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Daniel, come on, come

3:24

on over there. What

3:27

up guys? Welcome to a brand new episode of

3:29

Funkin' and Champ of Daniel Cormier that's been asking.

3:31

What's up Ben? I'm

3:33

doing good. Get ready for 4th of July,

3:36

America's birthday. We're gonna celebrate, do some fireworks,

3:38

do some fun things. Well, I heard that

3:40

you got like a really busy day. Like,

3:42

I mean. I do. That's

3:44

the life of Ben Askin every day? Well,

3:47

you know what? I actually thought I got through

3:49

my busy stretch, a lot of traveling, a lot

3:51

of wrestling, you know, and then my wife just,

3:54

she throws these surprise social engagements on me, which

3:56

whatever. I'm sure we're gonna have a good time.

3:58

I just didn't know about it. You know, to

4:00

like yesterday afternoon. Hey, so

4:03

like wrestling wise, boy, Team

4:06

aspirin won the national

4:08

wrestling duels. Well, team Wisconsin. It

4:10

was your team essentially. It

4:13

was your team. Look, I love how

4:15

generous you are with the praise of

4:18

the entire state. Yes. But

4:20

it was the Ashton Wrestling Academy. I mean, y'all wrestled

4:22

good, bro. Congratulations. Yeah, I appreciate that. That was

4:24

a big thing for us. That was something we've

4:26

been trying to do for a long time. We

4:29

brought in all the big troops and we got it

4:31

done. It was great. You

4:33

know what I think is the most amazing thing is how you

4:35

get your seniors when they're done. Yeah.

4:38

They still compete. That's massive, man. And how

4:41

many people do that? No, I

4:43

mean, we have a good relationship with them and they know

4:45

we've done a lot for them. And then, you know, we

4:47

say, hey, come do this one thing. And we'll also have

4:49

a really good time. And they were into it. Yeah,

4:52

that's awesome, man. Congratulations. Like that's not

4:54

something you expect from Wisconsin, but well,

4:56

I guess now you do. Now

4:58

we are. But you guys, like

5:00

Wisconsin as a state. Yeah. Ha

5:03

ha ha. Daniel, someday you can

5:06

move here and avoid that 17% state federal tax.

5:09

Wisconsin as a state. State

5:11

income tax. You said state federal tax.

5:14

State income. For a smart guy, you

5:17

have, hey, you and Michael Chandler are both guys

5:19

that are smart and went to Missouri. But boy,

5:22

sometimes y'all do some dumb shit. I mean, I

5:24

didn't know what I just said. Or

5:26

say some dumb shit. Anyhow, man,

5:31

are you into? Because

5:33

you know Luis. You know Luis, boy. Luis,

5:36

let me tell you something. You've never met

5:38

a bigger Poetan fan than Luis. I mean,

5:40

this is really. No, I didn't know that.

5:42

Oh, god. Bro, he is

5:44

the fucking president of the Alex Pereira fan

5:46

club. Poetan is. Poetan that. Poetan is. So

5:48

am I going to show up one day

5:51

for this podcast and he's going to have

5:53

the face paint on? Bro,

5:55

he is literally the biggest front runner

5:58

you've ever met. He's all. know who

6:00

my two favorite fighters are? I'm like

6:02

who, Luis? Oh, Poetan and Islam. I

6:04

mean, come on. That's hard. That's

6:07

hard, right, Ben? Anyhow. That's

6:09

funny. Yes. Poetan and

6:11

Coach Plinio were talking after the

6:13

knockout saying they saw him on,

6:16

saw him, I'm talking

6:18

about Yeripo Hasko on social media doing

6:21

something and said, I'm

6:23

gonna head kick him. Ben, does it work

6:26

like that? I mean, does it work like

6:28

that 15 minutes before a fight? You see

6:30

something on the internet that you can just

6:32

implement it? Or does it feel like to

6:34

you this is something that he might have

6:36

been working on and doing and it showed

6:38

itself so he took advantage because Luis is

6:40

all in. Luis believes that this just happened

6:42

on a whim. I'm not so sold, if

6:44

I'm being honest. I'm

6:46

not, so I would say I'm in the middle

6:48

somewhere because I have had instances like that before

6:50

where I just, I saw someone do something and

6:53

wrestling not in fighting, but I said,

6:55

oh, we could take advantage of that, right, as

6:58

a coach and say, oh. But in, but

7:00

Ben, 15 minutes before you went out there to

7:02

wrestle. Well, so the other difference is, you

7:05

know, with me coaching all my guys and the other

7:07

high school kids, I've never seen them before, right? So

7:09

it would be the first time I see them and

7:11

I'll say, oh, there's, there's, there's that thing, you know, like,

7:13

whereas Yuri is like, he's probably watched a lot of his

7:15

film, he's already fought him before. He's,

7:17

you know, he's been training for this fight.

7:20

And so it's like, I feel like there's probably already

7:22

some things he was picking up on and maybe that

7:24

was just like a quick reminder of like, oh yeah,

7:26

that's gonna be open. And you know,

7:29

at the day, there was a lot of other things working

7:31

for him also. Like there was a lot of things working

7:33

for him. So that wasn't the only thing working for him.

7:35

He did, he did everything right in that fight. I mean,

7:37

Yuri had no moments. It's really odd

7:40

how you have a fight between

7:43

two fighters that have already fought

7:46

and the fight looks completely different.

7:48

The first time Yuri

7:50

had moments, he had takedowns, he was able

7:53

to take him down and hold him down.

7:55

He was able to strike with them. This

7:57

time, I don't even know. The Yuri land

7:59

is significant. significant strike. Do you recall him

8:01

landing a significant? Well, you

8:03

know, significant strike. I always hate that it's

8:05

called a significant strike because on the

8:08

scorecard, it's anything that is not a jab is

8:10

a strike which doesn't feel right at

8:12

all. Um there's a jab

8:15

not hurt. Well,

8:17

sometimes the jam hurts and sometimes you know,

8:19

an uppercut misses or hit you and you'll

8:21

appear it doesn't hurt. So, yeah, I mean,

8:23

it feels like a weird terminology for significant

8:26

strike. You know, I get in trouble for that a lot

8:29

a lot where I

8:31

get mad about the takedown. Mm hmm.

8:34

I get mad about the takedown because

8:36

I don't agree with the terminology. Mm hmm. Mad

8:38

at me about that. Cuz that mad return is

8:40

considered a takedown. That is one

8:43

and also a takedown

8:46

doesn't count unless you hold them there for

8:48

a second. Correct. Yes. But

8:51

if I pick you up and I throw you to the ground, that's

8:54

a takedown. You and I both know that.

8:56

They do. They count that and you'll see.

8:58

No, they don't. That's why I get

9:01

mad. I'm like, well, that's a takedown. So, when Kobe

9:03

comes in and tomorrow, it was my own rest and

9:05

he hit that double leg. Yeah. He runs down to

9:07

his hip and then Uzman turns and stands up. I

9:09

think that's a take down. They said it's not a

9:12

take down. Oh, I don't know. So, I mean, um

9:14

I actually kind of a little bit of

9:16

a group because like in mixed

9:19

martial arts, I don't think a

9:21

takedown should count like, you know, the thing I

9:23

hate so much and um I don't know if

9:25

it's Joe Joe Rogan or uh Anika's

9:27

guilty this but so they always say something like maybe

9:30

you can get a takedown at the end of the

9:32

round to steal the round and it's like if you

9:34

get a takedown with 10 seconds up, it shouldn't count

9:36

like it should come for nothing because you've done nothing

9:38

with it. That's that's that's me

9:40

but that and I also said you win. No

9:42

way. I also say that

9:44

when I also say that when shut

9:46

up. I also say that

9:48

when are you a broken record right now?

9:51

Huh? Are you a broken record? I

9:54

also say that when shut up. When

9:58

we're in a very even. round and

10:01

the round is tit for tat and it's 50 50

10:05

with 20 seconds left and someone

10:07

secures a takedown. I feel like

10:09

that separates them from their

10:11

opponent really wins them the round because

10:14

there is no difference in the striking.

10:17

There is no difference in the damage.

10:19

There is no difference in in some

10:21

rounds. So something has to differentiate the

10:23

two. That's the takedown. Okay.

10:26

Yeah. I feel like if

10:28

someone gets a takedown and they do nothing

10:30

with it, it should have really, if it's

10:32

coming from a wrestler, it should have very

10:35

minimal value. Like I would rather

10:37

someone take me down and not punch me

10:39

at all than like get a really hard

10:41

leg kick even for example. Yeah. Yeah. You're

10:43

right. But surely like a body kick or

10:45

so, you know, hard punch, I would much

10:48

rather you take it out and have them

10:50

not punch me then, you know, get one

10:52

of those things happen. Ben is Alex Pereira,

10:54

a living

10:57

in a world where he's just benefiting

10:59

from being there at the

11:01

right time because you

11:04

go back five years in his division.

11:07

The top five is myself,

11:10

wrestler Jones, wrestler.

11:13

Yes. Bader, wrestler.

11:15

Yeah. Rumble Johnson was a

11:17

wrestler. Yep. Phil

11:19

Davis was a wrestler. Is

11:22

he, is he benefiting

11:24

from living in the right time right now

11:26

because his top five is Yuri

11:30

Stryker, Jamal Stryker,

11:33

uh, Rocket Stryker. Uncle

11:36

I have is a bit of a grappler too,

11:39

but he's mostly a striker. Yeah. Not

11:41

grappling heavy. Yeah. Daniel. It's

11:43

weird, um, because, you know, one of the things

11:45

that you would say about mixed martial arts or

11:47

that you generally thought, which now he is, I

11:50

mean, he's going up there like the all

11:52

timer list at this point. Yes. Yeah. And

11:54

it's wild because one of the things you

11:56

would have said previously is if. Someone

12:00

is so specific with one genre.

12:03

They're gonna fight someone who's gonna have like,

12:05

you know, a rock, think about rock, paper,

12:08

scissors, right? Yeah, and they all beat each

12:10

other. You're gonna fight someone who's different stylistically

12:12

from you at some point, but

12:14

he's this far in. I mean, he's two belts

12:16

in and many defenses in, and he

12:19

still has a thought, a really good wrestler. And I don't think

12:21

there is any. Well,

12:23

it's weird. I mean, that would go to

12:25

another point. It's like, Ben in the top 10. Well, let me

12:28

ask you this. Why

12:30

are really good guys choosing not to

12:32

wrestle at this point? That one's weird

12:34

to me because, you know, say 10

12:37

years ago-ish, right? There

12:39

was all these high level wrestlers coming in, and

12:42

now we don't see all that many high level wrestlers

12:44

making the transition, so you're not gonna get them at

12:46

the top of the division. I would say like, where

12:48

are all the kids, where are all the people that

12:50

wrestle? That weigh 230 pounds. Yeah,

12:53

for real. Like seriously, because

12:56

tell me the top 10. I bet you could pull

12:59

up the light heavyweight top 10 right now in the UFC. I

13:01

will do it. When you look at that, and

13:03

you look at the people there, they

13:08

don't seem to have many match ups that will cause

13:10

him a ton of problems. I bring

13:12

this up because of this. I

13:14

don't know if he wants

13:17

to. I

13:19

don't know how long he can run this

13:22

type of string together because

13:25

everybody he fights will have to strike

13:27

with him. And when

13:30

you strike with him, it is proven time

13:32

and time again that he knocks you out. So

13:35

if you don't have that ability. Daniel,

13:37

you look at 185 and 195, there's

13:40

not really a person in the top 10 in

13:42

either division that is like, you would say, is

13:46

a super high level wrestler and uses

13:48

it a lot in mixed martial arts.

13:51

Yeah, and for weird, yeah, it's weird because they

13:53

just don't exist. Yeah, heavyweight, that's not really the

13:55

case. Blade's shoes a lot of takedowns, Aspen all

13:58

the time. Aspen all can wrestle. All made. Russell

14:00

and Grapple so Russell Al

14:03

made a kin Russell. Yeah, but eighty eighty

14:05

five in and not to a

14:07

five It's then who's 205 top ten We

14:11

got Alice

14:14

Yuri Goliath started ten and

14:16

TV. Well, we're back. What's

14:19

yeah. Okay. Sorry Anthony Smith Anthony.

14:21

Okay Who does the beat

14:23

up? I'm not my boy He's

14:27

not in after last weekend. Okay. Well, he

14:29

is I'm on the website any currently is

14:31

so he's number ten after that fight He

14:33

had last weekend. I don't know. Maybe they

14:36

haven't updated. I'm not sir. Okay, so Smith

14:38

owes to me around tree Walker Krylov

14:40

wreck ik block awaits Hale

14:43

and Kalya of Proskka I

14:46

mean, I guess yon beholdage can be considered

14:48

a guy that he's not grappling heavy I'm

14:51

just saying though when he fought each other he was able

14:53

to take him down in control And so

14:55

that's the thing that's that feels so weird about Prayer

14:59

is you like I said, you kind of have

15:01

to start putting in an all-timer category when he's

15:03

won multiple belts defended titles But

15:05

then you think about okay Well, yon's not really a good

15:07

wrestler and took it out and kept it down the whole

15:10

round right the whole round Is

15:12

he is he who's not a wrestler took him down

15:14

and kept the numbers you know time You can wrestle

15:16

a little bit a little bit and so you think

15:19

like okay if he fights a really good wrestler This

15:21

may be a problem for him, but then you look

15:23

at the rankings to your point and you say But

15:26

there are none are are there any

15:29

guys in that ranking that

15:31

you would consider? Favorite

15:33

to beat him. I mean uncle I

15:35

have odds. He's a plus 130 dog

15:37

against uncle I have yeah,

15:39

that's me I'm

15:42

in for uncle I you know I and we've talked

15:44

about as many times I I am

15:46

kind of against the the Champ champ thing

15:48

I loved it back in the day when

15:51

George st Pierre Anderson still but when they

15:53

fought everyone in the division they cleared out

15:55

their divisions. They beat everyone, right? I'm

15:58

all in for that. So there's still some guys in here than

16:00

thought and he's

16:02

one of it seems to be one of

16:04

the only champions currently who wants

16:07

to be really active like he's very

16:09

active yeah he's fighting frequently so like

16:11

put him do you put him in

16:13

there at uncle live as a as

16:15

a promotion knowing the dangers

16:17

of that fight whenever you have

16:19

a guy in Pereira who is

16:21

really a massive star then he

16:24

says chama he says chama

16:26

like seriously he says chama and

16:29

people go crazy dog I put

16:31

a video of him I was

16:34

doing that stupid walk that he does and

16:36

then he goes chama it's got like 80,000

16:38

likes bro

16:43

it's crazy bro

16:46

so so hold on I do what

16:48

you ask me a question I do put him in there

16:50

party doesn't promotion where you go I kind

16:54

of put him in there with somebody else

16:56

well okay so let's tell us the UFC

16:58

does doesn't house try to

17:00

move people up the rungs faster

17:02

you know as Sean O'Malley kind

17:04

of a nice path Alex

17:06

prayer had a nice path to out of

17:09

Sonya they do do this but the one

17:11

thing that you'll see to my knowledge does

17:13

not do is protect you it's

17:15

protected for you know and listen they might give you

17:17

a more favorable fight one time right they might say

17:19

oh let's jump this guy because this one's gonna be

17:22

big money or whatever but they're not

17:24

gonna do it over the course of three or four

17:26

or five fights they do not protect you remember the

17:28

famous Vince McMahon quote that he said

17:30

about mixed martial arts was funny said they'll

17:32

never make a billion dollars because they they

17:35

can't control the outcomes right so they can't

17:37

make the stars star building star building but

17:40

they've done it so I don't see any

17:42

reason why they they wouldn't change and they

17:44

said they might pick a couple opponents but

17:47

they're not gonna protect him for a long

17:49

time he's gonna have to fight the best

17:51

guys in the division or bump up and

17:53

you know honestly Aspinall is significantly tougher fight

17:55

than so dangerous for him it's so dangerous

17:57

yeah that's been all for him is so

18:00

He's so big and he's so good at everything. I don't

18:03

know if that, hey, but I tell you one

18:05

thing Jones said now, he might stick around because

18:08

he goes, the options are looking great. And

18:10

if I'm Jones, look man, if

18:12

I'm Jones, I fight steep A,

18:15

I beat steep A, and then I

18:17

call out the UFC to make Pereira

18:19

go up knowing that you can take

18:21

all that thunder because Jones versus Pereira

18:23

would be a massive, a

18:27

massive payday. But I still, I, listen,

18:29

I love Alex Pereira, so it almost

18:31

feels, I feel guilty saying this, but

18:33

it feels like that would be similar

18:35

to Sirogan. Yes,

18:38

Gabriel Jones is a minus 800 favorite to

18:42

fight Pereira and beat Pereira if they

18:44

were to fight. So it's just like

18:46

not a great matchup, but I love

18:48

Alex, man. It couldn't have happened to

18:50

a better guy than

18:52

Pereira, his team, and those people

18:54

because Chama is

18:56

one of the coolest words I've ever heard

18:59

in my entire life. It's a real- John

19:01

Jones is the, I mean, I don't know, it's

19:04

like, I feel like, and

19:06

this is me as a fan, I feel like I get

19:08

so sick of it. And I have to assume other fans

19:10

to the same way as me is like, it

19:13

just feels like he's constantly playing games. I

19:15

mean, he's fought one time, Sirogan, his fight

19:17

before that, his fight before that was February

19:19

of 2020. We're talking

19:21

four and a half years ago, he's had

19:23

a singular fight. No, I know, I

19:26

know it's- Well, yeah, he got hurt last time,

19:28

so you gotta give him a little- Yeah, but four and a

19:30

half years, how many times can he be hurt? Yeah.

19:33

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and restrictions may apply. Hey Ben, just

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before we move on

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real quick, because

22:52

we can't stay long today, you have stuff.

22:55

I have stuff. But bro,

22:58

Europe for Hotchka had

23:00

convinced themselves that Alex

23:02

was doing. I

23:06

hate it. I literally brought

23:09

that up. I do those videos for my bookie.

23:12

Man, if you start talking like that, that

23:14

is a clear sign you're gonna get your

23:16

ass kicked. Like if you're starting to worry

23:18

about witchcraft, like, nope, you're done. You're not

23:20

gonna win. I said it, I said, listen, if

23:23

he's worried about witchcraft, this is gonna be over quick.

23:26

He's gonna get knocked out. And that was

23:28

what happened. Ben, he walked off the stage

23:30

after weigh ins. He goes, I

23:33

could see it in his eyes. He was

23:35

trying to do something. He was like, he's

23:37

not. You're

23:41

crazy. No, seriously. Whenever

23:44

Alex's song was playing, and

23:46

Yuri was in the middle of the octagon, he's literally

23:48

like pulling in the energy and

23:52

like putting it inside of himself. Oh my God. When

23:56

you get that far, it's a little

23:58

too far. And yeah, I'm not... I

24:00

said it like I hate this hate the bag

24:02

they sing about this and you think about that

24:04

type of stuff man It's probably over for you.

24:06

It was awesome. Oh my god. I love

24:09

you I love Yuri,

24:11

so what she's the best all right been Israel

24:15

at a Sonya drink is duplex. See

24:17

yes are now scheduled for Perth

24:19

at UFC 305. Mm-hmm Yesterday

24:24

had a press conference People

24:26

are seeing that it's on your face off for the first

24:28

time was the first time We've seen

24:30

them come together since that very uncomfortable

24:34

very interaction inside the octagon was

24:36

that What

24:40

would you say when I said I thought it was very

24:42

uncomfortable very Area

24:45

uncomfortable, especially to like people

24:48

who aren't black or like ha

24:50

ha ha this is crazy So

24:52

anyhow they come together How

24:58

much do you think it bothered at a Sonya

25:00

because one of the Reasons

25:02

they're so mad at each other

25:04

or Izzy is so upset. Yep, South

25:07

Africa Africa you so

25:10

eloquently Talked

25:13

about the history Talked about the history

25:15

and explained it to us as to why a

25:18

guy like Edith sonya would feel that But

25:20

then the first thing or one of the first things

25:22

trickling not strictly drinking says

25:24

is It's very

25:26

exciting for me two African guys

25:30

Fighting for a world championship. How

25:32

mad do you think that made

25:34

at a Sonya? Oh, yeah believe

25:37

The fact that Edith sonya wasn't inebriated It

25:41

may not have bothered him as much as it did

25:43

whenever they were at that event Hmm

25:46

no, I would say I would say

25:48

it bothered him for sure just based

25:50

on my drinking though Smart

25:52

to do that. Uh Yeah, I think

25:54

so. I mean that's kind

25:56

of what Drake is has done to this point I mean,

25:59

you know said I didn't love some of the trash talking

26:01

to Sean Strickland. I thought it was a little boy's belt,

26:03

but he did it anyways and it worked. So, um,

26:05

I really don't see why he wouldn't continue with that type

26:08

of behavior. Did you

26:10

see what Sean Strickland said today against

26:12

Peyton? My team, Peyton Talbot. No,

26:14

what'd he say? Peyton Talbot is

26:16

awesome, bro. Yes. And Sean

26:19

Strickland wrote something like, uh, no, Sean

26:22

Strickland was out of his mind. He said, yes.

26:24

But you see Sean Strickland fight that Marine. I

26:26

want, I kind of want the backstory on it,

26:28

but like. Did that guy,

26:30

why do you want to get beat up so bad? I don't

26:32

know, man. I don't know why fans do that. The

26:36

ones that just decide I want to fight an

26:38

MMA fighter. Like it's the dumbest thing in

26:40

the world. You're going to get beat up. But

26:43

anyhow, yeah, he said he made a

26:45

very bad gay joke about

26:47

Peyton Talbot. But I don't know

26:49

what dude, it was bad. Sean

26:51

Strickland posted it like Sean, Sean

26:53

does though. Sean does. I

26:56

was on Twitter on X or I

26:58

don't know where it was. I saw

27:00

it was a picture. It

27:02

was bad. Sean does whatever he wants. It's

27:04

so crazy. Sean also is mad at Robert

27:06

Whitaker. Told Robert Whitaker, sit his ass in

27:08

the back because he should be the backup

27:10

fighter, but is

27:13

this fight, is this

27:15

fight between Drake and Izzy? Does

27:19

it mean as much as Izzy? No,

27:25

no. Let me let me rephrase this. By

27:28

Izzy making it so important that

27:31

it's the history of the

27:33

entire country or the continent. Yeah.

27:36

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Is

27:38

that unneeded pressure for Edison you

27:40

to put on himself? Yeah,

27:43

I would definitely say unneeded, but

27:46

some people that's positive, right? Some

27:48

people maybe not so good. You

27:51

know, they crack under that type of pressure. So

27:54

maybe out of science have a guy where he

27:56

feels like he needs to feel their pressure and

27:58

he's to feel that type of emotion. I don't

28:02

know. I think I don't think I ever see him

28:04

like sway like actually I would say with the Strickland

28:06

fight where he lost I

28:09

think that was one where he didn't kind of build it up too

28:11

much you know where it was kind of

28:13

like it almost looked like he was taking it easy or

28:16

Was under was he

28:18

was underwhelmed by Shawn Strickland So didn't come out the

28:20

fight as hard as he maybe should have so maybe

28:22

he needs that type of thing That's me more positive

28:25

for him. You think that's good for a

28:27

guy that That was honestly

28:29

talking about being done until 2027. It almost that

28:31

was weird. That was so weird Oh,

28:35

yeah, but he was like he wanted a break and

28:37

now he's in the biggest fight that he can get

28:40

Yes So well, I put some

28:42

of these guys did I don't know if I don't if you

28:44

ever dealt this with your athletes some of your athletes Because

28:47

those are people you know even closer than these fighters

28:50

Some do just say some wild things and

28:52

you have to be like come

28:55

on man. You don't really that's dumb You don't

28:57

really mean it, you know, like that's

28:59

totally logical Let me just talk to you for

29:01

three minutes and tell you why that's a logical

29:03

and then you talk to him like Yeah,

29:06

you're right. I shouldn't make sense. I shouldn't have done

29:08

that, you know Like so and I feel like out

29:10

of sign is that kind of guy so like when

29:12

he said I'm not fighting of 2027 If

29:15

you would have let me wager that I would

29:17

have wager all my Bitcoin on that that was

29:19

not gonna happen 2027. Yeah,

29:21

right. Like it was so ridiculous For

29:24

real, I would I would have won so many Bitcoin on

29:26

that. I Just

29:29

think that I just think that he was

29:31

frustrated right losing that fight to Sean Strickland

29:33

in. Mm-hmm, bro It's also hard

29:35

right whenever He

29:37

was the guy He gets beat

29:39

by Sean Strickland who Pereira beat. It's

29:42

like there's a whole thing Those guys will

29:44

always be linked to each other and that

29:46

has to be hard for a guy

29:48

like at a Sonya But I love this fight.

29:50

I love that these two guys are going to

29:54

Settle the score. You know, what's crazy

29:56

to me is Yuri's

29:58

weird, right? Yuri's

30:01

weird but

30:05

and Yuri fights weird yes but

30:08

we have now seen Pereira able to just

30:10

figure it out yes Drake

30:13

this is weird but nobody can figure them out

30:15

all those no one figured them out yet how

30:18

does he win with that style I

30:20

mean dude that was you know it was I

30:22

was I was a doubter I saw the way

30:25

he moved and I said this is weird and

30:28

I thought Robert Whitaker was gonna beat him then

30:30

I thought Sean Strickland was gonna beat him and

30:32

he just continued

30:34

to prove us wrong and so you know

30:36

like when I watch them I feel like

30:39

Israel is not a should be able to beat him

30:41

but given what's happened it's like oh man that's

30:44

how I feel but I would have a hard

30:46

time making that bet I think Drake is

30:48

actually takes our thoughts and he goes and he

30:50

applies it to himself and he gets better

30:52

I made fun of him in his wrestling before

30:55

in one fight I was like yeah that

30:57

I was like that makes no sense but then

30:59

he goes back to the next fight and he

31:01

does something way better and it worked it

31:03

is like he fixed it it's

31:05

like I fixed it from fight one to

31:07

the next fight because he wanted to prove

31:09

that he could do it it was crazy

31:11

bro he's a he's a good champion and

31:13

I'm excited about that one in Perth and

31:15

also you actually got me an appearance so

31:17

for the first time I feel

31:20

like you're giving me something whereas

31:22

I'm usually always offering

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