and clearly back

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in a desirable fashion. So I
had to make sure we look at the

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three obstacles of what makes sense for
Witnaker moving forward. Now we are at

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UFC three h three. It could
have been a disaster silhouetted across the night

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sky at the T Mobile in Las
Vegas, but it's not. I have

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to give credit all the way back
to Daniel White and to Hunter Campbell and

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all the guys that are in the
the UFC war room to pull this off.

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But if we're gonna just pump the
brakes for a second, let's go

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and take a look at one of
the prelium fights that you don't need to

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miss out on. There's quite a
few great fights that are happening tonight,

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but one you shouldn't sleep on.
This is one of those hidden gems you

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want a little proof. Dustin Poorrier
is on the commentary team tonight. He's

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sitting at the broadcast booth. He's
doing commentary with Chail Sonning and with Teddy

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Atlas and with Megan o'livy. And
he comes out and they ask what could

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steal the spotlight tonight? Dustin Poirier's
pick Cubbs Swanson versus Andrede feeling this is

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the one I tell you blocked nation
An. You know that listen to my

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MMA takedowns. Don't sleep on this
one. And I was actually a little

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bit taken back by some of the
commentary that came out of this week.

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They were saying this feels like twenty
thirteen all over again by saying that you

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are taking a stab in a way
against Cubs Swanson, and cub Swanson has

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nothing but accolades that he has contributed
to the UFC. So if we're gonna

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go about the older generation or the
veterans of this sport from twenty thirteen where

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cub Swanson has shined ever since versus
the new blood which is Andre Feely,

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who I believe one of his last
performances should have been Performance of the Night.

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I just want you to realize that
Dustin Porier picked this fight to steal

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everyone's thunder. So don't sleep on
this one. Cup Swanson versus Andre Peely

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should be free tonight to check out
before it gets to the main car and

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oh to close out the evening,
just what could have been a bleak hillside

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for Las Vegas. We're hitting a
mountain peak with the return of Joe Pifer.

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Okay, so when it comes to
Joe Pifer in his adversary from Canada,

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there's a lot of hype behind this
one, but I can tell you

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there are two towers that are gonna
be dominating what this sport's gonna look like

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and what's gonna continue to be over
the next couple of years. One of

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those guys is Bo Nickel be on
a shadow of a doubt. The other

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one that you have to acknowledge is
Joe Pifer. So this is a prelim

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that is one of the best prelams
I've seen in a long time, and

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that's leading us right into the main
events. So I hope I've got you

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excited enough about Joe Pifer is a
dominant force and his Canadian adversary will be

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put to the test tonight. So
if we're gonna let that kind of roll

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over into the first fight on the
main car, this is where both guys

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are gonna face their first test,
true testing. And I say that in

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all respects to Ian Gary and respects
to Michael vinam Page. I don't have

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any notes in front of me on
this one. I just want you to

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realize when it comes to this event, this one has stayed in tact since

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the breaking news and the confirmation that
it would be on tonight's main car,

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Ian Gary, Undefeated Street, Michael
vinim Page carrying over who was the flagship

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for Bellator When Michael Chandler leaves,
there are guys that have to just grab

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the flag and move forward for Bellator. And one of those guys was Michael

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vinam Page, even though he did
lose to the veteran Douglas Lima a while

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back. I just thought that MVP
was your guy to get behind another guy

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named aj McKee on the heavyweights,
maybe Ryan Batter, but either way,

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MVP was the absolute focal point for
Bellatzor and I don't want that to be

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overlooked. And now that he's been
thrown into the deep end of the ocean,

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and he showed that he is a
puzzle that you're not gonna solve right

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away when he faced Kevin Holland now
you got Ian Geary. If you just

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watch the press conference, if you
just look at the stair, doowns the

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weigh ins and everything. It's that
the fans favor Michael Venom page. Ian

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Gary is still kind of living in
the shadow and all of the gun smoke

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that's still blazing from all of the
social media backlash with him and his wife

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and other things that he fed into
on Twitter. That's still the wound is

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still very much right in this situation
for them. But Ian Gary, being

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undefeated, he carries the most to
lose at this point. He's not a

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fan favor as of right now that
he's tried to be a Connor McGregor two

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point zero and that has not really
worked out in his favor. MVP is

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one of these guys that you get
figured about. I want you to realize

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something about Ian Garrey when it comes
to a fighter who faints, meaning that

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you think he's gonna throw a left
when all he's doing is he's about to

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throw a calf kick, or if
you think he's getting wound up trying to

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throw a right cross, he's gonna
give you a body shot instead because he's

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made you flinch. However he's moved
his head from side to side, or

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whether he's moved his shoulders and a
certain angle, you think he's gonna throw

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this, and he throws you off. You flinch, he faints, and

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he comes in with an opposite move. That's something that is hard to depict

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and hard to work through in any
fight anybody who's good at fans, MVP's

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elevation for fans are all the way
down in his hips because he drops his

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hands, he puts his chin out
there. You think he'd be easy to

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touch on the chin, and he
is not. So it's a fascinating fight,

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and I don't think that even MVP
would lose any stock if he were

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to lose this one. I'm anticipating
a fight that will go all the way

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to the scorecards. I'm anticipating a
unanimous decision for Ian Gary. That's just

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my thought on it. I guess
the wife be curses in. But as

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we work our way up the car, I could spend more time looking at

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the girls that are gonna be fighting
soon. But what I have to do

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is really spend a little bit of
time on the wax on and wax off

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for the next fight. Let me
just see if I can catch you all

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up. The original fight was supposed
to be Jamal Hill versus Khalil Rowntree.

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Khalil Rowntree is out with Assada violation. In steps Carlos Olberg, very good

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record. Jamal Hill is out,
so in steps Anthony Lyonheart Smith, who

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I have nothing but mad respect for
the guy to do this on such short

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notice. All of a sudden,
Carlos Olberg is out. So on eight

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days notice, you got Roman Delize
days stepping in to take this fight against

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Anthony Smith. So I don't think
you're gonna expect fireworks on this one.

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You haven't had a full training camp
for either of these. What I do

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have for you is mad respect And
if I'm gonna pick somebody, it would

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be a long shot to say that
the least day has a chance. But

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one thing you need to be careful
with is not counting out these Georgian fighters.

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Do I need to name off another
Georgian fighter. His name is Armnsurroukion.

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So if you just kind of taken
in that perspect these are guys that

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are always ready and I'm thrilled that
they were able to come in and step

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on this car. Good stuff,
So should be a decent fight. You

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can't get upset with the outcome,
and either way with them on to the

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Coleman, you have quite a leap
here but you've got in many ways what

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should be grappler's delight. You ever
heard of rapper's delight? Think of this

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as grappler's delight. If you're going
off the skills that Diego Lopez number fourteen

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ranked has shown in the past.
Yes, he's known for striking, that

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it goes from zero to one hundred
very quickly. Okay. And I say

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all that also because there are other
people that have agreed with my thoughts and

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disagreed. One guy who has given
his breakdown for what's going on with the

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UFC tonight is Max Holloway. Max
is saying what most of the veterans in

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this sport have said, that you
cannot count out t City. Brian Ortega

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ranked either number two or number three. I want to say it's number three

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ranked if we're going off where we
currently stand in the UFC. But he

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was referred to as Babe Ruth.
Now you think that right away and you

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go wait, Babe Ruth is known
for some of the greatest home runs of

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all time. If you go back
and do your homework on Babe Ruth,

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you'll know that he had a strikeout
record a post as well. He had

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so many strikeouts to when he finally
hit that beautiful had that he called that

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made him a legend. It erases
all of the strikeouts that were in his

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record up to that point. That
can be Brian Ortega many times, including

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his recent submission of Yayra Rodriguez.
This is a guy when you think the

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fight's over, don't blake because that's
when t City Brian Ortega shows up and

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he's gonna wow you guys with this
one. And again this is another fight

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stepping in on short notice that can't
be overlooked as well. So for Diego

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Lopez to shake up the rankings in
a big way. For a guy who

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can throw hands in an explosive way, and for a guy who you don't

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want for him to take your back
because most of the time he's gonna pound

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you out from that position. Brian
Ortega, who can turn you into a

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human pretzel at a moment's notice and
can do submission attempts that are gonna make

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you a whoa, that was sick. That's Brian Ortaga. Don't start thinking

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just because we're in the third or
fourth round that automatically you count Bright or

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Taga out. Don't do that to
yourself one of my absolute favorite fighters.

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Everything about this is dripping with a
chance for grapplers to really show their best

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because I believe that Brian Ortega knows
all too well the power that's in Lopez's

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hands, even though he's ranked lower
on the rankings. So rolling with that,

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we have to go here. So
if we're gonna go on just the

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main event, I know this is
kind of briefing to the point with you,

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but I want you to realize when
it comes to Alex Perea and Yuri

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Prohosca the rematch, who would you
say has the most to lose? Well,

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clearly, you know common sense would
tell you it'd be the champion,

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wouldn't. Then I'm here to debunk
that. If there's anybody who has the

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most to lose in this fight tonight
that was still called on last minute notice

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within a month, I'm gonna be
Yei pro Hosca. This is a guy

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who is dependent upon his shum and
healing and his training as a samurai warrior

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to go up against the guy who
is easily one of the most popular,

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if not the most popular fighter right
now, that has won props in mad

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respect from the UFC fans that even
though he's holding a straft, when he

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gets to call, he'll take the
fight. That's Alex Pierra. Alex Pierra

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is not going to even if he
could lose his title tonight, he will

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not lose any momentum. For a
guy who has in less than three years

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won championships and one fights in three
different weight classes in a very short time

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for turnaround and you know you can
depend on him. So when it comes

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to euripro Hosca, a lot of
the experts have given it to him.

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Dustin Poorrier is pulling for a year. Chill Son and who won the UFC

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Hall of Fame fight for Emigan Sanderson
Silva is saying the same thing. There

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are very few that are signed with
me that Alex Perea is gonna pull this

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off tonight. But he's got everything
that a fan of today's MMA world would

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appreciate. You can count on him. He doesn't want the fight to stop

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Kau. There's a cross shot.
I'm referring to the Jamal Hill fight at

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three hundred. But when it comes
to just Yuri and being this unorthodox type

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of fighter, you got two very
unorthodox fighters tonight, So I can't discount

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either one of them on short and
on short glance. But if Yuri loses,

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you have nothing to build for a
rubber match. If he wins and

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gets the title, you got one
for one. Now you can build that

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to the trilogy. You have more
that we can stabilize for his career and

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going off his last performance, everybody
wants to ignore this when Alexander Rachik was

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piecing him up until the second round. Rachick was touching him more than people

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want to give credit for year.
He was probably winning to fight the first

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time he fought Alex Perea and then
Alex came back and dusted him up.

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Just it's one of these things,
all of these dynamics the coming place.

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It's gonna be quite a chess match
between these two. But the one who

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has the most to lose mark my
words, Blockhead Nation is yer a prehosting

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Alex Peree could lose his title tonight
and he'll move on. He could end

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up going into heavyweights and be a
dominant force there. All things have to

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be considered. So again, a
fight night that ended up working itself out.

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If you believe in MMA gods,
they have shine down upon this debacle.

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And given us chicken salad and has
what could have been the bleak hillside

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of Las Vegas is now the shining
emerald city of what you would beg for

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if you're a diehard MMA fan or
somebody like me trying to talk the casuals

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into the building, give Vegas a
chance tonight. So I've got my picks

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in. I'm excited about this main
event UFC three oh three. If you

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have more thoughts throughout the week,
you can send me comments. You can

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mention things on my TikTok, on
my Facebook, on my Instagram, on

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my x page. Stay in touch
if you wish to wife the MMA takedown.

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This next one is in the books. I gotta get out there and

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watch the flights, so I'm not
gonna ramble on any further. Let's wrap

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this one up and we will see
you on the other side for another episode

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next week, Same blockhead time,
same blockhead Chin