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NBA Conference Finals Are Set and SGA Wins Back-to-Back MVPs · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Joey Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: social at the Daily Play Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Game seven delicious word. It's a delicious phrase.
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  Speaker 2: I love it so much and so much can happen
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  Speaker 2: in a game seven, and especially when you have two
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  Speaker 2: very evenly matched opponents. I did predict that the series
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  Speaker 2: would go long, and they were evenly matched. However, this
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  Speaker 2: game was a total complete blowout one twenty five ninety four.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't really feel like the Pistons were in it
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  Speaker 2: once we got to the end of the first quarter.
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  Speaker 2: The Cabs were up seventeen at the half. They live
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  Speaker 2: by twenty six points.
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  Speaker 1: To start the fourth. Donovan Mitchell Spider was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Let all scores with twenty six points, and Cleveland just
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  Speaker 2: didn't really play their best game. They really had a stinker.
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  Speaker 2: Ri Kadan Cunningham said that game sucked. There was a
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity to the season to move forward and continue to
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  Speaker 2: experience new things that we hadn't been exposed to. We
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  Speaker 2: fell short. We were right there, but we fell short.
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  Speaker 2: I think that Chip and that Sting is going to sit.
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  Speaker 1: For a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gotta be frustrating when you make it to
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  Speaker 2: a Game seven of the Semis against the Calves. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, two very evenly matched teams. Obviously it went
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  Speaker 2: to a Game seven that didn't happen by accident. But
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  Speaker 2: the issues that the Pistons had all season long came
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  Speaker 2: to bite them, and that was shooting, and the Calves
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  Speaker 2: impressed me in this series. I however, think that I
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  Speaker 2: am taking the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: I am taking the next in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 2: The Knicks played on May tenth, which means they'll have
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  Speaker 2: nine days of rest before Tuesday's Game one. You can
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  Speaker 2: go either way with that. Some people think that too
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  Speaker 2: much rest is not a good thing. The Knicks aren't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily a young team, and it was critical for og
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  Speaker 2: and Anobi, who's recovering from a hamstring string that kept
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  Speaker 2: him out of Games three and four of the second round.
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  Speaker 2: And the Calves will have less than forty eight hours
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  Speaker 2: between Sunday's win and Game one, and the Knicks went
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  Speaker 2: too and one against the Calves this season. I think
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  Speaker 2: this will be a very physical series. I think it'll
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  Speaker 2: be very fun. The Calves are a team that is
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  Speaker 2: right on the cusp. The Knicks are a team that
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  Speaker 2: everyone kind of hopes is on the cusp and obviously
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  Speaker 2: made quick work of the Sixers in the second round.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have a team that has had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of rests and a team that is coming in hot.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine that the Knicks will start Game one a
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  Speaker 2: little bit slow. They do have home court advantage, so
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  Speaker 2: the first two games will be at MSG, which is nice.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think this will be another long series
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  Speaker 2: and it will really require the best of the best.
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  Speaker 2: Like this is when it matters. This is when you
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  Speaker 2: have to show up, and both of these teams have
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  Speaker 2: been knocking at the door for a while. We don't
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  Speaker 2: want it to look too far ahead to what the
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  Speaker 2: finals will offer because we still have the Western Conference
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  Speaker 2: finals to play, but I think either team comes out
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  Speaker 2: of this series will will be poised to make at
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  Speaker 2: least the finals interesting. So I'm excited to see this matchup.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is the better offensive matchup for us
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  Speaker 2: as fans to watch, and I'm going with the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think it's going to be a long series.
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  Speaker 2: So congrats to SGA Shay Gilders Alexander for the second
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  Speaker 2: year in a row, is the MVP. It comes as
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  Speaker 2: they are about to host. The news comes as they're
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  Speaker 2: about to host the Spurs for Game one of the
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  Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: He had his whole team with him, of course, as
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  Speaker 1: they always do.
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  Speaker 2: To receive his award, Shay gifted all of his guys
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  Speaker 2: aps and Burberry trench coats for their support. That's very
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  Speaker 2: fitting for this group. Nikola Jokicic was second and victor
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  Speaker 2: Whenbin Yama came in third. Shaye was one of two
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  Speaker 2: players to average thirty plus points this year, and his
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  Speaker 2: team at the best record in the league for the
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  Speaker 2: second straight season. He remains humble king though I'm not
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  Speaker 2: really after the success. There's so many people in my
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  Speaker 2: life that sacrifice for me to play this game that
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  Speaker 2: I love, and I would not be doing them. I
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  Speaker 2: would be doing them in disservice if I didn't give
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  Speaker 2: it my all. None of those accolades and the points
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  Speaker 2: and all this stuff that's cool on social media.
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  Speaker 1: None of that is what I'm after.
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  Speaker 2: I'm after making sure that while I'm doing this thing,
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  Speaker 2: I give it my own.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not wasting nobody's time now.
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  Speaker 2: Shay has become a bit of a controversial figure in
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  Speaker 2: the basketball world because of his style of play, and
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  Speaker 2: people feel that he draws a lot of unnecessary fouls.
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  Speaker 2: They're pretty critical of the officiating when it comes to him.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a palatable style of play for fans for
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  Speaker 2: him to be at the line all the time. I
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  Speaker 2: can go either way on that. My opinion is, you
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  Speaker 2: get the points how you get them. If you're getting
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  Speaker 2: calls and you get to the line, you still have
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  Speaker 2: to make those free throws, and he does that really
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  Speaker 2: well as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, he's an incredible player.
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  Speaker 2: Back to back MVP's not happen because you get to
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  Speaker 2: the free relign a lot. He's incredibly efficient. He's absolutely
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  Speaker 2: brilliant to watch. I'm not a big fan of the
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  Speaker 2: of the constant fouls. I tend to lean more towards
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  Speaker 2: physical play. But he was obviously the right choice. He's
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  Speaker 2: the best player on the best team. Unless you do
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  Speaker 2: something it's absolutely beyond incredible. It's something that's never been
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  Speaker 2: seen before. It's it's really tough to not go with him,
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  Speaker 2: and he's been he's been the pinnacle of consistency he's
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  Speaker 2: a machine. He hasn't scored fewer than twenty points in
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  Speaker 2: a game for almost two full seasons.
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  Speaker 1: That's remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: So he's the fourteenth player in league history to win
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  Speaker 2: an award in consecutive seasons.
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  Speaker 1: So he, you know, joins very rare air.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Jokic and Wenby both had really impressive seasons,
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  Speaker 2: but not enough to surpass what Shay's done this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think he deserves it. People don't like seeing budding dynasties.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like to see players get rewarded too much.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I get what the voters did here. If
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  Speaker 2: you're going to go against the best player and the
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  Speaker 2: best team that has consistently put up the numbers that
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  Speaker 2: is consistent every single night in their scoring that is efficient,
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  Speaker 2: it is clearly the leader.
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  Speaker 1: That is obviously the reason why they are in the
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  Speaker 1: position that they're in.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody else has got to be doing something that is
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  Speaker 2: just almost impossible to do, and that's just not what
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  Speaker 2: happened this year. Finally, a little blast from the past,
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  Speaker 2: Ronda Rowsey is back and gone again. The former UFC
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  Speaker 2: champ stopped Gina Carano with a very classic Ronda armbar,
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  Speaker 2: very quick just seconds into the first round, seventeen seconds.
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  Speaker 2: It was a blockbuster event on Netflix this weekend, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she delivered.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen.
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  Speaker 2: Ronda Rowsey is one of those athletes that I hold
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  Speaker 2: very high up in the ranks, specifically for women's sports,
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  Speaker 2: because she cut through in a very masculine space. She
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  Speaker 2: was one of those athletes that cut through both socially,
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  Speaker 2: culturally and in the sport. And she was very, very
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  Speaker 2: very dominant. I mean, I think we haven't seen her
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  Speaker 2: for a while, and so I really kind of love
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  Speaker 2: that this is how she won this fight. She talked
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  Speaker 2: about it afterwards. She asked if she wanted to fight
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  Speaker 2: any longer. She said, hell no, me, my husband, my husband,
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  Speaker 2: my kids are watching me. I don't want to put
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  Speaker 2: them through anything more than I have to. She was
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  Speaker 2: married in twenty seventeen, has two kids with her husband.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way I could have ended it better than this.
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  Speaker 2: I want to have some more babies, and I gotta
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  Speaker 2: get cooking. I mean, great, I love it for her
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  Speaker 2: seventeen seconds with her signature signature submission. She wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get in and out of there as unscathed as possible.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very different exit than her initial exits
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  Speaker 2: where she lost to Holly Home and then Amanda Nunez
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  Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. So I kind of
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  Speaker 2: like her coming back and ending her career in this way.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to see the phenomenon that she was
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  Speaker 2: appear again. And the thing about fighting and combat sports
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  Speaker 2: in general, boxing MMA is that you've got to have
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  Speaker 2: the personality to match the fight.
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  Speaker 1: That's just how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's so many brilliant fighters all across the world
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  Speaker 2: in all of these form, these these martial arts forms,
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  Speaker 2: but if you don't have the marketing and the personality
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  Speaker 2: to match, you're just not gonna cut through. And the
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  Speaker 2: audience has to respond to that, and they've always responded
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  Speaker 2: to her, and she was incredibly dominant.
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  Speaker 1: So I like seeing her and her career that way.
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  Speaker 2: And now she's passing on fully and committed to the
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  Speaker 2: next chapter of her life and not passing on but
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, she's moving on to the
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  Speaker 2: next chapter of her life fully. And you know, she
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  Speaker 2: was an incredible athlete and and meant so much to
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  Speaker 2: that sport.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd love to see, you know, some more women.
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  Speaker 2: Take over the Mantle in the crossover way that she
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  Speaker 2: did so. For more on this and other top stories
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