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The Fight Report with Hanson Crafton (Weekend Preview; Podcast 353.1).m4a · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and fifty three point one the fight report with Hanson Crafton
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[SPEAKER_02]: This week, Hanson and I talk about the UFC's huge deal with Paramount Plus, seven point seven billion dollar deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We also preview this weekend's fight in the UFC UFC three-nineteen and a big boxing card in Saudi Arabia with a couple of big heavyweight fights.
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[SPEAKER_01]: you're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome fight fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report and Hanson Crafton's fight report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is a big weekend in the fight world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What this week will be remembered for is the deal that the USC side with paramount plus and it kind of changes everything, doesn't it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it really does.
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[SPEAKER_00]: New landscape in the fight world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: paper view is over with with the UFC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting to see how it goes from there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping that with this deal, I know they sound seven years and it's like seven, seven billion dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully a lot of that goes to the fighters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know it's one
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[SPEAKER_00]: topic that's been discussed a lot is how the UFC fires are underpaid.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we will definitely talk about that handson before we do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk a little bit more about the agreement and what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: PKO, which owns the USC signed according to Reuters, which is the first to report it that
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[SPEAKER_02]: Amazon Prime slash paramount plus has signed a seven point seven billion dollar deal with the USC and Yes, it's it's paramount plus but you would have to assume that Amazon's gonna be a big part of this right maybe not streaming wise, but at least promotion wise Yeah, I think a CBS is also going to be a part of the right paramount plus is a is a streaming service of CBS
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It should bring a lot more exposure to the fight, you know, and everybody's going to get to a lot of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can want to see this or if you get the Paramount Plus, then you'll be able to watch everything plus I think they're going to put their library on there as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All past fights are on there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It starts January, first, twenty, twenty, six.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Every single USC event will be streamed on Paramount Plus.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some will also be seen on CBS as you mentioned.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There will be no more pay per view.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the big deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it will take a Paramount Plus subscription to
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[SPEAKER_02]: to get the U.S.
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[SPEAKER_02]: email and I don't know how much that is now, but it's not any serious U.S.
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[SPEAKER_02]: fan is going to be happy to pay it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a ton of money, not like just selling out just for one paper view could cost you triple figures.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, someone that you do the, he count the monthly subscription to the ASP and plus and the seventy dollar
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... paper do you mean you're looking at eighty five dollars for one five and so as you mentioned this is a great great deal for the fans it's obviously a great deal for dina white and his partners and the question you had is is this going to be a great deal for the for the fighters and the bottom line is hands in a has to i know dina white is
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[SPEAKER_02]: really believed in his model of coming up from nothing and fighting for basically nothing until you become big time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you would hope that at least this would help with some of, you know, short careers for obviously and very damaging careers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe this can help them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think the fans need to demand it now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you know, it's going to bring a lot more exposure to these guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So all these guys are
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, more eyes are going to be on the fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But just, you know, a lot of the contracts had paper view points built into them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm wondering to see what they do with those, those guys who are already on a current deals with the UFC to see what their contracts look like going forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now that there is no paper view, sort of be no paper view points added to their contracts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Hans, so this is a little bit of speculation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Things like this, because I know you and I have talked about this with boxing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I also think it would really work in the USC.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now that they have a new model, I think they need one event, a single giant event, a Super Bowl of USC, so to speak, the end of season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it could even, the season could begin again the next week with
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[SPEAKER_02]: with certain fights, but something that's a tournament type of thing, maybe a point type of thing where at the end of the year, how it were if you want to put that, everybody's fighting for championships, eight men, three women championships all within a month.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just something that I think would be incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Especially if you did it during the summer, when there's not a whole lot else going on, that might turn this into a next level sport.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I completely agree, you know, used to before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know Dana says that he's had that made so many events throughout the year now because he has so many fighters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But used to when it was coming up and I wasn't that many fighters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have paper views every month.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's like every other month.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe every three months.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They would do stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You would have one card that would be just stacked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and I know they try to do that with the hundred when you get to like one hundred two hundred three hundred.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's just not yearly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely agree, I think, eerily, they should have something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you should do international fight week, which was in July, in the summertime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But these cards, they just do so many.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've all got kind of watered down even international fight week, put together a decent card.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But nothing Michael, we're talking about where you have multiple belts on the line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe do a Friday night, Saturday night thing where you have all your belts on the line or two cards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For different locations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely would like to see that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know probably about five years ago, they did a weekend where they did a Friday night Saturday night and Sunday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or it might have been Wednesday Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Say, I can't remember the three days exactly, but they did do that one time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They did a card.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One night, they did an ultimate fighter card, which had a women's title fight as the main event.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they did a lightweight title fight on either Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then on Saturday night they had a main card.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was UFC, two hundred.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was loaded with multiple title fights as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they have done something like that before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm wondering now with TKO, because they also have bought WWE.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's kind of something they've been doing lately is doing a whole weekend doing a Saturday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe they will take that style from them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we may get a weekend where they do multiple cards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On one weekend, that would be something that a champion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I think the fans would love that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Even if you did it over a month and you had all eleven championships decided, even in a month, it would be, I think a huge deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then you start the new season the next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Getting away from the ISP and plus, I know one thing that was a part of the deal with the ISP and plus is every tape review had to be headline by a title fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So now they don't have to spread out all their title fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They can do something like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it would be, it would be interesting to see, you know, this is going to be new, especially with them getting rid of the paper view model.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think they should do something to kind of reward the fans and to try to get the new eyeballs that's going to be on it every, you know, wondering how often they do these, but
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like I said, more exposures better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is an opportunity to really dig in and get a lot of eyes on their products.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they should do something like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just a really good idea.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're they're right on target the way it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was probably twenty years old when MMA type fighting be started becoming mainstream and
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, going from Fox to ESPN and now to Paramount Plus and CBS, it seems like they're on the right track if you're, if you're a fan, seems like everything's kind of coming together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the USC is now more profitable than the NHL.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's grown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's, you know, I started watching early early when it first came up, you know, with pride in the early days of USC, and to see where it is now, it's just,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's remarkable to see how fast it's grown and how big it's grown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's it's one of the top sports, especially for like our age.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's definitely taken over a lot of sports.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This weekend, there is UFC three, nineteen hands and still on ESPN plus paper views.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we still have a few months left of the paper view nonsense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This one is in Chicago on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The early pre limbs are at six.
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[SPEAKER_02]: the prelim star today and the main card starts at ten and tell us about the the fights you'll be watching in three nineteen has them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a really good card.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of those where they got a lot of fun fights and it's headlined by a really really interesting title fight against the places.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Champion from South Africa and Homsachamoff was kind of been like a
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's had a lot of steam behind him since he burst onto the scene a few years ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy that a lot of people thought was going to be a multi-weight champion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He has had some health issues that's kind of slowed his role.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to speak, but when he first came on, he was so fast growing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a guy that was fighting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was during the COVID pandemic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they were doing all the fights at the apex.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a guy that was fighting
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He has a record for fighting twice in a two week span.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Got two finishes and then fought probably a month later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we just came out of the gate made a name for himself as a huge fan base.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's kind of been like a werewolf of the division.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a huge opportunity for me to finally get in this first title shot any fighting guy who
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[SPEAKER_00]: is a very good champion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, drickest is a guy who came up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He fought a lot of tough guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's beat them all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both of these guys are undefeated UFC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think drickest is six and only UFC and Homsott is nine and only UFC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know drickest is on eleven fight win streak total.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Homsott has not lost a fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's fourteen and no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got all finishes six by knockout six emissions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got nine in the first round.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a very big fight, a very interesting fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a fan favorite fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if it's a lot of people are very interested in this fight because you don't really know how it's going to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of people think like I do, homes up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's very dominant in the early rounds, but like I said, with his health issues in the past,
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[SPEAKER_00]: He does tend to gas later in fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He has to have a fab round fight yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna be very interesting to see how he does in the late rounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It can get still late rounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Drittis is a guy who can get you to the late rounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a tough guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He survives the early rounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he was at one point looked like he had issues with his gas tank.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But in his last few fights on his title run, he's actually been better in the late rounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's the most interesting part about this fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As you've got a guy with steam rose people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw a staff the other day with a homesot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every fight he said that you have seen he's been able to take the person down within a minute of the way of the star of the fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's probably going to come with the same strategy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to try to take drickest down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to try to submit it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But like I said, drickest is tough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's well rounded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a good ground game as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then like I said, it's going to be interesting to see if it gets to the later rounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How homesot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It does in later rounds and will he be able to survive once he gets to later rounds because drickest does put on a little bit of a pace.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what makes this fight very, very interesting is is the fact that you have two completely different styles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got a guy who's going to blitz you and pretty much use most of his energy in the first couple rounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you guy guy who can fight for twenty five minutes and he's dangerous for all twenty five minutes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a very big fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just watched the press conference not too long ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The crowd was just really into it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're really behind homes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to be a very fun fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, here's what I need you to call this one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go with homes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just from what I've seen from him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just say he, you know, he is a small favorite, but he's been so dominant with his wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The only person who's been able to kind of control his wrestling was Camaro Usman and who is also a very good wrestler.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Camaro was there actually on the Olympic team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was an alternate for the Olympic team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he was a very good wrestler.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the only guy that's really been able to handle Hamza's wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to be able to get drinking still.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he's going to be able to tack him out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he takes him down to strangles him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think Hamza wins this fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By submission, huh?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think he's going to get the submission winner this one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know there's another co-main here at the Welterweight fight, but I want to talk about the other middleweight fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a couple of fights before the main event because is Michael Page to get the winner of this one?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you with?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be up there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's a guy that's a fan favorite.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fans love this guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He came from Bellatory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He had a huge following there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He came to USC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's done well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's won three of his four fights in the UFC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a finisher.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's a guy that has high likes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why the fans like him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's fighting a tough guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jerry Kennedy who has that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not easy at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, this is one of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They say stalemates fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can there's a bigger guy who likes to use his body.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is a power puncher.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The venom pages are very slick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stand up fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got very good stand up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if can a neural trust down the feet with him because the venom page.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't look like it is very long and lanky and kind of skinny through the vision, but he's got power in his hands, power in his feet, power in his knees.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a very good striker, a very dangerous striker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So both these guys are very good on the feet, but I think Kenny near would have the advantage on the ground if they could get it there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Vinnom page is tricky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like a city.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a lanky guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He moves very well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He has like a karate style base where he leaps in and out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's striking is very quick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he could kind of low you to sleep with the way he stands and hops up and down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if boom, he can leave been in hurt you with something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think, you know, with his fanfare, if he does go out there and win impressively, he could see himself in line for a title shot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think, when's it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go with the minimum page.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he's been on the role lately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Ken and Nears kind of on the back end of his career.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, he has already fought for the title.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's just, his time is kind of fascinating.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think minimum pages is right in the, in the thick of his, I think his strike is going to be too much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be too fast too slick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, that Christ, I use is where he leaps in and out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's very dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he potentially could get a stopage here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If he doesn't stop him, I see him winning by the decision, but he could get a knockout here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: which I think is what he'll go for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I think a nice impressive win here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he can get it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you've been on a short list for a title shot for the middle way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk about the Ron Murphy and Aaron Pico and this one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anthony is the closest to being a toss up in all of the card, which by the way, every fight is pretty close to a toss up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very close odds on all these fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And with with Pico and Murphy, you know, you got Murphy who's on a road spin in the UFC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He says a big wins of late.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Pico's a guy coming from Bellator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was on like a firefight win streak when he came over from Bellator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a younger guy, a great wrestler.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he was a Olympic guy with the wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he's also a guy who's trained a lot of boxing too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's one of those rare breeds that
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[SPEAKER_00]: The younger guy got into the mixed martial arts and kind of tried to master both arts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's very good wrestler.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He does have very good power, very good boxing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say the only knock on Pico that you've seen is he's kind of chin-y a little bit when he gets hit he has been able to get hurt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and it's it's one of those things where no matter where they come from, guys seem to struggle when they come to the UFC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And even the great ones that came over from other organizations, they just seem to struggle when they get to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when you listen to him, he doesn't sound like he has those nerves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He sounds very confident.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's kind of already looking past the wrong Murphy's kind of been talking about title shot with Vulcanowski.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Murphy's here to kind of wreck his plans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, this is a short notice fight for Murphy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually feeling them for somebody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was supposed to fight measure of off who has been
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's undefeated in front of the way and he was actually in line for a title shot, but he got hurt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy who pulls out a lot of fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is probably dropping him back in line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a big opportunity for both of these guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Impressive fight here can get you to one on the title shot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm actually going to go with the underdog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we were on Murphy stills this fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he did to done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's very fast on the speed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a sleep fighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's dangerous close range, which is kind of where Pico likes to fight as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and I think Murphy's going to surprise a lot of people here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I actually think he might finish Pico and earn a title shot with this fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's coming in like I say, he's a short notice villain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dana always loves that, especially come in and put on a big show, which I'm looking for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's a confident kid himself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he knows he's got an opportunity here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He knows he's got the spotlight on him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he takes advantage of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I see Murphy getting the win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anything else from that card that jumps out of you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this walkthrough way fight with Carlos Paritis and Jeff Neill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jeff Neill is a guy who's been the UFC for a very good stand-up fighter, clean boxer, power in both hands, coming off a finish of a former champion, Rafael Dos Santos, and then you got Paritis who had been on the theme UFC, he's coming off his first loss, his last fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't really, I don't know, it looked like he was a little,
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[SPEAKER_00]: status in that fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's a he's a finisher too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's he's got a twenty one way and sixteen by knockout.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he fought in the child on the Gary who's a very good fighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gary's a guy who likes to stall on people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He does use his wrestling a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy who can wear on you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's tried to save some of his energy in that fight because he did almost finish Gary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and either the fourth or fifth round of that fight in the blues in the decision.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's coming off his first loss and since he's come to the UFC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it'd be very interesting to see how he responds to that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a fan favorite.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He comes to that group, the fighting nerds of all those guys had were undefeated UFC except for his last loss.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Very good camp.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They finished fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he gets back on track.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jeff knows a great opponent for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be a very fun fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's one of those fights that you would take with lead off the pay for you, but it's so good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be the third, you know, co-mainness to say, but that's a very fun fight for a lot of people who know who these guys are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, people know who Jeff knew is this is a guy who's going to stand up trade box and he's got good cardio.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he'll be there and then pray they see, you know, he's a wild striker himself with finishing power.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's a very fun fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see that when going to the distance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think pray they still it's when that fight I think he gets a stop it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he rose on and moves on to another big fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe gets a rematch with any Gary.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Handsome because of the big UFC paramount plus news we didn't save a lot of time for what is a pretty big boxing weekend some some interesting fights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll go ahead and tell the listeners that
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[SPEAKER_02]: coming up starting next week is the first week of season two of the central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we will have reactions to all of these fights, no later than Monday for you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Hanson, what are you looking for to most about this weekend in the box.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really excited for this box in card.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of, it's it's a fights that lead to fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's one of those cards where you got a lot of guys that's up and coming
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[SPEAKER_00]: The main event of this Saudi Arabia card you've got a Fenderweight belt with number two right Nick ball number three Sam Goodman two very good fighters both all three two and oh yes, the got twenty two and oh twenty and oh now Nick ball is kind of a big favorite.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's also who I predict to win this fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nick ball's a very slick fighter very good fighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got an opportunity here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The featherweight class right now is one of the hottest in boxing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just saw
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[SPEAKER_00]: A couple weeks ago, we had Shushu Kerington on there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got Rockdale Esfernoza, who's a very good fighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that class is hot right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And these two have an opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're headline on the Saudi Arabia card.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a big card.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's in the afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's could have a lot of eyeballs on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nick Ball, he's coming in with wins over TJ Donahee and Raymond Ford.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Goodman has also be Donahee.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's in, he's coming off of a win over who was nineteen and one, Caesar and Spinoza.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So both of them are kind on the roll right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is good times with both of them fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, they're ranked two and three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Nick ball gets this win and I think he sets himself up with either WBO title shot with Espinoza or WBC title shot with Xu Xu Karen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like I said, these are these these fights are leading to big fights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anthony, you think it goes to distance?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this one goes in distance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Sam Goodman's tough enough to last.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people think Nick Ball's going to win by stoppage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nick Ball's not really a stoppage guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He does have thirteen finishes and there's twenty two wins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he hasn't really finished seeing by a blade.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think Goodman's better than that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think Goodman's a guy's going to go in there and get finished.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I see this one going in the distance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Next fight to another big one, it's in the same featherweight class.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got Raymond Ford, who, like I just mentioned, he did head loss to Nick Ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's been his only loss of his career.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's seventeen to one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually ranked number four in the featherweight division.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he's fighting Abraham Nova.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is kind of a get back on track fight for Ford.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is two and no senses lost about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He looked fantastic in his last fight against Thomas Maytase.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that was an April.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is kind of another fight for him to get on track.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, nobody's a tough guy, but he is one, two and one in his last four, it's twenty four three overall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He does have seventeen knockouts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's kind of a big punch for the featherweight division.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Rayford's a big favorite minus eight hundred going into this one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, I think this is a fight for him to get on track and give back up there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for him to get another big fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, he wins this fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're looking at maybe a Steven Fulton fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to maybe you see who fights for a title.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, two guys that have one loss, I think a piece.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a big fight for Raymond Ford.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he looked very good in his last fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he will continue that role.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he beats Nova.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I do think he can stop Nova.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not really a big finisher himself, but he does have a tendency to finish guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He should finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I said that a couple weeks ago, talking about Zander Zayas, you know, I thought he should finish the fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when he's got the opportunity to finish fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ford is that guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ford will finish you if you're giving the opportunity to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a fight he can't get a finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I look for Raymond Ford to get a finish here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Move on to who knows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he gets a rematch with Nick Ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Nick Ball is a little bit ahead of him like a sad thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He'll be fight for a title.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Raymond Ford put himself in a really good spot with a good performance Saturday afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nova doesn't have a lot of fights go the defense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a finished story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to get finished.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why I'm thinking that I think we're going to see right before finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And a decent heavyweight fight with a pretty good prospect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Huge heavyweight fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Moses and Tommy is one of the biggest prospects we've had heavyweight in the last few years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of those situations where he's at two early form.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know Turkey are already once in the fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If he wins this fight, but he's just twenty years old.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You kind of don't want to rush these kids, especially in the headweight division, but Otami is Tommy has looked great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Twelve and no ten knockouts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's knocked out eight straight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, eight of his last fights of Auburn knockouts and nobody has made a pass to round with him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He takes everybody out early.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's super fast for a heavyweight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I've seen a heavyweight put combinations together like he does.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Super fast hand speed and he's got big power in both hands.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a very dangerous fighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's only ranked twenty seven in the world right now, which is kind of crazy to me with with the way he's came up, but the half kind of made it slow for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't fought in the big names.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be his first one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's fighting Delion White who has fought everybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Delion White's fight of who's who of heavyweight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's thirty one and three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got twenty one knockouts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's very dangerous too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know he's a big underdog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's plus six hundred.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A Tommy is minus a thousand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's a huge favor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, this is one of those where it's not going to go to the distance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to go past five rounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, you have to respect white.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's a guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, two of his three losses are Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury, which aren't, you know, there are no scrubs there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And didn't he had back-to-back wars with the back end where they both stopped each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's beat Joseph Parker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's beat Chizor twice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the only thing with
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then why does he's thirty seven.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I know in heavyweight you can be a little bit older than that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But all three of his losses he has been stopped.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he can be stopped.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the Tommy Rose, I think he's he continues his sin towards the heavyweight title.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he's right if I do stick if he wins this fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he's definitely going to get another big name after this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he knocks really a white out sometime within the first four rounds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me tell you, if you'd be Dylan White, you're a pretty good fighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're definitely on the way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like we said before, I think Joseph Parker deserves the next title shot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The wish they would give it to him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I could see if Moses goes in there and takes care of this, like he shouldn't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he gets Joseph Parker next for title eliminator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is for the heavyweight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You do the intercontinental belts, which is kind of basically a title eliminator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is that
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think a Tommy will need one more after this before he fights, who's sick, but who knows, you know, who's sick's kind of big sharp hunting right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he knows he's on the back in this period, wants to big money fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if that's the fight turkey wants, if he does enough money, it looks like it might be the fight he gets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So huge fight and heavyweight division, like I said, this is one of the biggest prospects that we've had heavyweight in a while.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to be very interesting to see if he goes in there and puts on a show
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[SPEAKER_00]: what they do for him next.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be Osig or it could be Joseph Parker for a title eliminator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So very, very big fight, very interesting fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I can't wait to really watch him on up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've enjoyed watching his last few fights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, the hand speed is something that really stands out to me for heavyweight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's very exciting, especially with his knockout ability and a Mac and wait for this fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: things more likely that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Atama would fight somebody like Richard Torres kind of an eliminator kind of fight probably before you think it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mike Tyson did it at twenty but that's that's just too early probably to be going against growing then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Especially when like I said they're kind of taking it easy with him as up to this point doesn't really have any big names on his record right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I think they, you know, even if he doesn't get the tile shop or, I mean, maybe they don't mean there would do boys coming off of a knockout who knows, you know, maybe try to get in a couple of names on there before he fights for a title, which is what I would do with him just to try to draw more eyeballs to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But who knows, you know, I know boxing is a very different sport than what we, you know, what it should be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They make a lot of crazy decisions there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: being raised and seeing what they do next, I do expect him to row Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Anthony, let's do this again after all the fight this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, I can't wait.
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