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Dana White UFC 316 Interview · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: At the gate tonight was six point five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The attendance was seven teen thousand and three forty three
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  Speaker 1: sold out. We have three of the four top five
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  Speaker 1: gates here. We're number one, number four, and number five
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  Speaker 1: all time. Tonight was number four. Uh, performance of the
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  Speaker 1: night went to you, holland Kayla and Morob. That won
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  Speaker 1: fifty grand.
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  Speaker 2: So then first of all, we'll talk about Morob his
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  Speaker 2: great performance. He starting to look like one of the
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  Speaker 2: best bands of waits of all time, if not the best.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at a performance like that, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think it takes to beat a guy like Mirab
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  Speaker 2: at this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I agree, we've been talking about that. We don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, And Sean O'Malley came in one hundred percent healthy,
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  Speaker 1: ready mentally, physically, in every way you could be ready
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  Speaker 1: for this fight, and Morob finished.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think it's just a case of now that
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  Speaker 2: Morob can just keep racking up these wins add to
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  Speaker 2: his legacy to just cement the fact that he's the
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  Speaker 2: best ever or would you call him the best man
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  Speaker 2: to wait of all time?
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  Speaker 5: Already?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, he's definitely Uh, he's there and he will
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  Speaker 1: keep racking them up.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: Umar rematch is interesting, you know, and it makes your
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  Speaker 1: legacy even better when you ran through everybody twice.
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  Speaker 5: So well, that could happen before the Corey Sandhea can fight.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm just saying, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, Kate Harrison won becoming the new champion, and I
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  Speaker 2: think sometimes people criticize women's MMA, but when her and
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  Speaker 2: Amanda faced off, it felt like a really big fight.
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  Speaker 2: Do you agree with how big that fight Isn't you
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  Speaker 2: think it's as big as it used to be when
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  Speaker 2: you originally wanted to make it back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: I do, because I think you know now that she's
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  Speaker 1: coming to UFC and she's actually won the belt and
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  Speaker 1: fought her way up, and you know, Amanda, people respect
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  Speaker 1: what Amanda dead here. So I agree with you. It
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  Speaker 1: felt big. It was a badass then it was all
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  Speaker 1: organic that was fake. We had no intentions of her
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  Speaker 1: going up into the octing Eye. Actually had to tell
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  Speaker 1: the guys the letter up. They weren't even letting her in.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, okay, I want to ask you about something
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  Speaker 2: else outside of tonight. It's a conversation we've had many
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  Speaker 2: times now. The dom aspinall John Jones fight. It's a
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  Speaker 2: bit different now, right because John's been tweeting a lot
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that he's told you his plans.
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  Speaker 5: He's ready to vacate the belt and all the rest
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  Speaker 5: of it.
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  Speaker 4: He said he's ready to vacate the best.
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  Speaker 2: Said he doesn't care if he stripping it, he would
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  Speaker 2: vacate it.
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  Speaker 1: Fucking crazy. I've been busy. I haven't been keeping up
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  Speaker 1: with the gossip. He comes back. He's either back today
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  Speaker 1: or came back yesterday or whenever. He you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: in Thailand, so he's home. We'll be home tonight and Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll figure this out if he doesn't fight, because he
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  Speaker 2: also called out Francis and Ghanho said he'd rather fight Francis,
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  Speaker 2: which I John, Yeah, okay, not that interested in that then.
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  Speaker 2: But if he doesn't fight tom Aspinall and he does
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  Speaker 2: walk away, do you think he's done?
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  Speaker 4: Would you? Tom Aspinall's the guy, he's the guy.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's the other place. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: If the guy wants to retire and doesn't want to fight,
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  Speaker 1: nothing you do. I didn't want Hbib to retire. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want I thought DC should have stayed any longer.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's none of my business. I'll do
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  Speaker 1: what I can to make the fight if we can.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if he's talking that crazy shit, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I lost one of this.
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  Speaker 2: I remember a time when GSP announced he was walking
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  Speaker 2: away after the Johnny Hendricks fight, and you said, he
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  Speaker 2: owes it to the belt and the company to at
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  Speaker 2: least defend it against the guy that rightfully should fight
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think that's kind of the same day with John?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but John's been John's been John since he
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  Speaker 1: walked in the door here, and yeah, I was younger then.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Really, shit doesn't go the way you would like
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  Speaker 4: it to go all the time, Din.
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  Speaker 7: What did you make a Patching mixed performance? Because it
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  Speaker 7: felt like when he came into the UFC, there was
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  Speaker 7: a bit more buzz from the diehard fans than the
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  Speaker 7: Chandlers and the MVPs because Patch's in his prime, He's
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  Speaker 7: twenty one to one, he was the reigning champion coming
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  Speaker 7: over and then online is just the kind of the
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  Speaker 7: narrative was that was not the Patrick mix we had
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  Speaker 7: seen the last several years in there against Mario.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm curious what did you make of it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we've seen it happen before. When you
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  Speaker 1: come from you know, the smaller shows and get to
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  Speaker 1: the UFC, some people shine, some people have a rough time.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy.
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  Speaker 7: So and with with Morob, is he just like a
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  Speaker 7: promoter's dream because he's like he's a character. He does
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  Speaker 7: have exciting fights. He said he wants to defend the
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  Speaker 7: belt two more times this year, which is four title
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  Speaker 7: fights in one year.
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  Speaker 5: Is he just a promoter's dream?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And he looks better every time he fights too.
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  Speaker 1: He looked really good tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: He's a similar question about Joshua Van He's twenty three,
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  Speaker 7: he's like two and oh three oh this year he
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  Speaker 7: wants to fight five six times this year. He's already
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  Speaker 7: saying he wants to fight in San Antonio and Noccha UFC.
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  Speaker 7: So the broadcast seems to think he's a budding star
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  Speaker 7: at flyweight.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody who talks like that and says, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: want to fight as many times this year as it's
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  Speaker 1: the greatest thing you can do for yourself if you're
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  Speaker 1: really built that way. I mean, when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the old time fighters in boxing. Some of those guys
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  Speaker 1: used to fight every weekend. So yes, when that is
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  Speaker 1: your mentality, I agree with the guys and if you
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  Speaker 1: can win. I mean, look at look at Hamza when
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  Speaker 1: we're in Fight Island, He's like, I want to fight
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  Speaker 1: again next weekend.
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  Speaker 4: I said, okay, I love it.
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  Speaker 7: Same for Kevin Holland, he want one and he says
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  Speaker 7: he wants the worst welterweight in the division and says
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  Speaker 7: he wants to fight Colby Covington.
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  Speaker 4: It's a fun fight. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And then just last one for me, more unrelated to
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  Speaker 7: this fight. But Turkey made it seem like you weren't
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  Speaker 7: going to be promoting the Terrence Crawford Canelo fight. Is
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  Speaker 7: there anything you can kind of clear up on that.
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  Speaker 4: He made it feel like I wasn't.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well he.
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  Speaker 7: Said that some other someone else was promoted. He didn't
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  Speaker 7: say no TKO. He just didn't include your name in
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  Speaker 7: a tweet, and people kind of freaked out online about
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  Speaker 7: where Dana go.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you what's awesome, man.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of fucked up things about boxing,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't say shit. I mean, nobody talks. It's
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  Speaker 1: the most amazing thing. If we sign a deal, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta fucking get out my phone quick. Hey, we just
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  Speaker 1: fucking because ninety thousand people will be out there talking
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 4: These guys don't talk. I'm promoting the fight.
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  Speaker 7: Is that fight happening in Vegas still?
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  Speaker 4: Because I'll let you guys know when it's time to
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  Speaker 4: let you.
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  Speaker 9: Know data here.
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  Speaker 3: To go back to Morob and his desire to have
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  Speaker 3: four title defenses this here, that's never happened before. The
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  Speaker 3: most was three, and a few fighters have done that.
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  Speaker 3: Would you be willing to accommodate that schedule for him
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  Speaker 3: if he wants to.
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  Speaker 1: I never say no to guys that want to fight
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  Speaker 1: too much. Yeah, there's no such thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And just Kayla, like obviously Olympic gold medalist, two
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  Speaker 3: time now UFC champion, two time PFL champion, Where would
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  Speaker 3: you rate her? I guess amongst like the greatest combat
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  Speaker 3: sports athletes overall?
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  Speaker 9: Resume.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean she's just one tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, let's let her defend a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: and you know the obviously she's gonna fight the goat,
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  Speaker 1: so see how that plays out. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: what she's accomplished as an athlete period is awesome.
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  Speaker 3: She was in here talking about how hard the weight
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  Speaker 3: cuts on her and like it was really scary. Thursday night.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to Ali a few days ago. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to see her fight Amanda first at forty
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  Speaker 3: five and then maybe a rematch at thirty five. Would
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  Speaker 3: you ever entertain doing that fight first up forty five?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we haven't got into that yet. You know, tonight
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  Speaker 1: just sort of happen. You don't know who's gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Juliana's a little maniac, so who knows how
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  Speaker 1: that fight was going to go. But now that we
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  Speaker 1: know and we know that Amanda really does want to
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  Speaker 1: fight her, will start figuring out all the details.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And to go back to the thing on John Jones,
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  Speaker 3: did you see the petition online from the fans?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, What did you just make of that?
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  Speaker 1: Every human on earth was dming it to me? And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah I saw it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know you say you always listen to
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  Speaker 3: the fans and get the fans that they want.
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  Speaker 9: I'm just curious what you make of that.
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  Speaker 1: How many fans other worldwide? Now, like, what's the number.
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  Speaker 1: It's like four hundred million or something like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty thousand people want to see him stripped.
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  Speaker 9: Sure, yeah, not enough.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that. I'm just it's kind of fucking silly.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, we didn't see you in Montreal. What did you
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  Speaker 3: think of Jack del Medelana's title indible?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, incredible performance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're looking at Islam and Jack for some
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  Speaker 3: time this year.
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  Speaker 4: We're working on some stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And just last thing, you have any updates on the
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  Speaker 3: right negotiations deal for the US, like our talks happening?
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  Speaker 9: When could be hear an announcement?
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  Speaker 1: We're into it, We're deep into it. Could happen in June, July, August,
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  Speaker 1: or September.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Could you talk to us about Zombie on your right, Dana, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: talk to us about Zombie Junior.
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  Speaker 1: You talk Yeah, Yeah, you know it's funny that guy
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  Speaker 1: came off, uh looking for a fight, and so to Rob,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad I signed him.
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  Speaker 8: He can strike pretty well.
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  Speaker 7: We're gonna get a good step up in competition from
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  Speaker 7: soon or just gonna I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: He's just want tonight. I mean, see what happens.
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  Speaker 5: Did you start the petition, No, I did not.
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  Speaker 4: Dana Beck here a couple of things.
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  Speaker 10: Did you notice the thing just before Morob was walking
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  Speaker 10: out there was like a kind of a fence collapse issues?
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  Speaker 10: And then did you did you see that.
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  Speaker 1: On kind of what we were Yes, our second one
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  Speaker 1: in twenty five years. Yeah, everybody's hanging over the edge
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  Speaker 1: and it collapsed. Everybody was all right, and thank god
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  Speaker 1: this time it was a low one, not a high one.
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  Speaker 10: Obviously, you know this Jones, this John Jones thing is
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  Speaker 10: is what a lot of people are talking about. I
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  Speaker 10: wonder is there anything that pfl or Francis could do
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  Speaker 10: to make that a realistic option for you guys, or
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  Speaker 10: are you fully focused on on Aspital?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Aspernhau's fight. I mean we've been talking to
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  Speaker 1: this kid forever about it, and nah, it's his fight. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: you can't make people fight. If John doesn't want to fight,
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  Speaker 1: can't make them fight. We can try to make them fight.
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  Speaker 1: We can throw things at him that inspire him to
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  Speaker 1: want to fight, but uh, we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 10: Regarding this this TKO boxing thing, it did seem kind
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  Speaker 10: of interesting because I know that there like there was
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  Speaker 10: the Netflix upfronts and that I believe there were rumors
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  Speaker 10: that perhaps something was gonna happen there with with this
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  Speaker 10: Kneo and Crawford event. He was Turkey was pretty big
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  Speaker 10: on on making it clear that that you would be
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  Speaker 10: the head promoter. And then he did say, actually it's
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  Speaker 10: gonna be You're gonna be a head promoter, and they
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  Speaker 10: didn't have a broadcaster, and then it was actually Selah's
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  Speaker 10: gonna promote it and it's gonna be his own pay
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  Speaker 10: per view ring magazine, all of that stuff. I guess
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  Speaker 10: what exactly happened in the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know. Listen, we're not We're at work
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  Speaker 1: at UFC headquarters. I'm in my own little world, man.
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  Speaker 1: I don't pay attention to any of that shit. I
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  Speaker 1: know what's going on, I know what we're doing, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't really pay attention to that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter to me.
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  Speaker 10: What was the last conversation you had with with Turkey?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 10: And how how often are you guys in communication?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? Should? I don't remember the last time I talked
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  Speaker 4: to him. But that can't be good. We're good, It's
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  Speaker 4: very good now, We're very good. Thank you all.
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  Speaker 8: Right, Dane up frontier left down here.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 11: So when Amanda, you know, was announced as joining your
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  Speaker 11: UFC Hall of Fame a couple of months back, and
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  Speaker 11: then within an hour she's saying she wants to return
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  Speaker 11: to the cage.
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  Speaker 8: Did you guys know that going in when you were
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  Speaker 8: planning to give her Yeah, she.
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  Speaker 4: Had been talking for a long time. I think that
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  Speaker 4: if Kayla made.
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  Speaker 1: It to become a UFC World champion that she would
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  Speaker 1: be interested in fighting her. So but you never know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about John Jones now for the
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  Speaker 1: last however minute months. So she showed up here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted to get up in the octagon. We let her,
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  Speaker 1: They faced off and here we go.
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  Speaker 11: Did you I mean, when you're thinking about giving this
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  Speaker 11: on or typically you see it to fighters who've been
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  Speaker 11: out out of the game for a little while.
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  Speaker 8: As Amanda was right, we now have a situation. She's
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  Speaker 8: me coming up in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 11: She's gonna make a speech and everything, looking back at
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  Speaker 11: her career while also looking forward to a really big
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  Speaker 11: fight coming up. That's it's kind of an interesting situation.
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  Speaker 11: Is that something you try to avoid? Typically when you're
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  Speaker 11: giving out this honor.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, never thought about it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, And I spoke with Amanda earlier this week.
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  Speaker 11: She was saying kind of her timeline ideal would be
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  Speaker 11: returning by the end of the year.
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  Speaker 8: Does that line up with something the UFC would like
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  Speaker 8: to get done.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like I say all the time, just this just ended.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we'll get back to the office and figure
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  Speaker 1: out what works for everybody. And yeah, I wouldn't imagine
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  Speaker 1: it's something that she you know, she's been off and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if she's been training. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what she's been doing.
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  Speaker 8: Do you know she's in the testing pool?
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  Speaker 4: Is she in the pool? No, she's not in the
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  Speaker 4: pool either.
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  Speaker 8: So one question about Sean too. Obviously, two back to
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  Speaker 8: back losses to the.
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  Speaker 11: Same champion, a dominant champion here puts them in kind
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  Speaker 11: of a weird place career wise, because you know it's
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  Speaker 11: almost like that Max Holloway thing. Lose twice to both
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  Speaker 11: and Oscar back to back succession. What do you kind
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  Speaker 11: of see for him going forward?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, O'Malley's gotta go home, take some time off,
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  Speaker 1: spend some time his family, do all this stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: then let us know what he's thinking. I have no
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  Speaker 1: idea where his head's at or where his head's going
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  Speaker 1: to be in a month. So this is one of
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  Speaker 1: those things. You let this kid go home and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: his life for a little while and Claire's head and
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  Speaker 1: figure out what he wants, and I come back and
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  Speaker 1: tell us and we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 11: In theory, forty five could be an option. Is that
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  Speaker 11: something you'd be up for or just seeing him go
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  Speaker 11: to forty five?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. That's that's up to him.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you that they know right back here.
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  Speaker 12: It was kind of crazy how how much interest John
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  Speaker 12: showed in the France as a gun who fight like.
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  Speaker 12: There was some some tweets going back and forth. What
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  Speaker 12: would happen if he came to you and says like,
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  Speaker 12: I'll fight, but I won't fight Aspinall.
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  Speaker 9: I would fight in Ghanu.
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  Speaker 12: Would you even be interested in that?
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  Speaker 1: Or no, I don't have and Ghana on her track
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  Speaker 1: contract and aspinall the guy right.
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  Speaker 12: If you were put in the position, would you maybe
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  Speaker 12: try to get and Ganu back on her contract or no?
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  Speaker 12: Probably not understood. I'm just I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 9: But last last.
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  Speaker 12: Question for you is I feel like the sport of
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  Speaker 12: MMA is starting to see some sort of some little
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  Speaker 12: bit of a change. Right. You don't see champions making
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  Speaker 12: five to six plus defenses anymore. A lot of them
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  Speaker 12: are kind of like two, three and out, which goes
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  Speaker 12: to show that the sport is evolving kind of deal.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, why do you think that is?
• 14:32
  Speaker 12: Why do you think we're seeing kind of you know,
• 14:34
  Speaker 12: shorter reigns if you will, shorter.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: Like title?
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I got it. God, I see what
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: you're saying. Might see what happens with it depends on
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: the talent. I mean, the guys that that that did
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: those type of defenses, whether it's Shawn Jones who was
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: considered by many the greatest of all time, Anderson Silva.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I I don't know if.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: It's that that that the The sport is definitely evolving
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: and it's going to continue to evolve, but I don't know.
• 15:08
  Speaker 12: And last question, I've uh, in a few weeks you'll
• 15:10
  Speaker 12: take the promotion to Azerbaijean for the very first time.
• 15:13
  Speaker 12: What are you expecting out there? How excited are you
• 15:15
  Speaker 12: to cross off another place to bring the UFC?
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I love it?
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I like going to new places
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and and uh, exposing the live event to people who
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: we had a bunch of people here tonight who had
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: never been to a live event before. And will you
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: talk to people after they see it live. It's just
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: it's just it's different than watching it on television. So
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: anytime I can get that experience to bring people in
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: that have never been, I love it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: It's it's it's.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: It's literally my goal over the next However, many years
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: until I dropped dead.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you man.
• 15:49
  Speaker 13: Yeah, hey, data over here, is a pantosiam or rob
• 15:53
  Speaker 13: super fight something you're open to in the future.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Never even thought about it till you just said it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I'm open to anything makes sense and that people want
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: to see.
• 16:03
  Speaker 13: Also, you recently came out with the Energy drink form.
• 16:05
  Speaker 13: If anyone wants to try it out, what some flavors
• 16:08
  Speaker 13: you recommend the form?
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Oh well, obviously everybody is going to have their own
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: opinions in their own for Minus is orange right now,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: but Lennet loves the Grepe.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: You gotta choose for yourself. I'm orange, choose greape. The
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: screaming freedom is like the old bomb pops. And then
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I've never been like a Blue Ras or any of
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: that shit kind of guy. But that's pretty good too.
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: Thanks, Danna right here.
• 16:41
  Speaker 14: We haven't seen you since UFC three fifteen. As Mike said,
• 16:43
  Speaker 14: Valentina Shivchenko defended her title again. I know in the
• 16:46
  Speaker 14: past you said you really like the jiangwe Lei super fights.
• 16:49
  Speaker 14: You feel like with where those divisions are, now that
• 16:51
  Speaker 14: you've had a month maybe to think about the matchmaking
• 16:53
  Speaker 14: for Valentina, that now is the time to make that fight.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: Sure, so that will definitely be nuxt.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna get back and we got matchmaking on Tuesday.
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: And thanks.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: We're good, Dana, right, Dana right here. Yeah.
• 17:10
  Speaker 12: Alex bahun In tweeted out that as of today, there
• 17:12
  Speaker 12: will be nope September pay per view.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Can you confirm or deny that?
• 17:15
  Speaker 15: What?
• 17:20
  Speaker 16: Oh?
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: No cha?
• 17:22
  Speaker 12: Yeah yeah yeah, okay, yeah, so there's no UFC pay
• 17:27
  Speaker 12: per view in the.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: September this year.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, right, yeah, yeah, we're gonna go. Uh we
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: don't have a date for that one.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: So what happened was we were gonna be down in Mexico.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: The arena is not ready for us, so we had.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just screwed up plans.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Gotcha.
• 17:43
  Speaker 12: So I've been debating this all week personally, but I
• 17:44
  Speaker 12: wanted to know your thoughts.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Is Kayla Amanda bigger than Amanda Cyborg was back then?
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Oh? Definitely, Yeah, definitely sports bigger. Yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 17: Hey, Dana, congratulations on another successful event.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 18:01
  Speaker 16: You now have your hand in the BJJ world with
• 18:03
  Speaker 16: the UFC BEJJ kicking off. Obviously you own the MMA
• 18:08
  Speaker 16: world and get into the boxing world, which.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: You will own the slapping world. Slapping world. My apologies,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: but you're a boy. I'm sure you've heard of him.
• 18:20
  Speaker 17: Joe Rogan on his podcast mentions countless times that he
• 18:24
  Speaker 17: would love for you to get into the kickboxing world.
• 18:27
  Speaker 17: Have you ever thought about getting into the art of
• 18:30
  Speaker 17: eight Limbs?
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: No?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: No, I did. I shouldn't say no. Maybe I did
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: twenty years ago. We were looking at some stuff I
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: just when I was when I was younger, and I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: was a huge boxing fan. I used to like kickboxing too.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I used to watch kickboxing on ESPN and remember when
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that you say the Kick of the eighties with you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: kickboxing with the Kick of the eighties or some shit
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: like that. But it never really happened. And you know,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just not I have to I
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: have to feel it and really like it. And you know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: it's just not that I don't like kickboxing. It's just
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I don't want to promote it. I like Moui Tay too,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: But I mean, why would I pick kickboxing over mooie Ty?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Why not Domui Tai, which I think is way more violent. Yeah,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not into.
• 19:24
  Speaker 15: It, Dana other way over over here. One more thing
• 19:30
  Speaker 15: on just John. I know you said you can't make
• 19:32
  Speaker 15: him fight Tom and it's ultimately up to him. I
• 19:35
  Speaker 15: know you've basically been on every wave in this sport
• 19:39
  Speaker 15: in your heart.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Do you believe that.
• 19:41
  Speaker 15: This is just the process or is it ultimately you'll
• 19:46
  Speaker 15: get him to fight anything?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: It's definitely the process with John Jones then going through
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: this since the day he started here, and it's yeah,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: it's definitely the process.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Do you believe him? And Anderson?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: So every time, you know, throughout the history of being
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in business with those guys, when it comes time to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: get them fight, it's like dealing with artists.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: It's interesting, that's.
• 20:10
  Speaker 15: Your gut, Like in your gut right now, does it
• 20:13
  Speaker 15: Does it tell you that that fight will end up happening.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: What's that like in your gut?
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: Do you think that fight will ultimately end up happening?
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I mean I've been saying that since the beginning, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: John Jones agreed to do the fight. So John Jones
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: was offered the deal and accepted the deal.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Then, Yeah, heading into the fight, you know some people
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: who had concerns of a lackluster car, essentially of the
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: entire car. However, you know, I wanted to know personally,
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: what did you think of the card tonight because they
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: looked like the.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Place is rocking?
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how did that start? You said people were expecting
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a lackluster card.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, people sold the card and got I got a
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: lot of feedback on Twitter and things of that nature.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: People expected a lackluster card. However, tonight seem really excited.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's the goofiest shit of all time. When people
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: start talking about fights or cards before they happen. If
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you want to judge a card, judge it after it happens.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And you know, if he thinks fights for lackluster or
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the card wasn't didn't live up to expect it. It's
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: like all the I've been I've been hearing this ship
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: for twenty five years so, but I thought the card
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: was good.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: It was a fun night.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And at the end of the day, you know
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: there's I mean, if you look at there's four Performance
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of the Night bonuses tonight, that's a good night.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Try again.
• 21:41
  Speaker 18: Shang O'Malley said that he didn't see a trilogy coming
• 21:46
  Speaker 18: again with Cheeto Vera, But after his result tonight, would
• 21:51
  Speaker 18: you say, is it possible to see this fight coming
• 21:53
  Speaker 18: maybe in the future Cheeto veron who and Shanno Mali again?
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Anything is possible.
• 22:01
  Speaker 18: Because they are one on one right, he could be
• 22:04
  Speaker 18: anything is possible.
• 22:07
  Speaker 13: Thank you so.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: Much, Soda.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Just to clarify there, you said John has agreed to
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: fight with Tom.
• 22:15
  Speaker 15: To clarify, you said that John agreed to fight Tom.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, John agreed to fight Tom.
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: Is that what you just.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Said there before, like on the last stance or you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Said John agreed to fight Tom.
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: Yes, but he hasn't signed a contractor right?
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean you guys have heard me for the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: last over long said, I guarantee this fight's gonna happen.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: This fight's gonna happen, Fight's gonna happen. You guys told
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: me the crazy shit that was going on on Instagram
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and all these other places. But yes, I've been saying
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: John is gonna fight Tom.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: There are some rumors out there that you guys had
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: offered him his fucking money and he turned it down.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Unless you hear it come from here or we put
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: out a press release, don't believe any of this bullshit.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: It's like the Turk stuff, you know what I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And everybody's saying, I know Turkey said some stuff, but
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: unless we come out and say something, it's all bullshit.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I just don't get sucked into that stuff anymore. I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: don't even care. I don't even listen to it. And
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: most of the time the shit that I hear that
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: happens I hear from you guys when I come to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: things like this. Otherwise, I don't care, and I don't
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: pay attention to any of that stuff. But yes, John
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: agreed to fight Tom.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Fact. Good Thank you guys. Good night,