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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eliot Tuporia has just taken over the entire promotion of
the UFC and quite frankly, the entire sport of MMA.
UFC fans, you have your next big superstar and his
name is El Matador. He just knocked out Charles Olivera.
That's right, du Bronx in the first round of his
introduction to one hundred and fifty five pounds, and he
(00:20):
is the new lightweight champion of the World in the UFC.
He has now held belt in two separate weight classes,
and he is starting to make a legacy that is undeniable.
Seventeen to zero and no flaws. I mean that specifically
in this fight. What just happened the breakdown, Let's go so,
like I said, Eliot Tuporia, Charles Olivera, this was the
(00:41):
fight I think that everybody was anticipating this week, and
it turned out to be one that actually delivered on
the anticipation, unlike another fight that happened in direct competition
in the boxing ring on the same night. I'll just
say it, Julio Sayeser job as Junior Jake Paul did
not deliver anywhere close to the magnitude to the performance
to the delivery to the spectacular nature of the finish,
(01:04):
all of it culminating in Iliotzaporia going absolutely bonkers and doing.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Exactly what he said he would do.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
If you guys didn't see during fight week, it was
almost like a foregone conclusion from Eliot Saporia that he
was gonna win this fight, a level of confidence that
we have not seen in the UFC in a very
very long time, one that included him walking up to
Charles and telling him it was written. I didn't want
it to be you. I'm sorry it had to be you,
but this win was already written. To then celebrating a
victory the night before it happens, a victory dinner on
(01:34):
the night.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Before the fight.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It was almost as if Iliot Tuporia knew what we
all thought, but maybe didn't have the courage to say
because we're not him, We are not Iliot Saporia. We
didn't know that his confidence would exude and radiate so
much energy, but eventually he would have a spectacular performance
like we just saw. So let's talk about the fight.
I told you guys coming into this fight, and I'll
tell you again. The biggest gap I saw between Eliot
(01:57):
Saporia and Charles Lavera was obvious the striking department, and
it was in the pocket. The moments where this fight
would get heavy is when Iliot Sapporia and Charles both
decided to engage in the phone booth fight, and right
away from the opening bell this happened, and funny enough,
as the fight started, both of them traded in the
pocket and Charles Lavera was the one that came out
(02:18):
the victor in their first exchange.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
As soon as the fight.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Started, he clipped Iliot Sapporia with a right hand that
made Ilio back off and rethink that exchange, and ultimately
there was a scramble where Charles Lavera got double underhooks
and in that exchange, I'm not sure if Charles got
cut on the eyebrow from something Ilia hit him with
or potentially just you know, finding grappling position and cut
his eyebrow, but he gets cut up above the eyebrow
(02:42):
and Ilia ends up flipping position on him, getting top
position on the ground, getting to mount a crucifix really quickly,
passing Charles Olavera, who was a high level black belt,
passing his guard like it was almost nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Charles looked for.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Leg locks, got somewhat threatening with one, and Ilia got
out of it very calm, very elected, very poised for
this moment, something that again when you watch him fight,
as the words you keep finding in your mind. He
fights with such a poise, such an a welcoming of
the moment. No jitters, no, no butterflies, No, the moment
is too big. It reminds you of another god that
(03:17):
was the champion at one hundred and forty five pounds
and then jumped and became the champion at one hundred
and fifty five pounds. I'm not saying that Iliot Taporia
is Connor McGregor or Connor MacGregor is Iliot Taporia, but
to not see the parallels there, I think would be
absolutely insane. I'm gonna go out on the limb and
maybe I'm wrong, but you guys can tell me in
the comments. I think from what I'm seeing from Iliot
Saporia right now, his arc without maybe the flash and
(03:40):
the cameras and the Superstar rocket ship that Connor McGregor
built for himself in the UFC strapped to his back,
Eliot Saporia's run is better. He has knocked out two
of the three greatest one hundred and forty five pound
fighters ever in the two fights previous to this one,
and then he comes into one hundred and fifty five
pounds and knocks Charles will out, another former world champion
(04:02):
in the weight class he was stepping into. That three
fight run is one of the better ones maybe I've
ever seen, and it wasn't against just supplementary talent. These
were top line fighters, best of the best. The only
person missing from that equation and may not be missing
for very long is Islam Makachev. Keep an eye on
that in the future. But anyway, so they get to
their feet and Ilia and Charles Lavera they have another clinch,
(04:25):
kind of close quarters phone booth fight, and Ilia gets
off a nice jab to the body, stabs him, jab upstairs,
stabs him, enters in with a combination and Charles gets
to a muaitai clinch, tries to throw the knee up
the middle. Ilia is wary to it, shucks off the
plumb grip, gets back to his base, starts to get
back to what he likes to do, which is enter
in with his jab and Charles not using those weapons
(04:47):
that I think he desperately needed to in this fight
that teep kick to keep distance right, the ability to
push kick to the stomach or stab at the knee
or oblique kick or inside like kick, things to get
Ilia off that front foot and start to engage at
a higher distance where he's less susceptible to combination punching
and he's more safe to throw his outside game as well.
And with that being said, Ilia stabs him to the
(05:08):
body again, stabs him with.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The jab upstairs steps in.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Charles tries to meet him with a straight right hand,
the same one that he landed to start the fight
and had success with, but this time Ilia had seen it,
and instead of engaging and trying to go right hand
for right hand, he takes his lead hand and just
slightly pushes Charles's right hand off the center line, just
slightly pushes it off path to drop his own right hand,
and boy, when he drops it, it was like the atomic
(05:34):
bomb hit because he drops this right hand and Charles
goes limp immediately, and just for good measure, Ilia winds
up a left hook behind it. Charles goes flat on
his back and Ilia follows up two hammer fist and
it's all over. And when the first round, just like
Ilia Tuporia told us and told Charles and clearly told
himself his self, belief, his ability inside of the octagon,
(06:00):
his poison and quite frankly, just how good he is
took over and the world took notice. Tonight the UFC
created their biggest newest star. It's insane to watch him
perform at this level and think where is his ceiling
because it wasn't at forty five. At fifty five, he
just took out one of the biggest names, Islam, moved
(06:20):
to seventy. Sure, there's matchups there and they're going to
make the next matchup, whatever that is, which we'll get
to in a second. But it's just he doesn't feel
like a real person. So the question becomes who who
is gonna be there? Who is going to stand in
front of Ilia Taporia and say it's my turn as well.
You may have this moment, but now it's my turn too,
that rising star to combat another superstar rising. And we
(06:43):
may have gotten that answer in the octagon as Patty
Pimless stepped in and I don't know who arranged it,
but he stepped right in to talk to Ilia Taporia
and say congratulations, but you're not knocking me out. I'm
different from all these guys your mind, and they have
a great back and forth to Porius saying I'm gonna
put my balls on your forehead and I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Gonna do all this and do that. It was perfect.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It felt like such a good piece of business that
the UFC was doing to give Patty Pimblet his shot
at that belt, to make a fight that already has
an ingrained hwed between two guys that just don't like
each other over the belt, over competition.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Finally we get to see them fight, and.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
There's even a shove from Ilia to get Patty out
of his face, like, get the fuck out of my face, dude,
I'm the champ, You're in my octagon and I'm holding
my two belt. And I thought, this was, again, just
a brilliant piece of business from the UFC.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But then I heard Dana White say this in the
post fight presser about how much he enjoyed that face
to face.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, I don't know who the hell led him in there.
That should have never happened. Let's start there. I was
already back in my room or that would have never happened.
But that's not the fight. It's just, yeah, it was fun.
It shouldn't happen. It was fun to watch. Wow, that's
not really what we do. Give a shit it was
fun to watch or not, it's just that that shouldn't happen. Plus,
he just he wins a second a second title and
(08:02):
in a higher division, which just it was a bad
call by whoever the hell let them let him in there.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Dana White is upset that Patty Pimlett faced off with
Iliot Tuporia. He's upset that he could have potentially put
together one of the best fights you can make right
now one fifty five. Why that's that's that is exactly
what you want. That's the rivalry you need. This is
a sport of mma where yes, star building is super important.
And maybe Patty Pimlet is not the greatest matchup because
(08:30):
of his strength, because of his size, because of his
grappling ability to fights make superstars, and a loss isn't
the end of the world. And I know you don't
want to you don't want to kill the Golden Goose
because Taporia right now is on a heater, He's on
a hot streak. And when I thought about it more,
I knew that the reason Dana White would not like
this fight, the reason Dana White would not like that
face off, that's not, in his words, how they do things,
(08:52):
even though I've seen many of face offs in the octagon.
In fact, I saw one earlier in the night with
Van and Pantosia. The reason he did not like that
face off is because it's not what Dana wants, and that, to.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Me just doesn't make sense. Let'sen get it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I know that Justin Gaigie is a matchup that favors
a striking battle that Eliot Teporia will most likely win.
I mean, listen, I know Mma Matt doesn't always work.
But Max Holloway flat lines Justin Gaichee in their fight,
then Iliot Teporia flat lines Max Holloway. What do we
expect to happen when Iliot Teporia gets in there? For
the guy in Gai Chee who can be hit, he
(09:25):
can be hurt, he can.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Be stopped, and he wants to strike.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And also if he wrestles to Poria is probably better
there as well. I think we know the conclusion of
that matchup. I'm not gonna say it's not a good
fight or whatever. But the matchup that I would personally
want to see, especially after that face off, and the
one that I think holds more parody than Ilia and
Justin Gaichie is Ilia and Patty the Battie. Both of
them have their own separate fan bases. Both of them
do not like each other. They've had run ins in
(09:50):
the past. The fight's been building for years.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You can say it's too early, but at that point,
is it not just the same problem that everybody has
with the Marcus of Queensberry and the sport of boxing.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's the same problem we've had for years with them.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We don't get the fights we want when we want them,
and instead they fall by the wayside and we all
sit there on our hands and say, well, we wish
we would have got them when they were in their prime.
I just think that's the fight to make, and Dana's
upset about it because I think Dana wants Elia Tuporia
and Justin Gage. I'm hoping this moment forced his hand.
I'm hoping that the people loved it enough to say,
get you know, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I just don't know if that's the case. But regardless
in any form or fashion, Elia Tuporia is on the
verge of becoming a global MMA superstar. He is becoming
what this sport has needed in the last I would
say two to three years without Alex.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Pereira's name being invoked.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
This man can speak great English, he is well dressed,
he's got a great look. He is a crunch time player,
meaning he steps up on every big stage and delivers
in the most emphatic fashion and when he's done, it's
onto the next one.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Business as usual.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
If the UFC does not strap the rocket ship to
his back, whether it's with which whatever, or it's with
Patty the Batty, and they make an ingrained rivalry to
just build his legacy further potentially or to make Patty
the Batty that next big thing. They need to understand
they have a burgeoning superstar on their hands and if
they don't take advantage of it now, I don't know
what else they need to know. Elia Taporia is the
(11:18):
real deal and he's going to be for a very
long time undefeated and undisputed lightweight champion of the World.
In a demolishing a demolition job of Charles olivera who
you know, has been around in the sport for a
very long time. Not sure where he goes from here.
Obviously didn't have his best performance. Wasn't his night, And yes,
some of it was about Charles, his stubbornness, his inability
(11:39):
to keep the fight at distance, but more of it
was about Iliad Taporia and his just greatness.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
What happens next for him, Charles, for the UFC.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I don't have those answers, And I know one thing,
it's almost impossible to mess this up because Ilio Taporia
is just that damn good.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
What happens for him next? I guess we'll find out
Eliot Tuporia has just taken over the entire promotion of
the UFC and quite frankly, the entire sport of MMA.
UFC fans, you have your next big superstar and his
name is El Matador. He just knocked out Charles Olivera.
That's right, du Bronx in the first round of his
introduction to one hundred and fifty five pounds, and he
(00:20):
is the new lightweight champion of the World in the UFC.
He has now held belt in two separate weight classes,
and he is starting to make a legacy that is undeniable.
Seventeen to zero and no flaws. I mean that specifically
in this fight. What just happened the breakdown, Let's go so,
like I said, Eliot Tuporia, Charles Olivera, this was the
(00:41):
fight I think that everybody was anticipating this week, and
it turned out to be one that actually delivered on
the anticipation, unlike another fight that happened in direct competition
in the boxing ring on the same night. I'll just
say it, Julio Sayeser job as Junior Jake Paul did
not deliver anywhere close to the magnitude to the performance
to the delivery to the spectacular nature of the finish,
(01:04):
all of it culminating in Iliotzaporia going absolutely bonkers and doing.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Exactly what he said he would do.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
If you guys didn't see during fight week, it was
almost like a foregone conclusion from Eliot Saporia that he
was gonna win this fight, a level of confidence that
we have not seen in the UFC in a very
very long time, one that included him walking up to
Charles and telling him it was written. I didn't want
it to be you. I'm sorry it had to be you,
but this win was already written. To then celebrating a
victory the night before it happens, a victory dinner on
(01:34):
the night.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Before the fight.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It was almost as if Iliot Tuporia knew what we
all thought, but maybe didn't have the courage to say
because we're not him, We are not Iliot Saporia. We
didn't know that his confidence would exude and radiate so
much energy, but eventually he would have a spectacular performance
like we just saw. So let's talk about the fight.
I told you guys coming into this fight, and I'll
tell you again. The biggest gap I saw between Eliot
(01:57):
Saporia and Charles Lavera was obvious the striking department, and
it was in the pocket. The moments where this fight
would get heavy is when Iliot Sapporia and Charles both
decided to engage in the phone booth fight, and right
away from the opening bell this happened, and funny enough,
as the fight started, both of them traded in the
pocket and Charles Lavera was the one that came out
(02:18):
the victor in their first exchange.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
As soon as the fight.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Started, he clipped Iliot Sapporia with a right hand that
made Ilio back off and rethink that exchange, and ultimately
there was a scramble where Charles Lavera got double underhooks
and in that exchange, I'm not sure if Charles got
cut on the eyebrow from something Ilia hit him with
or potentially just you know, finding grappling position and cut
his eyebrow, but he gets cut up above the eyebrow
(02:42):
and Ilia ends up flipping position on him, getting top
position on the ground, getting to mount a crucifix really quickly,
passing Charles Olavera, who was a high level black belt,
passing his guard like it was almost nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Charles looked for.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Leg locks, got somewhat threatening with one, and Ilia got
out of it very calm, very elected, very poised for
this moment, something that again when you watch him fight,
as the words you keep finding in your mind. He
fights with such a poise, such an a welcoming of
the moment. No jitters, no, no butterflies, No, the moment
is too big. It reminds you of another god that
(03:17):
was the champion at one hundred and forty five pounds
and then jumped and became the champion at one hundred
and fifty five pounds. I'm not saying that Iliot Taporia
is Connor McGregor or Connor MacGregor is Iliot Taporia, but
to not see the parallels there, I think would be
absolutely insane. I'm gonna go out on the limb and
maybe I'm wrong, but you guys can tell me in
the comments. I think from what I'm seeing from Iliot
Saporia right now, his arc without maybe the flash and
(03:40):
the cameras and the Superstar rocket ship that Connor McGregor
built for himself in the UFC strapped to his back,
Eliot Saporia's run is better. He has knocked out two
of the three greatest one hundred and forty five pound
fighters ever in the two fights previous to this one,
and then he comes into one hundred and fifty five
pounds and knocks Charles will out, another former world champion
(04:02):
in the weight class he was stepping into. That three
fight run is one of the better ones maybe I've
ever seen, and it wasn't against just supplementary talent. These
were top line fighters, best of the best. The only
person missing from that equation and may not be missing
for very long is Islam Makachev. Keep an eye on
that in the future. But anyway, so they get to
their feet and Ilia and Charles Lavera they have another clinch,
(04:25):
kind of close quarters phone booth fight, and Ilia gets
off a nice jab to the body, stabs him, jab upstairs,
stabs him, enters in with a combination and Charles gets
to a muaitai clinch, tries to throw the knee up
the middle. Ilia is wary to it, shucks off the
plumb grip, gets back to his base, starts to get
back to what he likes to do, which is enter
in with his jab and Charles not using those weapons
(04:47):
that I think he desperately needed to in this fight
that teep kick to keep distance right, the ability to
push kick to the stomach or stab at the knee
or oblique kick or inside like kick, things to get
Ilia off that front foot and start to engage at
a higher distance where he's less susceptible to combination punching
and he's more safe to throw his outside game as well.
And with that being said, Ilia stabs him to the
(05:08):
body again, stabs him with.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The jab upstairs steps in.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Charles tries to meet him with a straight right hand,
the same one that he landed to start the fight
and had success with, but this time Ilia had seen it,
and instead of engaging and trying to go right hand
for right hand, he takes his lead hand and just
slightly pushes Charles's right hand off the center line, just
slightly pushes it off path to drop his own right hand,
and boy, when he drops it, it was like the atomic
(05:34):
bomb hit because he drops this right hand and Charles
goes limp immediately, and just for good measure, Ilia winds
up a left hook behind it. Charles goes flat on
his back and Ilia follows up two hammer fist and
it's all over. And when the first round, just like
Ilia Tuporia told us and told Charles and clearly told
himself his self, belief, his ability inside of the octagon,
(06:00):
his poison and quite frankly, just how good he is
took over and the world took notice. Tonight the UFC
created their biggest newest star. It's insane to watch him
perform at this level and think where is his ceiling
because it wasn't at forty five. At fifty five, he
just took out one of the biggest names, Islam, moved
(06:20):
to seventy. Sure, there's matchups there and they're going to
make the next matchup, whatever that is, which we'll get
to in a second. But it's just he doesn't feel
like a real person. So the question becomes who who
is gonna be there? Who is going to stand in
front of Ilia Taporia and say it's my turn as well.
You may have this moment, but now it's my turn too,
that rising star to combat another superstar rising. And we
(06:43):
may have gotten that answer in the octagon as Patty
Pimless stepped in and I don't know who arranged it,
but he stepped right in to talk to Ilia Taporia
and say congratulations, but you're not knocking me out. I'm
different from all these guys your mind, and they have
a great back and forth to Porius saying I'm gonna
put my balls on your forehead and I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Gonna do all this and do that. It was perfect.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It felt like such a good piece of business that
the UFC was doing to give Patty Pimblet his shot
at that belt, to make a fight that already has
an ingrained hwed between two guys that just don't like
each other over the belt, over competition.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Finally we get to see them fight, and.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
There's even a shove from Ilia to get Patty out
of his face, like, get the fuck out of my face, dude,
I'm the champ, You're in my octagon and I'm holding
my two belt. And I thought, this was, again, just
a brilliant piece of business from the UFC.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But then I heard Dana White say this in the
post fight presser about how much he enjoyed that face
to face.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, I don't know who the hell led him in there.
That should have never happened. Let's start there. I was
already back in my room or that would have never happened.
But that's not the fight. It's just, yeah, it was fun.
It shouldn't happen. It was fun to watch. Wow, that's
not really what we do. Give a shit it was
fun to watch or not, it's just that that shouldn't happen. Plus,
he just he wins a second a second title and
(08:02):
in a higher division, which just it was a bad
call by whoever the hell let them let him in there.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Dana White is upset that Patty Pimlett faced off with
Iliot Tuporia. He's upset that he could have potentially put
together one of the best fights you can make right
now one fifty five. Why that's that's that is exactly
what you want. That's the rivalry you need. This is
a sport of mma where yes, star building is super important.
And maybe Patty Pimlet is not the greatest matchup because
(08:30):
of his strength, because of his size, because of his
grappling ability to fights make superstars, and a loss isn't
the end of the world. And I know you don't
want to you don't want to kill the Golden Goose
because Taporia right now is on a heater, He's on
a hot streak. And when I thought about it more,
I knew that the reason Dana White would not like
this fight, the reason Dana White would not like that
face off, that's not, in his words, how they do things,
(08:52):
even though I've seen many of face offs in the octagon.
In fact, I saw one earlier in the night with
Van and Pantosia. The reason he did not like that
face off is because it's not what Dana wants, and that, to.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Me just doesn't make sense. Let'sen get it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I know that Justin Gaigie is a matchup that favors
a striking battle that Eliot Teporia will most likely win.
I mean, listen, I know Mma Matt doesn't always work.
But Max Holloway flat lines Justin Gaichee in their fight,
then Iliot Teporia flat lines Max Holloway. What do we
expect to happen when Iliot Teporia gets in there? For
the guy in Gai Chee who can be hit, he
(09:25):
can be hurt, he can.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Be stopped, and he wants to strike.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And also if he wrestles to Poria is probably better
there as well. I think we know the conclusion of
that matchup. I'm not gonna say it's not a good
fight or whatever. But the matchup that I would personally
want to see, especially after that face off, and the
one that I think holds more parody than Ilia and
Justin Gaichie is Ilia and Patty the Battie. Both of
them have their own separate fan bases. Both of them
do not like each other. They've had run ins in
(09:50):
the past. The fight's been building for years.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You can say it's too early, but at that point,
is it not just the same problem that everybody has
with the Marcus of Queensberry and the sport of boxing.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's the same problem we've had for years with them.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We don't get the fights we want when we want them,
and instead they fall by the wayside and we all
sit there on our hands and say, well, we wish
we would have got them when they were in their prime.
I just think that's the fight to make, and Dana's
upset about it because I think Dana wants Elia Tuporia
and Justin Gage. I'm hoping this moment forced his hand.
I'm hoping that the people loved it enough to say,
get you know, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I just don't know if that's the case. But regardless
in any form or fashion, Elia Tuporia is on the
verge of becoming a global MMA superstar. He is becoming
what this sport has needed in the last I would
say two to three years without Alex.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Pereira's name being invoked.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
This man can speak great English, he is well dressed,
he's got a great look. He is a crunch time player,
meaning he steps up on every big stage and delivers
in the most emphatic fashion and when he's done, it's
onto the next one.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Business as usual.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
If the UFC does not strap the rocket ship to
his back, whether it's with which whatever, or it's with
Patty the Batty, and they make an ingrained rivalry to
just build his legacy further potentially or to make Patty
the Batty that next big thing. They need to understand
they have a burgeoning superstar on their hands and if
they don't take advantage of it now, I don't know
what else they need to know. Elia Taporia is the
(11:18):
real deal and he's going to be for a very
long time undefeated and undisputed lightweight champion of the World.
In a demolishing a demolition job of Charles olivera who
you know, has been around in the sport for a
very long time. Not sure where he goes from here.
Obviously didn't have his best performance. Wasn't his night, And yes,
some of it was about Charles, his stubbornness, his inability
(11:39):
to keep the fight at distance, but more of it
was about Iliad Taporia and his just greatness.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
What happens next for him, Charles, for the UFC.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I don't have those answers, And I know one thing,
it's almost impossible to mess this up because Ilio Taporia
is just that damn good.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
What happens for him next? I guess we'll find out
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