July 27, 2024

YFB MMA Takedown: UFC 304

YFB MMA Takedown: UFC 304

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Well, Lockhead Nation, it's fight Day. You know what that means.

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It's time for another segment of the YFB MMA Takedown.

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This entire podcast is dedicated to UFC three or four

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happening in Manchester, England. They haven't debuted there since twenty sixteen.

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I believe that's back when Bisping and Hindo had their

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second goal around, so they're back. The fight community is

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huge over there, and apparently it is vibrant and it's

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about to explode across the streets and into the arena.

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So either way, I want to take a few minutes

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today and really spend some time just focusing on the fights.

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UFC three or four Manchester very UK heavy, and I'm

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really excited about this one, and I just thought maybe

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what I should do is I should take the time

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to break down what you should anticipate. I've got the

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stats all spread out across my laptop here to make

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it a little more easy to where I can just

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kind of go through these fight by fight, but I'll

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kind of give you a little sum up of what

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you should be watching from the early prelims to the prelams.

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It's a different time zone, it's rough on the fighters.

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It's rough on the watchers as well, but really there's

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not a different time zone here for us that are Americanized.

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So I'll begin with a few things to say. We've

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already got right out of the gate. Meatball Molly McCann

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is going to be on the prelams facing Bruno Brazil. Now,

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Mollie hasn't exactly had the best luck outside of the UK,

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So if she's back in her home turf and she's

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got a lot of her fans, this being the co

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fighter and the compadre of one Patty the battye Pimblet,

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it's very possible that she might be able to get

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her strut back and be able to go out there

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and show what she's really made of, really kind of

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give another chance to build on a few losses she's

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got in the tank. I think this one should be

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an interesting matchup fairly close when you look at all

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the stats as far as striking, as far as cardio,

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as far as grappling. Not a whole lot that really

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stands up between either one of them that's really more

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dominant than the other. But Mala Mcan versus Bruna Brazil

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should be a fun one and So we move up

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to Nathaniel Wood versus Daniel Pineta featherweight bout. Now the

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odds are really favoring Nathaniel would and that just tends

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to be what DraftKings will tell you those of you

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that happen to follow the stats and follow the betting

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averages between these two. The UK fighters are gonna be

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favored across the board on this one. But I just

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don't want people to underestimate the tenacity of Daniel Pineda.

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I think the longer this goes, the more it favors

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Nathaniel Wood. He has been in the three round club

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many times and stayed strong, but I think if he

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comes out explosive, then Daniel Pineda really could get this

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put away early. So this is kind of one of

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those diamonds in the rough that I tell people to

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pay attention to and be watching as the rest of

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the fights go on. But I'll go ahead and just

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kind of air my grievances on one of these. It's

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really hard to follow if anybody what happened to be

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watching that's a fight fan that we're watching the stairdowns yesterday,

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not a lot eventful going on with Leon Edwards and

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Belel Muhammad. Not a whole lot going on with aspinall

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versus blades A stair doown a handshake? That's all. There

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is Patty the Batty and Bobby Green. You know, Patty

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is laughing off everything that Bobby says. So it's a

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lot of lightheartedness and a few words exchange between nothing

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really like a poll apart. I'm telling you. The poll

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apart between Manuela Kape and Mohammad Makayev is something people

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need to be paying attention to because this started off

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as literally on the main card, the number six flyaway

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in the world, a guy that I follow very closely,

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and the number eight rank Manucape from Portugal should have

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been on the main car. But guess what, they keep

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dropping them down to the prelams, which I'm like, okay,

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that might be the final closing match to get more

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people across the globe interested in what's going on over

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here in Manchester. So Macaiev and Kape could be the

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ones to do that. But there's a literal poll apart

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between these guys. There is a scuffle all the way

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across the stage between Kope and Macaiev. There is bad

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blood between these two or there's manufactured blab bud bad

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blood between the the between the flyways, and this is

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now on the early pre lamps, all the way down

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from the opening card replaced by Gregory Rodriguez in England's

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own Christian Duncan. But okay, I can understand you being

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on the prelambs to an extent, But the explosiveness of

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the stairdown that's gonna get people talking is between the

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two small guys and out of nowhere. Here they are

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on the early pre lamps, fight in as early as

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five point thirty in the afternoon over here in America.

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So do you remember that movie.

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The Lion King. There's a lot of small segments in

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that entire masterpiece that people forget about. And this is

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what came to mind with me. If you remember, there's

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a part where Timoon is trying to understand the relationship

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between Nala and Simba, and he says, okay, you know her,

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she knows you, but she wants to eat Poomba, And

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all of a sudden, everybody's just okay with this. Did

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I miss something? I have to admit if I can

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get some justification on how you're on the opening card.

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You're Makaiah versus Kape, both trying to break into the

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top five of the flyaways, both very explosive fighters, but

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a beloved England fighter is replaced by Christian Duncan. Do

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you know who he is? I didn't think, so if

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you do, you're a bigger MMA fan than I am,

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and I'd like to be educated and schooled on where

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that stands. So you're in the opening card, but you

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could have been opening for the prelams, but now you've

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fallen all the way down the ladder to the early

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prelams and you have the most intriguing staredown of any

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of the main card fighters at UFC three h four

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And everybody in the UFC organization and the fans are

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okay with this.

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Did I miss something?

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So we have the opening bout another way, about number

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six ranked Arnold Allen from England verseians number ten ranked

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Giga Chagatzi. Now it was well put by Arnold Allen

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later on earlier this week when he did mention this

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is gonna be a quote fan friendly fight because if

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you just kind of line up these two one from England,

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one from Georgia and just look at where they stand.

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They have a very similar track record. Both of them

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have three losses and no no contests. Arnold Allen's coming

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off of a loss and Jigatzi's coming off a win

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from a while back. And if you're gonna give the

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reach advantace to anybody, you're gonna have to give a

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slight one, whether it's for reach for arms ending with

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leg reach. You've got to give that to Chigazi on

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this one. But I just kind of want to have

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to go back and look and see where we're coming

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off of because there's one guy that's a big variable,

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kind of one of those tangible moments that we can

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point to and say who has gotten the better over

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this guy, And that man happens to be Calvin Cater.

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Back in twenty twenty two. You got a second round

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knockout by Arnold Allen over Calvin Cater. When if you

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look at Chigatzi when he faced Calvin Cater in twenty

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twenty two as well, Cater's able to get the unanimous decision.

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So this is just something to consider. It's one of

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those small variables that makes.

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You go okay.

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Chigatzi's beaten Barboza. He won his last fight in twenty

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twenty three, again by unanimous decision. You do have Arnold

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Allen who's gone tit for tat with Max Holloway for

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five rounds and he's coming off of a unanimous decision

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lost last time. There we go. But you kind of

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have to watch Arnold Allen and realize that he is

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very calm and collected about this particular fight. I mean,

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if you watch him on social media, he'll talk about

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having a bowel movement, the size of his arm. I

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mean that that's what you can anticipate with him. You

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watch Chigatzi doing a lot of his fight interviews and

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it's just kind of a well, this is my opponent,

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and this is where we stand currently. I believe we've

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got a very strong opening bout. I really do. Arl

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Allen's a very likable guy and a very easy going guy.

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And I even enjoyed watching him on the MMA Hour

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when I think there was Iarl Juane asking the about

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Tom aspinall dipping his knuckles in petrol and setting them

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on fire and all this stuff. RL just kind of

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laughs and goes, he might be messing with you, Ariel.

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I mean to consider all that that is kind of

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an old traditional thing. If you're going bare knuckle, if

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you want to make your knuckles harder, then something like

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that would make sense. But if you've got MMA gloves

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on that are protecting your knuckles anyway, it just kind

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of it makes it not really justifiable. It does make

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it kind of like it's speculative. But then again we

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go off of the journalistic integrity to say the least

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of Ariel Hawane. But Arnold Allen has just been really

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his biggest struggle has been his sleep schedule. He's not

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particularly shaking off his opponent. It's just we're not seeing

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a lot of it up close and personal. We're gonna

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see who Arnold Allen is when he gets inside of

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the cage. We're gonna see a lot of the speed

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and the true velocity and the tenacity of Giga Chagatzi

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once we get these two in there. So I just

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wanted to make sure we consider that this one is

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a legit matchup. I'm excited about seeing both of them

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back in there. This is one that I wouldn't call

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it a diamond in the rough, but I would tell

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you that it's a strong start to possible very good

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MMA about that we're going to be facing today, so

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looking forward to Alan versus CHIGATSI, you need to stick around.

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Let's go into the details a little bit about Patty

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the Batty and Green King Green. Bobby I'm already I'm

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already losing it and trying to hold it together. Things.

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Patty the Batty pimblet returns to his home cage. He's

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gonna have the advantage here, or at least we believe

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he will. You got Keing Green, Bobby Green calling out

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Patty and saying he wants him in his hometown of England. Okay,

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it materializes, Bobby King Green gets what he want. And

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I know I keep emphasizing that name because he has

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legally changed it. It's no longer Bobby Green. He's now

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got the rights to his name to be King Green.

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I remember a guy who did that once. His name

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was Ultimate Warrior. He changed his legal name from Jim

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Helwig to Warrior in many ways out of spite, in

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many ways, so he could maintain his copyrights to that name,

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so nobody else could use it for monitary purposes. You know,

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he had a whole struggle with that, with the with

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the WWF at the time. So I just say, the

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last time I heard that was something like this, to

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which Patty Pimlet responds that CT is real, lad. So

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it's just one of those things where we have to

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realize that Patty is definitely gonna be facing his toughest

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adversary to this day. Okay, did he have a real

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test against Tony Ferguson? You had? You had? You tested

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your skills against a veteran of the sport. Did fairly

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well in grappling and in ground and pound, was able

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to subdue Tony Ferguson, but wasn't able to beat Tony Ferguson,

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did get the decision, didn't knock him out, didn't submit him,

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and he kind of went the whole way with this guy.

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You got Bobby Green, who has an incredible track record,

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who's been on a tear lately, has won his last

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fight against Jim Miller. So both guys have faced one

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of the veterans of the sport and gotten their hand raised.

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But there is something to this When you say I

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want to change my name. Okay, his name is Bobby Green,

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what do you want to be called?

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King Green?

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I guess there might be something to what Patty is implying,

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even though it's lighthearted, even though it's kind of brushing

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it off, Maybe there is something to the knockout that

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Drew dober gave Bobby Green back in twenty twenty two.

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Maybe there really is something to the knockout from Jailen

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Turner that got everyone talking that Bobby Green is on

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a downward spiral. He's right back where he wants to be.

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He's already gotten exactly what he asked for. And you

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have Patty versus Bobby Green Tonight or King Green, which

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is really hard for me to transition from one to

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the other. Are they two different people or are they

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the same guy just on paper legal It's really hard

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to figure this out. But we can all agree that

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the toughest test for Patty the BATTI is tonight, and

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it is amongst his own beloved crowd, where he really

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had the momentum before he came in faced one guy

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Jared Gordon got the decision, but the crowd didn't want

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to give it to him. And it's materialized now that

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this is one of the quote most hated guys in

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the entire UFC. I don't really think he's hated. I

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think it's those people that now expect him to fail,

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and he hasn't obliged any of them. I really do

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think there's a community that realizes the potential he's got.

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he would have surpassed Jared Gordon and he would have

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definitely had no issues with Tony Ferguson. That was a

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lose lose situation all the way around for Patty. And

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then when you look at his regiment where he will

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blow up in between fights, meaning he will do what

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a lot of wrestlers do. After you've had your match,

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you've done your way ins. When you're done, you go

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on a splurge. You start eating everything inside. You gain

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several pounds, and you gotta work it off in the gym,

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and you might have to cut a few pounds here

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and there. Patty just blows up and down like a

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balloon and we all think, Okay, that's gonna eventually catch

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up to him. There's one very key exponent here that

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we got to bring up, and that's just his discipline

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to pull that off as much as he has and

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still move forward in this organization where this is apparently

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the last fight on his contract. Again, that's just speculation.

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I'm not sure where we're gonna We're gonna know, probably

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a post fight when he has his post conference where

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we're gonna see and Patty wants to do at this point,

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so I believe you got a very dangerous power in

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the hands Bobby Green when it comes to speed and accuracy.

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I'm gonna have to give this one to Patty. If

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you're gonna go off of cardio and conditioning, you'll want

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to give it to Bobby Green. But for somebody to

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do that kind of an extreme weight cut over and

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over again and be that disciplined, and we don't get

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to see what's going on in the sparing sessions except

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for small little highlight reels. Are we sure that Patty

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gets so easily counted out here? So the betting averages

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have really swayed back and forth either way, King Green

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gets what he wants as far as his name, as

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far as his next opponent. It's happened. We're here, and

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this is going to be an intriguing fight, not just

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for the Manchester community but anybody that's watching the UFC,

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who the company has invested so much stock into it's

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gonna be either a skyrocket from this forward or it's

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gonna dwindle off and fall back into the hands of

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King Green. Definitely something to be watching and a lot

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of prospect on the horizon for either one of these

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guys pending what happens in the cage with this fight tonight.

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Heed these words, Blockhead Nation. I know you can't read

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my lips as this is a podcast, but audibly you

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can ingest and you can take in what I'm telling you.

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Hear me when I say it, this particular fight, Tom

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aspinall versus Curtis Blades two, the rematch, this is the

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most important fight on the entire card at UFC three

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or four Manchester. I stand by that with everything that

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I say, all eyes should be tuned in on this

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fight more than anything else on the card. Because I've

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said it before and I'm gonna repeat it. I'm gonna

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reiterate that the validity of the heavyweight division in the

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UFC is riding on this. So much is stacked in

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the corner of Tom aspinall that, if Curtis Blades wins,

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I already hear you, I hear you laughing, But please

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understand that every person that I've listened to, every interview,

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even my friends from Against the fenceive talk to guys

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that have sparred this guy and have said that Curtis

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Blades is in for it tonight. That in every aspect

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if you go down the list, for power, for speed,

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for grappling, for cardio conditioning, everything else, from accuracy to

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reach advantage, everything seems to favor the current interim heavyweight

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Champion of the World, Tom Aspinall. I'm gonna ask it,

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what if? What if Curtis Blades is the one that

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does take the distance and really does put him to

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the test. Now, this fight needed to happen to right

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the wrong that was the knee injury for Tom Asmall

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the first time that they faced. And don't hear me

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when I say I really do like Curtis Blades, I

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really do. We know he's got knockout power, he's got

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amazing wrestling. Your takedown defense has to be immaculate. If

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you're gonna face Curtis Blades, your sprawls have to be

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on point. This is a guy who when they say

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that he is a tank, he is definitely a tank.

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In the first round. The longer that this goes, Blades

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can easily get blown up from his wrestling, from his

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wrestling attempts, from his grappling and submission attempts. If you

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take him from the back, he typically doesn't do well

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in that position. He's still a problem in guard. But

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I just want people to realize that if you don't

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have Francis Nagana returning, you have John Jones, who wants

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no part of tom Aspinall that is willing to wait

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until he can face steep A Miochic at Madison Square Garden.

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This has a shelf life with MMA fans tom Aspinall

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being more active. I know we're waiting on an injury

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to subside, but the intrigue is pointing more towards a

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newcomer into the heavyweight division that all the fans want

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to see, and that man is Alex Pereira. So I

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ask this, if all of these expectations that are riding

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so high on tom Aspinall and he doesn't follow through,

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and this house of cards falls and Curtis Blades, being

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the number four ranked guy, can withstand what nobody else

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could do with tom Aspinall, who cleaned out the entire

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heavyweight division. This is a very risky, dangerous game for

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the entire heavyweight division while we wait on John Jones,

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or if John Jones says, oh he favors the fight

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with Alex Pereira, or if Aspinall wins tonight, he goes

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on and faces Alex Peira. You got the potentials for

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a UFC super fight. You have so many intangibles that

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are not in place that are on this fight, and

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you should be paying attention to it. No matter how

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I might feel about everything that's led up to this point.

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We got a fun pay per view tonight. There's nothing

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crucial that hangs in the balance. You can say, well,

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there's the championship for the heavyweight division. Yeah, but if

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you look at the entire middleweight class and the whole division,

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you got guys that are fighting tooth and nail for

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the spot, and you are getting the very best of

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it when you got a guy who's cleaned out the

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entire division and all that's left is the rematch because

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you had a TKO and a doctor stoppage, and if

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somehow Aspinau can't get past that, and it's the guy

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who's becoming the and this is so disrespectful for me

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to say about Curtis Blades, but so many are perceiving

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him to be one of the gatekeepers for the UFC,

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A guy that couldn't get past Derrek Lewis, who's fallen

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to the number eleventh ranking. I'm throwing at you every

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single possible concept to understand the co main event is

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not the main event, but it's the most important bout

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when anybody that's a casual fan watches these fights. I'm

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telling you, as much as I might love the flyweights,

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might love the lightweights, might light the light heavyweights. Most

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of the time, from boxing, from professional wrestling, you look

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to the heavyweight division and all of the dominoes are

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gonna fall. It's gonna be a severe domino effect if

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Tom Aspinall doesn't get is done. An entire country riding

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on his shoulders against a guy who is a well

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known wrestler, who is well respected in the community, and

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there's no bad blood between either one of them, just

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to stare down a handshake and we move on. And

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everybody's expecting Tom Aspinall. Everybody that's on the panel for

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the free for the pre show for UFC three or four,

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they've all said that Aspinall has got this one, lock

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Stock and Beryl, what do you do if we are

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all proven wrong and Curtis Blades is now the guy

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to face Alex Pereira. Are you as excited? I hate

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to say it, but let's be truthful. Are you as

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excited about Blades versus Jones? Are you as excited about

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Blades going up against Surreal Gon or even Steepe if

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he ends up doing the impossible when you vary all

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that in the guy who's supposed to be the one

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to do it is tom Aspinall. What if what becomes

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of the entire division? What becomes a tom Aspinall? Then

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if Blades has his hand raised tonight? Things to chew

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on Blockhead Nation, chew on that, Clem. I'm gonna get

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a few key cheekaways on the main event tonight, as

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far as blow Muhammad getting a second chance to go

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up against Leon Edwards this time for the strap. What

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I can kind of give you a heads up on

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are things like the hit list, meaning who Leon Edwards

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is overcome? That would be Kamara Usman twice really something

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to consider overcoming Colby Coventon, Nate Diaz, Haafield, Desagos already eight.

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So that is a very very strong smoking gun that

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Leon Edwards the rocky of the two, the guy that

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everybody gets behind. It so easy to support his story.

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But let's look at Blol Muhammad for a second. He's

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defeated wonder Boy Stephen Thompson, he's defeated Vicente Luke, he's

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defeated Sean Brady, Gilbert Burns. Those two are going to

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face off in the near future. I just want to

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consider something. This was something Chale mentioned on his recent podcast.

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He called it a nucleus, meaning that there is a

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community within Manchester that does support that this is Blell's time,

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whether we want to hear that or not, knowing that

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he's a snoozefest that there's even the confrontation he had

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in the elevator at the hotel with Leon Edwards. All

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you saw in that was awkward and Belohamed smacking his

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gum a little too much. But it's just one of

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those when you look at this main event. Sure it's

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easy to get behind Leon, Sure that's who I would

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love to see when but when we think that there's

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not a supportive community out there that are Muslim and

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pro Palestine, they are within that community in Manchester right now.

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So the overwhelming booze that I expected to see at

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both the stairdowns and at the press conference, they're clearly there,

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but it's not as overwhelming as I thought. So if

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you just look at what I've just presented to you,

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there's a strong case getting past the ipoke and getting

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back in there in the cage that below, Muhammad could

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be the one to the throne Leon Edwards, whether we

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want to hear that or not. Could this be the

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upset of the night. Absolutely, it could be. It could

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have a lot of people watching this power from this

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pay per view and leaving on a sour note, mostly

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for those reasons, mostly for the variables that belol Mohammad

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is pro Palestine, shouldn't be a part of the cage,

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but it is. When you look at him, a guy.

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That is Muslim.

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This is something that Islam and Kabib have had to

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face so many times while they are perfecting their craft.

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You have to face that as a reality and also

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just that this guy is so cringe when he's on

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the microphone. He doesn't have what a company would embrace,

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which is somebody who is quick witted, somebody who's well

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spoken that could stir up a hornet's nest. Whether he

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steers into the good guy or a bad guy persona,

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it's still unclear and so erratic and incoherent when it's

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coming out of bellel Mohammed. But while I say earlier

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that Blades could be the one that de throws Tom, now,

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what do you do belol Mohammad being the guy to

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d throw on Leon Edwards, Whether it's an upset, whether

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it's a unanimous decision, whether it's another doctor stoppage, of

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all these things that we can't predict until they get

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inside the cage. They lock the doors and they say

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it's time. Bruce Buffer introduces them, and the referee separates

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them and.

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We go below.

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Mohammed is still expected to be the underdog, and all

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of the betting averages you would think they would be

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favoring Leon Edwards, it's not as close as you think.

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There might be this underlying current that's saying, while you're

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looking this way, don't look at the magician's right hand.

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Could below Mohammad be the one that has the hit list,

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that has all of the intangibles, that has all of

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the heat, that he needs to sway everybody make where

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did we go wrong underestimate in this guy? And then

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that's just me playing Devil's advocate. That's me being contrarian

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to what we may face tonight. It could be an

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easy nine out for Leon Edwards, and certainly those that

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love the journey of Rocky and those that have sparred

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with him would say the same thing. This is a

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hard working individual. Daniel Cormier has mentioned many times that

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when he was young and just getting started, this was

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a guy that outworked everybody in the gym. So we

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have a deserving champion going up against an unlikely contender

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but does have a historical trajectory that does make me

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a little bit concerned and a little bit nervous tonight

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for this one. But this whole division is not all

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weighing on one particular fight like the heavyweight division is.

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As I just explained it, most important night, the most

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important fight would be Komane, the one that we can't

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overlook and the one that's got everybody into the building,

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even that nucleus, that community that you may not be

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expecting that will encompass below. Mohammed is there at Manchester.

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So from a fan's perspective, This is getting intriguing, But

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could we have a total different swaying of the division

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coming out of these fights tonight? You're gonna either have

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excitement or you're gonna be scratching your head and going

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where did we go wrong? Could below Mohammad be the

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one you don't remember the name, but you may very

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well remember this bout where we all go back to

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the drawing board and say what did we miss? All

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things to consider Blockhead Nation. We'll see you next week

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as you tune in, same Blockhead time, same Blockhead channel.

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How that thing is in the balance? Nothing said ever

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since the