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UFC 323 recap: Petr Yan vs. Merab Dvalishvili the fight of the year? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, we call this call your shots.
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I'm not an X's and O's guy, right?
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I'm not a tactician. I'm a motivator.
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In the classic sense of the word, you know, Lombardi,
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Charles Lindbergh, that nun over in India, like those people call
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your shot. Breaking news.
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leash, ladies and gentlemen. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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this is how we're going to play. It's very simple.
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We're going to give you a specific thing we believe is
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going to happen in the next year or so, and we're going to tell
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you what it feels like or what it is, and we're going to give
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you our take to it. All right, here we go, Fish.
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You take one look at the NBA standings and something jumps
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right out at you. That's the Oklahoma City Thunder
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for 23 and 1. I mean, I'm going to just say
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right now they're going to break the record for wins in a regular
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season. They're unstoppable.
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Take a look at their point differential now.
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Houston, by the way, if you're taking bets, Houston's got a
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really good record too, and they've got a + 10.6 point
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differential themselves. But Oklahoma City plus 16.1, no
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other team is in double digits. They're better.
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They're doubly better than every team in the Eastern Conference
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and they're doubly better than every team in the Western
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Conference except for Houston and Denver in that metric and
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they're close to that on Denver as well.
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They are out of control good right now and I believe speedy.
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I think they have the Clippers for unprotected first round
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draft pick This. Year and.
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The Clippers are hot garbage. Can you imagine they get a high
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lottery pick to go along with the best roster?
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Young roster. We knew this was going to
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happen, this. Is the process give me OKC
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breaking records and possibly a year from now threatening their
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own record? This is a dynasty in the in the
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make guys. All right, so I'm going to shift
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back to some college football. I kind of hinted at it earlier
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the way I was thinking of a lot of these playoff teams.
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So I'm going to call my shot and I'm.
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Going to say I have no worry. I'm going to I'm going to call
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my son and say Indiana does lose their.
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First match also they go. You saw Oregon go into the
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regular season undefeated in the playoffs undefeated last year
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and I think that Oregon team was better than this Indiana team
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and Oregon got smoked by Ohio State.
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I like I again, Alabama does not deserve it, but I do like the
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talent. I think Oklahoma will beat
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Alabama because the game is in in Oklahoma.
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They won at Alabama during the regular breaking news.
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Smell my ass. But I'm going to, I'm going to
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say Oklahoma wins that game. But I think either one of those
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teams. Butt plug.
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Beat Indiana and then they will beat Oregon or Texas Tech and
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they will reach the national championship game.
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Beneficial. Dissect.
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He's dissecting it. All right, my final call.
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Your shot will go to the Colorado Avalanche.
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Yes, the unbelievable, unstoppable Colorado Avalanche
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right now in 29 games is 21 and two that they lost the game
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recently against the New York Islanders, they already have 48
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points. They're pretty unstoppable, very
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healthy, by far the best team right now in hockey.
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I believe this team is going to be unstoppable all season long,
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all the way through into the playoffs and all the way to the
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NHL Finals. My prediction here is they are
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going to the finals this year. I'm not going to say they're
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going to win because they're still the Florida Panthers.
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They're dangerous. Even though they started off
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very slow and the Eastern Conference is still open with
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Tampa playing as well as they are and Washington having
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another good season, I think it's going to be wide open.
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But watch out, ladies and gentlemen, the Colorado
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Avalanche is coming out of the West.
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They're going to the Stanley Cup this year.
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They're by far the best team. It's not even close in the
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Western Conference and fully healthy.
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Now, every single one of the play Brock Nelson, it got his
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new contract in the offseason. This is one of the best faceoff
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teams. This is one of the best power
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play teams. This is one of the most depth
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teams in the NHL right now. All four lines.
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You can't tell me a team has better four line than better 4
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lines than the Colorado Avalanche, right?
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And they get a goaltending too. So I they're unstoppable right
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now. I expect them all the way
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through into February to have no more than 10 losses.
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That's how good they are. You, you were just speaking
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about OK C This is the OK C Thunder of the NHL right now.
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That's how good they are. They could break a win record
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this year, the Colorado Colorado Avalanche.
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You say that, but then I saw this crap Rangers team get a
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point off of. Them that's fine.
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I don't know that that doesn't matter.
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I mean regulation. Loss.
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It's not a regulation loss dude. This team is loaded.
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Loaded and helped. No, I know they they, I mean,
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they're crazy. They're great and they're
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scoring a lot of goals, dude, they they're already 29 games,
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already have almost 50 points, OK, They're going to have like,
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they might have more points than any NHL team has had in the last
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20 years. What's the record 4 points in a
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season? I won 32.
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It was, it was the Bruins. It was the Bruins that did it a
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few years ago. Yeah, I believe it was 132.
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And I think they're going to break that this year.
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I think they're going to break. That you would need 6063 and
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then a bunch of overtime losses were like 65.
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It'd be like 66 in an overtime loss.
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What was their record that year? Speedy.
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What was their record? Because I remember their
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goaltender won the the goalie of the year that.
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Yeah, old Mark had that unbelievable year and then they
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blew A31 lead to the to the Panthers.
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It was 135 they got. That OK and what what was your
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record? It was 6512 and 5.
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I expect, I expect them to have something around there, maybe
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even better. I I could see them winning about
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68 games this year, all right. That's how good they are.
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It was really, really good, man. I watched them.
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I've watched them play 3 times this year and I watched them
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lose against the Islanders 6 to 3 and I couldn't believe the
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Island just scored six goals against them.
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That was probably, we won't see that again this year.
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It was pretty remarkable and that's why that was after the
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game. Patrick Wah, Patrick Wah's old
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team, the team that fired him, Patrick Wah said that was one of
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the greatest wins he's ever had and and he wasn't in net.
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So think about it. One of the greatest goalies of
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all time coming out and saying that was one of the greatest
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wins he's ever had so. He's going, he's going to hope
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to avoid the the fortune of the last two of these records that
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he takes because before it was the 2022 Bruids, it was the 2019
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Lightning that had that maybe the missile one Warrior 132 came
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in. They got swept in the first
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round by the John Tortorella LED Columbus Blue.
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Jackets. There you go.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, we've got caged in MMA, jerk.
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Why'd you take your? Pants off my balls were fucked.
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This is caged in MMA. I wanted to get into it because
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I I've attacked the UFC, especially UFC 322.
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I didn't like it. I thought it was just really
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badly put together. But UFC 323 I thought was
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sensational. I thought there was a lot of
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superstardom and we saw some good young fighters coming up
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and even some mishaps and and things that happened that you
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don't want to see in the UFC and you don't want to wish anybody
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getting hurt in the middle of a fight where he has a chance to
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continue moving on and being the star and being the champion that
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he's been. Let's go into it.
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UFC 323 featured several main event fights, two ending in
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decisions and two ending in knockout.
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In the main event fight, Yon defeated Merab by unanimous
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decision to win the men's Bantam weight championship, getting
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revenge on Merab after Merab won their first fight on March 11th.
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In 2023, Marab lost for the first time since 2018, ending a
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14 fight winning streak. Yan has now won four fights in a
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row and has improved his overall record to 20 and five.
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Down the card, Van beat Pantoza in the first round.
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Just 22 seconds into the fight, after Pantoza's arm was broken,
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Tiaro knocked out Moreno with a second round knockout, improving
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his career record to 18 and 1. Talbot defeated Sauto by
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unanimous decision. Sauto announced his retirement
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after this fight. At 38 years old, Sauto finished
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with his career record 16 and six with 9 knockouts, but hadn't
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won a fight since May 9th, 2020 when he beat Cruz.
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Now I want to go to Sauto first because it's somebody that I
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love to watch fight. Henry Cejudo is one of the more
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underrated champions the UFC has ever had and and a guy that
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everybody counted out and anything, anybody that knows
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him, he believed in himself. He comes from a poor family,
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comes from a family that has nothing, always believes that
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everywhere he's gone and and all the tries and tribulations he's
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broken through was because of hard work and dedication and
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believing himself. He's the first UFC fighter to
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win an Olympic medal and yes, an Olympic medal and win two titles
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in two different weight classes at the same time.
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Think about it. And Henry Cejudo, who is going
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to ride off into the sunset, he did lose his fight and he wanted
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to go out a winner. And it was so gracious what he
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did after the fight. He was on his knees after the
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fight. He was talking to Dana and he
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said take care of this kid. I love this kid, the kid that
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beat him and Talbot and and spoke very highly of the kid and
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and said that, you know, he thanked before he even went up
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there. He was thanking the UFC and
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thanking, you know, everything that they've done and helping
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him and and really helping him, his family grow as, you know,
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people that really had nothing and now have something to live
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for. And Henry Cejudo is very loved
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by everybody. I don't think I've ever heard
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anybody say that Henry Cejudo was a bad guy.
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So I I, you want to see somebody ride off into the sunset as a
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winner. Peyton Manning did it.
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All these champions that we've seen over the years there, there
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are guys that ride off into the sunset.
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And I would have liked to see Cejudo do that.
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But he took on a fight, a fighter that's up and coming in
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a weight in that weight Class, A very good weight class with a
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lot of talent. And it's something that you you
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want to see. But my, my heart, my love goes
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out to the Suhudo family and Henry Suhudo.
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I, I love everything about him, everything that he stands for
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free mixed martial arts and and boxing and wrestling.
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This guy is so gracious and and such a good person by heart.
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And anybody that hates this guy or doesn't like this guy doesn't
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understand what it is to love a person that stands for his sport
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and, and what the sport really brings to the game.
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So my, again, my, my love goes out to the Sohuto family.
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The fight, the fight that really stuck out to me was Jan and
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Marab. And that was the fight everybody
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couldn't wait for. And I, me being one of those
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guys that couldn't wait for this fight, Marab wanted to break
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records. He's always about breaking
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records. Marab chains out here in Long
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Island, and I got a chance to go to the gym and watch this guy
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train. This guy is a monster.
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His stamina, his ability to do the things that he does and do
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it so freaking well. I've never seen anything have
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the stamina have a fight. I've never seen a fighter have
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the stamina this man has. He is special, he really is.
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And he didn't want to make any excuses after the fight, but he
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did come out and say that he had some kind of sickness and he was
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dealing with lung, lung problems because of the sickness.
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And I, I don't think he was trying to make any excuses after
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the fight, but there were people saying that he might have had a
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broken jaw. They were saying there were
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things going on in the fight that he just didn't look right.
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And I would, I would say that I, I would, but I got to give a
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little bit more credit to Yan. Yan was sensational.
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He really was, he was there, he was ready to fight.
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He was ready to dominate this fight.
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He had something to prove after 2023 and losing that fight
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against Mirab where it was very, very close until the 4th and 5th
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round, I, I just didn't think this fight was even close.
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I think Mirab was completely dominated after the second round
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and all the way through, Yan was throwing the jab.
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He bloodied his face pretty early in the fight.
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Really at the end of the first, the first round you saw that the
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Rob's eye was shutting and it was, it was getting pink and I
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it was just complete domination. The stand up fighting of Yan is
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just remarkable. This guy is one of the best
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stand up fighters the UFC has and he showed it.
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He was throwing inside kicks. He was, he was doing everything
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right. And every time a Rob was trying
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to take him down, he was he, he, he just did everything right.
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He sprawled everything, everything you can say you want
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a fighter to do against a great wrestler.
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Yon did that. And he completely did the one
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thing that would transition and take Marab out of the fight, and
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that was take him away from taking him down.
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I think if I'm not mistaken, Marab tried to take him down 29
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times and only took him down twice.
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Only took him down twice and I don't think Marab and when it
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comes to percentages we've ever seen Marab with those kind of
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percentages have so many bad opportunities or not have the
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opportunity to take a fighter down.
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The way he did. It was it was really remarkable
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if it was a fighter that could fight a perfect fight.
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Yan did that against Marab and anybody that knows mixed martial
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arts and understands mixed martial arts, the way he
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defended the takedowns was just excellent.
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And then when Marab would take him down, he would get right
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back up it. It's just that that's something
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that you like to see. You like to see somebody train
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and, and get ready for a fight and be ready for a fighter that
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completely dominated him in the, in the later rounds in the first
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fight in 2023. I will say this about Marab.
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Marab likes to take on challenges.
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Marab wants his rematch. And I, I could see Marab winning
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the the rematch, but Marab was trying to prove that he wanted
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to be the first fighter to win four matches in the year, in a
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year. And he was on his way.
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This was his fourth fight and an all four fighter, all the
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fighters that he fought this past year in 2025 were elite
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fighters. And he wanted to do it against
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Yan. And I just think he picked the
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wrong fight, the wrong match up against a guy that was hungry
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and younger than him. Yan is like two or three years
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younger then Marab is Marab is what 3536 Yon is like 3132 years
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old. He's in the prime of his career.
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I don't think we've seen the best of Yon yet.
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So that's the incredible story about this that when Marab
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fights Yon again, is is Marab going to get the best of him?
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Maybe Yon gets he's in his head now.
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So we've seen this before. It's with with the fight game.
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You just don't know. And it's it's, you know, the UFC
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has been back and forth with these these cards.
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So I I didn't know what to expect.
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But that fight was sensational. It's going to go up as fight of
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the year. And even though it was really so
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lopsided, when you look at the scores, it was a lot closer than
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you think. And again, I've never seen Marab
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being dominated, especially on the takedowns and trying to take
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somebody down and not taking somebody down the way Yon really
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defended it. I've never seen anything like
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it. So I, I still think Marab is one
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of the top three fighters right now in the UFC, even not being
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the champion. Yon is the champion right now.
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But I think the UFC has something I, I, I, I think we're
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going to see a lot of Yon Marab left.
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I could see maybe two or three more fights with these guys.
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They they're both great. And, and, and Maraba already
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came out and said, you haven't seen the last of me.
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I, I haven't even, I haven't even hit my top, my top.
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What, what, what would be the word I, I've not hit my top, my,
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my top end yet. So I, I'd like to see what
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Maraba is going to do, what he says he's going to do in the
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near future. The, the, the Van and Pantoza
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fight. Pantoza has been a dominant
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fighter. I think he's won five
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consecutive or six consecutive fights in a row.
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And he's been a champion and, and he has been as dominant as a
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champion in his weight class over the last couple of years as
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any fighter in the UFC. And to see a guy go down in the
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26 seconds, landing on his arm the way he did, and I got to
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give Van a little bit of credit. He's the youngest champion the
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UFC has ever had. I think he's 22 years old to see
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to watch Pantoza Pantoza go down the way he did and and not punch
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at him when he was pointing to his arm because he realized that
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it was broken or it was disgusting when you watch the
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replay of it was really, really bad to watch.
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But to see Van actually not drop hammers on him or hammer fist
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him or try to hurt this guy and they stopped the fight.
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It shows shows a lot on who Van is and, and how great of a young
19:02
kid this this kid is. And I I'm looking forward to the
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rematch with Van and Pantoza. But it it was a fight that
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everybody was looking forward to.
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Pantoza, who's a great ground fighter, also can stand up with
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you. And Van is one of the best
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combination fighters, you know, in all of the UFC.
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So it was it definitely hard to watch.
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It was disgusting to watch. When you watch somebody land,
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it's like anybody watch Chris Wyman's fight when when his you
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know, his leg went on, his leg went went on and and Anderson
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Silver when his leg went on on him.
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So it it's it's disgusting. It's not fun to watch when
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you're watching mixed martial arts and you see something give
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out the way it did. But congratulations to Van being
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the youngest UFC champion the UFC has ever had.
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And then there was the Moreno and Tiara fight, who now Tiara
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is, is now the number one contender for Vans championship.
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So that could happen early next year.
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That could happen in the White House cuz I think that'll be a
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great fight. Tiara right now is 18 and 1.
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He bought a he beat a champion. Moreno is a two time champion in
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that weight class and he knocked him out in the second round and
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just completely dominated him. And at one point, Moreno had him
20:16
in a triangle and it looked like it was really deep and.
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Tiara just calm down. He got himself out early in the
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later in the first first round and got out of the round and
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then just completely dominated the second round and eventually
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knocked out Moreno And Moreno. I thought the fights were
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stopped a little too early. I think Moreno, if you know,
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being that Moreno is a fan favorite and a champion, I think
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the referee could have given him a little more time to
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recuperate. But nevertheless, Tiara is one
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of the best young fighters in the UFC, one of the more
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dominant, one of the more dominant fighters we've seen in
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that weight class in a very long time.
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So it was a good card, fun to watch and it definitely the
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marab and yon fight was definitely up for fight of the
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year. I I don't think you can take
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away anything. Anybody that loves mixed martial
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arts and loves wrestling and and stand up boxing and kickboxing
21:14
and Muay Thai. This was the fight to watch
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because you have two great champions, 2 great fighters
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going at one another and know each other very very well.
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Only in the second fight and and put on an absolute display of
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just combat fighting that you love to watch and and wasn't
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boring. There was nothing boring about
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that fight. And at the end of the fight,
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Marab, you know, his face was completely demolished and Yan
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didn't have one. I I don't think he had one
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bruise on his face, but I that's that didn't take away from how
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close the fight was in certain aspects of the fight.
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So but very well deserved by Yon.
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I think yon dessert, you know, wanted this fight.
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He's been waiting for a chance to fight Marab again and now
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he's on a winning streak. Marab was on a 14 fight winning
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streak and now he has a chance to start it again.
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He says we haven't seen the best of Mirab yet.
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So and he's 36 years old. So I'm I'm looking forward, I'm
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going to actually be going to the gym.
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I'll be going to Nassau County. I'll be going to see Mirab train
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coming up in the next couple of months and I want to see his
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workout plan at his diet is ridiculous and he doesn't have a
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dietitian. He doesn't trust dietitians.
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Anybody see the type of weight this guy drops?
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Think about it. He's dropping to 135, all right?
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He's walking at 180 and he's dropping almost 40 lbs with no
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dietitian. It's pretty incredible what he's
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doing right now. And I got to give a little bit
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more credit than credit is, you know, that people give Rob a
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little bit credit for. And he's such a kind soul, Kind
22:52
soul and so humble. And he apologized to the fans
22:56
after the fight and, and all that other stuff.
22:58
And he wasn't trying to make excuses, but you could tell
23:01
there was something up with him right in the beginning of the
23:04
fight. He was playing with his jaw and
23:06
it looked like he was breathing wrong.
23:08
And he's never tired. So there was something going on
23:10
with him as far as I'm concerned.
23:12
But it was sensational. UFC 323 was definitely something
23:16
that I was excited for and maybe the UFC has something up their
23:21
sleeves for the final pay-per-view of the year in
23:26
December. So I'm, I'm not, I I haven't
23:30
been a fan of some of their pay per views.
23:32
Three, 23322 wasn't great, 3/21 was and 3/20 was good.
23:39
So every two, two main events to two pay per views, there's a
23:43
good pay-per-view. So this was their best one in
23:46
almost two months, so or three months.
23:49
So it says a lot about Dana. And we'll see what Dana does.
23:52
He's getting ready for this White House extravaganza.
23:56
And I think they said it's going to be May or June where there's
23:59
going to be 7 or 6 big time fights with some of the biggest
24:03
fighters the UFC has to provide. And they're saying John Jones is
24:06
going to come back to fight Piera Piera.
24:10
So I'm interested to see what's going to happen with that and
24:14
maybe somebody else, maybe Conor McGregor comes back, who knows?
24:18
I'm yeah, I heard the last time I heard Conor McGregor's name
24:22
being brought up in the conversation, he wants $100
24:24
million and the UFC told him to bug off.
24:26
So I don't know what's going to happen with that, but it very,
24:29
very interesting story. So there you go, ladies and
24:34
gentlemen. Now we got dial it up.
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We interrupted this regularly scheduled.
24:38
Hot mix to bring your important news.
24:40
We got a big broadcast to do here.
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We're about to dial it up. All right, guys, welcome to got
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a little, got a little my. Favorite.
24:52
Lightning round sports takes. Errol hasn't seen these stories.
24:57
He doesn't know what's coming. He's going to give us a take and
25:00
then we're going to react to it. First story up, Jeff Kent,
25:02
elected to the 2026 Baseball All of Fame by the ERA Committee.
25:10
This 57 years old was named on 14 of the 16 ballots by
25:14
Contemporary Baseball's ERA Committee, two more than he
25:17
needed for induction. The interesting thing about Kent
25:21
is that his famous teammate Barry Bonds is did not get
25:25
enough votes whatsoever, and neither did Rodger Clemens, Gary
25:29
Sheffield, Dodgers great Fernando Valenzuela.
25:32
They were all named on fewer. Dottie Baseball.
25:34
Ballots, Donnie Baseball, apparently, along with yeah,
25:41
Donnie Baseball, Dale Murphy, Sheffield, a bunch of guys, they
25:44
have to wait another five years before their names come up once
25:48
again to be considered. And that's how it works with
25:51
that error committee ballot. It's kind of interesting.
25:53
But again, you know, Kent's career started, met the Dodger
25:59
and a Giant. You're going to remember him for
26:01
those three teams. Clearly a great player the whole
26:05
time. Good for him, but it's kind of
26:08
daily lives. He goes in before Barry Bonds
26:13
Arrow. I love Jeff Kent.
26:17
I've been rooting for Jeff Kent for the last couple of years.
26:21
I I've been speaking about him and Albert Bell and another guy
26:24
that should be inducted into the Hall of Fame, Don Mattingly.
26:27
These guys were putting up numbers for a significant amount
26:30
of time. Jeff Kent was the best 2nd
26:32
baseman in the league for when he was in the league for like 8
26:36
years. I mean power numbers
26:38
defensively, he played multiple positions in the infield.
26:41
He also, I think he even played in the outfield too.
26:44
So he did so many things right. Was he?
26:47
Was the media's? Was the media fans of him?
26:50
No. Did he get along with Barry
26:52
Bonds? No.
26:53
Didn't get along with some of the teammates?
26:54
No. But he was a great player and I
26:57
don't know why the media and I don't know why the writers, if
27:00
they don't like somebody they're not and induct him into Hall of
27:03
Fame. He, this guy should have been
27:04
inducted into Hall of Fame. He was a first ballot Hall of
27:07
Famer. And if he wasn't a first ballot,
27:08
he was a second ballot Hall of Famer.
27:10
That's how great of a player he was.
27:12
Very well deserved. I wrote a story.
27:14
Go check it out on the Worldwide Sports Radio Network.
27:17
I gave my take to it. Very, very funny.
27:19
And I took shots at the committee.
27:21
How many old guys or how many riders do we have to see when
27:24
they finally figure out what and who should be in the Hall of
27:27
Fame? This is ridiculous.
27:29
This guy should have been here. Slam dunk.
27:31
Barry Bonds should be in the Hall of Fame.
27:33
I Barry Bonds should be in the Hall of Fame before Jeff can't.
27:36
There's no question. Sure.
27:37
Even even before the steroid era, Barry Bonds was a Hall of
27:40
Famer. The fact that the committee is
27:42
not and hasn't even come close to think that they were going to
27:45
induct him into the Hall of Fame is a catastrophe.
27:48
And Donnie Baseball, I believe in five years will be inducted
27:52
into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Yeah, they're all all different
27:55
independent cases too. Like I don't think that Barry
27:57
Bonds directly correlates with Jeff can't like when you look at
27:59
position wise, like Jeff, can we consider a top five 2nd baseman
28:02
and arguably the best offensive second baseman you've ever seen
28:07
power hitting wise for a position that's not a heavy
28:09
power. And I remember we've discussed
28:10
it for many years too. And I remember you guys were
28:13
speaking about the meeting yesterday and yes, who texted me
28:15
right after the meeting? Josh Silverberg, who's been very
28:17
passionate about that for a while too on his show.
28:18
It was him and Billy Wagner when he first did his show, like so
28:21
adamant that those guys were slowing overdue.
28:23
Wagner got in last year finally and Jeff Kent gets in this year.
28:26
Very well deserved for him for a guy that's been a force to be
28:29
reckoned with on the offensive side of the of the bat.
28:31
At 2nd, you don't have to like somebody for him to be inductive
28:34
Hall of Fame. Yeah, we've sent for a while.
28:36
It's like a Hall of Selective. Sometimes I, I, I don't get it.
28:39
I I really don't get it. Jeff Ken absolutely deserves to
28:42
be there. His peers and you say top five.
28:45
He's a top three second baseman of all time.
28:48
If you look at his statistics or whatever you want to you, you
28:51
got tell me a second baseman that has better numbers than
28:54
this guy. That's all I'm going to say
28:56
about that. I think Roberto Alamar probably
28:59
has better numbers than him, but.
29:01
I take him over Roberto Alamar any day.
29:03
That's a Hall of Famer though, you know what I'm saying?
29:05
Power wise I would I'm. Not talking power wise, talking
29:08
as a player, but 351 home runs as a second base, most in the
29:12
history of baseball. Jeff Kent, congratulations to
29:16
him. From baseball, we go to one of
29:18
Errol's favorite players in the world, James Harden, who passed
29:22
Carmelo Anthony for 10. Please all time.
29:28
What a picture. History.
29:30
You like that picture? I thought you'd appreciate that
29:32
one. So again, blessing, a testament
29:36
to the work I've put in. It's an honor, especially with
29:39
somebody like Melo who's done so much greatness for this league.
29:44
Next above Harden on the list is Shaquille O'Neal who's 9 looks
29:49
like 290 something points away from Harden.
29:53
Looks like it's something that's attainable this season.
29:55
Looks like Rodney Dangerfield. Look at him.
29:59
Yeah, so I'll remember that. I finally got some respect.
30:03
Later, but I I figured you'd have something to say about your
30:08
boy James Harden when we. Dial it up.
30:12
First of all, he's not Allen Iverson, nor will he ever be
30:14
Allen Iverson. So Eric Coleman, eat your heart
30:17
out says I have a story up there from, I don't know, a month and
30:20
a half ago and I post it up. Listen, James Harden is one of
30:24
the best offensive players of this era.
30:26
There's no question. Him, Russell Westbrook, Kevin
30:29
Durant, they all play together and never won together.
30:32
It's great when you're putting up the numbers.
30:33
Look at the guys that are on that list.
30:35
Look at the guys that are on the list at this time of this time
30:39
of this decade. None of those guys, Carmelo
30:41
Anthony, did you ever win a championship?
30:43
No. Who cares?
30:44
I don't care where you are on the offensive side of the ball
30:47
or what kind of offensive numbers you have.
30:49
If you're not winning championships, why even play the
30:52
game? You're making your money, that's
30:53
fine. Your families are taking care
30:54
of, that's fine. As far as James Harden is
30:56
concerned. Scoring doesn't win
30:59
championships. As we all know.
31:00
You have to be a multi savvy player to win championships and
31:03
James Harden is not, Carmelo is not.
31:06
You name all those guys, they're not.
31:07
So Kevin Durant won a championship because he had to
31:10
play with Steph Curry and Klay Thompson and and Traymont Green.
31:14
To me, winning championships takes you have to be a multi
31:18
savvy player and and James Harden has never been that way.
31:21
As a matter of fact. As a matter of fact, I think he
31:23
is the leader of walking the ball into the basket.
31:26
So I I just honestly, basketball is completely different.
31:31
You might as well not even dribble the ball.
31:33
Half these guys don't. So I don't know.
31:35
No, like Speedy said to the 10 step, €10 step travel that he
31:39
does per game. And also I remember we mentioned
31:41
it a while ago when discussing James Harden as well.
31:44
Matter of fact, but that step back that he's been doing for
31:47
forever now is definitely a travel.
31:49
I don't I don't care what anybody says.
31:50
He takes like about 3 to 4 steps back and shoots the ball and
31:54
somebody mentioned how it's like his gather step when he's I
31:57
don't want to hear it. It doesn't make any sense.
32:00
Arrow. You snatch the words right out
32:01
of my mouth. It's cool that yeah, he's on the
32:04
10th of all time scoring leaders.
32:06
You know, he's pretty up there And what is it 3 pointers as
32:08
well? Yep.
32:09
But it's not, it's not translating anything and it's
32:12
anything. I mean, there's a guy who's
32:14
strong armed his way, wanted to play with this team, wanted to
32:16
play for these guys, wanted to play with that guy, and it
32:18
hasn't translated well at all. So yeah, he's scoring the
32:20
points. He is a very prolific scorer.
32:22
He's one of the best or one of the prolific scorers that we've
32:25
seen in the league within the last 15 years or so.
32:28
But one of the biggest crybabies?
32:29
Still, that's the main thing, that's, that's the number one
32:31
thing about it. So I mean, even this year he he
32:33
had he said he didn't think it was a good idea to bring in the
32:38
Chris Paul trade. And you know that that has his
32:41
whole legs with its own situation.
32:43
Him and Ty Lou didn't get along. But I just feel like him adding
32:45
his comments. Nobody gives a crab James.
32:47
So cool. You're the 10th on the lead on
32:50
the list, but you're still with. You would ask me right now, who
32:53
would I rather in the prime of their career, Chris Paul or
32:56
James thought I'm taking Chris Paul any day, any day.
33:00
So James, eat your heart out. And I don't, I don't care if
33:03
he's in the top ten. It means nothing.
33:05
It doesn't transition into anything.
33:07
He hasn't won anything. He's won an MVP.
33:10
Who cares? Everybody wins an MVP now in the
33:12
NBA. It doesn't help you.
33:14
It doesn't do anything for you. All it does is it makes you more
33:17
money. So I guess that means everything
33:19
to him. Not championships.
33:21
All right, let's move on. We got another sport changing it
33:25
up. Let's go to college football.
33:27
This is a real weird 1. So James Franklin, as you know,
33:31
was hired by Virginia Tech to be their head coach while he
33:35
replaces former head coach Brent Pry, who was fired after an O13
33:42
start. Pry, though, is now being
33:45
rehired as part as defensive coordinator of the team that
33:50
just fired him because Franklin has been with pride seems dating
33:56
back to his Vanderbilt days almost 20 years ago.
33:59
Never seen this. Before he was a kid, but this is
34:02
something that like exactly highly unusual.
34:04
Move. Is probably the the best way to
34:07
put it. I've known Brent for over 30
34:09
years. I got a ton of respect for Brent
34:11
and his family. I know he poured his heart and
34:13
soul into this place. I know this place is better to
34:15
say because of Brent and the commitment he made.
34:19
They owe Pry about 6,000,000 for firing him but he's back.
34:24
I I don't know a similar story. I figured maybe you did, or
34:28
maybe you could think of something.
34:31
Dial it up. I've never heard a story like
34:34
this that a coach gets fired and gets rehired by the coach that
34:37
takes over for him and hires him as a defensive coordinator or an
34:41
assistant coach. Never heard a story like this.
34:44
Never. So it's pretty remarkable.
34:47
Doesn't work. Maybe it does.
34:49
Obviously the program loves him and and I'm sure Franklin
34:53
reached out to the director and and probably went over this,
34:56
this situation. Now, it would work out if he
34:59
were to bring him in as a defensive coordinator.
35:01
I think it's good for the school.
35:02
I think it's good for the program.
35:03
All you're doing is bringing Franklin in and you're bringing
35:05
in the same guy that was running the program for the last couple
35:09
of years. So I think it makes sense.
35:11
But I've never seen anything like this.
35:13
Could it work? Yes.
35:14
Should it work? Who knows?
35:17
You know, in that locker room when they fired this guy after
35:20
they sucked, when they went O and three, so many of those guys
35:24
took shots at them, said awful things, trash talk them.
35:29
Now he's back. It's going to be weird and it's
35:32
going to be awkward and I just don't think it's going to work.
35:36
I I, I'm sorry, like, I just don't know how that works.
35:40
I know that it'll work between the two of them.
35:43
I'm sure they'll be professional really well because that's a
35:46
role that they've, you know, shared together for a decade
35:49
plus at different stops. But between Pry and his players,
35:53
I don't know, man. I don't know how you have faith
35:56
in the guy. And that's that point.
35:58
It's going to have to take a lot.
36:00
I I just it's, it's really unorthodox like you said.
36:03
I can't think of any other example.
36:06
Never. Not that quickly.
36:07
Like sometimes coaches will come back to colleges like if they're
36:10
more comfortable or they can't find a better candidate within
36:13
maybe a five year. But have you ever heard a coach?
36:15
Get fired and get rehabbed quickly.
36:18
Not as an assistant coach on the no, that's a bizarre
36:21
circumstance. Never heard anything like you
36:22
were saying. Maybe there was a connection
36:24
with the the Vanderbilt because James, James Franklin when he
36:27
was early on at Vanderbilt, so he was battling a lot with just
36:30
really to rebirth a team that was awful for a while.
36:33
They're at baseball school and they had a couple 10 win seasons
36:36
over there. Those were the last ones that
36:37
they had until up up until this year.
36:39
And now you're just trying to get familiarity with there.
36:41
But again, there's enough of a connection to I guess maybe
36:43
maybe it wasn't so bad that maybe it wasn't as awkward where
36:46
they felt like they could still bring him back the athletic
36:48
director. Or maybe there's just a good
36:49
enough connection with both. Of them to make it work.
36:51
I I mean, Dan Quinn is an assistant for the Rangers, I
36:56
guess. I guess that's similar.
37:00
I don't know. It's a weird one.
37:02
Let's move on to the next story. But I literally I've never seen
37:05
that before. No, not within a less than a
37:08
year span. This guy we've seen before in
37:11
this situation, here he is, the great Joe Moran.
37:15
Guess what? We got some trade rumors to talk
37:20
about. The Miami Heat are circling like
37:24
vultures around the depressed asset known as John Morant.
37:30
There's a lot of people who do not want John Morant.
37:34
Here's the quote from an unnamed source of the combination of
37:38
pain in the injury prone, not that good anymore and big
37:42
contract is a bad one. He wouldn't want Morant on his
37:47
roster regardless of salary. I don't know what his value is,
37:53
but it appears Miami is very fascinated to find this little
37:58
cheap, you know, reclamation project here.
38:02
It appears that that they have the assets.
38:04
They don't have a star player. That is the thing with Miami
38:07
Spoelstra is able to cobble together.
38:10
Not a bio is a bam out of bio is a good I think he's a.
38:14
Sure, I think he's not a scorer though.
38:16
No, they don't have a score. Valmont bands a defensive
38:20
stalwart and, you know, a decent offensive player, but it's you
38:24
don't have a guy like this or what the promise perhaps of John
38:28
Morant is compared to the reality.
38:32
Errol, how do you feel about heading to a place like Miami
38:36
where I'm sure that that would be a great place for him?
38:39
Dial it up. I wouldn't think that's a great
38:42
place for him going to Miami with the gun charges and all the
38:45
other stuff that we've heard. That is not a good place for
38:48
him. Party Central.
38:50
Before you continue, I have to tell you, they said in this
38:52
article that Miami could provide the infrastructure that he
38:58
needs. All right.
39:00
Under a veteran, I'm going to, I'm going to give you.
39:01
I'm going to give you the other twist here.
39:03
We've had Tim Hardaway, senior on this show who played for the
39:07
Miami Heat, and he was one guy that said that somebody needs to
39:10
smack this guy around a little bit, OK?
39:13
And now he's going to go to Miami and try to figure it out
39:15
there. Good luck.
39:17
I think John Moran is a great player To say that he's washed
39:21
up and he can't play anymore. He's 25 years old.
39:23
He's a kid. To say that he he's still in the
39:26
prime of his, he's not even in the prime of his career yet.
39:29
To say that he's lost something. I don't think he's lost
39:32
anything. I just don't think he fits there
39:33
anymore. Memphis doesn't know how to
39:35
control him. I think he needs to start over
39:37
somewhere else and I think he needs to go to a franchise
39:40
that's going to give him a chance to flourish.
39:41
Maybe a cremento or somewhere where it's quiet going to Miami
39:45
where it's loud. Whereas partying and stupidity
39:49
and strip clubs. It doesn't bode well for a guy
39:52
like John Morant to go to a party central place like Miami.
39:56
Anybody that's been there knows that that's not a safe place for
39:59
a guy like John Morant. So that's a place that never
40:02
sleeps. You don't want him to go to a
40:04
place that never sleeps. You want him to go to sleep.
40:06
You want him to hide himself in a room and make sure he's not?
40:10
Bringing things out and about where he's going to get himself
40:13
into trouble. So I not surprised Miami's name
40:17
is being involved in this conversation.
40:19
Miami's looking for that other star.
40:21
They haven't had a star, a superstar player like a Dwyane
40:24
Wade in a long time, a LeBron James of that magnitude since
40:28
they were champions. And they're looking for that
40:30
Next up and coming guy. And they haven't drafted very
40:32
well. Tyler Hero has been the closest
40:34
thing and I don't think Tyler Hero's anything.
40:37
And like I said, Bam out of bio, he's he's a great player, but
40:40
he's he's not that go to guy where you're going to put the
40:44
lights on him and shine. Hopefully if you're going to put
40:46
your lights and you're going to shine in on John Moran, keep him
40:48
out of the strip bars and keep him, keep him away from the guns
40:52
and the the stupidity. James Harden out of the strip
40:54
bars. Yeah, that's that's another
40:56
thing. Maybe they need to hang out
40:57
together well. What it is too, like you said,
41:00
they the Heat really need, they're in a prime position
41:03
right now. They're doing pretty well.
41:04
They're winning a couple games. They need to, like you said,
41:07
have that one guy that's very flashy and very elite.
41:11
Jimmy Buckets. I forgot about Jimmy Buckets.
41:13
True, but even now that Jimmy actually know this last season
41:16
that he was that he was moved to from them.
41:18
But whole point is is you know, they're looking to go back to
41:21
that window because the the window for Miami to win a
41:23
championship is definitely closed or it's a lot slimmer.
41:26
So for them to get that one other guy, I would say as a John
41:30
Morant is really like you said, I think John Morant could
41:32
definitely play. I think he definitely is not
41:34
washed up the way the people make him seem.
41:36
I know he's. 25 years old, how is he washed up I.
41:39
I think so many people have already thrown the towel in on
41:41
this kid that if he does go to Miami.
41:44
He's having a bad year. He's averaging 18 points.
41:46
That's a bad year on a Memphis Grizzly team, okay?
41:50
And he'll be going. To shooting, His shooting
41:52
numbers are atrocious. Yes, because there's a reason
41:55
why he's not healthy and he doesn't want to be there.
41:58
If you don't want to be there, he's pushing himself out.
42:00
Yeah, you don't want to be there.
42:01
He's playing like crap and he don't care and he's playing like
42:05
it. He likes to pick on Klay
42:08
Thompson. It's pretty funny.
42:10
I mean, every time I like to pick on Klay Thompson, every
42:12
time he's out there, him and Klay Thompson, there's something
42:15
that's going on out there. Those two do not like each
42:18
other. And, and what's great about John
42:20
Moran is he he does it in such a savage kind of way.
42:25
It's it's, it's so funny. Klay Thompson takes everything
42:29
so seriously and this guy doesn't take anything seriously.
42:32
They're two of the complete opposite.
42:34
It's very funny, really is. I would love to see them on like
42:37
on A1 on one like reality TV show.
42:41
Could you imagine these two go against one another to try to go
42:44
and go and go after the same girl?
42:47
Meg, this what is it Megan the stallion?
42:51
Both of them go after the same woman.
42:53
That would be so freaking fun. So freaking fun.
42:55
Seen worst programming on TV? This is one of my favorite
42:59
graphics I've made in a long time.
43:00
I'm not going to lie. All right, let's move on.
43:02
Tony's the last story. Yes, or save.
43:07
I'm sorry, what's we're doing Dial?
43:09
It up. Dial it up.
43:10
Save. Here he goes.
43:12
You're so into that. Save your tears, crap, you know.
43:15
You know what? You know what?
43:16
It was your idea originally. Yeah, and now it's always on
43:19
this thing. It's always my idea.
43:21
Right here it is, John Calipari ripping the nil.
43:26
Oh please. Some classic, Yeah, but you
43:29
gotta I'll try to do the Calipari accent, I guess.
43:33
There are a lot of older gentlemen with beards playing
43:35
basketball in college right now. There are.
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So the one that's crazy and the guy comes in and he's waving to
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his kids up in the seats and he's like, wait a minute, the
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guys got two kids. He's still playing college
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basketball. Crazy thing, he's using NIL for
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his first wife's alimony and now he's still playing college
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basketball. Are we nuts?
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So now you have these kind of games and these kind of scores.
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Calipari very frustrated at playing teams with a bunch of 25
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year olds on them. And then, you know, having the
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18 year old squads that he's trying to build because I guess
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for some reason he thinks he's trying to do it the right way
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for the first time in his career.
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But here we go. John Calipari again.
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I love the the main quote. His first wife's alimony and
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he's still playing college basketball.
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Are we nuts, Errol? You know what's so funny?
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He should go and hang out with Rick Pitino because it seems
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like every single one of his players right now playing for
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St. John's OR are over the age of
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28. I mean, both guys are complete
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opposites. Kala Perry that he pretty much
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brings these guys in when they're 16 or 15 years old.
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They're top ranked players and and that's how we recruit some.
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He recruited them in Kentucky. Look how many players went to
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the NBA at such a young age and they only played one year with
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him. He went to a national
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championship win, lose and all that other stuff.
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And now you have Kala Perry coming out and saying they're
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too old. It's this, it's that NIL deals
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are keeping them here and, and they're paying their their wife
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or their girlfriends girlfriend or, or something because they
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got 3 or 4 kids. Who cares?
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If they want to, if they're eligible to play college
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basketball, let them do that. That might be the only time
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they're going to make that kind of money.
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They're not going to the NBA and if they play in the G League,
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they're not making any money over there either.
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Unless you're a big time superstar going into the draft
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the year after as a first round draft pick.
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So why are you complaining, Calipari?
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Nobody complained about some of the stupid stuff that you've
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done over the years. You've done a lot of stupid
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stuff and you've hurt big game of college basketball by the way
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you did it, recruiting players could to go to Kentucky, but
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nobody complained to you. It was OK when you were doing
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it. Now all of a sudden that NIL
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deals are bringing these older guys to play college ball and
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because they're older, you don't like it and they're not young
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enough for your liking, you're going to complain about it.
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Bah humbug. Go back Scrooge.
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I don't want to hear it from this guy.
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What a Scrooge. I and I like John Calipari, but
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a Scrooge. A very Scrooge move.
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And I, I love Rick Pitino because he came out, he was on
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Jalen Brunson's show with Josh Hart and they were interviewing
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him and it was very, very funny what he said.
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And Jalen Brunson came out and he says, well, how old are you
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guys? He says, the average player on
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my team is 27 years old. And he's like, well, you get
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them when they're ripe. He says, I get them when they're
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old because I'd rather coach older players that understand
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the game than the younger players where I'm trying to
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teach the game. So it's that's, that's the
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interesting take on it And and we'll see how it works for
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Pitino. A lot other people believe that
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Pitino and the St. John's storm could be a final
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fourteen this year. I wonder why.
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Calipari, maybe you should be taking some information from the
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petitioner. Yeah, but before I get to my
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point, it is funny better of Rick Petito because John
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Rothstein, who is the big college basketball insider to
47:05
always has these nicknames for these coaches and fish, you'll
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like this based on your your thumbnail you made.
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He has Rick Petito's The Godfather and John Kalapower is
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the Last Corleone. That's so funny.
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It's so true right now. It really is.
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And that's what's so great about Pitino, because I, I was
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thinking when you'd popped that up, I'm like Rick Pitino is
47:23
doing the quite just the complete opposite.
47:26
He loves the NILDL. He loves that same Shawn's is
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doing this and giving them as much nil that he could possibly
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can to go after the older people, the older player,
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because they he thinks that it's better off not teaching them and
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and they already understand how to play the game where it's it's
47:43
harder to get them to play his style of game.
47:45
So it's so it's so perfect to watch these two guys go at it
47:49
with one another. I would love to hear Pitino's
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thought to what Calipari? Said And you never saw him
47:53
embrace it really until later on at Kentucky too, even when other
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teams were starting to do it. And it was a big reason, the
47:58
SEC, he started to rise where it was having more parody in
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college basketball for a while, because for a while it was
48:03
Kentucky and Florida. And then maybe you got maybe two
48:05
other tournament teams that were very mediocre.
48:08
Sometimes you'll have your occasional year with LSU, your
48:10
occasional year with Vanderbilt seems like that.
48:12
But it was always those two. Now all of a sudden you look at
48:14
all the parody. Auburn's really good, Alabama
48:16
teams like that because Calipari.
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Kentucky really fell apart the last couple years.
48:19
The first year started to use the transfer portal was good.
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In 2022, I thought they would win it all.
48:23
They go out in the first round against Saint Peters.
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It just shows it has any idea how to use those types of
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players. All of a sudden he's complaining
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about it because he's at Arkansas where the NIL is not
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going to be as strong. He's going to have influence,
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obviously, because it's type of the coach he is.
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But now he's complaining about it because the rest of the SEC
48:36
is catching up and he's stuck at maybe the, I guess, NIL wise,
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9th or 10th market of the SEC. Yeah, have fun with that one.
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And hopefully your coaching prowess will go so far with an
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Arkansas team in a very loaded SEC that had 11 teams in the
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tournament last year. Maybe it's time to retire.
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Stop complaining. That's all I'm going to say
48:54
about that. I honestly, I have a lot of
48:57
respect for John Calipari. I think he's one of the
48:59
godfathers of college basketball.
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He really is. Ever since Coach K has been
49:03
gone, guys like Rick Pitino, him and Roy Williams, before he
49:08
retired, there were a lot of godfathers.
49:11
And who's the kid from. Who's the guy from Michigan
49:13
State? I'm.
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I'm sorry, is all these guys. Yeah, these guys are the
49:17
godfathers of college basketball.
49:20
And then you hear John Calipari, who's really been cheating for
49:25
the last, I don't know, 10 years with Kentucky, and now he's
49:29
complaining because he went to Arkansas.
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Player over 22 in his entire career for a while.
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What a baby. I mean, and Pitino is so funny
49:37
because Pitino made a joke about it and he's like, yeah, and and
49:41
and you know, Josh Hart, he does it in such a savvy, funny way.
49:44
He was like, you like, wow, who's the youngest guy in your
49:47
team? He said, I think the old, the
49:49
youngest guy in my team is over the age of 25.
49:52
And he says, where do you find these guys in schoolyard?
49:55
Schoolyard basketball? I love it.
49:59
Pretty much you didn't have a guy, I think besides their
50:01
backup point guard on their championship team in 2012.
50:04
I think he was the only one on their team that was in the
50:07
perfect season in 2015. Like besides that, I can't even
50:09
remember a Kentucky player that stayed four years of that.
50:12
Era and it's so funny because Pitino actually coached Kentucky
50:15
years and years ago, so he understands what Kentucky's all
50:18
about. He understands what Saint John's
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is all about. He understands what New York
50:22
basketball. And by the way, where is John
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Calipari from New York, Where is Pitino from New York?
50:28
Nuff said. You got 2 New York guys coming
50:31
out. Both both have their own
50:33
opinions towards the way you're going to use NIL deals, 1
50:36
bitching and moaning because it's not working out for him and
50:39
the other one has all the money in the world to do whatever he
50:42
wants with it. So who doesn't like that?
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52:28
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