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Chapter 1: How do the hosts prepare for the Fight Companion episode?
I am.
We're up.
It's buffering. Wow. That's it? We're live?
You got your cans?
We're live. Try to put my cans on. Put your fucking cans on, brother. Put the cans on. Come on. We're all professionals. We're all professionals. Is everybody drinking? Yes. We have Buffalo Trace here. We have whatever you want. We have vodka. We have all kinds of shit. What do you like? What do you like? Fuck a club with a splash of crayon? No, it's not fucking. It's not us.
You don't got to worry about that.
You can't hear it? You don't hear anything? You hear it now? Poor me. You don't hear anything? Jamie will check it out. It might be a wires loose.
I thought he was running for the drinks, too. Does he play bartender, too, Jamie? I'll bring over some bottles.
We got some stuff you can mix it with, I think, but I don't know. Do you need mixes? No, I don't need a mix or nothing.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the current UFC event?
Oh, here we go. We got something to mix it up with. Oh, LaCroix's. Here we go. There you go.
Oh! All right.
I'm going to have a sip of this. That's okay.
Ow! I'm easy.
Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Yeah, that's a good fight. Shawn Whaley is such a monster, man. She's so hard to bet against. That lady is such an animal.
When's the last time she fought a real wrestler?
She has not. She's never fought anybody like her. Not even close. Neither of them have fought anybody of the caliber that they are. That's why it's a great fight.
They're also both older. I think Tatiana's 31, and then the homegirl, Whaley, is what, 34?
Isn't that crazy to say? Because Alex Pereira's 37. Different. Yeah, isn't it? That's weird, though, right? Talking chicks, bro. You get older, 31, you start going... Isn't that interesting? Especially if they're lighter weight class. Lighter weight class.
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Chapter 3: Who are the standout fighters of this UFC event?
Yeah, it changes his DNA forever.
That pace. You see these guys. Brock Lesnar. They can't breathe. They're just wilting from that pace. Especially at heavyweight.
I love that.
The Brock Lesnar fight.
Oh, my God. Insane. He was very good at boxing. He picked up on boxing so quickly.
And it was all smooth technique. There wasn't no big wind-ups where his chin was exposed. It was all very smooth. The Noguera KO? Oh, my goodness. Fast. Like a three-piece. It was like lightning, just smooth. I think Kane in his prime is the best heavyweight ever. It's hard to say because of Fedor. Because if you could get juicy Fedor from Pride... I think Kane beats the fuck out of him.
I don't know, man. I don't know if anybody beats Fedor in his prime. Fedor is so accurate with his... strikes. So good, dude. Fedor walked down Krokop when Krokop was in his prime. You gotta remember that most of that fight was standing up. And Fedor was going blow to blow with Krokop and walking him down. He was very unusual.
That Randleman KO or the Randleman armbar, Randleman fucking suplexes him on his head. And five seconds later, he's got him in a Kimura. It's crazy. He was different. Will he beat up Noguera, dude? Oh, my God. Watch that fight again. I'd like to see some testing around those times. Oh, yeah. We'll pretend. We'll pretend. Even on the UFC back then. We'll all pretend.
Even on the UFC back then, though. It'd be tough. Tim motherfucking Sylvia.
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Chapter 4: What controversies or surprises emerged during the fights?
It's more of a Yakuza... Trick used to have a tramp stamp. Maybe he's going to do the whole back. Yeah. It looks like the beginning of a whole back tattoo. When he was goofing on me.
Yeah, it's probably the beginning. But that's like a tribal thing, right? That's like a New Zealand tattoo.
Yeah, maybe. Or it looks like a Japanese something. Oh, good uppercuts inside.
Good knees, too. Oh.
Damn.
Matthews is fucking dangerous. I... Doesn't that dude look like Drew Dober? Prado?
A little bit.
A lot.
Nobody has Drew Dober's jaw. It's not quite as handsome.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts view the future of certain UFC fighters?
And he was obsessed with jiu-jitsu. You know, Jocko trained with him. And Jocko said, look, he's got a fucking mind, like a steel trap for jiu-jitsu. Like positions and counters and moves. It's like always, like you have to be fucking psychotic and obsessed. It's like chess. It's just how long can you do it for? Yeah. And then he started fighting in the UFC.
And when he was fighting in the UFC, he wasn't a striker. He didn't have striking. It just wasn't good enough to hang with the best guys. Because on the feet, he'd be at such a disadvantage. And it's so hard to get guys down. It's hard. But when it came to straight jiu-jitsu, Dean Lister was a fucking monster. He was great. He was so good. And he got big. Yeah. You remember Jeff Munson?
Oh, my God. Does he live in Russia now? Yes, he does. Yes. He lives in Russia. He's married to a Russian. He speaks Russian. Remember that tattoo on his back?
Oh, yeah. Remember there's that picture of him against the fucking SWAT team? Yeah. He's, like, protesting. I think he's a communist, right?
Oh, yeah, full on. Yeah, he's out of Russia, bro. Yeah, he's all in. He's all in with Mother Russia. He always wanted to be a Russian.
He's not a guy you want to get into conflict with.
He's an odd dude, man. Oh, fuck, yeah, he is.
He's smart.
Yeah. Smart, yeah. He was also built like a grape. He was like one gigantic muscle.
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Chapter 6: What side topics did the hosts discuss during the episode?
His cardio's on point.
What, Jamie? He's not breathing heavy. Five to 62 strikes. Wow. Five to 62. Oh, my goodness. That's a lot.
That sucks. If that's not a 10-8 round, bro.
Yeah, it's a 10-8 round.
But they need to do that more often because there's too many close rounds that they give 10-9 and then they give a round like this a 10-9. Damn. I've been saying this forever. We need to get off that fucking stupid boxing system. MMA has too many factors to just have a 10-point system. It doesn't make any sense.
Why are they not changing that?
I don't know. They should change it.
Is it because they don't know how to kind of come up with an agreed-upon rule set?
Well, Doc Hamilton came up with another system back in the day. He called it a half-point system, and he explained it to me, and it made more sense. Instead of full points for certain things, give half points for certain things.
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