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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Folks, I may have cursed Sean O'Malley the way curses
alive for sure. It never fails. What are you laughing at? Okay,
she's chirping me in the background. Listen, you have seen
three sixteen just wrapped up. I have just called about
six hours of boxing matches here at most valuable prospects.
And I'm still in awe of the performance we just saw.
Bars from Morob Dwaalash Willie. It was effortless, almost dominant
(00:24):
and completely dismantling in the main events and Mirob Dewolish Willie,
I'm just gonna say it now is the greatest bandon
weight I've ever seen. And I'm not even disappointed to
say that. I'm just I'm just a little bit baffled.
Maybe I shouldn't have been. Maybe I should have seen
this coming. Maybe you on the comments that called me
the casual concept, maybe I am. Maybe that's what it is.
Let's talk about it though the breakdown. Let's go, folks.
(00:46):
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(01:50):
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't get to see a
ton of the card. I did get to see Kevin
Holland submit the cente luke, which is insane, especially after
Vin Allen was tweeting things out like this before his fight.
Don't know what that was in reference to pretty sure
that he said he lost his phone or something, but
that gave me a little bit of an heart attack,
(02:11):
even sitting ringside calling my fights. But that was an
insane performance. Again, I only saw the highlight of it
are played to Kevin Allen. I saw he also called
out Colby Covington after that fight. I listen. I would
want to see it him and Colby, especially now knowing
that Kevin Holland, again with those long lanky limbs, has
got some jiu jitsu off his back, very very interesting.
I think he finished it with an anacona choke that
(02:32):
was pretty nasty. I also saw that Joe Pifer beat
Kelvin Gasolum unanimous decision. I didn't see exactly how. I
heard a head kick dropped Kelvin. I already got dropped
with something else in the fight as well, and that
people were a little wonky on on the scoring of
the fight. But regardless Joe Pifer gets it done. Kelvin
Gaslam still has the most insane chin in MMA, apparently
(02:52):
just not able to be knocked out, just not gonna happen.
There was a viral knockout as well, and I want
to make sure I got it right. You saying you
or you saying you again? Casual concept just landed a
nasty one of the most nasty left hooks maybe I've
ever seen, and sent his opponent face down into the canvas.
That's beautiful work. And again you'll see some of those
(03:12):
finishes almost out of nowhere on a UFC card, sometimes
especially in a big time moment like that right in
the middle of Newark. So a great card overall for
the UFC. But then we get to the co main event,
Kayla Harrison and Juliana Paena. Obviously you were on one
side of the other here. You loved the trash talk
of Juliana Pagna, or you loved the idea of the
potential for Kayla Harrison to become one of the most
(03:36):
well versed and dominant women's combat sports athletes ever, with
her medals in judo and now winning world titles in
the MMA scene, now in the UFC's bantamweight division. This
was one of the only times I think I've ever
seen the challenger be a minus seven hundred or seven
to fifty favorite in the fight going into the Comaine.
And quite frankly, listen, I think we all understood that
(03:58):
Juliana Paenna's path to victory had to be starching or
at least touching up Kayla Harrison on the feet to
stop the takedown, or to hopefully get there before the
takedown happened. Because once Kayla Harrison grabbed a hold of
Juliana Penna pause, she was gonna be able to have
her way with her again pause, I'm not trying to
do this. So with that being said, when Kayla Harrison
(04:18):
does eventually grapple Juliana Pinia, what we think is going
to happen happen. In the second round. She takes down
Penya and honestly, with about eight or seven seconds left
in the round, locks up a Kimora and it looked
like she was gonna snap the shoulder in half of
Juliana Pina, but instead Pena taps and that is it
(04:38):
your new women's bantam white champion. And how about this,
how about the story of Kayla Harrison, not just you know,
the moment, not just the fact that she is becoming,
if not already is one of the most accomplished women's
combat sports champions ever, and all that stuff is awesome.
But at the same time, Amanda Nonez has entered the fold.
That's right, the quote of women, the two time champion
(05:02):
at bandam weight, the cha former champion at featherweight. She
was holding double gold and she's back to reclaim it
her legacy on the line versus Kayla Harrison at one
thirty five. I love it, feed me more. They're both
former training partners and American Top Team and now they
are foes. They did a face off in the middle
of the octagon, and I was ready to watch it
(05:23):
happen right then. But I assume that's going to be
later on in the year, maybe towards the end of
the year. I haven't seen Dana White's press conference if
he did do one, so we'll see what he has
to say. But that was just the chorus that led
into the final crescendo that was the main event of
UFC three sixteen. And again I feel I may be
responsible a bit. The Wade curse is all powerful, and
(05:43):
I did put it upon Sugar Shan O'Malley to get
this done by knockout, and that is not what happened,
ladies and gentlemen. Before we even got to the fight,
the Wade curse almost took advantage of the railing in
the arena. Did you see that Marob was walking to
the cage and the railing in the arena falls over
one man's legs looked like they were trapped and he
(06:04):
was screaming for help. That was one of the most
insane things I've ever seen. Chloe's gonna check on the fan,
but it was a brutal happenstance occurrence that could have
been really, really bad. Thank goodness, Morob had the wherewithal
like he was shaking hands with the fans on the
side that it fell, and he happened to just get
away from it. But yeah, this is insane that he
was able to just continue his walk, act like nothing happened,
(06:25):
not let it affect him, and get it into the cage.
And when the fight started, that's how he fought, like
just unaffected by anything. This moment, this new journey and
lifestyle change that Shugushan O'Malley had been on We talked about,
you know how he had had hip surgery and he
was rededicated to his training. No jerking off, no smoking weed.
(06:47):
That's a real thing, I promise you. But this was
a brand new thing for Sean O'Malley, and at the
same time, he was going back to his roots. No
hair dye, and it just didn't fucking matter, did it. Yes,
I bought into it hookline, and but what I did
not understand, or at least what I didn't take into account,
was that Marob dwaalash Willy has always lived this way.
(07:07):
There was no need for him to change anything in
the fight because he won. The guy is so committed
to MMA that it makes this shit easy for him.
And I said at the beginning of video, he is
the greatest bandam way I have ever seen. Look at
his resume and it's not just an on paper thing.
He has beaten some of these fighters in their prime,
he's beaten some past it. But at the same time,
(07:29):
he's beaten them all. The fight started and Sean O'Malley
again came out very hesitant, a guy that you could
see clearly understood that he needed to be around for
five rounds in this fight, and that he didn't want
to take too many chances and risk Morob getting a
hold of it. And Morob wasn't rushing the takedown. This
is something I thought was super impressive. In the first
(07:50):
fight with Shan Omalley. You would think, because Sewan is
so good as a striker, that you may want to
rush that takedown, but al Jamain Sterling tried that and
got knocked out for his troubles. Morob wasn't rushing anything.
In fact, he was actually landing on the feet and
outlanding Chanomalley on the feet. For all the boring wrestler
accusations that are out there against Morob, he did not
show any of that. Yes, he wrestled, but it was
(08:12):
entertaining because he mixed it into his striking, because his
striking was where he led, and he was winning in
the striking, not only in the first round. He ends
up winning that round after a decent start from Sean,
but you saw just one shot at a time from
Schanal Mallley, no volume striking. The thing that I thought
would be able to take him over the edge and
potentially get him this win is the volume that he
(08:33):
would come with in this second fight, and you just
didn't see that. Only Seano maalley can tell you why. Again,
maybe it was just the threat of the takedown. Maybe
it was just the openings weren't there, But I don't
really know what that was. But Morob found his openings
and outstruck Sean in the first round, got him to
the mat temporarily. Sean got to his feet, but still
in the last part of that round, definitely controlled and
(08:54):
I thought won the round. Some controversy from the online
Twitter space, which I know, shocking when you're talking about
the most intelligent people on the planet, but this round
seemed to be a swing round to some people. People
thought that Sean O'Malley won the second round, and I
just didn't. I saw the second round a lot like
I saw the first, and Rob was more successful grappling.
He's still outstruck Sean, landed some big time punches and
(09:16):
moments was pushing Sean back against the cage without even trying,
just with his pressure, as the kids say, with his aura.
But outside of that, Morob was tagging Sean with left hook,
right hands, and he was finding ways to land his
punches and it was I was just befuddled. I was
just I couldn't believe it that Sean was getting out struck.
Rob takes Sean down again, and his chain wrestling was
so beautiful here, and I do want to give some credit.
(09:36):
Sean did have some decent takedown defense, but it's almost
like watching Connor McGregor fight Hubbib narrowing him at off,
being so focused on takedown defense, being so focused on
not getting taken down or trying to stuff a takedown
that you will completely get away from the game plan,
which is if he encroaches range, I'm dropping right hands,
(09:58):
I'm dropping damage on his dome piece, and then see
how likely he is to take me down. I'm throwing hooks,
I'm throwing kicks. The teep kick wasn't there for Sean.
He threw two spinning back kicks to the stomach, But
the most dangerous he was in the first fight was
when he was teep kicking to the stomach and hurting
Morob with the body shots. Those were not existing again,
maybe because of the thread of the takedown. Regardless, I
(10:20):
thought Morob won the first two rounds slightly on the
second one, but I thought he still did enough we
head to the third round, and this is where the
beginning of the end started. He started to grapple a
lot more, and Sean had done a good job of,
like I said, stuffing some of these takedowns, getting back
to the feet, getting back to the positions where he
could potentially try to be successful. And you thought, Okay,
maybe this is what Sean needs to do. Maybe he
(10:42):
has to fight a little bit more of a conservative
fight and just try to squeak by rounds. Even though
I disagreed with that, I thought more volume would be
the answer. I think it potentially would have been, if
it could have been. I know that sounds like me
making up a scenario, but I just don't know if
it's possible. I don't I don't know if it's possible
to be a volume striker and from with that pressure,
with that pace. I thought so before I saw this
(11:04):
second fight, I really did put some stock into to
Sean O'Malley not having a fully healthy hip. I put
some stock into this rededication to the sport. But again
I almost hyper focused on the small and forgot the
other side of it, which is Morob doesn't need to refocus.
He is locked in year round, training every day. He'll
probably be in the gym tomorrow after doing whatever and
(11:25):
celebrating tonight in Newark, New Jersey, You'll probably be back
in the gym tomorrow. It's just it's a lifestyle for him.
It's not something he has to commit to. It's what
he does. It's like breathing for Morob. And this third
round he went back to the basics. He shot and
finally got Sean to the mat, and when he got
him down this time he kept him down. He smothered
him with punches, with ground control, with more punches. I
(11:49):
saw a stat halfway through the third round like Morob
had landed sixty one strikes to Sean's four. Insane. But
then you saw that chain wrestling where Sean would get
out of the first attempt and Rob would take a
single leg and spin him around and get to his back.
And when he got to his back, Sean would flip
and try to get to his knees and get back
to his feet. And there were some great exchanges from
(12:09):
both guys. But eventually, you play the grappling game, or
at least when you are forced into playing the grappling game,
you will lose to the better grappler always and even Morob,
who's not a massive submission threat, and I don't know
if he even has a submission win in the UFC.
I could be your on comments. I know you'll let
me know. But he finds a way to get to
Sean's neck from the front facing position and locks up
(12:31):
what I thought at first was going to be a
Dars choke, and it looked like the setup for a
Dars choke that he just turned into a net crank
and just rolled with Sean again. Sean was probably not
expecting a submission, seeing his mirab was like a plus
seven to fifteen out that they checked the odds, but
that's because he's not a dangerous submission artist, at least
not to most fighters. Androb Net cranked him and choked
him right at the end of the third round. That's
(12:52):
all she wrote, mirob Dwallash Willie and still your UFC
Bannam Weight Champion of the World. In a moment's notice,
I was not only completely wrong about this main event,
but also genuinely happy to see Morob go out and
perform at a high level. It just it seems like
he's getting better and better with age and with performances.
(13:13):
He's thirty four years old, looks like he's in his
fucking prime right now. And I really don't have any
other words other than just wow. Because this wasn't the
mirab pressure and take down failure win. This wasn't to
push him into the cage and hold him there win.
This was morob dominating every aspect of this fight. He
beat Sean on the feet, he beat him in the
control time, he beat him in the grappling, he beat
(13:33):
him on the ground, and then he finally choked Rob
dwaalash Willy earned his victory tonight. He earned the right
to get past the allegations of boring fighter right in
the middle of his main event rematch, and he comes
out and beats Sean O'Malley worse than he did the
last time. I've seen people saying, oh, Sean, he's got
to hang the gloves up. That's his last fight. He
lost two in a row. Please, MMA fans, don't don't
(13:55):
do this, do this thing where we start talking about
guys should hang it up. He's thirty years old. This
isn't boxing, and I love boxing, but boxing has done
itself a disservice by protecting the oh or protecting the record.
Seawann o Maley's gonna be fine? Is he the best
ban of weight in the world? No, he's not. That's
is his career over? Are there not still entertaining fights
at one hundred and thirty five pounds for Shana Mallley?
Do you guys not want to see a Shan O'Malley
(14:16):
and pyotr Yan Rematch's a fucking fight. Sure, maybe making
work his way back to that, I understand, I'd be
willing to watch it. There's other fights for Sean at
one hundred and thirty five pounds. I don't know who
that's gonna be. Right now, he's talking about going home
and you know, seeing his wife. He's got a new baby.
Sean took the loss, at least from what I saw
in the cage. He took it with some humility, obviously
the night planned for, but I liked that version of Sean.
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Now does that mean that Shawn needs to go back
to smoking weed and fucking jerking off and Jay and
the pen twenty four to seven? I don't know. What
I do know is Marob Duallas SCHWILLI looks unstoppable right now?
In the UFC, it's Cory Sanay and it's pyotr Yan,
whoever it is that's gonna be that next challenger. I
don't know if they have enough. He's the best band
of weight I've ever seen, and I don't think that's
going to change anytime soon. What a night the UFC.
(15:00):
What a night for Morob? What a night for Kayla
Harrison and Kevin Holland you FC three sixteen another one
in the books. I'm gonna try to start live streaming these.
I really would have guys that I've been home, but
I'm gonna be home this week UFC Fight Night, Joaquin
Buckley and Kamara Oosman. I think is this week that's
it for me? What do you guys think about the
UFC the direction it's headed with this card? I think
it was a very good start to the month. They
(15:21):
have a ton of great cards coming up. And ultimately
my question I leave off with, is Morob the greatest
ban of weight in UFC history? Is he the greatest
band of weight you've ever seen? Because he certainly is
to me, But I don't have those answers. You guys
let me know in the comments, and then, and only
then I guess we'll find out
Folks, I may have cursed Sean O'Malley the way curses
alive for sure. It never fails. What are you laughing at? Okay,
she's chirping me in the background. Listen, you have seen
three sixteen just wrapped up. I have just called about
six hours of boxing matches here at most valuable prospects.
And I'm still in awe of the performance we just saw.
Bars from Morob Dwaalash Willie. It was effortless, almost dominant
(00:24):
and completely dismantling in the main events and Mirob Dewolish Willie,
I'm just gonna say it now is the greatest bandon
weight I've ever seen. And I'm not even disappointed to
say that. I'm just I'm just a little bit baffled.
Maybe I shouldn't have been. Maybe I should have seen
this coming. Maybe you on the comments that called me
the casual concept, maybe I am. Maybe that's what it is.
Let's talk about it though the breakdown. Let's go, folks.
(00:46):
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(01:50):
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't get to see a
ton of the card. I did get to see Kevin
Holland submit the cente luke, which is insane, especially after
Vin Allen was tweeting things out like this before his fight.
Don't know what that was in reference to pretty sure
that he said he lost his phone or something, but
that gave me a little bit of an heart attack,
(02:11):
even sitting ringside calling my fights. But that was an
insane performance. Again, I only saw the highlight of it
are played to Kevin Allen. I saw he also called
out Colby Covington after that fight. I listen. I would
want to see it him and Colby, especially now knowing
that Kevin Holland, again with those long lanky limbs, has
got some jiu jitsu off his back, very very interesting.
I think he finished it with an anacona choke that
(02:32):
was pretty nasty. I also saw that Joe Pifer beat
Kelvin Gasolum unanimous decision. I didn't see exactly how. I
heard a head kick dropped Kelvin. I already got dropped
with something else in the fight as well, and that
people were a little wonky on on the scoring of
the fight. But regardless Joe Pifer gets it done. Kelvin
Gaslam still has the most insane chin in MMA, apparently
(02:52):
just not able to be knocked out, just not gonna happen.
There was a viral knockout as well, and I want
to make sure I got it right. You saying you
or you saying you again? Casual concept just landed a
nasty one of the most nasty left hooks maybe I've
ever seen, and sent his opponent face down into the canvas.
That's beautiful work. And again you'll see some of those
(03:12):
finishes almost out of nowhere on a UFC card, sometimes
especially in a big time moment like that right in
the middle of Newark. So a great card overall for
the UFC. But then we get to the co main event,
Kayla Harrison and Juliana Paena. Obviously you were on one
side of the other here. You loved the trash talk
of Juliana Pagna, or you loved the idea of the
potential for Kayla Harrison to become one of the most
(03:36):
well versed and dominant women's combat sports athletes ever, with
her medals in judo and now winning world titles in
the MMA scene, now in the UFC's bantamweight division. This
was one of the only times I think I've ever
seen the challenger be a minus seven hundred or seven
to fifty favorite in the fight going into the Comaine.
And quite frankly, listen, I think we all understood that
(03:58):
Juliana Paenna's path to victory had to be starching or
at least touching up Kayla Harrison on the feet to
stop the takedown, or to hopefully get there before the
takedown happened. Because once Kayla Harrison grabbed a hold of
Juliana Penna pause, she was gonna be able to have
her way with her again pause, I'm not trying to
do this. So with that being said, when Kayla Harrison
(04:18):
does eventually grapple Juliana Pinia, what we think is going
to happen happen. In the second round. She takes down
Penya and honestly, with about eight or seven seconds left
in the round, locks up a Kimora and it looked
like she was gonna snap the shoulder in half of
Juliana Pina, but instead Pena taps and that is it
(04:38):
your new women's bantam white champion. And how about this,
how about the story of Kayla Harrison, not just you know,
the moment, not just the fact that she is becoming,
if not already is one of the most accomplished women's
combat sports champions ever, and all that stuff is awesome.
But at the same time, Amanda Nonez has entered the fold.
That's right, the quote of women, the two time champion
(05:02):
at bandam weight, the cha former champion at featherweight. She
was holding double gold and she's back to reclaim it
her legacy on the line versus Kayla Harrison at one
thirty five. I love it, feed me more. They're both
former training partners and American Top Team and now they
are foes. They did a face off in the middle
of the octagon, and I was ready to watch it
(05:23):
happen right then. But I assume that's going to be
later on in the year, maybe towards the end of
the year. I haven't seen Dana White's press conference if
he did do one, so we'll see what he has
to say. But that was just the chorus that led
into the final crescendo that was the main event of
UFC three sixteen. And again I feel I may be
responsible a bit. The Wade curse is all powerful, and
(05:43):
I did put it upon Sugar Shan O'Malley to get
this done by knockout, and that is not what happened,
ladies and gentlemen. Before we even got to the fight,
the Wade curse almost took advantage of the railing in
the arena. Did you see that Marob was walking to
the cage and the railing in the arena falls over
one man's legs looked like they were trapped and he
(06:04):
was screaming for help. That was one of the most
insane things I've ever seen. Chloe's gonna check on the fan,
but it was a brutal happenstance occurrence that could have
been really, really bad. Thank goodness, Morob had the wherewithal
like he was shaking hands with the fans on the
side that it fell, and he happened to just get
away from it. But yeah, this is insane that he
was able to just continue his walk, act like nothing happened,
(06:25):
not let it affect him, and get it into the cage.
And when the fight started, that's how he fought, like
just unaffected by anything. This moment, this new journey and
lifestyle change that Shugushan O'Malley had been on We talked about,
you know how he had had hip surgery and he
was rededicated to his training. No jerking off, no smoking weed.
(06:47):
That's a real thing, I promise you. But this was
a brand new thing for Sean O'Malley, and at the
same time, he was going back to his roots. No
hair dye, and it just didn't fucking matter, did it. Yes,
I bought into it hookline, and but what I did
not understand, or at least what I didn't take into account,
was that Marob dwaalash Willy has always lived this way.
(07:07):
There was no need for him to change anything in
the fight because he won. The guy is so committed
to MMA that it makes this shit easy for him.
And I said at the beginning of video, he is
the greatest bandam way I have ever seen. Look at
his resume and it's not just an on paper thing.
He has beaten some of these fighters in their prime,
he's beaten some past it. But at the same time,
(07:29):
he's beaten them all. The fight started and Sean O'Malley
again came out very hesitant, a guy that you could
see clearly understood that he needed to be around for
five rounds in this fight, and that he didn't want
to take too many chances and risk Morob getting a
hold of it. And Morob wasn't rushing the takedown. This
is something I thought was super impressive. In the first
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fight with Shan Omalley. You would think, because Sewan is
so good as a striker, that you may want to
rush that takedown, but al Jamain Sterling tried that and
got knocked out for his troubles. Morob wasn't rushing anything.
In fact, he was actually landing on the feet and
outlanding Chanomalley on the feet. For all the boring wrestler
accusations that are out there against Morob, he did not
show any of that. Yes, he wrestled, but it was
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entertaining because he mixed it into his striking, because his
striking was where he led, and he was winning in
the striking, not only in the first round. He ends
up winning that round after a decent start from Sean,
but you saw just one shot at a time from
Schanal Mallley, no volume striking. The thing that I thought
would be able to take him over the edge and
potentially get him this win is the volume that he
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would come with in this second fight, and you just
didn't see that. Only Seano maalley can tell you why. Again,
maybe it was just the threat of the takedown. Maybe
it was just the openings weren't there, But I don't
really know what that was. But Morob found his openings
and outstruck Sean in the first round, got him to
the mat temporarily. Sean got to his feet, but still
in the last part of that round, definitely controlled and
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I thought won the round. Some controversy from the online
Twitter space, which I know, shocking when you're talking about
the most intelligent people on the planet, but this round
seemed to be a swing round to some people. People
thought that Sean O'Malley won the second round, and I
just didn't. I saw the second round a lot like
I saw the first, and Rob was more successful grappling.
He's still outstruck Sean, landed some big time punches and
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moments was pushing Sean back against the cage without even trying,
just with his pressure, as the kids say, with his aura.
But outside of that, Morob was tagging Sean with left hook,
right hands, and he was finding ways to land his
punches and it was I was just befuddled. I was
just I couldn't believe it that Sean was getting out struck.
Rob takes Sean down again, and his chain wrestling was
so beautiful here, and I do want to give some credit.
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Sean did have some decent takedown defense, but it's almost
like watching Connor McGregor fight Hubbib narrowing him at off,
being so focused on takedown defense, being so focused on
not getting taken down or trying to stuff a takedown
that you will completely get away from the game plan,
which is if he encroaches range, I'm dropping right hands,
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I'm dropping damage on his dome piece, and then see
how likely he is to take me down. I'm throwing hooks,
I'm throwing kicks. The teep kick wasn't there for Sean.
He threw two spinning back kicks to the stomach, But
the most dangerous he was in the first fight was
when he was teep kicking to the stomach and hurting
Morob with the body shots. Those were not existing again,
maybe because of the thread of the takedown. Regardless, I
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thought Morob won the first two rounds slightly on the
second one, but I thought he still did enough we
head to the third round, and this is where the
beginning of the end started. He started to grapple a
lot more, and Sean had done a good job of,
like I said, stuffing some of these takedowns, getting back
to the feet, getting back to the positions where he
could potentially try to be successful. And you thought, Okay,
maybe this is what Sean needs to do. Maybe he
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has to fight a little bit more of a conservative
fight and just try to squeak by rounds. Even though
I disagreed with that, I thought more volume would be
the answer. I think it potentially would have been, if
it could have been. I know that sounds like me
making up a scenario, but I just don't know if
it's possible. I don't I don't know if it's possible
to be a volume striker and from with that pressure,
with that pace. I thought so before I saw this
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second fight, I really did put some stock into to
Sean O'Malley not having a fully healthy hip. I put
some stock into this rededication to the sport. But again
I almost hyper focused on the small and forgot the
other side of it, which is Morob doesn't need to refocus.
He is locked in year round, training every day. He'll
probably be in the gym tomorrow after doing whatever and
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celebrating tonight in Newark, New Jersey, You'll probably be back
in the gym tomorrow. It's just it's a lifestyle for him.
It's not something he has to commit to. It's what
he does. It's like breathing for Morob. And this third
round he went back to the basics. He shot and
finally got Sean to the mat, and when he got
him down this time he kept him down. He smothered
him with punches, with ground control, with more punches. I
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saw a stat halfway through the third round like Morob
had landed sixty one strikes to Sean's four. Insane. But
then you saw that chain wrestling where Sean would get
out of the first attempt and Rob would take a
single leg and spin him around and get to his back.
And when he got to his back, Sean would flip
and try to get to his knees and get back
to his feet. And there were some great exchanges from
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both guys. But eventually, you play the grappling game, or
at least when you are forced into playing the grappling game,
you will lose to the better grappler always and even Morob,
who's not a massive submission threat, and I don't know
if he even has a submission win in the UFC.
I could be your on comments. I know you'll let
me know. But he finds a way to get to
Sean's neck from the front facing position and locks up
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what I thought at first was going to be a
Dars choke, and it looked like the setup for a
Dars choke that he just turned into a net crank
and just rolled with Sean again. Sean was probably not
expecting a submission, seeing his mirab was like a plus
seven to fifteen out that they checked the odds, but
that's because he's not a dangerous submission artist, at least
not to most fighters. Androb Net cranked him and choked
him right at the end of the third round. That's
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all she wrote, mirob Dwallash Willie and still your UFC
Bannam Weight Champion of the World. In a moment's notice,
I was not only completely wrong about this main event,
but also genuinely happy to see Morob go out and
perform at a high level. It just it seems like
he's getting better and better with age and with performances.
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He's thirty four years old, looks like he's in his
fucking prime right now. And I really don't have any
other words other than just wow. Because this wasn't the
mirab pressure and take down failure win. This wasn't to
push him into the cage and hold him there win.
This was morob dominating every aspect of this fight. He
beat Sean on the feet, he beat him in the
control time, he beat him in the grappling, he beat
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him on the ground, and then he finally choked Rob
dwaalash Willy earned his victory tonight. He earned the right
to get past the allegations of boring fighter right in
the middle of his main event rematch, and he comes
out and beats Sean O'Malley worse than he did the
last time. I've seen people saying, oh, Sean, he's got
to hang the gloves up. That's his last fight. He
lost two in a row. Please, MMA fans, don't don't
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do this, do this thing where we start talking about
guys should hang it up. He's thirty years old. This
isn't boxing, and I love boxing, but boxing has done
itself a disservice by protecting the oh or protecting the record.
Seawann o Maley's gonna be fine? Is he the best
ban of weight in the world? No, he's not. That's
is his career over? Are there not still entertaining fights
at one hundred and thirty five pounds for Shana Mallley?
Do you guys not want to see a Shan O'Malley
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and pyotr Yan Rematch's a fucking fight. Sure, maybe making
work his way back to that, I understand, I'd be
willing to watch it. There's other fights for Sean at
one hundred and thirty five pounds. I don't know who
that's gonna be. Right now, he's talking about going home
and you know, seeing his wife. He's got a new baby.
Sean took the loss, at least from what I saw
in the cage. He took it with some humility, obviously
the night planned for, but I liked that version of Sean.
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Now does that mean that Shawn needs to go back
to smoking weed and fucking jerking off and Jay and
the pen twenty four to seven? I don't know. What
I do know is Marob Duallas SCHWILLI looks unstoppable right now?
In the UFC, it's Cory Sanay and it's pyotr Yan,
whoever it is that's gonna be that next challenger. I
don't know if they have enough. He's the best band
of weight I've ever seen, and I don't think that's
going to change anytime soon. What a night the UFC.
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What a night for Morob? What a night for Kayla
Harrison and Kevin Holland you FC three sixteen another one
in the books. I'm gonna try to start live streaming these.
I really would have guys that I've been home, but
I'm gonna be home this week UFC Fight Night, Joaquin
Buckley and Kamara Oosman. I think is this week that's
it for me? What do you guys think about the
UFC the direction it's headed with this card? I think
it was a very good start to the month. They
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have a ton of great cards coming up. And ultimately
my question I leave off with, is Morob the greatest
ban of weight in UFC history? Is he the greatest
band of weight you've ever seen? Because he certainly is
to me, But I don't have those answers. You guys
let me know in the comments, and then, and only
then I guess we'll find out
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