THE W.A.D.E. Concept - WEEK IN REVIEW - Jon Jones is a CREEP and Sean O'Malley - The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you guys have been around my channel for the
last four years, you'll know there's rare occasions where I
have to cover something that's just not something I want
to talk about because it's so weird, or it's so disgusting,
or it's just so bad at me personally, I don't
even want to talk about stories like this, but I
feel it's important to do so because without talking about it,
there's a certain sector of my audience and probably the

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audience online that doesn't get a full picture of their
favorite athletes or their favorite sport. And in this case,
once again, we are here because of John Jones. Why,
you may ask, No, not because of the tom aspinall
Saga drama that keeps going on. He's ducking the UFC,
won't strip him. We know this chapter Infinity, we get it. No,

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this time it's because of things that John is doing
outside of the cage or has done outside of the cage.
And you can chalk this one up on the latest
instances of what the fuck is wrong with John Jones.
But this is not the time he hit another car
that had a pregnant lady in it in an intersection
and then fled the scene. This isn't the time where
he put his hands on his own wife. This isn't

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the time where he threatened officers and rammed his own
head into his car after driving drunk away from a scene. No,
this wasn't one of the other times where he was
driving drunk and got stopped. It wasn't one of the
times where he purposely hid from a drug testing body
for eight hours under a practice MMA matt so that
he wouldn't be caught. No, this wasn't one of the

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times where he screwed over the UFC and had them
reschedule a card after testing hot, or cancel a card
after testing hot, or remove a card from a Vegas
location to a California location because he tested hot. No,
it's not any of those things this time. It's just
again another instance of looking at probably the greatest MMA

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athlete of all in saying you are a horrible representation
for this sport. And this isn't a mistake. This is
just John Jones be in a scumbag, a douche. Quite
frankly to say it bluntly, We're in Pride month and
John Jones has a story out the leash, a very
crude and homophobic joke that says more about John than
it says about anybody else. And at the very worst

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is sexual assault on an individual that was trying to
help him. I've described this in the best way I can,
but let's take a listen to see what the I'm
talking about. John Jones, as reported by Big John McCarthy,
at one point in his career, essentially sexually harassed an
individual right before one of his fights, just because he could.

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And it's so weird and creepy and gross and honestly
sounds exactly like something John Jones would do. Let's take
a listen.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
But when I went into John's locker room, he's, you know,
bouncing around having you know, he's having a good time.
And so I got a question for it. I got
a question for so, Yeah, what's your question? And he says,
I need somebody, and there's there's an individual there and
that individual was a black belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu
and was working for the commission. And he says, someone
getting on the ground for me, right, and and so
this guy being a ground guy and being someone that

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was man, I'm in John Jones's locker room. This is
great and so he said, oh, I'll do it for you.
He says, I know, howd it wroll? And so he
goes down. He says, you know, just you know, put
me in guard, right, and then John decides to do
a sexual act with him, saying, what if I do
this right? You know? What you know is this is this,
this is an illegal right. And the guy who was
on the ground, you know, quickly his eyes went, you know,

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as big as they could get, like, what are you doing?
And I said, John, knock it off, right, And you know,
I helped the person up, and he goes, oh, I'm
just I'm just joking, and he goes, but but really,
what could you do? I said, I could disqualify it
for being unsportsmanlike, go ahead and do it. Let's see
what happens.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Are we serious? If it was anybody else, you'd think, Okay,
that's an over the line joke and very out of
character for literally anybody else to do in the UFC legitimately,
anybody else, legitimately name another fighter that you would see
doing that. How about the other guy that's trying to
help John Jones, a part of the commission that's there
to help John, not only understand the rules, but also

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prepare him for any new rule change or anything like that.
John just taking advantage of the situation. Hey, let me
play a practical joke by dry humping this guy on
the ground, by simulating sex, by grabbing him and thrusting
into him. Sorry, I'm using the language because that's what
the guy did. He's a weirdo and a terrible representation
of the sport with that guy. Fan of John Jones
black Belt, It's like, holy shit, I get to demonstrate

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with John so that he has no more questions about
the fight he's going to go into. John didn't give them. Again.
One of the things about John Jones is, no matter
how much of a scumbag terrible person he is, he
is one of, if not the best fighter on the planet.
Couldn't give a about none of that. He didn't have
any questions or anything like that. Man knew he was
probably gonna go in there and dominate, but instead he's
got to take some time out of this guy's day

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and horrify and traumatize him and get his frocks off,
I guess by dry humping the dude. And what's so
embarrassing and sad about this is this is not even
one of the worst things John Jones has ever done.
And listen, I've been in locker rooms. I've been in
college locker rooms where dudes play practical jokes on each other.
And I've even seen some weirdo scumbags do dumb shit
and weird shit that would not fly had some coach

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or somebody else seen. And I've known guys being around
athletes that have had situations where people have been kicked
off teams and out of organizations for doing crude and
just absolutely nonsensical. Again, harassment bordering on assault, whether it's
sexual or not, things to other players on teams, and
it never makes any sense. But for John to do
this right before his fight, in the full view of

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the commission, in the full view of John McCarthy. And
I think part of this clip we didn't get to
see was Greg Jackson coming over and apologizing to the
guy and to John McCarthy, Hey, sorry, Johnson had done that.
His own head coach has to come over, like John's
father has to go over and apologize for a bad
kid at school. He's a grown man acting like this.

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And again, that guy was a John Jones fan that
in real time, literally, as John McCarthy said, opened his
eyes and saw who this dude really was. It's like
every other MMA fan that has wanted to support John
Jones as one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
the sport has seen and maybe we'll ever see, and
yet all of us, just like that guy in that moment,

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are horrified, traumatized, and embarrassed that we ever looked up
to this guy. Part of me wants to just have
John retire and never hear from him again and have
the sport move on. Part of me wants Tom I
spent all to beat the fuck out of him, But
that's not because John is a good heel character. That's
not because John is a is a bad guy and
I got you to hate me with all my trash
talk and my mannerisms and cursing out all the fans. No,

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you're just a bad person, dude that makes everyone around
him uncomfortable for his pleasure. I've had the same energy
for Connor McGregor and the allegations that he's continually come
up against. But it's like the greatest of our sports
are so bad at representing the sports, not only just
themselves or their families. It's the sport that they represent.
I just wanted to share this because it just it

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just burns me out on like even caring about John
Jones fighting because I listen, I was excited about John
and Tom fighting. Now that was that was a fun
fight to me. Trying to forget all the stuff that
John has done outside of the cage. And a part
of me still, like I said, I want to see
Tom whib his ass, but another part of me is
just like, bro, just just leave so a week can
be done with this type of shit. Strip him of

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the belt, move the on, so then we can all
just stop thinking about how much of a piece of
shit John Jones is. I'm done. That's it. Another batcheris
chapter in the John Jones book again, another instance of him,
at the very lightest, sexually harassing a guy that was
trying to help him get ready for a fight. I
don't even know what fight it was, it doesn't really matter.

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And at the worst, sexually assaulting a man in front
of a group of Licensed commission officials right before he's
about to go and fight because he thought it was
a joke. John Jones is the actual joke. Yeah, that's it. Piece.
All right, so we are back on the way concept
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But today we're taking a look at the MMA side

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of things because I want to break down UFC three
sixteen's main event, Sean O'Malley versus morobed Volashvihlly. This is
going to be a rematch that the UFC needs, a
rematch that will really determine where the sport is and
where it's going, and honestly may determine, based on Morob's resume,

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one of the greatest one hundred and thirty five pound
fighters the UFC's ever seen. But I think this rematch
is gonna be a lot different from the first fight.
I think that Sean O'Malley has something to say about that,
and I think this time around he will have a
lot more success. Will he win? Will Morob win and
continue this dominant streak and capture big name after big

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name on his resume? I have my answer, I have
my prediction, So let's get to it. UFC three sixteens,
Maine Event, Chan Omalley and Morob Volish Phlly. I hate
saying that last name because I know I don't do
it well, and it sounds like I'm mumbling a bunch
of sounds. I'm trying my best, mirab I apologize, But
who wins and why the breakdown? Let's go all right,
so number one, Sean O'Malley and Morob. Let's get things

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out of the way that we already know. Number one,
the fight already happened the first time. Rob won by
essentially controlling the fight. That's a little bit of a
light term, but it's the one that I have to use.
Mob controlled where the fight took place. When he did
not want to engage, he circled around the cage or
at a distance that was safe for him and not
in the firing line of Sean Omalley. When he did

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want to engage, he was able to close distance, avoid
the big strikes of Sean O'Malley, and take him down,
whether it was a single leg that he would try
to raise and Sean would get out of, and then
the second attack would get Sean to the ground. And
when he did get Sean Omalley to the ground, he
was able to be very successful ground and pound again,
holding him in position, whether it was on the ground
or on the cage, and generally just being able to

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control Shan O'Malley and the fight with that tactic, with
that ability, he has to really never get tired, or
at least never show that he's tired. While it wasn't
anything that jumped off the page at you on the
feet from Merob in that fight, the next fight against
Umar and mcgamettov, he showed better striking, I would say,
and that I can definitely be a part of how
this second fight goes. Marob potentially showing better striking than

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he did in the first. Although I still don't think
it's a great idea to stand in front of Shan
O'Malley with flat feed and look to strike with him.
I don't think Morob is going to do that. In
the first fight, Shan O'Malley looked a bit stagnant, looked
a bit lost for the volume, the variability, the combinations,
and finally the ultimate thing that chan Omalley seems to

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do to everybody, which is fine, the shot that will
eventually either chao them, hurt them, or start the downhill
stumble a long, painful for the other fighter decision victory.
Look at what he did to Chio Verra or Chris
Mautino East both of them up like they were puzzles
on your grandma's table. That was a dominant performance, but
in a way that chan O'Malley was able to control

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the fight his volume, reach and eventually precision strike. This is,
you know, what you would consider a classic grappler versus
strikeer matchup, where the idea is chan O'Malley needs to
gain respect or at least gained the advantage in this
fight by hurting Mab with a punch, with a kick,
with whatever. He's going to need to slow down the Thomas,
the trained little engine that could motor that Mirob possesses

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and seems to not really care about whether he's tire
or not. I think there was a quote, I don't
know who said it, someone essentially said, Mirob Debolish really
is the only fighter they'd ever heard of that doesn't
fear fatigue. And now everybody knows at this point the
old quote is fatigue makes you know, cowards of us all,
especially in the fight game. If you are tired and
another guy across from you is not, it's probably the

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most terrifying thing or position to be. And not to
make excuses for anybody, because Morob has fought with I'm
pretty sure he fought with staff. At one point someone
said he might have broke his toe in this camp,
so we'll see how that affects him. But he has
gone into fights injured before. Sean and Tim O'Malley is
putting a lot of investment into the idea that because
he had a torn hip laborum going into the first

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fight and wasn't able to grapple and train grappling the
way he wanted to, or really just train in the
positions he wanted to for that fight, that it affected
him and the fact that he's gotten the surgery and
now feels healthy that it's going to be a different
fight this time around, And that very well may be
the case, but that's not something that I can really
look at and point to and say that will make
things different. Let's talk about things that potentially can be
Number One, I think that Sean O'Malley has an elite

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level of accuracy and precision with his striking, and he
is a bit of an unpredictable striker, right there are
people that have what they do best. Connor McGregor's left
hand and you know it's coming, so it is a
bit predictable, but yet he still finds a way to
land it. Francis and Ghanu with the big overhand and
the left hook, everybody knew he had it, but eventually
it would still be thrown and landed. These things we

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know that in fights guys like to do. For Shan Omalley,
he might be one of the most unpredictable strikers in
the game right now. He can not only box but
also kick out of both stances. As a striker, he
might be the most fluid in mma. Maybe bar Is
real a lout of Soignia, but even Sean I think
pieces combos together better. And that unpredictability obviously gives him

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so many different weapons to catch the classic striker versus
wrestler paradigm off guard. He doesn't have to throw a
certain strike to keep a wrestler off him. In the
first fight, there were moments in the fifth round where
he threw the teep kick to the stomach and it
hurt Morob, or at least Morob was known for, I
guess faking being hurt just to capitalize on it. He
did give visceral signs of oh right to the stomach

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and put his hands there as if it did hurt him,
and Sean found that a couple of different times, but
that was the most significant stuff outside of maybe a
switch dance up jab that Sean would throw from the
orthodox position standing in bang with the up jab then
goes south paw. Those things are very small moments in
a much broader, stagnant and lack of creativity fight for
Sean O'Malley, so number one for him, he needs to

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be creating. I think that there are things that Morob
didn't even see out of Sean in that first fight
that Sean still has in the tank and in the
bag to be able to show Morob and potentially catch
him in positions. And this is the most important thing
for seanal mallley. He absolutely has to catch him. He
has to hit him with something that either wobbles Morob
or gains his respect. And Morab has been wobbled multiple times.

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He doesn't have a granite chin, he doesn't have this
this unbreakable face. He has an unbreakable will, He has
an unbreakable gas tank. But his chin can be tested
and can be exposed. And for shannal maleley, it's almost
a need. It's not even a w it's a need
for that to happen, because, as we've seen in every
fight Morob has had recently, if you don't hurt him

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or you don't stop him, he is going to mow
you down. He's going to run you over, and eventually
he's going to find the control that he had in
the first fight and continue to use that to dominate space, time,
and the fight. So, if you're Sean Malley, what are
the two things that I just laid out for you guys?
Meet the creativity and being able to catch Morab, Well,
the two things in this case equal pockets in space

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bar Sean O'Malley has to create traps and has to
create space for Morab to walk onto shots because standing
in front of Mirab and just trying to hit him
with things without Morob engaging, like you kind of saw
in the first fight, where Morob was just circling one
side to the other and Sean was kind of there
plodding forward and throwing a shot at a time and

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a shot at a time and never really getting Morob's
attention or getting him to fight in a way that
Sean wanted. Walking him into space, cutting off the octagon
and using that space to then get Morob to either shoot,
because that's what Morob wants to do, is find a
way to level change under some strikes from Sean O'Malley,
get to his body and take advantage of that space,
drive Sean into the cage and take him down. Sean

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wasn't able to do that, and so there was no
space to even create opportunity. It was either Morob was
all the way out or all the way in the
middle ground wasn't a spot where Sean could really take
advantage of and there were small moments for him to
take advantage of it in the first place. So this
time around again, whether it's Tim Welsh in the corner
talking about go Morob go and creating that opportunity like
we saw with al Joe, even though Aljo said he

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never heard that instruction, but al Jo created an opportunity
for Sean O'Malley to drop an absolute nuclear of her
right hand on his head by shooting without anything to
cover it up. Seanalmalley has to get Morob desperate enough
to start shooting more without any sort of cover to
give Sean the ability to pinpoint accurately land counter punches

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or do that means Sean needs to throw strikes to
get a reaction out of Morob and make him shoot
to then step back and look for the upper cut,
step back, look for the right hand, step back, look
for the knee. There's there's a lot of options he
has to go to, but he's going to need to
find a way to make Morob a bit more desperate.
I was shocked by the underutilization of Sean Omalley's kicks
in the last fight as well, and I know that

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that is a big no note when it comes to grapplers.
If they catch a kick or if you're off balance
and they blitz as you're kicking, that's an automatic takedown,
and as we saw in the first fight, that can
be minutes upon minutes upon rounds on the ground. For
Sean O'Malley is Morob again, he's got great control. When
he is in that top position ground and pound, or
he's in half guard, he can stay there for the

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entirety of the round and steal around without really much
happening at all. Again, I think the formula is simple,
and I say it's simple because yeah, verbally, when I
sit here, it's simple to say Jan O'Malley needs to
be able to cut off the octagon and when doing so,
remain very creative in his striking, with all of that
combining to bait or draw in morob demolishability to do

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what he normally does to people, to rush them, to
grab them, to look for a single leg, to look
to chain wrestle, all the while not being there or
stuffing that takedown or sprawling or stepping back and having
that ace up the sleeve the attack that he needs
when it all happens, then finish off the masterpiece that
is a stoppage victory. On the other side of things, again,

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I said that the chan O'Malley fight plan was simple,
and it may, again just verbally coming out of my mouth,
be simple, but in reality it's very difficult to execute,
which is why the striker wrestler matchup, unless you have
incredible takedown defence and the wrestler gets tired, usually goes
to the wrestler because they can continuously control the fight

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with their grappling, control the fight with their pace, control
the fight with their top positioning. Because a striker who
isn't as great at defending the takedown or isn't as
great at getting off their back and can't land their
light changing difference making strike will ultimately fall victim to
the same things that Morob has put guys in bad
positions with before, and the reason he's become an all

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time great in the UFC is absolutely maniacal. I don't
even know if that's a word, but ridiculous pace, pressure,
and grappling a billion And when it comes to this
second fight, Morob, you know, is a bit of a
showman in there. He likes to stop and even the
first fight was kind of showing. When Shawn would miss
a kick, he was doing the Billy Joe Saunders. And
that all is derived off the confidence that at any

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point in the fight he can take the fight back
over with his cardio, with his pressure, with his pace,
and again even then the Umar fight he started to
believe in his striking more. Again, not something that I
would necessarily if I'm coaching Morob say hey, let's go
and strike for strike with Sean O'Malley. It's definitely not
the ideal game plan, but it is there and he
is even in the first fight, landed some shots on

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Chanomalley that most people don't because of the other things
he's good at So when you look at this second
fight and what Morob should do differently, what Morob should
look to implement this time around, it's really hard to
top that first performance in terms of controlling the fight. Again.
He was safe when he needed to be safe. When
he did engage, it was on his terms and it
was exactly what he wanted to do. So if it

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is not broken, do not fix it. Don't go out
and try to top your first performance by going, you
know what, I'm gonna be a bit more stationary and
I'm gonna strike more. No, if Morob wants to strike,
he can do that again with the same mentality involved
being at a distance that is either safe for him,
bouncing around, sliding, shuffling laterally, or in the pocket looking

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for strikes to take downs or takedowns to strikes. These
are the things that Morob does very well, and it
doesn't make sense to not go back to them, knowing
that you have a guy in front of you that won.
Chan O'Malley is not taking a fight since the Morob fight.
It's coming up close to a year now, is about
eight nine months ago, and that's not the craziest layoff ever,
but it is someone that the last time they were

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in the octagon tasted defeat at your own hands. How
confident is Sean really or is it just window dressing
for things are going to change because I'm healthier and
we got a new approach, and this, that and the other.
We don't really know. As a matter of fact. What
we do know is that Sean is coming off a surgery,
he is coming off a little bit of a layoff,
and he is coming off a loss, all things that

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at least mentally work in the favor of the guy
that just beat. And Morob is coming off another win.
He is more active as the champion, and again the
truth of the rematches, Sean has to do more. Sean
is the one that lost. Morob did exactly what he
wanted to do, how he wanted to do it, when
he wanted to do it. For the most part, in
the entirety of the fight, I think Sean has success

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in the early parts of round one with his striking
and the latter parts of round five with his striking.
But outside of that, this was a clean sweep for Morob.
This was not a very competitive fight because he was
able to stay safe while attacking while entering the fray
while being at the range where Sean is dangerous, and
Sean could not keep him at that range. So not

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only was he safe on the blitzes, but when he
got to the spots where Sean was vulnerable, he was
very vulnerable. Morob took Sean O'Malley down with ease, And
I know that O'Malley's campus saying that's because of the hip.
That's because of the hip. It also may just be
because Morob de Volash Philly is far better as a grappler.
The Georgian grappling we're starting to see more and more
now is as good as what we've seen out of

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certain fighters at a Dakastan as well, and Umar looked
toe to toe with their grappling. So it's a matchup
problem for Sean O'Malley, even with the healthy hip and
with this reinvigorated life, it's a really tough matchup. The
only thing I would caution Morob against is falling in
love with trying to have a better performance than the
first fighter, topping that first fight performance by adding in

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more wrinkles to the game plan that are not necessarily
in his favor, like Morob going out and trying to
exclusively strike to prove a point, or to look for
a knockout with his striking and get over zealous and
reach out and overreach on a punch or over commit
to a takedown and give Seano Maalley that opening he's
looking for for a counter shot and one that could

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end the night. So yeah, I expect Morob to move
laterally really never stop moving in this fight. I expect
them to be very bouncy on his feet. I expect
a lot of faints. I expect some leg kicks from Arob,
and I expected that some point for him to either
level change under Shan Omalley throwing big damaging punches and
get to Sean Omalley either single leg body lock something

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to where he can dump Sean on the ground hold
him there while Sean's getting back to his feet. Look
for ground and pound, look for shovel hooks, look for
things uppercuts to damage. Sean needs to the leg that
he had in the first fight. It's definitely a possibility
we could see this second fight go the exact same way,
or at least in a similar way we did the
first one. But with all that being said, here's how
both fighters win. I think it's time for me to predict.

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I think this fight is going to go differently. I
think that there are opportunities for Sean Omalley to hurt Morob,
and I think even in those opportunities, Sean O'Malley still
is going to have failures in this fight. I think
it's going to be a back and forth one. I
think there are going to be times where Morob looks
to have taken control of his fight by taking Sean
Omalley down, especially early. I think that first round potentially

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could be one where you're like, here we go again.
Morob is going to do what he did the last fight,
but I don't know why. Maybe it's the way curse,
but I see Morob falling in love with the idea
of doing it better. I once they getting more relaxed
with technique, because Morob is unorthodox in a wild Man
as it is well, letting apprehensions go and fighting as
a crowd pleaser, potentially right doing the looks into the

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crowd and talking to Sean O'Malley, and maybe potentially some
of that funneling into his game and his steadfast believed
in his invulnerability, in the fact that Shawn is far
better than he showed in the first fight. I think
there are pockets in Morob's striking game that are very
very available. They're very very open. Rob is not a
polished striker, and he does take some risks to get

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to the grapple exchanges, to get to your body, to
find ways to put you on the ground and have
to pressure you, try to get you around the cage
and then strike. And here's the interesting part about this.
Morob is so unorthodox that the first time you fight
him is for most fighters i'd assume a bewildering experience,
one that you can't really replicate in the practice room,
or at least not in the way that is exactly Morob,

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but especially when you can't replicate until you see it.
And Morob has never rematched anyone, which I think is
a very interesting wrinkle to this fight as well. That
may be expanding into like the Grand Canyon here, but
I think that's a big part of why I'm going
to lean towards Sean O'Malley in this remat. Like I said,
I think they're massive holes in Morob's striking and he's
able to cover those with insane pressure and cardio and

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ability to control time and massive parts of the fight
by being literally connected to his opponent or completely out
of rank. But in those moments where the striking exchanges happen,
and in the first fight where Sean O'Malley had not
seen anything like that in front of him before, there
will be a familiarity in this fight that potentially can
present patterns to Morob's game. Let's be honest, it's not

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a very complicated fight style that Morab Debolish really has.
They're looking logo a kicks, jab, right hands, bounce, circle, bounce, bounce,
level change, takedown, ground and pound, get up, take down,
ground and pound, get up, separate way back out of range, bounce, bounce, jab, jab,
right hand, low kick jab, And it's kind of the

(25:27):
same thing. And again there have been moments where Morob
has paid for this. Again, maybe I'm making a mountain
out of a mole hill and the smart money would
be on Morab by decision or Morob by submission or
morob by mauling or however do you want to look
at it. But Sean O'Malley has this ability to flip
narratives and change fights in one strike. He is an

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insanely accurate striker. I think he's better at getting back
to his feet. Maybe not with takedown defense, especially with Morob,
who finds chain wrestling as easy as breathing out of
his mouth because his nose is does. Sean Omalley has
a strike for every action. I think that Sean O'Malley
stops Morob devolish Philly, And again it's based off a
very unlikely circumstance of things, But that's how I tend

(26:09):
to look at fighting. Maybe it's just me trying to
find the one variable that I think is the most
important and stretch it out to mean that that's the
difference maker. It probably won't be. But if you believe
in the Wade curse, then go the opposite of what
I'm saying, because I think Sean Omalley wins this fight
by knockout and we get the rubber match, potentially the
third one, which I think would be warranted based on

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the fact that Morob did Gid Shawn the rematch, But
we'll see how it goes. Coment section. This is where
you help me out. Why am I wrong or right
in your opinion? How does this fight go? Does Morob
get it done? In dominant decision fashion again, or does
Sean O'Malley with a renewed commitment to MMA, with a
new hip apparently, and with the experience of being in
front of Morob for twenty five minutes and having Morob

(26:55):
in the first rematch where someone has been able to
study him and go and try it again, will all
these things lead up to another Shan O'Malley upset knockout performance.
I don't have those answers, but you have. C three
sixteen is this week. Hopefully I'll be done with commentary
for the night because I am going to be doing
some boxing commentary on Saturday night. But I can get
back and stream the fights. But if not, we'll be

(27:16):
back here Snday to break them down. But you guys,
let me know what you think down below. Who wins
this fight and why? I don't have those answers, but
I guess we'll find out. All right, folks, We're back
on the Way concept presented by the Ring Magazine, and
I have just woken up. As you can see, beds
not made, and I've learned the news that a bittersweet
journey has come to an end. Vassili Lomachenko has retired

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from the sport of boxing, and we have to talk
about it the breakdown. Let's go all right, so Vasili
Lomachenko retires from the sport of boxing and he adds
this video along with it. Before we even get into
what a legendarian, storied career Lomachenko leaves behind and the
legacy he leaves behind, Let's take a look at his message,

(28:02):
I guess his confirmed actual retirement.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
I want to thank our largesus Christ for everything he
has done for me, for guiding a prideful young man
down a path that ultimately showed me that fame, legacy,
and recognition are not the true purpose of life. I'm
grateful for every victory and every defeat, both in a

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ring and in a life, And of course I wouldn't
be remiss not to thank you, my dear boxing fans
around the world. You have always supported me with passion
and lived through unforgettable fights alongside me for over a decade.
I hope you continue to laugh and respect. This sport
just a passionality, because the men who step in a

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ring risk their health for the sake of their families
is to all there is, and.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
It's almost as quickly as he rocketed onto the scene.
He was gone, no flash, no big retirement tour, no
super formal press conference announcement, literally just sitting down in
a chair and professing his faith to Jesus Christ and
leave it and for as quiet and even kill as
he is when he's sitting in this video or when

(29:19):
he was outside of the ring. Inside of the ring,
Lomachenko was one of the greatest styles of fighting you
may ever see. And you know, I'm sure today will
be a day where people take an opportunity to debate
how good Lomachenko really was compared to maybe some of
the push or some of you know, the early on

(29:41):
comparisons that he drew. But regardless, if you think he's
one of the greatest of all time, if you think
that he is a good fighter or a great fighter,
but nothing more and nothing less, if you think that
his amateur record carries a lot of the water for
how good Lomachenko really was, because I think he had
won and over three hundred and ninety amateur fights or

(30:03):
three hundred and eighty amateur fight with one single loss,
which is insane to think about. Obviously, the two gold
medals that he won as an amateur and all the
other accolades from world championships and everything else. He was,
both as an amateur and then obviously in the pro game,
a unique fighter. And what I mean when I say
that is Lomachenko's style in itself was so unpredictable, the

(30:27):
way that he was able to run circles around you
while standing in front of you to make you miss
and make you pay without being out of range. He
could be right in front of you and you wouldn't
be able to see him. He was almost a matador
at times. He'd even show it to you in the ring.
And while his pro record was eighteen and three and
he you know, on paper lost fights against Devin Haney,

(30:48):
which has been disputed. The Devin Haney fight did he
win did he not? Who knows that stuff from interpretation
from you guys the fans, but also losing the Tafima
Lopez fight. I don't want to make today about like
how great was he was he the best ever? Was
he world class? Was he just good? Was he just
below that? Like to me and I'll just you know,
we'll just say here, I think Lomachenko was he was
world class. I think his style again, how fluid he

(31:11):
was in between offense and defense. How he could stand
right in front of you and at the same time
be out of range. Somehow you couldn't touch him. He
threw punches in bunches at times, and he also threw
from different angles. It felt like he had more power
sometimes in his lead hand than his backhand, and yet
he was knocking people out clean at one hundred and
twenty five pounds, And when he wasn't doing that, he

(31:32):
was able to win big time decisions. I mean, he
won the WBO World featherweight title. I know it was vacant,
but he won it in his third fight, absolutely schooled
riggind Out, beat up Porge Lenaris, ran through Jose Petrazza.
It wasn't even competitive when he fought Luke Campbell. He
had this ability to make good fighters to great fighters
look average at times, right. I mean, he absolutely completely

(31:56):
and utterly destroyed George Cambosis. Cambos has had his big
time win over Tia Fimo Lopez. You know, the one
kind of glaring, not great performance from Lomachenko to me
was the Tia Fimo Lopez fight. So you have to
give Tia FIMO credit there. But Lomachenko had so much
hype coming out of the amateurs that the question will

(32:17):
always be asked, did he live up to it? And
I guess, you know, in one sense, maybe not, just
because you know, he ends his career with not very
many fights, but at eighteen and three, he did most
of the things that you would want to do. He
didn't become undisputed or didn't unify the belts, but he
won world titles multiple times. He did win two gold medals.

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He did take on some tough competition and fought at
the highest level. Do I wish that he would have
fought the likes of Jervonte Tank Davis. Absolutely, I wish
that that was a fight that we were sitting now
and talking about happening last year, But it didn't and
that's unfortunate. But we did get to see him in
high level matchups versus TiO, versus Devin Haney, And I
guess at the end of it all, I was always

(32:59):
just a fan. I mean, that's where I leave it.
I was always just a fan of his style. I
was a fan of his approach, how he fought, how
he treated fighting, And I guess just is a personal
thing for me, how he conducted himself outside of it.
Obviously being Ukrainian, you know, there is a bit more
of a humble, sort of conservative lifestyle that I identify
with a little more. But yeah, I don't know, there's

(33:21):
there's really no words because you thought, especially after how
easily he dismantled George Cambosis, that this was going to
be maybe the resurgence of Lomachenko. And it doesn't really
surprise me. I don't guess that he's retiring. You know,
he's thirty seven years old. I guess maybe he's asking
himself the question, if I can't fight Tank Davis, then

(33:43):
what other fight is there for me out there? Rematching
Devin Hanes out of the question because Han's moved up.
Rematching Tiafimo's probably out of the question because Fimo's moving up.
If it's not Gavonte Davis at one hundred and thirty
five pounds, what is the big fight still left there?
But you saw what could happen when a guy was
put pushed and given the attention that again I think

(34:04):
he deserved coming out of his amateur rank and coming
out of being just a high level amateur and I
feel like sometimes, especially now, you know, in boxing, we
have this issue with pushing guys early because of what
can happen and because of potentially losing early on and
potentially not having you know, that signature win until you're

(34:25):
twenty to zero. And historically that's how guys have been,
you know, built in the sport, that's how most guys'
records tend to look. But Lomachenko, because he was such
a decorated amateur, came out and was taking tough fights
right away. He was a unicorn. He was unique, and
I think that fighters if they look at how they
moved Lomachenko, if they have the experience coming out as

(34:45):
amateurs and if they are of that world class level,
they can look at his career and see a blueprint
to potentially be different, a blueprint to not just spend
your formative years racking up meaningless win in fear of
losing your oh. Because there's one thing that Lomachenko didn't
have fear of and credited to Devin Haney and credit

(35:08):
to at that point, Tiafimo Lopez. Although we may have
a video coming out very soon about tia Fimo and
why right now he's acting more like a Mallard than
a fighter. Yes, I think TiO is ducking Devin Haney
right now, which is crazy to say. But Vasili never
had that fear of losing, right, He didn't have that
fear of his legacy being tied to a zero in
the lost column. And I think that's again, one of

(35:29):
the bigger frustrations with the sport of boxing that I
have right now is everybody being terrified of taking a lot,
because no one gets better by fighting people that aren't good.
And one thing Lomachenko and his team knew early is
that they needed to push him into the upper class
of pro competition because they were going to be here
for a good time, but not a long time. And
that's I think the best way to describe Vasil Lomachenko's career.

(35:52):
He was magnificent, almost magical as a fighter. He was
willing to take on big time challenges. He was one
of the greatest offense to defense transition fighters I've ever seen.
His IQ was insane. Again, his ability to make you
miss and make you pay. He had power at twenty five,
he had power at thirty, and he had powered one

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hundred and thirty five pounds that still kept you in check,
while at the same time he could put you in
the matrix. He could make you quit aka no much Chenko,
or he could absolutely break you down and win a
unanimous decision in quite dominant fashion that didn't leave a
viewer thinking, wow, what another boring twelve rounds of point fighting.

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He was looking at all times to change the fight,
to finish the fight, and if he didn't get that finish,
he was going to make you feel it for the
next however long. So the only thing I'll say left
is congrats to Vasilli Lomachenko on a fantastic career. I
don't really know what's next for him. You know, this
could be one of those situations where we don't hear
from him for the next two years, three years, and
he just pops up somewhere. It feels like, especially again

(36:57):
on the Ukrainian side in the Eastern European side, and
fighters retire, that's kind of it. You don't really see
him out and about, and obviously you know the elephant
in the room with the Ukraine and Russia situation. I'm
sure that that's got something to do with with with
some of this. I assume you know, having to serve
actual military time and having to be involved in that
conflict obviously is a tragic thing for for everybody involved there.

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But yeah, I really don't know what happens next for Vasiliomachenko.
It's just kind of a shock, but not really. But
all I can say is what a career. And thank
you to Lomachenko for blessing boxing fans with his performances
and his style and just his attitude and his willingness
to be great. That's all I got. You guys, let
me know what you think down in the comments below.
But now it is official breaking news. Maybe not by

(37:41):
the time you see this, but Sili Lomachenko has retired.
I will call him a legend in the game because
that's what I believe he is. What a fantastic career
and what happens next for him? I don't have those answers,
but I guess we'll find out, all right. So we're
back at the way concept presented by The Ring Magazine.
I am just finishing up Most Valuable Prospects Number thirteen
in Orlando, Florida, and I wanted to wait until this

(38:02):
card was over, until I fulfilled my duties as a
play by play commentator before I commented on the absolute
bizarre and just self sabotaging nature of one Keishan Davis.
I'm sure by now you guys have seen that Keithsjon
Davis has completely flipped his reputation in about a thirty

(38:24):
six hour period. If you didn't know, coming into this weekend,
Keithshon Davis was a world champion at one hundred and
thirty five pounds. He had won his first belt months ago.
And I'm gonna be honest with you guys, i haven't
watched every single Kishon Davis interview. You haven't seen how
he's been moving in this scene. But from what I've
seen now, looking back in retrospect, it seemed like key

(38:44):
Seon Davis was buying into the superstar mentality a little
too much. Coming into a hometown fight in his backyard
of Norfolk, Virginia. He was gonna defend his WBO belt
against Edwin DLAs Santos, and unfortunately that fight was canceled
after Keishon Davis missed weight. Because sometimes a missus excusable,
but he flat out didn't even try to make the weight.

(39:06):
He missed by four point three pounds and if he
asked me, waye, why are you so sure he didn't
try to make weight? Well, for one, he stood on
the scale and flexed and smiled while his picture was
taken after missing weight by a completely unprofessional amount while
making the weight for a world title fight only months ago.
So that already is a red flag if you're looking
at Keyshon Davis and how he handles being a superstar,

(39:27):
how he handles being a top name in the sport
of boxing, because let's be honest, he just now got
to the top level of this sport. He just now
became a world champion, starting to become potentially a household name.
Even had the back and forth with Abdulah Mason on
press conference day talking about how he wanted to fight
Abdullah at some point coming up. And funny enough, Abdula

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Mason saved his event in Keishan Davis's backyard, operated like
a true professional, and went out on fight night and
won his fight in a fourth round stopage, something that
Kishan couldn't do because he couldn't even qualify to fight,
not only for his belt, but at all. The fight
was canceled, and that's bad enough as it is because
that's your hometown show, and let's be honest here, it's

(40:10):
ESPN's last top rank show. So not only did you
ruin the earnings of this event by showing the people
of your hometown that they weren't important enough for you
to take this seriously enough to make weight, but also
you tried to game the system. And I said the
same thing about Ryan Garcia, how they didn't really care
about the belts, and okay, that's fine, but you're a
world champion and you've signed to make a designated weight,

(40:31):
so I don't care if your body can't handle the
cut to one thirty five move up in weight. Don't
take away from the fans, don't take away from Edwin
Delos Santos who did make the way, who showed up
like a professional, and certainly don't take away from everybody
in your camp that worked hard to put you in
the right positions. I'm sure Bo Mack wasn't too happy
about that as well. And also tonight, as the card

(40:53):
was going on, here's a video of Keishon Davis shoving
popcorn down in his gullet, and again, there's nothing wrong
with that. I guess if you're a fan, be a fan,
but that's supposed to be the main event of this card.
A little disrespectful, I think to the people that showed
up to watch him fight, and also again the people
that put it in time and effort for him to
treat this soul blase like it didn't matter at all,
like he was above the belt, like he was above

(41:13):
making weight, like he was above main eventing in his backyard.
And again, the missing weight was just a fraction of
the complete misjudgment and idiotic stance that comes from Kishon Davis.
Because tonight, as the card is going on, Keithshan Davis
and his brother Keon Davis, who is also a professional boxer,
go backstage for whatever reason and jump now here. Albright,

(41:36):
who has on this card and just won his fight
pretty easily and convincingly, and yet is now in the
back of the locker room trying to defend himself and
these two guys that are not on the card, they're
not scheduled to even take place and be a part
of this event. But again, for whatever reason, I don't
know what was said, but really I don't there's no excuse.

(41:57):
I'll lay out the scene for you. Key Seon Davis
in front of his family in the backstage of the
arena in his home city in Norfolk, and with his brother,
decided to jump a fighter that had already gone through
a fight again reasons unknown. Quite frankly, I don't care,
decided to insert themselves into a situation they didn't need

(42:17):
to be a part of that makes them look terrible,
and to do it in front of a national TV
camera in front of their family. Keshan Davis is speed
running how to lose fans in professional boxing in less
than thirty six hours. And the only reason I'm so
frustrated by this is because this is a young man
with real talent, and I'm sure he'll have opportunities in
the future. I don't think this is the end of

(42:38):
his career, but it's certainly gonna be a step back.
I don't know who is gonna look at that and go, Yeah,
that's the person I want to represent me as a commission.
That's the guy that is gonna bring fans to the arena.
Not now, Not after you purposely misweight, have your fight canceled,
and then instead of fighting in the main event, your
backstage jumping a fighter that already won his fight, to
put in the work that made the weight won his fight.

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You and your brother are going tag team in the
back part of the arena in front of friends and family,
because that's that's what a professional does, right, That's what
someone that wants to represent this sport and represent themselves
like a professional does. No. It is It's an absolutely
moronic move for Keyshon Davis. And I don't know that
I've seen outside of you know, being arrested or fighters

(43:19):
participating in some sort of illegal activity. I don't know
that I've seen someone just run off most of their
fan base or their potential fan base in less than
forty eight hours like Keyshon Davis has done this weekend.
And again, I don't know who's gonna trust him in
a main event anytime soon, especially at one hundred and
thirty five pounds. You best believe he better fight at
one forty next fight otherwise I don't know any promoter

(43:41):
that's gonna take that risk. The WBO has already stripped
him of his belt. I don't think he'll be fighting
for it again anytime soon. Again, it's just an all
around complete misjudgment, a lack of awareness to what an
ambassador of the sport does a lack of awareness of
how how much potential he really had still has again
his career not over, but how much potential he had

(44:02):
to gain new fans on ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports.
And you throw it all away because for as long
as Keishon Davis has taken this sport seriously, he got
gold on his shoulder and decided he was bigger than
the sports. That's the way I read this, that he
was bigger than the moment, than the sport. And listen,
I work with the Ring Magazine, Keyshon Davis works with

(44:22):
the Ring magazine. But I'm gonna tell it like it is.
This was just a flat out miss. But even me,
as someone that represents the Ring Magazine as well, I'm
not going to turn a blind eye to that stuff
because it's not what champions do, it's not what the
sport's about. And it's just a terrible, terrible look for
everything that Keishon Davis, all the hard work that he's
put into this sport, all the years of sacrifice, to

(44:44):
throw it away over something so silly as an argument
backstage or or four pounds that you signed to make.
It's just unfortunate to see because the young man is
so talented, and yes, I was so excited to see
him in Abdula Mason going back and forth this week
because how fun would that fight be. Boxing needs those
young fresh matchups at the lower weight classes, at the

(45:04):
higher weight classes, and again it's just unfortunate. I don't
think this video is going to be a very long one.
I just had to say it. Kishon Davis again, speed running,
how to lose fans, showing at the immaturity level, showing
just how silly and how in an instant, quite frankly,
you can go from being on top of the world
to completely sabotage on yourself. Anyway. Yeah, this is why

(45:26):
boxing sucks sometimes. I'ma be honest, But congrats by the
way to Abdullah Mason and I hear Albright as well,
who perform and put their their reputation and their careers
on the line to go in there and show the
people of Norfolk, Virginia a good show because Kishan just
he couldn't be bothered to do it anyway. That's what
I think. You guys, let me know in the comments
which you think about this entire situation and what happens

(45:47):
next for Kishon Davis. I think he needs to get
his head on straight because right now I don't have
those answers, but I guess we'll find out. Folks, I
may have cursed Sean O'Malley the waight curses alive for sure.
It never fails. What he laughing at? Okay, she's chirping
me in the background. Listen, you have see three sixteen
just wrapped up. I have just called about six hours
of boxing matches here at most valuable prospects, and I'm

(46:09):
still in awe of the performance we just saw. Bars
from Morob Dwaalash Willie. It was effortless, almost dominant 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.

(46:31):
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, so
you have c three sixteen. I'm gonna be honest. I
didn't get to see a ton of the card. I
did get to see Kevin Holland submit Vicente Luke, which
is insane, especially after Kevin Allen was tweeting things out

(46:54):
like this before his fight. Uh 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 a heart attack, even sitting ringside calling
my fights. But that was an insane performance. Again, I
only saw the highlight of it. Are play 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,

(47:16):
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 was st 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

(47:37):
scoring of the fight. But regardless, Joe Pifer gets it done.
Kelvin Gasolom still has the most insane chin in MMA,
apparently 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
sang you or you sayg you again. Casual concept just
landed a nasty one of the most nasty left hooks

(47:59):
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 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 comin event Kayla Harrison and Juliana Pena. Obviously you

(48:19):
were on one side of the other here. You loved
the trashtock of Juliana Pagna, where you loved the idea
of the potential for Kayla Harrison to become one of
the most 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

(48:41):
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
Juliana Paenya'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

(49:03):
Juliana Pena 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
does eventually grapple Juliana Pania, 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

(49:24):
like she was gonna snap the shoulder in half of
Juliana Penia, but instead Pena taps and that is it.
Your new women's bandam weight 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 of that stuff is awesome.

(49:45):
But at the same time, Amanda Nonez has entered the fold.
That's right, the quote of Women's MMA, the two time
champion at bandam weight, the champion, former champion at featherweight.
She was holding double goal 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

(50:08):
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
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

(50:28):
UFC three sixteen, and again I feel I may be
responsible a bit. The Wade Curse is all powerful, and
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

(50:50):
the cage and the railing in the arena falls over
One man's legs looked like they were trapped and he
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

(51:13):
away from it. But yeah, this is this is insane
that he was able to just continue his walk, act
like nothing happened, 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 Shugashan O'Malley had
been on. We talked about, you know how he had

(51:33):
had hip surgery and he was rededicated to his training.
No jerking off, no smoking weed. 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 hook line and sinker. But what I did not understand,

(51:55):
or at least what I didn't take into account, was
that Morob dwallash Wally has always lived. 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

(52:15):
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, 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

(52:36):
and risk Morob getting a hold of him. And Morob
wasn't rushing the takedown. This is something I thought was
super impressive. In the first fight with Shan Omalley. You
would think, because Sean 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 chan Omalley on the feet.

(52:58):
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 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.

(53:19):
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 would come with in this
second fight, and you just didn't see that. Only Sean
Omalley can tell you why. Again, maybe it was just
the threat of the takedown. Maybe it was the openings
weren't there, but I don't really know what that was.
But Morob found his openings and outstruck Sean in the

(53:39):
first round, got him to the matt temporarily. Sean got
to his feet, but still in the last part of
that round, definitely controlled and 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 Omalley won
the second round, and I just didn't. I saw the

(54:01):
second round a lot like I saw the first, but
Rob was more successful grappling. He's still outstruck Sean, landed
some big time punches and 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,
Rob 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

(54:22):
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. 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

(54:44):
will completely get away from the game plan, which is
if he encroaches range, I'm dropping right hands, 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 teeth 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

(55:04):
he was team 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 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,

(55:27):
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 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,

(55:47):
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 Mirob with that pressure, with that pace, I
thought so before I saw this 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,

(56:09):
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 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

(56:30):
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 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

(56:51):
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 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

(57:12):
not a massive submission threat, and I don't know if
he even has a submission win in the UFC. I
could be wrong 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 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,

(57:34):
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.
And Net cranked him and choked him right at the
end of the third round. That's all she wrote, mirob
Dwallash Willie and still your UFC Bannamweight Champion of the World.
In a moment's notice, I was not only completely wrong

(57:54):
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. 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 Morob pressure and take down failure win.

(58:15):
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 him on the ground, and then he finally
choked and rob Dwallas. Willey 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,

(58:37):
and he comes out and beats Sean Omalley 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 do this, do this thing where we start talking
about guy 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 O or protecting

(58:58):
the record.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Sean O.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Maley's gonna be fine. Is he the best band of
weight in the world. No, he's not. That's 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 Sean Omalley and pyotr Yan rematch?
It's a fucking fight. Sure, maybe 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,

(59:21):
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 humilion. Obviously the night planned for,
but I liked that version of Sean. 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 morob Dula SCHWILLI looks unstoppable right now in the UFC,

(59:42):
it's Gory 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 gonna change anytime soon.
What a night for the UFC. What a night for Morob?
What a night for Kayla Harrison and Kevin Holland you
have C three sixteen, another one in the books. I'm
gonna try to start life streaming these. I really would have,
guys that I've been home, but I'm gonna be home

(01:00:03):
this week. UFC Fight Night, Joaquin Buckley and Kamara Usman.
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 have a ton of
great cards coming up. And ultimately, my question I leave
off with, is Morob the greatest band of weight in
UFC history? Is he the greatest band of weight you've
ever seen? Because he certainly is to me, But I

(01:00:23):
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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