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Shevchenko v Murphy
Women'S Flyweight
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Tale of the tape
the matchup, side by side
Shevchenko 24-4-1
VS
16-6 Murphy
5'5"
height
5'5"
124 lb
weight
126 lb
67"
reach
67"
38
age
42
Southpaw
stance
Orthodox
3.2
strikes landed / min
4.0
52%
striking accuracy
39%
2.0
strikes absorbed / min
5.2
64%
striking defence
55%
2.7
takedowns / 15 min
1.0
64%
takedown accuracy
25%
71%
takedown defence
69%
0.3
submissions / 15 min
0.1
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RotoWire MMA / UFC picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
RotoWire MMA / UFC picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
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MMA EXPERTS picks Lauren Murphy
“lucky Lauren Murphy does she get a little bit of luck can you imagine she gets a crazy knockout”
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MMA EXPERTS picks Lauren Murphy
“lucky Lauren Murphy does she get a little bit of luck can you imagine she gets a crazy knockout”
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MMA EXPERTS picks Valentina Shevchenko
“i think it is a beat down watch out for the head kick ko murphy's boxing's okay i think she's gonna be clearly out struck though here i don't think she'll be able to get this fight to the floor nearly 40 years of age he has 38 the younger fighter valentina shevchenko is in her true prime now i think she's got some big fights left she's been dominating the flyweight division for a long time i expect the queen to stay on top it's valentina shevchenko kotko round three”
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MMA EXPERTS picks Valentina Shevchenko
“i think it is a beat down watch out for the head kick ko murphy's boxing's okay i think she's gonna be clearly out struck though here i don't think she'll be able to get this fight to the floor nearly 40 years of age he has 38 the younger fighter valentina shevchenko is in her true prime now i think she's got some big fights left she's been dominating the flyweight division for a long time i expect the queen to stay on top it's valentina shevchenko kotko round three”
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MK
Morning Kombat picks Lauren Murphy VALUE
“Lauren Murphy has never been finished she's she's bought some some monsters in there so I think that that would speak to a certain right I think that would boost I'm like super pumped about the co-main because what well I'll tell you why candidly look when you examine the fight as BC has had way too much to drink in all seriousness do you agree or disagree okay someone like Valentina Shevchenko um dude you're not going to catch her slipping in other words like she's she made a point was with BC or somebody else she's like these are the women who I'm fighting they've been training like what and fighting as well 6 8 years she goes I've been doing this for almost 30 okay yeah so this is a level of commitment that they right precisely that they just cannot possibly match and so you know should chevchenko be the favorite without a shadow of a doubt but dude Lauren Murphy is one of these Fighters BC we're talking about factory town cand analyst in you talking I want the fan in you talk I'm telling you no I'm being fair like don't you love stories and I don't know if she's going to get's path do you think what is her path the path has been never the promoter's favorite not one day and she forced her hand by driving up the hard part of the division and [__] win dude if you're a fight fan if you're a real fight fan you cannot take [__] from okay”
Morning Kombat picks Lauren Murphy VALUE
“Lauren Murphy has never been finished she's she's bought some some monsters in there so I think that that would speak to a certain right I think that would boost I'm like super pumped about the co-main because what well I'll tell you why candidly look when you examine the fight as BC has had way too much to drink in all seriousness do you agree or disagree okay someone like Valentina Shevchenko um dude you're not going to catch her slipping in other words like she's she made a point was with BC or somebody else she's like these are the women who I'm fighting they've been training like what and fighting as well 6 8 years she goes I've been doing this for almost 30 okay yeah so this is a level of commitment that they right precisely that they just cannot possibly match and so you know should chevchenko be the favorite without a shadow of a doubt but dude Lauren Murphy is one of these Fighters BC we're talking about factory town cand analyst in you talking I want the fan in you talk I'm telling you no I'm being fair like don't you love stories and I don't know if she's going to get's path do you think what is her path the path has been never the promoter's favorite not one day and she forced her hand by driving up the hard part of the division and [__] win dude if you're a fight fan if you're a real fight fan you cannot take [__] from okay”
MK
Morning Kombat picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“the title fight at 145 is Big Valentina Shevchenko taking on a very deserving which we'll talk about Lauren Murphy is super important but dude if you look at the numbers online on what the UFC has for example posted on their YouTube channel it's Nick Diaz or get the [__] out the fans are clear what they care about and the cool thing about it and Luke you and I did the resume review on Nick Diaz hopefully we didn't curse him we'll see what what what the what the universe says to that it was reliving such a fun time in in like UFC history when did Diaz was like a [__] action story he was the man I think this white card's going to bring back some of those fans who kind of went away in the corporate UFC era to come see like the return like like oh Axel Rose is back with Guns and Roses it feels like one of those type things it's no longer buckee head G wait so like go back when did the UFC actually sell was that in 2016 July of 2016 okay so you're talking about a full year prior to then during the boom period when Conor McGregor right [__] you know Ronda Rousy this is the last time he stepped in there you know what I mean it's like he's the last time he's in there I think that we kind of connect him back to a simpler time in the strange way of saying that even though you know like his whole like what has happened to him since but also he had this thing with the marijuana like the suspension and everything that happened there he's a Pioneer he was and everybody wanted him back I would say like we we talked way back on the beat about like you know how this guy's becoming almost a hero against this movement you know like and and here he is all these years later coming I really do think that a lot of it is Nostalgia like back you think to like cuz nobody ever used to talk about Strike Force or stuff like that but like now you look back at Strike Force you think oh there's the guy who was the guy that came out of that multi-weight champion never undefeated in Strike Force and since he has gone away his brother stock has shot through the [__] roof and the has raised like because Nate is so off regularly also to like give credit to the Nick Diaz Army and always says his brother is the greatest fighter of all time that's almost raised the legend of Nick even though the only thing active he's been doing is like show up in interviews bloated and usually drunk to be honest with you did you guys did you guys follow him on social media during the last few years yeah sometimes it was hard he looked like us right now he would honestly I would check my Instagram feed and it would be like you know how if they have a a message on like their stories or whatever like it the it shows up at the top and like there's a circle to it you would click it and it would be 50 photos or videos of him just walking through clubs or hanging out in Vegas which is fine dude like live your life however you wanted but I think there was a lot of us that at that time we were like dude he's not coming back and here he is why did he come back well I think that there was always the dangling carrot to do it and I also think that he's you know we're not even talking about his like social I always feel like he has this his biggest hurdle is not the fight itself it's the social aspect of this fight right you have to talk to Media you have to do all these obligations this has just never been him and I remember during that what was it UFC 183 was that his last appearance with Anderson Silva 2016 2016 or 2015 I believe so like you go back to that there's this Pride anybody who got in during the 2005 like 2005 tough finale anybody got in that it was like you kind of discounted you kind of had to go back you know what I mean like to before that for the people to think that they were a part of the actual UFC for the longest time and I felt like yeah he was kind of that fight was really set right in the kind of like fir also dude like I remember here's a big lesson passion for the for like for real cult figures for the guys who you can say are like men of the people passion for them dies slowly and very hard I'll never forget Kimbo was whatever star he was in the elite XC and then he did the boxing in Australia and then he came back and did MMA again and he had he got Ultimate Fighter which was big but then he washed out of UFC and then he goes to Bellator dude he is still the most popular fighter in Bellator history by like by like a wide margin like number two is not even remotely close wide dude because people who loved Kimbo Slice to start with whenever they whenever they found him YouTube or whatever it was they hung on to that because they true that that Diaz Army it is they have been in hibernation did it occur though because I look back that so like like UFC 47 is when this first fight happened I feel like that was sort of his moment of arrival cuz he had a previous fight with Jeremy uh Jeremy Jackson and uh he he I think that that one kind of put him on the map a little bit for UFC fans like 20-year-old uh knocking outall uh he he submitted Jackson and then he fought Lawler and uh he [__] he face planted him perfect perfect counterright hook it was like oh [__] but I think the part forget the punch and the meaningfulness of the wi in terms of his Arc it showed that he wasn't just a submission guy that he was a badass Street Fighter and I was telling Luke it's like true when I say it's the Glory Days truck I mean whenever the essential of Diaz started to come out there right like and it's back when you used to have to fight to win it wasn't about skills as much now if you were a brawler but you had skills you would have eventually get to the top but it was more about Fighter versus fighter who's got the balls that's why that's why we fell in love with Diego Sanchez one of Nick Diaz's opponents on that rise but guys how do we even begin to like forget being an expert as just a fan like what the hell is this fight going to look like is it going to be sadden gross or is it going to be soss fun and like loose and wild those fight you know the best case scenario sorry to interrupt you no go ahead Ben Asar versus Robbie Lawler that I think that's the best case scenario for this with with the swings of momentum fine yeah I I I will tell you personally quietly confident it will be fun which isn't to say I know who will win I I really [__] noidea dude who the [__] knows no idea Nick Diaz could show up looking like Prim Lance Armstrong in terms of like cardio and then completely [__] demolish Robbie you'd be like yes of course that happened or conversely he could show up looking like [__] and you'd be like well right a row for seven years and La he could go he also could be uninterested in exchanging stries like once he gets in there and just start start he will one way or the other he will fall on the sword one way or that's what I think I believe that they have nothing really to like to gain by just trying to win the fight like just going out there and being tactical I feel like we're going to see them go at each other because at that part in their career and they kind of I feel like that's the contract yeah like I feel like that's their kind of personal contract Rob will start off a little bit more measur and doing the Sanford MMA thing and then Nick's going to touch him and then it will probably is that what we we expect deep inside like if Slaughter is going to make a reunion Slaughter was the last like metal ban before grunge came in right and they some sick hits would like slaugh but if Slaughter's going to come back right now and play down the street of Jersey City at some like hole in the wall Hall yo we're like I don't want to hear your new [__] yo play those hits that we know are we telling Robbie Lawler and Nick Diaz on Saturday that like I know it's 17 years later but bro play them hits hold on let's examine for just a second right Chuck why did the first one work because one Nick Diaz talked that [__] yeah right number one number two he landed on Ro Lawler early in a fight he was not expected to competitively hang so it's a huge element of surprise obviously Lawler gave it back to him a little bit but in the end it was because Nick I know rev that engine [__] if you're in Jersey City what else what else do you have to do you get Co and you [__] you dve you drink and you drink to the point where I'm trying to make is this exceeded so many expectations about what things were now this fight is the exact opposite no one knows what to think versus the first time it was Striker versus perf fight for that that reason right like I always feel like that third spot the one right in the middle of the pay-per-view is always kind of the thing that pushes you over right this the thing that kind of sge MZ versus Ben right exactly 100% do you remember back in the day when you would go to like Sam goody or wherever you bought your albums yeah it was remember you strawberries [__] strawberries whatever do you remember it was always the three song rule if the album had three songs you bought it this one has the three song Rule and of course again it's not it's the future fight it's not the all right well let's transition here and say that Lawler Diaz is as gas station food Nostalgia for three guys on a roof drinking some alcohol but what about the for the hardcore fan with that main event that featherweight title about after so much waiting and Ultimate Fighter coaching and injuries Brian Ortega against Alexander Alexander Volkanovski the ckp ckb GHP three Cosby I don't know where we're going with this the ckb mathema did ahead of time footwork wizard practic of the mirror against T City who's going to get up in that ass and he's also he's also a really good fighter in the cage too Brian Brian will send me pictures of Brian Ortega on on Instagram and he'd be like hash wood smash I be like really you I I don't know if I go we are we do make uh great great Cinema together on camera and interviews but forgetting about If he if he smashed Hal Berry or not bros I'm going to tell you this right now this ain't about Bing odds this ain't about uh dissec did broed good good segment I'm sure this here's what I'm saying about feelings he's going to wake up tomorrow being like I hate my life yo here's what I'm going to say about your wizard at ckb DOR is going to get up in that ass bro okay I think you're a little confused all right so so so Chuck we've acknowledged that the DS1 is in incomprehensibly no way to know what's going to happen biggest F in the speaks to the fight game and speaks to the fans totally totally uh okay but we transitioned to as he's done to the featherweight Main Event your level of excitement is what it's not the greatest but I feel like that that's why [__] casual yo [__] you bro thing [__] off the roof here's the thing you guys are out that's it here's the thing I mean he tends to masturbate between takes go ahead I think the UFC shares my opinion you know what I mean because at the same time they've got another title fight on this and then they put the Nick Diaz fight I feel this is one of the four or five best fights you can make on paper in terms of like skill versus skill pound-for-pound versus pound for pound right this so for this guy particularly somebody who's paying attention to footwork and every single thing that's going on like every every little uh counter and every I could see how this would be a very good fight and I I agree with that on that side of things if you're just talking about uh you know generally how it's being perceived or how it could be marketed and things like that it's not the greatest but I'm like at the same time I'm excited to see it I'm excited to see it but it's like I think it's in I think it's perfectly placed with other fight I'm going to push him off the roof and get in here and say look I think it's going to worth the weight without question to pound-for-pound guys I just want to ask you this question because Brian Ortega had such Extremes in his last two fights of styles obviously he's got to find a balance in the middle when you say yo BC you getting all all hard and high like trying to act like Orga is Big Tuna or something and Bellator like that's your new guyo what do you see in orga's game lacking to be able to even though the odds are close and obviously everyone knows anything can happen what is Ora missing to solve that mathematician there from Down Under it will really just be a question of to what extent he can read the patterns of a guy like Alexander Volkanovski is where it all comes down you're like volosi comes out and he is starting with his hands up here and then this one flies and then he is changing angles he is changing stances and the whole time you're looking at him trying to get an understanding of what's about to happen and you freeze over and over again for a Ser he's calibrating you and he's figuring out your Rhythm right and then you begin to react to him and then he goes and now the whole pattern has again I really don't think folks understand because I get it the the the hall fights were close I get it and people love Max Holloway and you can make a credible case that he won either I don't think both but you can make a case that he won one of them second one one the second one fine but at the same time people are losing sight of the fact that dude he didn't just do that to Max do you know who he iced before the max fights NOT_IN_ROSTER_10 NOT_IN_ROSTER_10 could not figure out [__] okay but real talk between men did NOT_IN_ROSTER_10 say [__] this I'm going to the scorecards probably dude but also because Alexander Volkanovski is doing this [__] and people I'm saying I'm giving I'm giving your boy Al the credit but I want to bring you the difference before you go before you go dude this is who he is have you heard about the Navajo talkers from World War II this is a true story they made a movie about this the Japanese could not figure out uh they were trying to intercept all signals right so the Americans realizing their code was being broken by the Japanese they actually got the Navajo to be the people who would send uh messages or call for fire missions to each other and the Japanese could not break the old Navajo language they can never pick up on it so as a consequence they had this encoded way of talking they could never pick up on dude Alexander Volkanovski is the [__] na these people look at him and they think they know what's happening here they cannot figure out the code in time to meaningfully score offense one the last time I tell you last timebody figured out the last time that anyone landed clean on Alexander Volkanovski chadman I don't need I don't need to watch the second hallay fight 49 times and neither do you to know that Max figured out The Da Vinci Code which is what what Luke Brown is saying right here right luk yo if he's Tom Hanks he's the Philadelphia version right I have AIDS well here's the thing also I'm a lawyer even though he eak out those victories or you could make the case that he didn't win one but even though he got by or escaped Max Holloway twice how well have they aged given what Holloway is doing afterward like that's really the right I feel like volovski doesn't get enough credit I know youve broke down his like film and stuff like that but I'm like I just feel like age the audience has not really caught on to his genius yet I wouldn't even mind if people picked Ortega what drives me nuts is they think Ortega is a pretender dude let me State very unequivocally he is the genuine article times a billion okay nobody thinks he's a pretender but there are people in Brian Ortega quotes ahead of this fight mayor that that look at it is okay you figured out how to how to change the footwork on the dance moves to win that fight with mirrors but are you the real if you have no intention or plan on finishing the guy no what you're going to say dude he finish NOT_IN_ROSTER_11 he'll he'll finish you if you walk into something but what Brian Ortega is trying to say is I can do it all so the knee-jerk response from the critics will be like this ain't Korean zombie nice Victory nice Victory really get into it it's what happens though Chuck yeah you're being a [__] hater Chuck me y yo Chuck as I get into the uh you know the ex's and know of this thing like I I I also think he is such an underrated counter Striker you know what I mean uh vulcanos so like if the pressure starts to get turned up which I know Ortega likes to do you can just start to imagine how that'll look yo you know what I mean Yo episode 6 Anakin let me bring it to you right now okay by the way episode 3 Anakin was a [__] and you know that let me ask you though does Ortega have the IQ because he he raised his IQ in our in our eyes against Coran Zombie by by tenfold no that's a fair one he did a great job does he have the IQ to go even higher to use his length and punching power to give this wizard pause he looks so much better last time out I got to think he's I I got to think something mentally clicked after that big loss man I think that he's uh dialed in better I don't know he was so good and that c swans fight especially we finishes him twice essentially I mean he's look so good the Frankie Edgar fight but I'm like when you think about it I'm like he looks so good coming off a loss I was really worried about how he'd look coming off of that kind of loss so let's figure this out for a second we both all of us agree right that if Ortega tries to take it to the ground no dice right Alexander Volkanovski's takedown defense is [__] lights out it is but okay hold on he can rock him and take him down okay I want to ask you though what if Ortega goes to the takedown and pulls guard what's going to happen now that's different that that's a whole different scenario I think a guy like volovski probably has good submission defense but what I'm trying to point out is probably the majority of the fights going to be on the feet all right here's what I'm banking on how did Ortega get the Korean zombie it wasn't just a b ba it was a b b qu and he came around the back it's the trickery it's the lomachenko [__] dude Ortega cannot beat vulcanos straight up boxing it's not going to work but with the trickery element with the risk-taking element that's where the whole ball game changes for me since you saw it 49 times what did Max do in the second fight you did is that the fight you was what did Max how many times I'm going to let me ask you for real straight up in layman's terms what did Max do in the second fight that Orga may be able to mirror uh so two things in the first fight Max had a wide stance and in a wide stance it is good because you you can lower your level obviously you can intercept things in certain degrees um but you're not as mobile oh actually you're more mobile but you don't have quite the same uh delivery so what he did was he actually narrowed his stance and now he's up tall he's a bigger Target but he can intercept things much more easily he wasn't worried about the takedown cuz I think at the first time he was worried about the takedown so let me get a more stability but less Mobility um so this time he narrowed a stance he did the tie things he was very upall and he could drive the knees in and everything else he wanted too he didn't really care about anything other than intercepting the strikes I think the other part was just a little bit more patient a little bit more willing to wait so that's the part that Ortega can do like Max yes exactly he's got the length and he's got great patience my only this is really what the fight hinges on to what extent can Ortega pick up on the patterns and then find a way to counteract it I hope we talked you into the idea that this is a great fight and I want to ask you this you guys have turned me off the champion K come we're talking over him why the [__] walk you down ask you this question okay yo come with me for a second all right come on down yo I got to have this this this in Jersey City the skyline which doesn't really give you that Manhattan confidence feel but I want it's a little date rapy GHP style but I want to ask you this though can the champion Alexander Volkanovski be tapped Out by Ortega is that possible bro you deal with that as they come in on you okay all right play the Jeopardy quaw for me will you come on of of course he can of course he can I really do believe he can [__] come on okay Luke okay Luke there's a lot of people that I've talked to man I don't know about you guys that really think that or is going to do this i y one of those people is standing right here is that mine that's mine people think that's mine that's mine yo people think I wear this shirt cuz I'm a big G Gina corano fan and they're right bro okay you know what I'm saying so end of interview yo as a fighter that's what and as an instagrammer that's what I'm talking about right all right so Chuck uh likeliest way I guess I'm asking for a prediction right okay um okay how about the max Holloway angle this whole thing all right UFC is playing with house money right because are we just kicking y to the curb as he at us or well I mean let's talk let's just talk get down to Brass tax if Ortega wins dude you have a rematch if uh Ortega loses and Alexander Volkanovski wins you have a [__] rubber match dud and maybe could you no I think Aldo's probably certainly the most prominent 145 who's the most popular not counting Conor McGregor who's the most popular 145 outside of McGregor probably either way the max [__] is in play wait no here's why it's here's here's the reason that Alexander Volkanovski hallway Trilogy would be the big a big deal it's mainly because you I think you point this out brilliantly you're we're talking about a guy who adapts in fight in volcanos a guy who makes adjustments in fight and starts to figure out timing actually I think he needs to get hit sometimes to wake up in a fight it's one of those weird type of things but then you're also talking about a guy who does the exact same thing and starts to figure out his timing and it looks ablim like when you talk about a Trilogy fight when both guys know their tendencies that well that's the one you root for that's the one because the problem was Ortega was a different fighter back then but dude Max beat him bad like that they had a mercy call can you sh a little quick man debate between men okay yo if NOT_IN_ROSTER_6 was healthy he'd be cleaning up on all these all these hoes bro okay yo he in the smash Factory he's the art like me I'm the artist of this group whatever y yo zabid is the artist of the sches factory does that mean you also have debilitating illnesses uh wow wow I'm just no here's the thing dude I think very highly I asked him that question bro okay well I'm just going to answer he can answer you can I've been I've been drinking I'm sorry don't by all means finish okay do you agree then that NOT_IN_ROSTER_6 is clearly Championship material but the idea that he is the foregone conclusion seems a bit overstated I agree I think it's overstated I do think he can for sure I think he can he's he's in that discuss we got to remove him right now we got to remove him right I asked Brian or take an interesting question maybe we can close on this fight with this topic is where I said look like okay this title fight your second title fight against Alexander Volkanovski kind of the defining fight of your career but I know the competitor inside of you is it the the the eventual Holloway rematch that's really the defining fight of your career okay he's like yeah I mean it is you know he he went a long way to get there but he said you think he's overlooking the the real the real not danger cuz he's maybe not going to knock you out of death question the real talent that Alexander Volkanovski brings that this man believes to hise is Ortega overlooking what makes Alexander Volkanovski great I would say that's true because the thing is like when you look at their leadup I don't know if you guys watched stuff I didn't I watch a little bit of it I se some but I've seen their like bad blood right but I'm mostly it's it's mostly just this annoyance and I think it's annoyance with their own selves for not being able to talk to smack like other previous you know it's like it's more of a self-loathing but at the same time they're it's not I mean to to me it's not really that bad but uh he's texting his wife uhoh who are you texting I'm like yo recording a show right now okay texting his [__] boss that's what he's but I do think that uh there's probably just somehow inherently a thing about Alexander Volkanovski at this point in time that is still Overlook and I don't know what it is but I think it's there think dude I think there's a lot of people inside MMA including people who know more than me certainly but I think there's a lot of people who um it's not that you can't make a credible case for Max of course you but it is that in making the credible case for Max there's a certain dismissiveness that just does not M dude dude why who has porier made Max struggle because Max went up a weight class and porier has [__] stupid power okay and he's a very good boxer all right Conor got him early or whatever when you think about like why Max like lost those fights you can say that they were close fine but why were they even close dude because Alexander Volkanovski had him confused for long parts of it that's not a [__] accident can I ask you a personal question I love Max Holloway who who would you favor in a rematch between Ortega and Holloway right now let me ask you a personal after fight H so from your stpoint this is a like semifinal round to get to the hallay Orga Trilogy to find out who is the real best one 45 because after 49 times you do understand the Holloway had a chance of saying how many times are you going to go back to the well about the 49 I mean I mean at some point like do you like No One Believes that he actually watched it 49 times so why say that why say you don't have to you don't have to notes but the point is this you even you can agree with this be on D Ortega is dumb talented he's crazy talented but you think he's dumb Luke rockold St because you know you know of the Pang he pulls in so you're like yo he's fighting them off like zombies and [__] Walking Dead I'm sure but what I'm trying to say is um I [__] lost my train of thought cuz you [__] cut me off I interrupted him for the first time ever on the show the other day you know what I'm saying first time ever I intered and he was so pissed Jo he was so pissed I forgot I was going to say about or want to restart I was basically going to ask you straight up Luke is Ortega the semifinal round in this larger 145 tournament I'll just say this he got beat real bad by Max and then he was some things were his fault some things were not his fault he's been back one time in that one time against Korean zombie did he look awesome without a shadow made a leap bro made a leap huge level up huge level up nevertheless it's one fight the sample siiz confidence I can can I say that he can't win that there's no chance of course I have no [__] idea but I'm saying dude Max has been B It Bout It staying pretty active fights like [__] Chewbacca and dude Alexander Volkanovski I just there's a weird thing where it's like oh because Alexander Volkanovski's game is a little bit boring I'm going to discount it dude you do that at your peril yo I got before I hit the the head I might break the seal the first yo do you thinka you're not even house broken yo do you think Ortega smashed halberry like straight up men versus men I'm not asking you that dude he will do this he will be like hey can I imperil your career with totally [__] questions all right I'm not going to answer it but you're prob BC is going to go to the uh to the men's room well he's gone let's forget about UFC 266 for a second okay how has life been for you during the pandemic uh it's been okay actually I I was able to kind of step back just a little bit from MMA yeah the DAT the coverage the inundation of the schedule and everything else little burned out a little bit I would say that that's actually true and um you know in that way it's a great Silver Lining because let's face it the athletic sold us a bill of goods and we went there and they kind of uh cut shut down the combat my understanding of that is they basically wanted to do a big push and then they realized they couldn't quite monetize an audience of Combat Sports people under their model and then they said go like go else yeah pretty much although there was no warning in fact everything that coming out of their mouths up until the moment they did it which was the one year at the onee moment when everybody renewed automatically by the way on the subscriptions uh there was no warning that it was coming in fact everything we were told was that everything was fine and we the right direction it's a it's a blessing in disguise okay but you're currently doing what you have the man in the was so the we were doing the man in the myth with sha elsh but Shawn then went back toia so I've got the myth.com which is a site I just uh throw some thoughts down on you know and uh throw some thoughts the best ones that are out there so I do that and then uh and then I'm working with the ring ringer now uh with doing a podcast with our boy Ariel and uh what's the name of it by the way py Carol so it's called the the ringer MMA show I like P I like py being there he's a fun he's a fun guy he is very good he makes it like he's chemistry no matter what right like he's always going to he's always going to be chemistry so and by the way hold In fairness to him smart and and experienced so we're doing all the major pay-per-views and Ariel too everyone relax guys made up I know I know it's fine Ariel's [__] talented everyone okay but yes so yeah and uh and you know we do this thing called the Spotify Green Room which is actually like a like an exclusive green room after big fights things like that and then it becomes a podcast later so yeah that's where that's where I'm at now so but I feel rejuvenated man I mean I got to be honest and it's fun to come back and you know do this show again and uh pandemic it resorted things a little bit all right so now BC how do you feel yo how nice is it that um luk and Ariel buried that Dawson's Creek [__] we're back on the same team you know what I'm saying right yeah yeah yeah so loaded I could blow you up right now like Ray Lewis blew up many of oh [__] yo that means he I blow you up right now like youo meet me in Atlanta Olympic Square I'll kill you there are certain things that BC does where he'll dare you to like meet his a CH but here's the thing if you do it would like ruin his career so you can't actually he's the chil son he lights a bomb puts in your hand he runs away I'm like vny Hill except for the lack of new women right and hopefully rape as well uh all right no more Cosby jok let's keep I was now I have to go to the bathroom where's the bathroom is it over here it is it is so Chuck um I'm the last I'm the last man with the you have to pee on yourself Yo Chuck I want to ask you a bit about that UFC 266 undercard pretty limbs a little bit deep like not so much I don't want to hear you talk about Dan hooker's Visa but is there a fighter on this card that you're looking to like maybe have a moment and say yo we here we on the prelims prel you're not going to go you're not even going to go to the uh heavyweight fight go Curtis blades if you feel it bro let me think um you know probably uh Jaylen Turner I I I like that guy I think he's kind of turned a corner the tarantula yeah the tarantul I like him uh I think he's got a bright future who he fighting though bro he's fighting the kid from Serbia right like the Serbian what's his name it's uh dzen Petrovic no no he's the kid he's fighting those was pretty good too okay no Jaylen turn has turned the corner he's showing me some pop he's showing me some energy some love um does c does Curtis blades reenter the heavyweight title picture against janzer Ros truck because it's pretty good damn matchmaking right Curtis blades yeah what did I say come oh no no I'm just I'm I'm trying to put this together like he got knocked out in his last fight with NOT_IN_ROSTER_8 I I feel like his style doesn't lend itself to something like a tile his style dominates the sub Elite that's what I mean and also it could it can dominate an exciting knockout artist right like Rosen strike I think that that's one of those situations and if he's smart that's probably the TAC he's going to do because you don't want to lose two in a row after your only losses were really to enanu right like all the way up until the Lewis fight you probably don't want to get knocked out a second time in a row because I think he might actually lose that shine forever like I don't know if he'd ever get back into contendership I think he's going to that fight has the potential of being very boring because if Curtis blades has his wrestling if it's wrestling if he's going to get his way and I think he's going to pick his shots you know like cuz he got out with an uppercut in the I think he's going to pick his shots and he's going to make it as ugly as he can he's going to try to take him down as soon as he can yo I got to ask you about the one paper viiew main card fight that no one's talking about and it is former strawweight Champion Jessica andr coming back at flyweight against Cynthia Calo and it's an important like title picture fight but be honest with me and this directly correlates to the co-main event Valentino shevchenko against Lauren Murphy all right you know Valentina against Jessica andr was supposed to be the first time at 125 we'll see Valentina have to like follow show us if you're a Russian spy like show us how good you are bro she wrestled the [__] out of andr crucifix elbows and made it look like she was fighting Jessica ey to be really hon no disrespect but to be really honest um how does andr like andr bounce back from that at all yes yes yes he's here yes I know he pees sitting down wow it'll be it'll be okay I I'll I'll tell him like your says hi cuz you know wow yo I'm about to believe here that andr is going to get revenge yo she yo she's about to serve Calo okay so you're probably right but I do think that this is almost set up for Calo to fail or succeed like if she's if she gets through this she's either going to win or lose no but I mean like it's set up for her if she's able to get through this it's just like a a turn fight right like she if she's able to get through andrj andrj has had her shot we have fresh blood then presuming the Valentina jle takes care of her business right I think that because if you remember she's 34 years old now but for a while she had kind of a big buzz around her when she was team team alpha male look up on her only fans bro yo what I'm trying to say is the winner of Andra Calo is going to have a say in that flyweight title picture but no one cares about that [__] yo I got to ask you this is Chef chenko going to do what she told me on morning combat when she's like my job is to destroy this [__] Lauren Murphy I don't think she said this [__] and first of all put some [__] respect on Laur five in a row from Lauren Murphy so Laur Murphy is [__] with that said and by the way late 30s the Alaskan she she turn old have some respect but she she is a bug going up against a highing Vehicles windshield you know what I mean that's what she's going to will this be the fight we have reached the point he's drank too much will this be the fight where Valentine againsts legit pound-for-pound boats where people are like I don't care that you lost twice to Amanda you the best in the world bch um dude can you stop calling female Fighters [__] hold on try try again where people are basically going to say you know I don't care about the two losses cun you the best in the world bullet um better maybe but I think that here's okay here's the thing she can do because I I mean I don't know this is maybe about Lauren Murphy I'm talking well here's the thing that Valentina can do she can be the first to finish Lauren Murphy right like she Lauren Murphy has never been finished she's she's bought some some monsters in there so I think that that would speak to a certain right I think that would boost I'm like super pumped about the co-main because what well I'll tell you why candidly look when you examine the fight as BC has had way too much to drink in all seriousness do you agree or disagree okay someone like Valentina Shevchenko um dude you're not going to catch her slipping in other words like she's she made a point was with BC or somebody else she's like these are the women who I'm fighting they've been training like what and fighting as well 6 8 years she goes I've been doing this for almost 30 okay yeah so this is a level of commitment that they right precisely that they just cannot possibly match and so you know should chevchenko be the favorite without a shadow of a doubt but dude Lauren Murphy is one of these Fighters BC we're talking about factory town cand analyst in you talking I want the fan in you talk I'm telling you no I'm being fair like don't you love stories and I don't know if she's going to get's path do you think what is her path the path has been never the promoter's favorite not one day and she forced her hand by driving up the hard part of the division and [__] win dude if you're a fight fan if you're a real fight fan you cannot take [__] from okay”
Morning Kombat picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“the title fight at 145 is Big Valentina Shevchenko taking on a very deserving which we'll talk about Lauren Murphy is super important but dude if you look at the numbers online on what the UFC has for example posted on their YouTube channel it's Nick Diaz or get the [__] out the fans are clear what they care about and the cool thing about it and Luke you and I did the resume review on Nick Diaz hopefully we didn't curse him we'll see what what what the what the universe says to that it was reliving such a fun time in in like UFC history when did Diaz was like a [__] action story he was the man I think this white card's going to bring back some of those fans who kind of went away in the corporate UFC era to come see like the return like like oh Axel Rose is back with Guns and Roses it feels like one of those type things it's no longer buckee head G wait so like go back when did the UFC actually sell was that in 2016 July of 2016 okay so you're talking about a full year prior to then during the boom period when Conor McGregor right [__] you know Ronda Rousy this is the last time he stepped in there you know what I mean it's like he's the last time he's in there I think that we kind of connect him back to a simpler time in the strange way of saying that even though you know like his whole like what has happened to him since but also he had this thing with the marijuana like the suspension and everything that happened there he's a Pioneer he was and everybody wanted him back I would say like we we talked way back on the beat about like you know how this guy's becoming almost a hero against this movement you know like and and here he is all these years later coming I really do think that a lot of it is Nostalgia like back you think to like cuz nobody ever used to talk about Strike Force or stuff like that but like now you look back at Strike Force you think oh there's the guy who was the guy that came out of that multi-weight champion never undefeated in Strike Force and since he has gone away his brother stock has shot through the [__] roof and the has raised like because Nate is so off regularly also to like give credit to the Nick Diaz Army and always says his brother is the greatest fighter of all time that's almost raised the legend of Nick even though the only thing active he's been doing is like show up in interviews bloated and usually drunk to be honest with you did you guys did you guys follow him on social media during the last few years yeah sometimes it was hard he looked like us right now he would honestly I would check my Instagram feed and it would be like you know how if they have a a message on like their stories or whatever like it the it shows up at the top and like there's a circle to it you would click it and it would be 50 photos or videos of him just walking through clubs or hanging out in Vegas which is fine dude like live your life however you wanted but I think there was a lot of us that at that time we were like dude he's not coming back and here he is why did he come back well I think that there was always the dangling carrot to do it and I also think that he's you know we're not even talking about his like social I always feel like he has this his biggest hurdle is not the fight itself it's the social aspect of this fight right you have to talk to Media you have to do all these obligations this has just never been him and I remember during that what was it UFC 183 was that his last appearance with Anderson Silva 2016 2016 or 2015 I believe so like you go back to that there's this Pride anybody who got in during the 2005 like 2005 tough finale anybody got in that it was like you kind of discounted you kind of had to go back you know what I mean like to before that for the people to think that they were a part of the actual UFC for the longest time and I felt like yeah he was kind of that fight was really set right in the kind of like fir also dude like I remember here's a big lesson passion for the for like for real cult figures for the guys who you can say are like men of the people passion for them dies slowly and very hard I'll never forget Kimbo was whatever star he was in the elite XC and then he did the boxing in Australia and then he came back and did MMA again and he had he got Ultimate Fighter which was big but then he washed out of UFC and then he goes to Bellator dude he is still the most popular fighter in Bellator history by like by like a wide margin like number two is not even remotely close wide dude because people who loved Kimbo Slice to start with whenever they whenever they found him YouTube or whatever it was they hung on to that because they true that that Diaz Army it is they have been in hibernation did it occur though because I look back that so like like UFC 47 is when this first fight happened I feel like that was sort of his moment of arrival cuz he had a previous fight with Jeremy uh Jeremy Jackson and uh he he I think that that one kind of put him on the map a little bit for UFC fans like 20-year-old uh knocking outall uh he he submitted Jackson and then he fought Lawler and uh he [__] he face planted him perfect perfect counterright hook it was like oh [__] but I think the part forget the punch and the meaningfulness of the wi in terms of his Arc it showed that he wasn't just a submission guy that he was a badass Street Fighter and I was telling Luke it's like true when I say it's the Glory Days truck I mean whenever the essential of Diaz started to come out there right like and it's back when you used to have to fight to win it wasn't about skills as much now if you were a brawler but you had skills you would have eventually get to the top but it was more about Fighter versus fighter who's got the balls that's why that's why we fell in love with Diego Sanchez one of Nick Diaz's opponents on that rise but guys how do we even begin to like forget being an expert as just a fan like what the hell is this fight going to look like is it going to be sadden gross or is it going to be soss fun and like loose and wild those fight you know the best case scenario sorry to interrupt you no go ahead Ben Asar versus Robbie Lawler that I think that's the best case scenario for this with with the swings of momentum fine yeah I I I will tell you personally quietly confident it will be fun which isn't to say I know who will win I I really [__] noidea dude who the [__] knows no idea Nick Diaz could show up looking like Prim Lance Armstrong in terms of like cardio and then completely [__] demolish Robbie you'd be like yes of course that happened or conversely he could show up looking like [__] and you'd be like well right a row for seven years and La he could go he also could be uninterested in exchanging stries like once he gets in there and just start start he will one way or the other he will fall on the sword one way or that's what I think I believe that they have nothing really to like to gain by just trying to win the fight like just going out there and being tactical I feel like we're going to see them go at each other because at that part in their career and they kind of I feel like that's the contract yeah like I feel like that's their kind of personal contract Rob will start off a little bit more measur and doing the Sanford MMA thing and then Nick's going to touch him and then it will probably is that what we we expect deep inside like if Slaughter is going to make a reunion Slaughter was the last like metal ban before grunge came in right and they some sick hits would like slaugh but if Slaughter's going to come back right now and play down the street of Jersey City at some like hole in the wall Hall yo we're like I don't want to hear your new [__] yo play those hits that we know are we telling Robbie Lawler and Nick Diaz on Saturday that like I know it's 17 years later but bro play them hits hold on let's examine for just a second right Chuck why did the first one work because one Nick Diaz talked that [__] yeah right number one number two he landed on Ro Lawler early in a fight he was not expected to competitively hang so it's a huge element of surprise obviously Lawler gave it back to him a little bit but in the end it was because Nick I know rev that engine [__] if you're in Jersey City what else what else do you have to do you get Co and you [__] you dve you drink and you drink to the point where I'm trying to make is this exceeded so many expectations about what things were now this fight is the exact opposite no one knows what to think versus the first time it was Striker versus perf fight for that that reason right like I always feel like that third spot the one right in the middle of the pay-per-view is always kind of the thing that pushes you over right this the thing that kind of sge MZ versus Ben right exactly 100% do you remember back in the day when you would go to like Sam goody or wherever you bought your albums yeah it was remember you strawberries [__] strawberries whatever do you remember it was always the three song rule if the album had three songs you bought it this one has the three song Rule and of course again it's not it's the future fight it's not the all right well let's transition here and say that Lawler Diaz is as gas station food Nostalgia for three guys on a roof drinking some alcohol but what about the for the hardcore fan with that main event that featherweight title about after so much waiting and Ultimate Fighter coaching and injuries Brian Ortega against Alexander Alexander Volkanovski the ckp ckb GHP three Cosby I don't know where we're going with this the ckb mathema did ahead of time footwork wizard practic of the mirror against T City who's going to get up in that ass and he's also he's also a really good fighter in the cage too Brian Brian will send me pictures of Brian Ortega on on Instagram and he'd be like hash wood smash I be like really you I I don't know if I go we are we do make uh great great Cinema together on camera and interviews but forgetting about If he if he smashed Hal Berry or not bros I'm going to tell you this right now this ain't about Bing odds this ain't about uh dissec did broed good good segment I'm sure this here's what I'm saying about feelings he's going to wake up tomorrow being like I hate my life yo here's what I'm going to say about your wizard at ckb DOR is going to get up in that ass bro okay I think you're a little confused all right so so so Chuck we've acknowledged that the DS1 is in incomprehensibly no way to know what's going to happen biggest F in the speaks to the fight game and speaks to the fans totally totally uh okay but we transitioned to as he's done to the featherweight Main Event your level of excitement is what it's not the greatest but I feel like that that's why [__] casual yo [__] you bro thing [__] off the roof here's the thing you guys are out that's it here's the thing I mean he tends to masturbate between takes go ahead I think the UFC shares my opinion you know what I mean because at the same time they've got another title fight on this and then they put the Nick Diaz fight I feel this is one of the four or five best fights you can make on paper in terms of like skill versus skill pound-for-pound versus pound for pound right this so for this guy particularly somebody who's paying attention to footwork and every single thing that's going on like every every little uh counter and every I could see how this would be a very good fight and I I agree with that on that side of things if you're just talking about uh you know generally how it's being perceived or how it could be marketed and things like that it's not the greatest but I'm like at the same time I'm excited to see it I'm excited to see it but it's like I think it's in I think it's perfectly placed with other fight I'm going to push him off the roof and get in here and say look I think it's going to worth the weight without question to pound-for-pound guys I just want to ask you this question because Brian Ortega had such Extremes in his last two fights of styles obviously he's got to find a balance in the middle when you say yo BC you getting all all hard and high like trying to act like Orga is Big Tuna or something and Bellator like that's your new guyo what do you see in orga's game lacking to be able to even though the odds are close and obviously everyone knows anything can happen what is Ora missing to solve that mathematician there from Down Under it will really just be a question of to what extent he can read the patterns of a guy like Alexander Volkanovski is where it all comes down you're like volosi comes out and he is starting with his hands up here and then this one flies and then he is changing angles he is changing stances and the whole time you're looking at him trying to get an understanding of what's about to happen and you freeze over and over again for a Ser he's calibrating you and he's figuring out your Rhythm right and then you begin to react to him and then he goes and now the whole pattern has again I really don't think folks understand because I get it the the the hall fights were close I get it and people love Max Holloway and you can make a credible case that he won either I don't think both but you can make a case that he won one of them second one one the second one fine but at the same time people are losing sight of the fact that dude he didn't just do that to Max do you know who he iced before the max fights NOT_IN_ROSTER_10 NOT_IN_ROSTER_10 could not figure out [__] okay but real talk between men did NOT_IN_ROSTER_10 say [__] this I'm going to the scorecards probably dude but also because Alexander Volkanovski is doing this [__] and people I'm saying I'm giving I'm giving your boy Al the credit but I want to bring you the difference before you go before you go dude this is who he is have you heard about the Navajo talkers from World War II this is a true story they made a movie about this the Japanese could not figure out uh they were trying to intercept all signals right so the Americans realizing their code was being broken by the Japanese they actually got the Navajo to be the people who would send uh messages or call for fire missions to each other and the Japanese could not break the old Navajo language they can never pick up on it so as a consequence they had this encoded way of talking they could never pick up on dude Alexander Volkanovski is the [__] na these people look at him and they think they know what's happening here they cannot figure out the code in time to meaningfully score offense one the last time I tell you last timebody figured out the last time that anyone landed clean on Alexander Volkanovski chadman I don't need I don't need to watch the second hallay fight 49 times and neither do you to know that Max figured out The Da Vinci Code which is what what Luke Brown is saying right here right luk yo if he's Tom Hanks he's the Philadelphia version right I have AIDS well here's the thing also I'm a lawyer even though he eak out those victories or you could make the case that he didn't win one but even though he got by or escaped Max Holloway twice how well have they aged given what Holloway is doing afterward like that's really the right I feel like volovski doesn't get enough credit I know youve broke down his like film and stuff like that but I'm like I just feel like age the audience has not really caught on to his genius yet I wouldn't even mind if people picked Ortega what drives me nuts is they think Ortega is a pretender dude let me State very unequivocally he is the genuine article times a billion okay nobody thinks he's a pretender but there are people in Brian Ortega quotes ahead of this fight mayor that that look at it is okay you figured out how to how to change the footwork on the dance moves to win that fight with mirrors but are you the real if you have no intention or plan on finishing the guy no what you're going to say dude he finish NOT_IN_ROSTER_11 he'll he'll finish you if you walk into something but what Brian Ortega is trying to say is I can do it all so the knee-jerk response from the critics will be like this ain't Korean zombie nice Victory nice Victory really get into it it's what happens though Chuck yeah you're being a [__] hater Chuck me y yo Chuck as I get into the uh you know the ex's and know of this thing like I I I also think he is such an underrated counter Striker you know what I mean uh vulcanos so like if the pressure starts to get turned up which I know Ortega likes to do you can just start to imagine how that'll look yo you know what I mean Yo episode 6 Anakin let me bring it to you right now okay by the way episode 3 Anakin was a [__] and you know that let me ask you though does Ortega have the IQ because he he raised his IQ in our in our eyes against Coran Zombie by by tenfold no that's a fair one he did a great job does he have the IQ to go even higher to use his length and punching power to give this wizard pause he looks so much better last time out I got to think he's I I got to think something mentally clicked after that big loss man I think that he's uh dialed in better I don't know he was so good and that c swans fight especially we finishes him twice essentially I mean he's look so good the Frankie Edgar fight but I'm like when you think about it I'm like he looks so good coming off a loss I was really worried about how he'd look coming off of that kind of loss so let's figure this out for a second we both all of us agree right that if Ortega tries to take it to the ground no dice right Alexander Volkanovski's takedown defense is [__] lights out it is but okay hold on he can rock him and take him down okay I want to ask you though what if Ortega goes to the takedown and pulls guard what's going to happen now that's different that that's a whole different scenario I think a guy like volovski probably has good submission defense but what I'm trying to point out is probably the majority of the fights going to be on the feet all right here's what I'm banking on how did Ortega get the Korean zombie it wasn't just a b ba it was a b b qu and he came around the back it's the trickery it's the lomachenko [__] dude Ortega cannot beat vulcanos straight up boxing it's not going to work but with the trickery element with the risk-taking element that's where the whole ball game changes for me since you saw it 49 times what did Max do in the second fight you did is that the fight you was what did Max how many times I'm going to let me ask you for real straight up in layman's terms what did Max do in the second fight that Orga may be able to mirror uh so two things in the first fight Max had a wide stance and in a wide stance it is good because you you can lower your level obviously you can intercept things in certain degrees um but you're not as mobile oh actually you're more mobile but you don't have quite the same uh delivery so what he did was he actually narrowed his stance and now he's up tall he's a bigger Target but he can intercept things much more easily he wasn't worried about the takedown cuz I think at the first time he was worried about the takedown so let me get a more stability but less Mobility um so this time he narrowed a stance he did the tie things he was very upall and he could drive the knees in and everything else he wanted too he didn't really care about anything other than intercepting the strikes I think the other part was just a little bit more patient a little bit more willing to wait so that's the part that Ortega can do like Max yes exactly he's got the length and he's got great patience my only this is really what the fight hinges on to what extent can Ortega pick up on the patterns and then find a way to counteract it I hope we talked you into the idea that this is a great fight and I want to ask you this you guys have turned me off the champion K come we're talking over him why the [__] walk you down ask you this question okay yo come with me for a second all right come on down yo I got to have this this this in Jersey City the skyline which doesn't really give you that Manhattan confidence feel but I want it's a little date rapy GHP style but I want to ask you this though can the champion Alexander Volkanovski be tapped Out by Ortega is that possible bro you deal with that as they come in on you okay all right play the Jeopardy quaw for me will you come on of of course he can of course he can I really do believe he can [__] come on okay Luke okay Luke there's a lot of people that I've talked to man I don't know about you guys that really think that or is going to do this i y one of those people is standing right here is that mine that's mine people think that's mine that's mine yo people think I wear this shirt cuz I'm a big G Gina corano fan and they're right bro okay you know what I'm saying so end of interview yo as a fighter that's what and as an instagrammer that's what I'm talking about right all right so Chuck uh likeliest way I guess I'm asking for a prediction right okay um okay how about the max Holloway angle this whole thing all right UFC is playing with house money right because are we just kicking y to the curb as he at us or well I mean let's talk let's just talk get down to Brass tax if Ortega wins dude you have a rematch if uh Ortega loses and Alexander Volkanovski wins you have a [__] rubber match dud and maybe could you no I think Aldo's probably certainly the most prominent 145 who's the most popular not counting Conor McGregor who's the most popular 145 outside of McGregor probably either way the max [__] is in play wait no here's why it's here's here's the reason that Alexander Volkanovski hallway Trilogy would be the big a big deal it's mainly because you I think you point this out brilliantly you're we're talking about a guy who adapts in fight in volcanos a guy who makes adjustments in fight and starts to figure out timing actually I think he needs to get hit sometimes to wake up in a fight it's one of those weird type of things but then you're also talking about a guy who does the exact same thing and starts to figure out his timing and it looks ablim like when you talk about a Trilogy fight when both guys know their tendencies that well that's the one you root for that's the one because the problem was Ortega was a different fighter back then but dude Max beat him bad like that they had a mercy call can you sh a little quick man debate between men okay yo if NOT_IN_ROSTER_6 was healthy he'd be cleaning up on all these all these hoes bro okay yo he in the smash Factory he's the art like me I'm the artist of this group whatever y yo zabid is the artist of the sches factory does that mean you also have debilitating illnesses uh wow wow I'm just no here's the thing dude I think very highly I asked him that question bro okay well I'm just going to answer he can answer you can I've been I've been drinking I'm sorry don't by all means finish okay do you agree then that NOT_IN_ROSTER_6 is clearly Championship material but the idea that he is the foregone conclusion seems a bit overstated I agree I think it's overstated I do think he can for sure I think he can he's he's in that discuss we got to remove him right now we got to remove him right I asked Brian or take an interesting question maybe we can close on this fight with this topic is where I said look like okay this title fight your second title fight against Alexander Volkanovski kind of the defining fight of your career but I know the competitor inside of you is it the the the eventual Holloway rematch that's really the defining fight of your career okay he's like yeah I mean it is you know he he went a long way to get there but he said you think he's overlooking the the real the real not danger cuz he's maybe not going to knock you out of death question the real talent that Alexander Volkanovski brings that this man believes to hise is Ortega overlooking what makes Alexander Volkanovski great I would say that's true because the thing is like when you look at their leadup I don't know if you guys watched stuff I didn't I watch a little bit of it I se some but I've seen their like bad blood right but I'm mostly it's it's mostly just this annoyance and I think it's annoyance with their own selves for not being able to talk to smack like other previous you know it's like it's more of a self-loathing but at the same time they're it's not I mean to to me it's not really that bad but uh he's texting his wife uhoh who are you texting I'm like yo recording a show right now okay texting his [__] boss that's what he's but I do think that uh there's probably just somehow inherently a thing about Alexander Volkanovski at this point in time that is still Overlook and I don't know what it is but I think it's there think dude I think there's a lot of people inside MMA including people who know more than me certainly but I think there's a lot of people who um it's not that you can't make a credible case for Max of course you but it is that in making the credible case for Max there's a certain dismissiveness that just does not M dude dude why who has porier made Max struggle because Max went up a weight class and porier has [__] stupid power okay and he's a very good boxer all right Conor got him early or whatever when you think about like why Max like lost those fights you can say that they were close fine but why were they even close dude because Alexander Volkanovski had him confused for long parts of it that's not a [__] accident can I ask you a personal question I love Max Holloway who who would you favor in a rematch between Ortega and Holloway right now let me ask you a personal after fight H so from your stpoint this is a like semifinal round to get to the hallay Orga Trilogy to find out who is the real best one 45 because after 49 times you do understand the Holloway had a chance of saying how many times are you going to go back to the well about the 49 I mean I mean at some point like do you like No One Believes that he actually watched it 49 times so why say that why say you don't have to you don't have to notes but the point is this you even you can agree with this be on D Ortega is dumb talented he's crazy talented but you think he's dumb Luke rockold St because you know you know of the Pang he pulls in so you're like yo he's fighting them off like zombies and [__] Walking Dead I'm sure but what I'm trying to say is um I [__] lost my train of thought cuz you [__] cut me off I interrupted him for the first time ever on the show the other day you know what I'm saying first time ever I intered and he was so pissed Jo he was so pissed I forgot I was going to say about or want to restart I was basically going to ask you straight up Luke is Ortega the semifinal round in this larger 145 tournament I'll just say this he got beat real bad by Max and then he was some things were his fault some things were not his fault he's been back one time in that one time against Korean zombie did he look awesome without a shadow made a leap bro made a leap huge level up huge level up nevertheless it's one fight the sample siiz confidence I can can I say that he can't win that there's no chance of course I have no [__] idea but I'm saying dude Max has been B It Bout It staying pretty active fights like [__] Chewbacca and dude Alexander Volkanovski I just there's a weird thing where it's like oh because Alexander Volkanovski's game is a little bit boring I'm going to discount it dude you do that at your peril yo I got before I hit the the head I might break the seal the first yo do you thinka you're not even house broken yo do you think Ortega smashed halberry like straight up men versus men I'm not asking you that dude he will do this he will be like hey can I imperil your career with totally [__] questions all right I'm not going to answer it but you're prob BC is going to go to the uh to the men's room well he's gone let's forget about UFC 266 for a second okay how has life been for you during the pandemic uh it's been okay actually I I was able to kind of step back just a little bit from MMA yeah the DAT the coverage the inundation of the schedule and everything else little burned out a little bit I would say that that's actually true and um you know in that way it's a great Silver Lining because let's face it the athletic sold us a bill of goods and we went there and they kind of uh cut shut down the combat my understanding of that is they basically wanted to do a big push and then they realized they couldn't quite monetize an audience of Combat Sports people under their model and then they said go like go else yeah pretty much although there was no warning in fact everything that coming out of their mouths up until the moment they did it which was the one year at the onee moment when everybody renewed automatically by the way on the subscriptions uh there was no warning that it was coming in fact everything we were told was that everything was fine and we the right direction it's a it's a blessing in disguise okay but you're currently doing what you have the man in the was so the we were doing the man in the myth with sha elsh but Shawn then went back toia so I've got the myth.com which is a site I just uh throw some thoughts down on you know and uh throw some thoughts the best ones that are out there so I do that and then uh and then I'm working with the ring ringer now uh with doing a podcast with our boy Ariel and uh what's the name of it by the way py Carol so it's called the the ringer MMA show I like P I like py being there he's a fun he's a fun guy he is very good he makes it like he's chemistry no matter what right like he's always going to he's always going to be chemistry so and by the way hold In fairness to him smart and and experienced so we're doing all the major pay-per-views and Ariel too everyone relax guys made up I know I know it's fine Ariel's [__] talented everyone okay but yes so yeah and uh and you know we do this thing called the Spotify Green Room which is actually like a like an exclusive green room after big fights things like that and then it becomes a podcast later so yeah that's where that's where I'm at now so but I feel rejuvenated man I mean I got to be honest and it's fun to come back and you know do this show again and uh pandemic it resorted things a little bit all right so now BC how do you feel yo how nice is it that um luk and Ariel buried that Dawson's Creek [__] we're back on the same team you know what I'm saying right yeah yeah yeah so loaded I could blow you up right now like Ray Lewis blew up many of oh [__] yo that means he I blow you up right now like youo meet me in Atlanta Olympic Square I'll kill you there are certain things that BC does where he'll dare you to like meet his a CH but here's the thing if you do it would like ruin his career so you can't actually he's the chil son he lights a bomb puts in your hand he runs away I'm like vny Hill except for the lack of new women right and hopefully rape as well uh all right no more Cosby jok let's keep I was now I have to go to the bathroom where's the bathroom is it over here it is it is so Chuck um I'm the last I'm the last man with the you have to pee on yourself Yo Chuck I want to ask you a bit about that UFC 266 undercard pretty limbs a little bit deep like not so much I don't want to hear you talk about Dan hooker's Visa but is there a fighter on this card that you're looking to like maybe have a moment and say yo we here we on the prelims prel you're not going to go you're not even going to go to the uh heavyweight fight go Curtis blades if you feel it bro let me think um you know probably uh Jaylen Turner I I I like that guy I think he's kind of turned a corner the tarantula yeah the tarantul I like him uh I think he's got a bright future who he fighting though bro he's fighting the kid from Serbia right like the Serbian what's his name it's uh dzen Petrovic no no he's the kid he's fighting those was pretty good too okay no Jaylen turn has turned the corner he's showing me some pop he's showing me some energy some love um does c does Curtis blades reenter the heavyweight title picture against janzer Ros truck because it's pretty good damn matchmaking right Curtis blades yeah what did I say come oh no no I'm just I'm I'm trying to put this together like he got knocked out in his last fight with NOT_IN_ROSTER_8 I I feel like his style doesn't lend itself to something like a tile his style dominates the sub Elite that's what I mean and also it could it can dominate an exciting knockout artist right like Rosen strike I think that that's one of those situations and if he's smart that's probably the TAC he's going to do because you don't want to lose two in a row after your only losses were really to enanu right like all the way up until the Lewis fight you probably don't want to get knocked out a second time in a row because I think he might actually lose that shine forever like I don't know if he'd ever get back into contendership I think he's going to that fight has the potential of being very boring because if Curtis blades has his wrestling if it's wrestling if he's going to get his way and I think he's going to pick his shots you know like cuz he got out with an uppercut in the I think he's going to pick his shots and he's going to make it as ugly as he can he's going to try to take him down as soon as he can yo I got to ask you about the one paper viiew main card fight that no one's talking about and it is former strawweight Champion Jessica andr coming back at flyweight against Cynthia Calo and it's an important like title picture fight but be honest with me and this directly correlates to the co-main event Valentino shevchenko against Lauren Murphy all right you know Valentina against Jessica andr was supposed to be the first time at 125 we'll see Valentina have to like follow show us if you're a Russian spy like show us how good you are bro she wrestled the [__] out of andr crucifix elbows and made it look like she was fighting Jessica ey to be really hon no disrespect but to be really honest um how does andr like andr bounce back from that at all yes yes yes he's here yes I know he pees sitting down wow it'll be it'll be okay I I'll I'll tell him like your says hi cuz you know wow yo I'm about to believe here that andr is going to get revenge yo she yo she's about to serve Calo okay so you're probably right but I do think that this is almost set up for Calo to fail or succeed like if she's if she gets through this she's either going to win or lose no but I mean like it's set up for her if she's able to get through this it's just like a a turn fight right like she if she's able to get through andrj andrj has had her shot we have fresh blood then presuming the Valentina jle takes care of her business right I think that because if you remember she's 34 years old now but for a while she had kind of a big buzz around her when she was team team alpha male look up on her only fans bro yo what I'm trying to say is the winner of Andra Calo is going to have a say in that flyweight title picture but no one cares about that [__] yo I got to ask you this is Chef chenko going to do what she told me on morning combat when she's like my job is to destroy this [__] Lauren Murphy I don't think she said this [__] and first of all put some [__] respect on Laur five in a row from Lauren Murphy so Laur Murphy is [__] with that said and by the way late 30s the Alaskan she she turn old have some respect but she she is a bug going up against a highing Vehicles windshield you know what I mean that's what she's going to will this be the fight we have reached the point he's drank too much will this be the fight where Valentine againsts legit pound-for-pound boats where people are like I don't care that you lost twice to Amanda you the best in the world bch um dude can you stop calling female Fighters [__] hold on try try again where people are basically going to say you know I don't care about the two losses cun you the best in the world bullet um better maybe but I think that here's okay here's the thing she can do because I I mean I don't know this is maybe about Lauren Murphy I'm talking well here's the thing that Valentina can do she can be the first to finish Lauren Murphy right like she Lauren Murphy has never been finished she's she's bought some some monsters in there so I think that that would speak to a certain right I think that would boost I'm like super pumped about the co-main because what well I'll tell you why candidly look when you examine the fight as BC has had way too much to drink in all seriousness do you agree or disagree okay someone like Valentina Shevchenko um dude you're not going to catch her slipping in other words like she's she made a point was with BC or somebody else she's like these are the women who I'm fighting they've been training like what and fighting as well 6 8 years she goes I've been doing this for almost 30 okay yeah so this is a level of commitment that they right precisely that they just cannot possibly match and so you know should chevchenko be the favorite without a shadow of a doubt but dude Lauren Murphy is one of these Fighters BC we're talking about factory town cand analyst in you talking I want the fan in you talk I'm telling you no I'm being fair like don't you love stories and I don't know if she's going to get's path do you think what is her path the path has been never the promoter's favorite not one day and she forced her hand by driving up the hard part of the division and [__] win dude if you're a fight fan if you're a real fight fan you cannot take [__] from okay”
MJ
MMA JOEY picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“easy win for valentina”
MMA JOEY picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“easy win for valentina”
DN
DFS BY THE NUMBERS picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“it's going to be Valentina Shevchenko or pass”
DFS BY THE NUMBERS picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“it's going to be Valentina Shevchenko or pass”
WP
We Want Picks picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“Valentina Shevchenko has incredible will and determination and devastating endgame when wearing and more fun with success”
We Want Picks picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“Valentina Shevchenko has incredible will and determination and devastating endgame when wearing and more fun with success”
WM
Walk The Line MMA picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“Valentina Shevchenko one of the most skilled fighters point blank”
Walk The Line MMA picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“Valentina Shevchenko one of the most skilled fighters point blank”
ME
MMA EXPERTS picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“she's going to win the fight and i do believe she stops Lauren Murphy tko round number three”
$1.09
MMA EXPERTS picks Valentina Shevchenko VALUE
“she's going to win the fight and i do believe she stops Lauren Murphy tko round number three”
$1.09
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