Julianna Pena is BACK on another episode of DC Check-In with Daniel Cormier where she will look to defend her championship belt against Kayla Harrison on Saturday night. Kayla Harrison makes her DC Check-In debut, and talks about Pena's insecurities heading into the title bout. Julianna talks about how she plans on calling out Amanda Nunes after she BEATS Kayla Harrison at UFC 316 and have her trilogy fight against Amanda. And don't miss Kayla show DC a viral clip of her, Henry Cejudo and Khabib Nurmagomedov talking about Cormier! #Volume
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. How you feeling champed?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I feel great?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, thank you for checking in with me. As always,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I didn't have a choice the champion.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Julian, she was gonna say no, did Ryan Clark?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You do this both?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Juliana Pinion checking in with me again before she defends
her championship this weekend. How are you feeling?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I feel great.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I feel full of good energy, positive vibes, lots of love.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I feel awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
So you win the championship belt again. It's an amazing accomplishment.
You said you would do it close fight Raquel Pennington.
Were you certaint you had done enough to win that
when you walk back to the center, were you sure, like, Hey,
I'm about to get my belt back.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I mean, I knew in my heart that I did,
but I just wanted to hear it from my corner
that they believed that I did too. And I think
that she knows that I won that fight. I haven't
seen her come knocking down my door trying to get
it back anyway, So.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I think I think that answer speaks for herself.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Did you know right away? Would be Kayla Harrison, like
when they showed her on the screen and you you
kind of no, Solder, like you didn't address her.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I think it's because I in my post fight speech,
I was trying to coax Amanda to come back into
the division to finish the trilogy fight.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah. Maybe, like a couple of.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Days later, after they told me that she wasn't coming back,
they said that it was going to be Kayla.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And I said, okay right away, you said, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Absolutely, she's been knowing about this fight since October.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Really, yeah, it always be cause it like so many
people didn't know, so everybody's making these assumptions drew to
fight Kila Harrison. Does that annoy you hearing all that
all the time?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
She's no, she knows the truth. She knows that she's
been getting ready since October for this fight. Yeah, she
can say whatever she wants. I think I saw her
in impress conference.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
She was like, I found out about it like last month.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's like bull.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
And so I'm not I'm not buying it. And I
know that she knew that we were fighting.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So then your focus shifts right to Kayla Harrison, right,
the big bad wolf of the division, because so many
people have anointed her the champion, but you're one of
the most successful band of weights in the UFC's history.
Not many women have done what you have done in
your fighting career. When you get that name and go, okay,
this is just another kill that I have to climb.
(02:15):
What was that process like for you?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I am always looking at every single fight as the
biggest fight of my life and the most important fight
of my career. So this is just another one that
presents a different set of challenges than I have faced before.
But every single time that you get inside that octagon
and face a different competitor, they're always going to bring
a different bag of.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Tricks that you have to get ready for.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
So I built my team around being able to get
my hand raised on Saturday night and that it required
a judo expert and focusing on the anti judo aspect
of this fight. It required a different level of wrestling
and bringing in another wrestling coach in order to help
me get ready for defending the takedowns. So building my team,
(02:58):
I think was a bit of a chance that I
did in order to prepare for this fight.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Can you take much from Kitlan, because Kaitlyn actually did
a really good job of defending takedowns. Can you take
some of what you saw in that fight and apply
it to what you're gonna do Saturday?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Absolutely? Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Can you still be as aggressive as you are? Because
I gotta be honest, your aggressiveness is what makes you
so fun to watch. We've seen you melt women. Even
in the Amanda second fight, while it wasn't going your way,
you were still the one that was constantly pressuring. Can
you still fight in that way knowing that the goal
is going to be to take you to the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yes, I can. There's going to be a time and
a place and you have to let it out little
by little. So first you got to focus.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
On getting the job done in the first beginning rounds,
which is defend, and then later on, like you said,
being able to let her know that she met in
his meeting for the first time the meat grinder, And
that is Julian opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We saw that in a mana fight. I know. That
fight stilled to me as the craziest grits outset in
USC history, I believe, because you could see her just
fading and then you eventually got her.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And then that second fight, like you were mentioning me
never being out of the fight during that course of
twenty five minutes. I almost had that armbar in the
fourth round.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yep, all that blood.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And everything, it gets pretty slippery in there. But I
was never out of that fight, not even for a second.
And if you go back to her leaving the octagon,
she had to get carried out of there and half
of her face was swollen shut.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I think that that get hard.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, you must hit really hard.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah I do.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I do, and and so you know, I think that
that aggressive style, that heart, that never giving up type
of relentless energy is what has made me so successful.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And they can count me out all they want.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
They can say, you know that I'm going to get
slept in thirty seconds or this, that and the other.
But the reality is is that the last time you
guys counted me out, you guys had to take it
up that, you know what.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And so I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
No, no trying to keep a PG.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Okay. I spoke to Kayla earlier and I asked her
about your guys's interactions everything. She spoke a little bit
about her. She says she has many dogs, but her
loudest dog is her Chihuahua, and she said, because the
chihuaha was like the loudest because of some of the
insecurities that it might feel inside. And she said, that's
(05:19):
kind of why you nip at her. But she also,
on the other hand, gave you a great compliment. She goes,
Julianna's a great fighter, she'll never quit on herself. I
give you the same opportunity to say, oh, something nice
about Kayla Harrison and then maybe what you truly feel
about Kayla Harrison.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I think that Kayla Harrison is strong, and I think
that she needs to take a little bit more accountability
for me nipping at her, because before I even knew
what her name was, she.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Was talking trash about me.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
If you go back to that Amanda fight the first time,
there's some blonde girls sitting cage side, cussing all sorts
of obscenities, and I ruined her and I and through
a wrench in her plans and she freaking out and
saying this, that and the other about me, And that's
kind of where.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
This all stems from.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yah.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Later on a few months later, she said that it's
gonna be the media's fault that they get this girl
hurt this girl meaning well wow, and that you know
there was gonna be blood on the media's hands for
them giving me this delusion that I think that I
can hang with her. And then Allie made a statement
that she was going to win by murder, that it
was just going to be a straight murder, and that
(06:25):
she was going to catch a murder charge for murdering
me on Saturday night. These things I take personally and
these things I take offense to. And so if she
doesn't think that I'm gonna nip back at her, She's
got another thing coming mm.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's yeah, I would be pretty pissed off myself. So
I saw you guys on the We ran a feature
on Saturday and it was your two split screen and
you said, the pressure's on Kila Harrison, but you're the
world champion, Juliana. Yeah, you don't want to hold in
the championship. Yes, but how can the pressure be.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
On her because she's already claiming like it's her belt
and everybody's already counting me out and the odds maker
have it six and one to.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Me being actually crazy. Yeah, So that's why.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's actually crazy though, that the odds are that it's.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Six to one, six to one, that's what I heard.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, so somebody' lying to you trying to get your
fired up. You got that from a coach, like you're
a six to one dog because he knows it's going
to push you off, right there.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Don't look at that.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
They're trying to raw you up.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
No, No, I don't think so. I think it's been
said to me many times from the media, and for me,
I'm like, man, I don't even know what all this
means because I'm not a big better I'm not you know,
paying attention to the lines or the odds or anything
like that. But it keeps getting brought up to my
attention and with them saying, you know, she's going to
murder me. And this is already my belt last time
I checked that this belt was wrapped around my waist
and not hers. And possession is nine tenths of the law.
(07:45):
She's going to have to come and get it if
she wants it, and that's exactly what she's going to
get on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And how how does this fight play out?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And when you go to bed and you visualize, right, like,
what does this look like with you and Kayla Harriston
on Saturday night.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It looks like and knock them out, drag them out
type of fight, you know what I mean, just like
all my fights.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But I see my hand getting raised.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I see my hand getting raised, and maybe a spectacular
finish with another submission is what I would like.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Twenty five minutes, Like, has she ever fought twenty five minutes?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
She has, but at one hundred and fifty five pounds.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, yeah, you anticipate that'll be one of your bigger advantages.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I can't say, because I know that she's going to
be ready to fight twenty five minutes at one hundred
and thirty five pounds, So I'm not putting anything past her.
You know, she's very confident in her preparation and the
amount of work that she's been putting in to fight
at one hundred and thirty five pounds for twenty five minutes.
So I can't pay attention too much to what she
feels that she's going to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Do, or that she's good at or she's good to
fight for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I can only focus on myself and me being ready
to fight it at for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You're a judo person.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Like, how much time did you spend in that because
there's no gee for her to grab to tak you dong, right,
And that's a lot of what they do in judo,
So like, how much time did you spend with that
person getting prepared to make sure that you're ready for
the grips because it's not necessarily the shots, it's like
the grabbing and the tripping and the knocking you off balance. Like,
how much did you put into doing that?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
About six weeks?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh? Nice? I love that T shirt. By the way,
everyone watches women's sports. Yes making a statement, Yes, yes,
you always make a statement.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I Am not trying to do it on purpose. I'm
just trying to be me.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah. Well you are a lightning rod for like just attention,
and I mean obviously you're awesome. I have one question
before I let you go, please, Amanda noon As I
asked Killer the same exact question. Amanda neon As is
now lurking more. You try to go to back into
the after the fight. Now it seems as though she's
ready to come back. You don't get better at something
(09:44):
by not doing it. Can Amanda be that same person
that she was prior to leaving the octagon after being
away for as long as she has. And second part
of that is is she only is she buying into
what everybody else is buying into because you guys have
fought twice. She's wanting to come back to fight Kila Harrison.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So right now, I just I don't even want to
talk about her because she is just sitting there being
that lazy lioness that she is and watching me.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Do her dirty work.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
And that's the main reason why she decided to retire,
because she wanted to see what was gonna happen when
she left the sport. And so right now it's just
of course she's gonna sit there in the lurches and
watch so that she can figure out what her type
of game plan is going to be. But that's why
I want her immediately afterwards. I want to get her
fresh and ready to go because the time off that
(10:37):
she has spent is going to affect her when we
fight for that trilogy.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, Saturday, you stayed the champ I.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Believe so, and still and still and still.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Thank you again, ladies and gentlemen. Juliana Penne defends her
championship this weekend. Hey, now to stop disrespecting this young lady.
She has won more than most women in the UFC's
history and as much as anyone at one hundred and
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Speaker 6 (12:58):
We have a backging right now. Actually, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 7 (13:02):
We bet years ago before I ever signed with UFC.
We bet and Kabibe was there. Habib was there, A
bunch of guys were there and where he was talking
about judo versus wrestling and talking about how he's the
greatest combat athlete of all time. And I said, listen,
I can't believe you've.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Never seen this clip because Habib says something so funny. Okay,
someone find that clip.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
So I was like, all right, listen, I'll bet you
one hundred anytime push ups that when I I'm two
time Olympic champion, I'm gonna win the PFL belt twice,
I'm gonna come over to the UFC.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I'm going to win the UFC belt.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
I'm going to defend the belt, and then I'm going
to be the greatest combat athlete of all time. I
was like when I do. And he didn't want to
take the bet, didn't want to take that so far.
I was like, all right, I bet you a thousand
any time push ups, a thousand push ups from me,
and you only have to give me one hundred push ups.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
And then finally he took the belt and then he
said all right, all right, I'll take your bet.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
But and then he turned to Habib and he was like,
who's the greatest combat athlete of all time?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Right now? I don't believe you haven't seen this, And goes.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Daniel, come, that's my boy right there, saying Ali wants
you bad man, Like I mean, it's like you guys
are married.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Stage five clinger right now? Oh yeah, well you know, yeah,
I'm about to be the champs.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
He starts clinging all I got.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Like, ses, I got all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That is the best. It's good, guys. I'm here with
Kayla Harrison. He challenges for the UFC bandaweight Championship this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Champ all that we're talking about right while we're talking
about it, and it's funny.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, it's all true, right, it's all true. You have
won two Olympic gold medals.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You have won the PFL Championship, You've won everywhere you've been.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You're not here in the UFC and you're already on
the verge of a title.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
How does it feel getting to a moment that you
not only predicted but so many expected. Now, that is
where it gets difficult.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I mean, I think that having all of this experience
that I have, having years of competing on the biggest
stages in the world, has prepared me and sort of
helps me to learn that that's all noise and like
none of that matters, you know, Like I do this
because I love it. I do it because I want to.
I do it because it's my dream. The outside pressure is,
(15:23):
you know. I mean, no one had ever won an
Olympic gold medal before, so like being in the finals
of an Olympic match and knowing that someone had won silver,
someone has one BRONXE, but nobody had ever won gold
like that, that's a different kind of pressure.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, Kile, we have all kind of almost anointed you
as the champion. The moment you got here, right, everybody
started talking about it. You have to win some fights
to finally get this opportunity. Juliana Pana gets the belt
back in that fight again.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Raquel Pennington. Did you think that she won that fight
or did you think I didn't.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I didn't give the fight to her.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
After going back and watching it, I thought that Raquel
won the fight.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
But you know, I'm not a judge.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So so and I asked you this, You're in the back,
Jill and I have had a field day with this.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You're in the back.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Jail is not my biggest fan. By the way he
actually talking.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
He loves you, does he? He constantly puts you over?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Does he?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Are you sure? Because when I see him, we're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's one of the crazy like he just does it
every time. He puts you over constantly. But what we
had a field day with is you're in the back.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Yeah, I mean, show me right, it's a layup.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
She no sells you and calls out a man.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
She doesn't.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
What did you make of that?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I mean, I I attest that to insecurity, like I'm
the unknown, right, I'm like this big scary unknown. She's
fought Amanda before twice.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
She was the second went very bad.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
It did go very bad. But I don't I think
that she still knows she can. She's like, I've beaten her,
you know so, or it could have just been like
that was what she had in her mind to say,
So that's what she said, even though I feel like
the fight to make was her and I and here we.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Are and yes, and it's made.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And the reason there's so much hype behind it is
because of who you are and who she is and fighting.
There was an opportunity to make it bigger in that moment,
right because you could have stormed to the case.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You could have did some old school w W.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
It kind of was like, yeah, I kind of wanted to.
First of all, I didn't know where I was in
the arena.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
It's a little bit of a maze back there. But yeah,
it would have been.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
That would have been the greatest visual. She goes kill Harrison,
You just fought, I just became a world champion. Get
your ass out of there. You come charging to the ring,
warrior running out. It would have been the craziest.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Everybody already thinks I'm brock Lesnar.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Now you're gonna have to do this craziest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We would have popped so loud and it would have
been amazing. But the fight still has that hype. The
other day we ran a feature of YouTube face to face,
you're talking, Juliana almost wants to.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Give you the pressure. Yeah, it felt it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
No, the pressure's on Kila.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
She did say that. She's like I've got nothing to.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Look Yeah, were you surprised by hearing it?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I mean, I just don't really understand.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
She throws a lot of shit out there, like it's
a lot of spaghetti.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
At the wall and a lot of like.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
You know, everywhere, from like she's on steroids to she's
away bully, she needs a walking taco, to all the
pressures on her. What's she gonna do? How is she
gonna you know, she gonna lay on me? And I'm like,
I just it kind of screams in security to me.
Like I have three dogs and you know, I have
a big mastiff, I have a medium husky, and then
(18:49):
I have this little chihuahua. And the chihuahua sounds vicious.
You know, he's playing with the other dogs in and
he's the most harmless of them all. It's just a
little yeapper, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
So you think all the talking is yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Put the give off the idea of strength knowing that
underneath it's a little bit uncertain for sure, but at
the end of the day, she's the world champion two
times she is.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
So when you are breaking her down and.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Looking at her skill for skill, what do you see
in Juliana Paynton.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Honest answer, Kiala.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I see heart, I see heart, I see fire.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
You know, I think that's that her best attribute as
an athlete is she's a fighter. Like she is a fighter,
she's not going to give up. She's not going to quit.
It's not the prettiest, but she's gonna keep coming forward
and she's gonna she's gonna try and find a way,
you know. But I think that I'm better everywhere. I
think that I'm the bigger, faster, stronger fighter. I think
(19:55):
that now I have quite a bit of experience under
my belt. I think that I'm a better striker. I
think that I'm a better grappler, and I'm prepared to
you know, she is a fighter, but I'm a fighter too.
I've been fighting my whole damn life, you know, Like
forget forget inside of a cage or on a matt
I've been fighting my whole life. So if she thinks
that like she's some David and I'm Goliath. She's got
(20:20):
it wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, did you how much did you learn in that
last fight?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Or the takedown didn't come as easy so much as
you may have anticipated against Kit Kitlyn.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Yeah, No, I think it was really good for me.
I was disappointed, you know, in my performance, just because
I'm initially I was disappointed because I'm a perfectionist and
I want to go out there and dominate and still
my will. But I think it was good to see
kind of how girls at this level are going to
try and combat the grappling.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It felt like it felt like it felt like she
was doing a good job of defending earlier.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I think even in the commentary, I was talking about it,
like when you would level change, you're having different he's
getting up to her body right like that because in judo, right,
you guys use a lot of trips and throws from
up top. I think she was doing a better job
of defending at the body right.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
And I mean I think she was really.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Defensive.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
You know, it's hard, you know, you know how it
is you.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Take somebody down with all they don't want to do
is get.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
They're just not trying when they're not trying to win,
they're just trying not to lose. It's hard to get
in there and make shit happen. So but it was
a really good learning experience for me.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
And that's those.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Are the moments where it's like, all right, then let
your hand, hands go, Like, let your hands go, and
guess what what happens.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
When you let your hands go. Their hands go, hands up.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You can take a numb and you controlled that first
round very very easy. It was later when she got
more slippery.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Yeah, but Julian, I'm a big, strong girl too.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
I know everybody be talking how big she kills so big,
but she's.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Like, there's a reason for that, dude, She's big.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Juliana is actually gonna fight though, so you think that
it's going to give you more.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Openings to take to the mountain. How do you see
this fight ending on Saturday night? Can you finish? Juliana Payton?
Speaker 7 (22:04):
I'd like to, you know, I'm prepared for twenty five
hard minutes, but the goal is always to go out
there in kotko or submission. If I have my perfect world,
I would love to. I think, just you know, put
some elbows through her head, through her forehead and end
on a TKO.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I remember the first time you learned that you can
elbow and PFL, how excited you were.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I was like, oh, this lady's vib You were.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Like, oh my god, I can elbow now, such a
huge weapon in the sport.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And then you remember how bad you bloodied out the
girl right after that? Shit was nasty.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Now that's when I was like, oh, I've I've fought
half my career without a very important weapon. Yeah, this
is yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
All right, last one before I let you go. Obviously,
I have to ask this question.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Here we go. What is it?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I know they see a man in new next question?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, so yes I want to fight her. Yes,
I hope you come back. I'm not overlooking Juliana.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, you don't get better at something by not doing it, right,
m hm, you don't get better at something by not
doing it. Yeah, how does Amanda expect to be who
she was being off for two years? Obviously we don't
know the extent to which she was training. I heard
that that her gym closed. I heard that they closed
that gym, So I don't know what she would be
doing for training. But again, you don't get better. Yeah,
(23:15):
that's something by not doing it. What if Amanda does
come back like what Amanda doing as would you guys
expect and would you want that in the next fight
after Juliana Payton?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I think that this has been my dream for a
long time. Is like the UFC Champion fight Amanda and
it was never anything negative, like it's.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Just that she's Serio all time.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
And to me, that's the highest honor I can give you.
I'm like, look, dude, like you are You're it?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, you're her.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
I want to be you. That's why I moved to
Florida to train with you. You know, if you want
to be the best, you have to train with the best.
And I think that, you know, it doesn't really matter.
I think that now is my time. I think that
I am She.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Could be the man that had destroyed Holly Holm and
it won't matter because you're ready.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
I think now's my time. When you're the best in
the world, you're the best in the world and it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
He sounded like Kevin Jackson there. I swear to god,
he would say that all the time he was the
looking champ. When you're the best in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It does not matter who's out in front of you.
It gives you're the best in the world. You get
a chance to prove that on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Good luck champ.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Thank you so ladies and gentlemen. Kayla Harrison checking in
with your boy. DC fights this weekend for the UFC
Bantamweight Championship against Julia on a pay you make sure
you hit that by button. Don't miss anything Kayla's doing.
Go and follow her on all of her socials and
everything else until next time. Caleb, thank you for joining me.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Peace
The volume. How you feeling champed?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I feel great?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, thank you for checking in with me. As always,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I didn't have a choice the champion.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Julian, she was gonna say no, did Ryan Clark?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You do this both?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Juliana Pinion checking in with me again before she defends
her championship this weekend. How are you feeling?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I feel great.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I feel full of good energy, positive vibes, lots of love.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I feel awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
So you win the championship belt again. It's an amazing accomplishment.
You said you would do it close fight Raquel Pennington.
Were you certaint you had done enough to win that
when you walk back to the center, were you sure, like, Hey,
I'm about to get my belt back.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I mean, I knew in my heart that I did,
but I just wanted to hear it from my corner
that they believed that I did too. And I think
that she knows that I won that fight. I haven't
seen her come knocking down my door trying to get
it back anyway, So.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I think I think that answer speaks for herself.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Did you know right away? Would be Kayla Harrison, like
when they showed her on the screen and you you
kind of no, Solder, like you didn't address her.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I think it's because I in my post fight speech,
I was trying to coax Amanda to come back into
the division to finish the trilogy fight.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah. Maybe, like a couple of.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Days later, after they told me that she wasn't coming back,
they said that it was going to be Kayla.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And I said, okay right away, you said, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Absolutely, she's been knowing about this fight since October.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Really, yeah, it always be cause it like so many
people didn't know, so everybody's making these assumptions drew to
fight Kila Harrison. Does that annoy you hearing all that
all the time?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
She's no, she knows the truth. She knows that she's
been getting ready since October for this fight. Yeah, she
can say whatever she wants. I think I saw her
in impress conference.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
She was like, I found out about it like last month.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's like bull.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
And so I'm not I'm not buying it. And I
know that she knew that we were fighting.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So then your focus shifts right to Kayla Harrison, right,
the big bad wolf of the division, because so many
people have anointed her the champion, but you're one of
the most successful band of weights in the UFC's history.
Not many women have done what you have done in
your fighting career. When you get that name and go, okay,
this is just another kill that I have to climb.
(02:15):
What was that process like for you?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I am always looking at every single fight as the
biggest fight of my life and the most important fight
of my career. So this is just another one that
presents a different set of challenges than I have faced before.
But every single time that you get inside that octagon
and face a different competitor, they're always going to bring
a different bag of.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Tricks that you have to get ready for.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
So I built my team around being able to get
my hand raised on Saturday night and that it required
a judo expert and focusing on the anti judo aspect
of this fight. It required a different level of wrestling
and bringing in another wrestling coach in order to help
me get ready for defending the takedowns. So building my team,
(02:58):
I think was a bit of a chance that I
did in order to prepare for this fight.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Can you take much from Kitlan, because Kaitlyn actually did
a really good job of defending takedowns. Can you take
some of what you saw in that fight and apply
it to what you're gonna do Saturday?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Absolutely? Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Can you still be as aggressive as you are? Because
I gotta be honest, your aggressiveness is what makes you
so fun to watch. We've seen you melt women. Even
in the Amanda second fight, while it wasn't going your way,
you were still the one that was constantly pressuring. Can
you still fight in that way knowing that the goal
is going to be to take you to the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yes, I can. There's going to be a time and
a place and you have to let it out little
by little. So first you got to focus.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
On getting the job done in the first beginning rounds,
which is defend, and then later on, like you said,
being able to let her know that she met in
his meeting for the first time the meat grinder, And
that is Julian opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We saw that in a mana fight. I know. That
fight stilled to me as the craziest grits outset in
USC history, I believe, because you could see her just
fading and then you eventually got her.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And then that second fight, like you were mentioning me
never being out of the fight during that course of
twenty five minutes. I almost had that armbar in the
fourth round.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yep, all that blood.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And everything, it gets pretty slippery in there. But I
was never out of that fight, not even for a second.
And if you go back to her leaving the octagon,
she had to get carried out of there and half
of her face was swollen shut.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I think that that get hard.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, you must hit really hard.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah I do.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I do, and and so you know, I think that
that aggressive style, that heart, that never giving up type
of relentless energy is what has made me so successful.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And they can count me out all they want.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
They can say, you know that I'm going to get
slept in thirty seconds or this, that and the other.
But the reality is is that the last time you
guys counted me out, you guys had to take it
up that, you know what.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And so I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
No, no trying to keep a PG.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Okay. I spoke to Kayla earlier and I asked her
about your guys's interactions everything. She spoke a little bit
about her. She says she has many dogs, but her
loudest dog is her Chihuahua, and she said, because the
chihuaha was like the loudest because of some of the
insecurities that it might feel inside. And she said, that's
(05:19):
kind of why you nip at her. But she also,
on the other hand, gave you a great compliment. She goes,
Julianna's a great fighter, she'll never quit on herself. I
give you the same opportunity to say, oh, something nice
about Kayla Harrison and then maybe what you truly feel
about Kayla Harrison.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I think that Kayla Harrison is strong, and I think
that she needs to take a little bit more accountability
for me nipping at her, because before I even knew
what her name was, she.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Was talking trash about me.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
If you go back to that Amanda fight the first time,
there's some blonde girls sitting cage side, cussing all sorts
of obscenities, and I ruined her and I and through
a wrench in her plans and she freaking out and
saying this, that and the other about me, And that's
kind of where.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
This all stems from.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yah.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Later on a few months later, she said that it's
gonna be the media's fault that they get this girl
hurt this girl meaning well wow, and that you know
there was gonna be blood on the media's hands for
them giving me this delusion that I think that I
can hang with her. And then Allie made a statement
that she was going to win by murder, that it
was just going to be a straight murder, and that
(06:25):
she was going to catch a murder charge for murdering
me on Saturday night. These things I take personally and
these things I take offense to. And so if she
doesn't think that I'm gonna nip back at her, She's
got another thing coming mm.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's yeah, I would be pretty pissed off myself. So
I saw you guys on the We ran a feature
on Saturday and it was your two split screen and
you said, the pressure's on Kila Harrison, but you're the
world champion, Juliana. Yeah, you don't want to hold in
the championship. Yes, but how can the pressure be.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
On her because she's already claiming like it's her belt
and everybody's already counting me out and the odds maker
have it six and one to.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Me being actually crazy. Yeah, So that's why.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's actually crazy though, that the odds are that it's.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Six to one, six to one, that's what I heard.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, so somebody' lying to you trying to get your
fired up. You got that from a coach, like you're
a six to one dog because he knows it's going
to push you off, right there.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Don't look at that.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
They're trying to raw you up.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
No, No, I don't think so. I think it's been
said to me many times from the media, and for me,
I'm like, man, I don't even know what all this
means because I'm not a big better I'm not you know,
paying attention to the lines or the odds or anything
like that. But it keeps getting brought up to my
attention and with them saying, you know, she's going to
murder me. And this is already my belt last time
I checked that this belt was wrapped around my waist
and not hers. And possession is nine tenths of the law.
(07:45):
She's going to have to come and get it if
she wants it, and that's exactly what she's going to
get on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And how how does this fight play out?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And when you go to bed and you visualize, right, like,
what does this look like with you and Kayla Harriston
on Saturday night.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It looks like and knock them out, drag them out
type of fight, you know what I mean, just like
all my fights.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But I see my hand getting raised.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I see my hand getting raised, and maybe a spectacular
finish with another submission is what I would like.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Twenty five minutes, Like, has she ever fought twenty five minutes?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
She has, but at one hundred and fifty five pounds.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, yeah, you anticipate that'll be one of your bigger advantages.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I can't say, because I know that she's going to
be ready to fight twenty five minutes at one hundred
and thirty five pounds, So I'm not putting anything past her.
You know, she's very confident in her preparation and the
amount of work that she's been putting in to fight
at one hundred and thirty five pounds for twenty five minutes.
So I can't pay attention too much to what she
feels that she's going to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Do, or that she's good at or she's good to
fight for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I can only focus on myself and me being ready
to fight it at for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You're a judo person.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Like, how much time did you spend in that because
there's no gee for her to grab to tak you dong, right,
And that's a lot of what they do in judo,
So like, how much time did you spend with that
person getting prepared to make sure that you're ready for
the grips because it's not necessarily the shots, it's like
the grabbing and the tripping and the knocking you off balance. Like,
how much did you put into doing that?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
About six weeks?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh? Nice? I love that T shirt. By the way,
everyone watches women's sports. Yes making a statement, Yes, yes,
you always make a statement.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I Am not trying to do it on purpose. I'm
just trying to be me.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah. Well you are a lightning rod for like just attention,
and I mean obviously you're awesome. I have one question
before I let you go, please, Amanda noon As I
asked Killer the same exact question. Amanda neon As is
now lurking more. You try to go to back into
the after the fight. Now it seems as though she's
ready to come back. You don't get better at something
(09:44):
by not doing it. Can Amanda be that same person
that she was prior to leaving the octagon after being
away for as long as she has. And second part
of that is is she only is she buying into
what everybody else is buying into because you guys have
fought twice. She's wanting to come back to fight Kila Harrison.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So right now, I just I don't even want to
talk about her because she is just sitting there being
that lazy lioness that she is and watching me.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Do her dirty work.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
And that's the main reason why she decided to retire,
because she wanted to see what was gonna happen when
she left the sport. And so right now it's just
of course she's gonna sit there in the lurches and
watch so that she can figure out what her type
of game plan is going to be. But that's why
I want her immediately afterwards. I want to get her
fresh and ready to go because the time off that
(10:37):
she has spent is going to affect her when we
fight for that trilogy.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, Saturday, you stayed the champ I.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Believe so, and still and still and still.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Thank you again, ladies and gentlemen. Juliana Penne defends her
championship this weekend. Hey, now to stop disrespecting this young lady.
She has won more than most women in the UFC's
history and as much as anyone at one hundred and
thirty five in the history. So put some respect on
this young lady's name. Also, go follow her on all
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Speaker 6 (12:58):
We have a backging right now. Actually, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 7 (13:02):
We bet years ago before I ever signed with UFC.
We bet and Kabibe was there. Habib was there, A
bunch of guys were there and where he was talking
about judo versus wrestling and talking about how he's the
greatest combat athlete of all time. And I said, listen,
I can't believe you've.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Never seen this clip because Habib says something so funny. Okay,
someone find that clip.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
So I was like, all right, listen, I'll bet you
one hundred anytime push ups that when I I'm two
time Olympic champion, I'm gonna win the PFL belt twice,
I'm gonna come over to the UFC.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I'm going to win the UFC belt.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
I'm going to defend the belt, and then I'm going
to be the greatest combat athlete of all time. I
was like when I do. And he didn't want to
take the bet, didn't want to take that so far.
I was like, all right, I bet you a thousand
any time push ups, a thousand push ups from me,
and you only have to give me one hundred push ups.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
And then finally he took the belt and then he
said all right, all right, I'll take your bet.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
But and then he turned to Habib and he was like,
who's the greatest combat athlete of all time?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Right now? I don't believe you haven't seen this, And goes.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Daniel, come, that's my boy right there, saying Ali wants
you bad man, Like I mean, it's like you guys
are married.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Stage five clinger right now? Oh yeah, well you know, yeah,
I'm about to be the champs.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
He starts clinging all I got.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Like, ses, I got all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That is the best. It's good, guys. I'm here with
Kayla Harrison. He challenges for the UFC bandaweight Championship this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Champ all that we're talking about right while we're talking
about it, and it's funny.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, it's all true, right, it's all true. You have
won two Olympic gold medals.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You have won the PFL Championship, You've won everywhere you've been.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You're not here in the UFC and you're already on
the verge of a title.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
How does it feel getting to a moment that you
not only predicted but so many expected. Now, that is
where it gets difficult.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I mean, I think that having all of this experience
that I have, having years of competing on the biggest
stages in the world, has prepared me and sort of
helps me to learn that that's all noise and like
none of that matters, you know, Like I do this
because I love it. I do it because I want to.
I do it because it's my dream. The outside pressure is,
(15:23):
you know. I mean, no one had ever won an
Olympic gold medal before, so like being in the finals
of an Olympic match and knowing that someone had won silver,
someone has one BRONXE, but nobody had ever won gold
like that, that's a different kind of pressure.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, Kile, we have all kind of almost anointed you
as the champion. The moment you got here, right, everybody
started talking about it. You have to win some fights
to finally get this opportunity. Juliana Pana gets the belt
back in that fight again.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Raquel Pennington. Did you think that she won that fight
or did you think I didn't.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I didn't give the fight to her.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
After going back and watching it, I thought that Raquel
won the fight.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
But you know, I'm not a judge.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So so and I asked you this, You're in the back,
Jill and I have had a field day with this.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You're in the back.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Jail is not my biggest fan. By the way he
actually talking.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
He loves you, does he? He constantly puts you over?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Does he?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Are you sure? Because when I see him, we're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's one of the crazy like he just does it
every time. He puts you over constantly. But what we
had a field day with is you're in the back.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Yeah, I mean, show me right, it's a layup.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
She no sells you and calls out a man.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
She doesn't.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
What did you make of that?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I mean, I I attest that to insecurity, like I'm
the unknown, right, I'm like this big scary unknown. She's
fought Amanda before twice.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
She was the second went very bad.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
It did go very bad. But I don't I think
that she still knows she can. She's like, I've beaten her,
you know so, or it could have just been like
that was what she had in her mind to say,
So that's what she said, even though I feel like
the fight to make was her and I and here we.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Are and yes, and it's made.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And the reason there's so much hype behind it is
because of who you are and who she is and fighting.
There was an opportunity to make it bigger in that moment,
right because you could have stormed to the case.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You could have did some old school w W.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
It kind of was like, yeah, I kind of wanted to.
First of all, I didn't know where I was in
the arena.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
It's a little bit of a maze back there. But yeah,
it would have been.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
That would have been the greatest visual. She goes kill Harrison,
You just fought, I just became a world champion. Get
your ass out of there. You come charging to the ring,
warrior running out. It would have been the craziest.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Everybody already thinks I'm brock Lesnar.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Now you're gonna have to do this craziest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We would have popped so loud and it would have
been amazing. But the fight still has that hype. The
other day we ran a feature of YouTube face to face,
you're talking, Juliana almost wants to.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Give you the pressure. Yeah, it felt it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
No, the pressure's on Kila.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
She did say that. She's like I've got nothing to.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Look Yeah, were you surprised by hearing it?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I mean, I just don't really understand.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
She throws a lot of shit out there, like it's
a lot of spaghetti.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
At the wall and a lot of like.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
You know, everywhere, from like she's on steroids to she's
away bully, she needs a walking taco, to all the
pressures on her. What's she gonna do? How is she
gonna you know, she gonna lay on me? And I'm like,
I just it kind of screams in security to me.
Like I have three dogs and you know, I have
a big mastiff, I have a medium husky, and then
(18:49):
I have this little chihuahua. And the chihuahua sounds vicious.
You know, he's playing with the other dogs in and
he's the most harmless of them all. It's just a
little yeapper, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
So you think all the talking is yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Put the give off the idea of strength knowing that
underneath it's a little bit uncertain for sure, but at
the end of the day, she's the world champion two
times she is.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
So when you are breaking her down and.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Looking at her skill for skill, what do you see
in Juliana Paynton.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Honest answer, Kiala.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I see heart, I see heart, I see fire.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
You know, I think that's that her best attribute as
an athlete is she's a fighter. Like she is a fighter,
she's not going to give up. She's not going to quit.
It's not the prettiest, but she's gonna keep coming forward
and she's gonna she's gonna try and find a way,
you know. But I think that I'm better everywhere. I
think that I'm the bigger, faster, stronger fighter. I think
(19:55):
that now I have quite a bit of experience under
my belt. I think that I'm a better striker. I
think that I'm a better grappler, and I'm prepared to
you know, she is a fighter, but I'm a fighter too.
I've been fighting my whole damn life, you know, Like
forget forget inside of a cage or on a matt
I've been fighting my whole life. So if she thinks
that like she's some David and I'm Goliath. She's got
(20:20):
it wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, did you how much did you learn in that
last fight?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Or the takedown didn't come as easy so much as
you may have anticipated against Kit Kitlyn.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Yeah, No, I think it was really good for me.
I was disappointed, you know, in my performance, just because
I'm initially I was disappointed because I'm a perfectionist and
I want to go out there and dominate and still
my will. But I think it was good to see
kind of how girls at this level are going to
try and combat the grappling.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It felt like it felt like it felt like she
was doing a good job of defending earlier.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I think even in the commentary, I was talking about it,
like when you would level change, you're having different he's
getting up to her body right like that because in judo, right,
you guys use a lot of trips and throws from
up top. I think she was doing a better job
of defending at the body right.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
And I mean I think she was really.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Defensive.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
You know, it's hard, you know, you know how it
is you.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Take somebody down with all they don't want to do
is get.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
They're just not trying when they're not trying to win,
they're just trying not to lose. It's hard to get
in there and make shit happen. So but it was
a really good learning experience for me.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
And that's those.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Are the moments where it's like, all right, then let
your hand, hands go, Like, let your hands go, and
guess what what happens.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
When you let your hands go. Their hands go, hands up.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You can take a numb and you controlled that first
round very very easy. It was later when she got
more slippery.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Yeah, but Julian, I'm a big, strong girl too.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
I know everybody be talking how big she kills so big,
but she's.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Like, there's a reason for that, dude, She's big.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Juliana is actually gonna fight though, so you think that
it's going to give you more.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Openings to take to the mountain. How do you see
this fight ending on Saturday night? Can you finish? Juliana Payton?
Speaker 7 (22:04):
I'd like to, you know, I'm prepared for twenty five
hard minutes, but the goal is always to go out
there in kotko or submission. If I have my perfect world,
I would love to. I think, just you know, put
some elbows through her head, through her forehead and end
on a TKO.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I remember the first time you learned that you can
elbow and PFL, how excited you were.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I was like, oh, this lady's vib You were.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Like, oh my god, I can elbow now, such a
huge weapon in the sport.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And then you remember how bad you bloodied out the
girl right after that? Shit was nasty.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Now that's when I was like, oh, I've I've fought
half my career without a very important weapon. Yeah, this
is yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
All right, last one before I let you go. Obviously,
I have to ask this question.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Here we go. What is it?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I know they see a man in new next question?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, so yes I want to fight her. Yes,
I hope you come back. I'm not overlooking Juliana.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, you don't get better at something by not doing it, right,
m hm, you don't get better at something by not
doing it. Yeah, how does Amanda expect to be who
she was being off for two years? Obviously we don't
know the extent to which she was training. I heard
that that her gym closed. I heard that they closed
that gym, So I don't know what she would be
doing for training. But again, you don't get better. Yeah,
(23:15):
that's something by not doing it. What if Amanda does
come back like what Amanda doing as would you guys
expect and would you want that in the next fight
after Juliana Payton?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I think that this has been my dream for a
long time. Is like the UFC Champion fight Amanda and
it was never anything negative, like it's.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Just that she's Serio all time.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
And to me, that's the highest honor I can give you.
I'm like, look, dude, like you are You're it?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, you're her.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
I want to be you. That's why I moved to
Florida to train with you. You know, if you want
to be the best, you have to train with the best.
And I think that, you know, it doesn't really matter.
I think that now is my time. I think that
I am She.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Could be the man that had destroyed Holly Holm and
it won't matter because you're ready.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
I think now's my time. When you're the best in
the world, you're the best in the world and it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
He sounded like Kevin Jackson there. I swear to god,
he would say that all the time he was the
looking champ. When you're the best in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It does not matter who's out in front of you.
It gives you're the best in the world. You get
a chance to prove that on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Good luck champ.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Thank you so ladies and gentlemen. Kayla Harrison checking in
with your boy. DC fights this weekend for the UFC
Bantamweight Championship against Julia on a pay you make sure
you hit that by button. Don't miss anything Kayla's doing.
Go and follow her on all of her socials and
everything else until next time. Caleb, thank you for joining me.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Peace
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