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The MM-EH Show with Devon Lozej, Shannon Clark, Caio Machado, and Remembering Ashley Nichols · The MM-EH Show

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  last Tuesday we all woke to the news
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  that ashed Nichols had passed
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  away a lifelong Warrior who first came
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  to International prominence in mu Thai
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  and then later mixed martial arts Ashley
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  was a beloved member of Niger top team
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  in St cine Ontario where I live I still
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  remember the first time I ever saw
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  Ashley I walked down the stairs at the
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  old ntity location effectually known as
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  the red dungeon and I saw a girl I'd
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  never seen before sparring with Jasmine
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  Jaz deicious at that point I didn't know
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  who Ashley was it was immediately
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  obvious that she wasn't a beginner she
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  wasn't intermediate she wasn't there
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  just for a kickboxing class the sced
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  some serious skills great head
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  movement great
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  footwork it turns out that session that
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  first session was a a weeklong trial
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  that Ashley came to nager top team just
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  to see what it was about and see if she
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  was a good fit and shortly after that
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  she moved to to St Catherine to become a
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  permanent member of niagar top team over
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  the years I got to know Ashley a little
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  bit bit we did a few articles together
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  and she told me the things that she
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  loved and was passionate about she loved
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  being in nature she loved singing she
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  loved playing her
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  guitar but mostly she loved fighting she
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  loved nager top team and she loved her
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  teammates and her teammates loved her
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  back a few weeks ago I had an interview
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  with Jennica wheeler the co of Palace
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  Athena women's Fighting Championship and
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  she told me the news that Ashley would
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  be fighting for their craw we title at
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  their upcoming uh show in March in
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  Calgary of course I reached out to
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  Ashley right away and we chatted this is
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  on Sunday and uh she told me she was
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  excited for the opportunity and thrilled
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  and seemed very happy and it was nice to
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  chat with her I spoken with her in a
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  while then like you uh well not like you
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  I I posted my my my show and then like
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  you I woke up the next morning and found
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  out she was
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  gone
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  over the past week there have been many
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  heartfelt messages uh shared by her
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  teammates at ner top team and I'm going
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  to share just one of them with you that
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  I think was especially beautiful and
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  that's Ashley
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  [Music]
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  singing
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  [Music]
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  well I've seen the streets in the
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  west I've driven down the
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  90 H I've seen
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  America
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  best I've been through the
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  Rockies and I've seen
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  [Music]
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  sasun driven to down the highway one
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  just hoping that i' see you
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  soon cuz I'm coming
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  home I'm coming
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  [Music]
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  home the last time I ever saw Ashley in
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  person was probably an October and
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  November and it was just a a smile and a
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  wave in passing one of those small
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  little normal interactions you have with
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  people in your
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  life I remember uh an interview with K
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  re once where he was asked what he
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  thought um happen to us when we
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  die and he paused and he gave it gave it
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  a deep breath and he said I know that
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  the ones who love us will miss
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  us we'll miss you
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  Ashley
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  okay there fight friends welcome to the
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  MMA show number three let's look at the
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  rest of the news for Canadian MMA if you
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  want to follow along with me let's go to
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  www.m.com fights Tab and we're going to
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  take a look and see what happened all
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  right first off you'll see we only had
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  one fight we had no Canadian events last
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  week we only had one uh Canadian fight
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  and that is Deon Jose who fought Shan
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  Stein at ignite fights Mecca 21 in
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  chipoke Minnesota that was for the
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  ignite fights flyweight championship and
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  let's bring in Devon to talk about it
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  with
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  us Devon the dream L congratulations on
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  your Championship win last night and
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  welcome to the MMA
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  show thanks for having me oh I wouldn't
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  not have you come on you you fought a
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  fight last night you you beat up the guy
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  that you were gonna you know challenge
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  you for this championship fight and you
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  won so yeah what what could be better in
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  life than that yeah it's good it's good
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  honestly for me um it was a good fight
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  uh you know my opponent Sean came in and
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  he was you know he's a tough Grappler
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  and wrestler so he kind of forced a lot
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  of the grappling so I ended up finishing
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  him with a rear nak a choke in the
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  second round you know my plan was to
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  knock him out coming in I was pretty
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  vocal voted I said I wanted to highlight
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  knockout but you know he kind of forced
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  his style on me and I just wanted to
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  show these guys that you know you're not
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  safe anywhere if you want to Grapple I
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  can grapple too you know I can finish
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  you on the ground you know I could beat
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  you at your own game and I could do it
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  better than you so we we got the belt
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  last night uh and yeah I'm super happy I
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  I you should be happy I saw the video
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  clip and when you put that rear naked
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  choke in as you know sometimes when
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  you're when you're training with your
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  partners you sink in a rear naked choke
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  and sometimes it takes a while you've
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  got to readjust you've got to move
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  things here and there maybe a an inch or
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  so that choke that you got him with man
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  he tapped out immediately so that must
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  have been sunken just perfectly it it
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  was tight I know I got a good squeeze
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  you know I I'm I'm a wrestler first then
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  I learned Jiu-Jitsu I got I got a strong
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  squeeze especially at 125 uh he told me
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  after in the back that he was starting
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  to pass out like immediately he's like
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  when he told me when I put it on he was
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  starting to snooze immediately and
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  that's why he tapped so fast so you know
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  like Jiu-Jitsu is not my uh not my forte
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  to say you know it's not my first choice
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  um but you know I got it you know I got
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  it I I have everything in this and I
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  feel like to be to be ready for the big
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  leagues which is you know that's my C
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  campaign now is proven that a big league
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  ready um you have to have it all you
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  have to be able to wrestle you have to
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  have Jiu-Jitsu and you have to be able
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  to strike and I truly believe I have all
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  the skills that these guys at the top
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  level have so that's what what I'm here
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  to prove is and I'm I'm ready to defend
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  this belt I'm ready to go to the
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  contender series I'm ready to do
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  whatever it takes to get to the next
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  level speaking of next steps did ignite
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  fights mention that they want to bring
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  you back to defend that championship
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  belt yeah of course they do you know and
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  I I I said it in my post fight interview
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  I I I'm not waiting on no one and that's
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  the UFC included I'm a fighter first
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  I'll fight I'll fight today if I [ __ ]
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  bump into somebody on the street and
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  they look at me wrong I'm a fighter so I
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  I'll fight tomorrow I'll fight next
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  weekend but yeah you know I I I like you
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  know even Regional for promotions you
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  win a belt you should defend it but if I
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  get a call to the UFC or Contender
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  series I'm going to take it I'm not
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  contracted to defend this belt but they
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  do want me to defend um they know I
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  bring a good show I bring a lot of
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  Canadians down um to Minnesota here so
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  so yeah um The Next Step would be
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  defending the belt if it's not uh called
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  to the big league what was the whole
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  experience like last night outside of
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  the fight you said you brought a lot of
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  fans down yeah I got a lot of fans close
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  friends family everything like it was
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  really good you know like for me it's
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  just you know um I enjoy the most is
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  actually getting in there and fighting
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  and sometimes you take these things for
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  granted you know I was sitting in my
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  hotel room the day of the fight and you
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  know feeling a little bit of just
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  pressure not even nerves I wasn't afraid
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  of my opponent or nervous about the
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  fight I just felt pressure for you know
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  to perform to get this belt and just
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  show that I'm I'm ready for the big
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  league so that I put a lot of pressure
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  on myself but you know like they say
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  pressure makes diamonds and I I knew I
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  had to go out there and put it all on
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  the line and try to finish this guy and
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  if uh if I couldn't have done that or if
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  I would have folded then I'm not ready
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  for the big league so I had to tell
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  myself that a lot of times yesterday and
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  people forget how much goes into this so
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  you know I'm just happy today just to be
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  able to enjoy some good people around me
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  you know have a couple of drinks do the
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  things that can't do in training camp
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  eat some good food you know the weight
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  Cuts hard at 125 you know I had to make
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  Championship weight it was a hard cut um
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  but so you know a couple months off I
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  feel is welld deserved but I'm willing
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  to I'm willing to get back back in there
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  whenever you know if the UFC called me
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  to fight in a month a week whenever I'm
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  ready to go well Devin you did it last
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  night you made Canada proud
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  congratulations and we will speak to you
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  next time thank you sir appreciate
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  it wow that's awesome for Devon always
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  going to anary ter and coming back with
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  a belt that's pretty awesome okay let's
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  take a look and see what's going to
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  happen now for this week we have uh one
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  event happening with Canadians and that
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  is LFA 177 in Niagara Falls New York
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  I'll be attending that one and we have
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  three Canadian Fighters fighting we have
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  Shannon Clark she'll be fighting tyan
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  Lopez for the flyweight title we have
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  Sierra Lee dwy from House of Champions
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  in Stony Creek Ontario she'll be
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  fighting and a late addition this is
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  just added yesterday the day before Luke
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  Roberts from nager top team will be
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  fighting faran Hass off to talk about
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  her fight let's bring in Shannon Clark
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  shanon Clark welcome to the MMA show
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  thank you I'm so happy you're here with
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  us uh you will be fighting very soon for
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  the Legacy Fighting Alliance you'll be
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  fighting at LFA 177 in Niagara Falls New
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  York United States uh and then next
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  weekend I think it is and you'll be
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  fighting tyani Lopez for the LFA
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  flyweight Championship you must feel
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  pretty good about
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  that yeah um as we get closer and closer
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  and it's kind of crazy how fast
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  everything's coming but as we get closer
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  um I kind of realized how big of a deal
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  this is when I got offered the fight it
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  was just to me another fight like okay
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  it's a title fight um people win title
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  fights at in their own cities and stuff
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  like that but as I'm getting closer it's
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  kind of realizing oh this is actually
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  like a big
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  deal yeah for sure coming up uh you
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  started off in the in the western
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  provinces you fought around a few
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  different places different organizations
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  uh and they're great they're wonderful
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  but LFA is is is a top-notch
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  organization and it's well known as a as
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  a funnel uh that almost can bring you
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  straight to the UFC if you have success
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  there have you given that any thought at
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  all is that put any pressure on you or
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  is that something you're just
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  ignoring um no honestly I uh I don't
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  really think too much past my fight um
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  I've been told that and like aware of it
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  but truthfully I feel like like I'm
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  still not even close to getting it to
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  the UFC like I still feel like I'm just
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  a small town Le Bridge girl and UFC
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  would have no idea who I am or um that
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  I'm not even close to it so no I don't
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  even like doesn't even cross my mind
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  really that I could potentially go there
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  it's still feels like it's so far out of
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  my league that H it's just another fight
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  kind of
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  deal well tell us about fighting in
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  general how did you get involved in
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  fighting and what what interested you to
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  start
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  with um so I started I just did like the
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  regular kickboxing class at noon stay in
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  shape kind of class um I dated a guy
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  that he he fought at the time and um he
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  kind of was like Hey like come try out a
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  class I played University soccer at the
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  time so I did it just to stay in shape
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  and fell in love and then um I got
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  injured so I took a couple years off
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  because I didn't want to lose my soccer
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  scholarship so so once I was done
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  University graduated and then soccer
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  wasn't as important it was just the
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  women's league kind of deal that I do um
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  I then went back to kickboxing and then
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  I had nothing else going on really so I
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  put more and more time into it got into
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  better shape for that Sport and then it
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  was like well let's just do one fight
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  and we'll see what happens and then it
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  was more like well maybe I got lucky
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  let's do a second and then it was like
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  well you get like your first pro fight
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  you're like well okay I'll try that and
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  then it was you sign with unified well
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  okay we'll go with that one and see and
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  then it was like a title B title belt
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  for rumble and then it was l so it's
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  like yeah I never really thought I'd be
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  fighting this much I kept saying one and
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  done okay one more now just one more but
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  here we are eighth fight you've had a
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  lot of success you are 4 and0 as a pro
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  and you're three and0 as an amateur so s
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  and0 undefeated you're doing something
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  right clearly training can account for a
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  lot of that I'm sure but I'm I'm curious
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  is there any kind of innate fighting
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  nature within you that you've been aware
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  of for a long time have you always been
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  a fighter is it just you're aggressive
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  or what is
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  it um so I've actually never been a
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  fighter I've never actually punched
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  anyone until my very first fight um I I
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  think it has more to do with my
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  competitiveness with myself um I just
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  think of like my soccer career and how
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  competitive I am and to me I when I've
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  done that and I switched to this sport
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  it was how do you put in all the effort
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  of training and not have what I would
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  call like a game right like soccer a
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  game to see how good you actually are um
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  no and then I think my drive just comes
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  from I need to be better than how I've
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  been and just keep showing up for myself
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  and hoping that I keep doing better or
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  else to me what's the point of training
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  if you're not going to get better M well
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  if you're want to continue on the
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  trajectory you appear to be where you're
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  going to be going somewhere big
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  ultimately it's inevitably you'll be
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  fighting better and better opponents so
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  if you don't get better and better
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  you're not going to have success right
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  no absolutely there's um a lot of girls
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  way better than me in life so if I don't
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  push myself and keep getting better then
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  like I said I might as well stop hey
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  there fight friends sorry to interrupt
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  your show however I have a really big
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  favor to ask you if you're enjoying this
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  and I hope you are please take a moment
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  trying to reach a th subscribers so I
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  can start to get monetized and start
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  bringing in just a tiny little bit of
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  money back into my wallet as opposed to
• 14:40
  it flying out to attend Mixed Martial
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  I'd be thrilled to hear about it thanks
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  a
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  lot okay so for LFA you're fighting tiny
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  Lopez she is five and0 as a pro so
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  fairly comp uh compatible professional
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  records what are your thoughts on her
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  have you been able to do much research
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  or dig it dig anything up on
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  her
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  um there's like a little bit of stuff
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  that we've seen um obviously we looked
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  her up and I know that she's won um
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  three I believe it is by armbar um so
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  like we know that kind of stuff my coach
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  or training Partners they're the ones
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  that do more research um but I believe
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  she's going to want to go to the ground
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  I mean maybe she'll surprise me and
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  she'll stay standing but I mean I know
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  she's a black belt so I'd be shocked for
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  her not to want to take me to the ground
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  I'm just a white belt so she uh yeah
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  that's what I expect I don't imagine her
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  wanting to stand or do the clinching
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  game that I did last game or last Bight
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  um but I mean who knows she could
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  surprise me and if we stand great but I
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  really expect her to be taking it to the
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  ground for sure for sure uh you started
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  fighting uh not too long ago actually at
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  the start of just before before covid
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  was that a challenge to continue your
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  your training and was that nice to give
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  yourself a break to sort of train and
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  prepare for fights during that
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  time actually during Co I had a baby so
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  oh wow um yeah I've had two kids since
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  then um during my fighting career so
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  yeah I have a boy that just turned two
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  on Valentine's Day and a girl that just
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  turned three at the end of December here
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  so um no it was a good break I guess
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  because I was pregnant um but I mean I
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  still trained I still had my oh I don't
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  know if I'm supposed to say that but I
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  still had like my little group of
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  friends and stuff when we were training
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  um but again was pregnant so it was very
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  limited um but no I guess I'm glad
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  because then everyone else in the world
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  wasn't fighting so they could just shoot
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  up past me and I was still with the
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  group even though I had a baby good
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  timing you can tell people that you
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  planned it that way
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  right exactly that's exactly what
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  happened for people who haven't watched
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  n of your fights could you describe your
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  fighting
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  style um
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  aggressive um I don't know how to really
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  control myself as in I don't know how to
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  just do the the point fighting or
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  something like that I like to just go
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  I'm a I get in your face or get in my
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  face I don't care but let's just go
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  that's my kind of fighting style okay
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  well exciting uh I should be in
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  attendance at the fight so I hopefully
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  I'll get a chance to see that aggressive
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  style in person in person so uh before
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  we let you go Shannon I'd like to thank
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  you for joining us on the MMA show is
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  there anything you'd like to say or
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  anyone you'd like to thank
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  uh just thank you to all my training
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  partners and my coach thanks for putting
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  in all the effort and all the crazy
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  hours that we've been doing this bik
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  camp and hopefully it comes out as a win
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  great good luck Shannon thanks a lot
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  thank you very much well that's good for
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  Shannon we're going to see how she does
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  this Friday I will be there as I
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  mentioned I'll be bringing you the
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  results as they happen so make sure you
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  keep
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  tuned one more bit of news this week and
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  that is Vancouver's Kyo Bigfoot masado
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  has been added to UFC fight card down
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  here versus Dantel Ma at UFC Fight Night
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  in Vegas on 27th of April and we just so
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  happen to have Mr Mado here to speak
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  with us Kyo Bigfoot Mado welcome to the
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  MMA
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  show hey good good to be here good to be
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  back how are you doing I'm do you know I
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  think you're the first person to ask me
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  how I'm doing so thank you very much
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  yeah polite person than my
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  mom okay thank you Mom thank you uh Mrs
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  Mado okay so your back in can Canada now
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  you just got back today or last night
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  and uh you spent the past little while
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  in Vegas at the UFC performance
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  Institute preparing was that trip
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  already planned when this fight was
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  announced or was that just you just
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  happened to be there no no um so the
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  planning I I've been planning to go to
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  Vegas for a while already uh especially
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  with the last
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  fight I felt that like string strength
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  and like the fact that they didn't have
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  any heavyweights to work to the camp was
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  one of the biggest factors on that fight
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  So the plan from the beginning was with
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  someone back in Canada start going to
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  Vegas once a month once every couple
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  weeks to be able to work with those
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  bigger guys to be able to use the pi as
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  well and tweak some details over there
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  so it was already a planned trip and
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  then right when we were about to go we
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  got the call that we have the fight so
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  helped even more with the um idea to get
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  to get there and prepare for a specific
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  fight it makes me curious and I don't
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  know the usually when I ask a question I
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  I often know the answer to the question
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  already but I ask the question to get my
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  interview to to talk about it I don't
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  know the answer to my next question I
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  wonder if because this turn this fight
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  turn around for you it was pretty quick
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  it was only what three or four months
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  since your first UFC fight I wonder if
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  you being there allow them to look at
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  you and and say hey we had have this
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  Kyle Mado guy we should get him back in
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  there really
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  quickly so they they got me actually
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  they got me the fight a couple days
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  before I arrived in Vegas oh okay okay
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  okay yeah I was packing my I was
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  literally packing my bags to go to Vegas
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  with my manager call with the with the
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  fight okay okay good so I was off on a
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  off on a totally wrong tangent good to
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  me what uh what can you tell me about
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  Dantel Ma and what you think of him as
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  an opponent for you so I I I got to
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  watch a couple videos of him got the
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  time to to study uh since since we got
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  the offer he L big guy of course it's
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  heavyweight The Long Reach very powerful
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  punches but not much um not much of a
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  mover he's a very stationary fighter he
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  waits uh to his opponent to break the
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  distance so he can uh
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  clip idea is what I what I like to do
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  best I think that's a good match up for
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  me because I'm very good with that in
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  and out and not getting hit beside I
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  it's a guy that now they're going to
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  exchange with me and for as long as I
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  remember I having I'm I usually have the
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  upper hand on the Striking so I'm
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  excited to be able to exchange and
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  control the the fight on the the S
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  yeah now that you have your first UFC
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  proper fight out of the way you did the
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  contender series but some people don't
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  consider that the same thing so you had
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  your first UFC fight unfortunately it
• 21:57
  was a it was a decision loss it didn't
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  go your way but often times when I hear
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  Fighters talk about their first UFC
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  fight they talk about the nerves and the
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  bright lights and all that kind of stuff
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  and and everything that goes with it now
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  that that's out of the way for you do
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  you think this fight will go not not
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  even the fight itself but just the
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  process are you is that the same thing
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  that happened to you were you able to
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  actually enjoy it when it happened and
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  will you be able to this time so I
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  thought I have a different sensation in
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  that for me I feel all the R the word
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  wasn't the contender fight because that
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  that's a make or break sort of deal I
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  have one shot one fight even if I win
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  I'm not sure if I'm going to get into
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  the UFC so I felt all the pressure was
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  there once it got in got a little bit of
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  relief it got to enjoy the five week it
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  was super relaxed but I think it was too
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  relaxed I made uh some some rookie
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  mistakes during the fight I I train with
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  a little bit inel that I usually nurture
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  a little bit more before try to come
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  back but I just I was excited to go back
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  earlier so there was the nervous I
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  couldn't find my rhythm I couldn't um
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  focus 100% in there but like I think
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  most of it I miss I missed the fire of
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  like okay that I it's make her break
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  it's the opportunity I have I need to
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  give it all because I have an X fight
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  and I'm already under the cont under
• 23:23
  contract M and while all my way up to
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  the container fight was okay next one
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  it's it's it I need to win to get into
• 23:31
  UFC I need to win to get into UFC now I
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  I got this fire back on me again I'm
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  excited to train I'm excited to work
• 23:38
  hard to push myself and I can't wait to
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  go to this fight so a different mindset
• 23:44
  but like getting and the The View kind
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  of break my energy my spirit on on on
• 23:50
  the Rhythm I mean not how like going to
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  a bad way but right now I'm like fully
• 23:57
  motivated again I'm hungry I'm excited
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  to be back there and I have that fire
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  again to bring the fight to deep Waters
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  and knock this guy
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  out okay well it's uh good to speak with
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  you Kyo I know it's a Sunday and you
• 24:11
  just finished your breakfast with your
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  beautiful family so we're GNA let you
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  get go back and get your family time
• 24:16
  thank you so much for speaking with the
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  MMA show and we'll be watching your
• 24:19
  fight and best of
• 24:21
  luck yeah thanks for coming here it's
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  always a pleasure know anytime you you
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  ask you can all try my best to hop in
• 24:29
  and I'm excited to to be backing um in
• 24:31
  the UFC octagon and represent Brazil as
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  well as Canada for the next fight so
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  thank you everyone to support the big
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  fot April 27 we are back to the Quin col
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  for sure thanks a lot Kyle thank you so
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  let's take a look and see what's
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  happening this weekend nothing is
• 24:50
  happening this weekend in Canada next
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  one is Fight Quest 54 in two weekends
• 24:54
  and after that we've got a few more
• 24:56
  events as well but I will update those
• 24:58
  on next week's show so make sure you
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  tune in thank you for watching and enjoy
• 25:02
  the fights