Did you see UFC 300? If not the boys have got you covered. From one of the biggest Knockouts of all time Joey & JT break down how it happened and what this might mean for future fights- Is Max Holloway back in the title conversation? A controversial decision was made when a fight continued after one of the fighters Yan was choked unconscious by the Champion Weili Zhang - was this the wrong call? Also how can you beat an emotionless terminator of a man such as Alex Pereira? A massive fight card that needs to be played back, just to appreciate the crazy level of MMA that was put on display.
Did you see UFC 300? If not the boys have got you covered. From one of the biggest Knockouts of all time Joey & JT break down how it happened and what this might mean for future fights- Is Max Holloway back in the title conversation? A controversial decision was made when a fight continued after one of the fighters Yan was choked unconscious by the Champion Weili Zhang - was this the wrong call? Also how can you beat an emotionless terminator of a man such as Alex Pereira? A massive fight card that needs to be played back, just to appreciate the crazy level of MMA that was put on display.
Speaker 1:
boom. Ufc 300 brother. Oh, my god, now, joey, you were. You were paying close attention. Yeah, I, um, it's always a tough one for me because we don't want the kids to watch it. Yeah, leo, right, like you're not not how to either. And I I don't, I mean howdy's, you know, she's got, she's my stepdaughter, yeah, so in that way I'm not like I don't have, you know, she's 11. She's older, right? Yeah, so I'd be like I think that's fine, but I don't know what her dad thinks about all that. Sure, but Leo, you know, he just turned three a couple months ago, so impressionable. And he's also he's throwing hands and shit a lot. Now he's like I'm gonna get it, I'll get it, I'll put it on at my place. And I was like cool.
Speaker 1:
For those of you who don't know, paulie Vodafili is one of the OG Jungle Brothers, the OG founding fathers. Yeah, yeah, my best mate for a long time and runs this gym now. Beautiful human. It was his birthday yesterday. Oh fuck, it is. Yeah, but so he's like I'll put on. I'm like, but what do you do with the kids? He's like well, they just do what they want, but they usually just don't want to watch it. They wander off, play, off, play. And I was like, oh okay, so anyway, we're at home. I was like me, paulie's getting the UFC, can I take Leo? And she's like, nah, I was like, all right, I, you felt bad. I very rarely leave the family on a weekend, but I'm like paulie's birthday and it's ufc 300. Yeah, um, so anyway, I got. I arrived at the end of the charles olivera fight, at the end of the first round, right which and I'm a huge fan of the bronx yeah, but he just got. He just got out, done by sarukian.
Speaker 1:
Did you see that fucking axe kick? Yeah, the hip flexibility on that guy, bro Dude, did you see when they because they paused it, yeah, it's vertical, and his torso there's no lean back. No, yeah, he's, I love me. An axe kick, yeah, yeah, right, you don't see them? Used a lot in MMA? No, but if someone's good with it, that could be a knockout. Yeah, it's a strong. You cop that on top of the nose or the forehead? Oh, yeah, devastating shot. Even if you don't catch them, it makes people hesitate to come in, yeah, because it's like a, because it goes through the guard, doesn't it? Yeah, and it's also almost like a close range. If you're flexible, it's like a close range kick, range kick, whereas like a spinning kicks long and yeah, you can kind of be pretty close and just be like bad, just drop it on a dude, oh bro, yeah, it's quite, he's like man.
Speaker 1:
That guy's a complete fighter, sarukian, and he was. It was the first, well, besides makachev, because makachev just stormed through olivera's guard, right, yeah, I think he had him hurt as well, but sarukian like, uh, olivera pulled guard on him and sarukin just beat him up, yeah, just nullified his guard, had him up against the cage, didn't allow him to get his hips off center and just pummeled him. Yeah, it's not a good spot to be. I mean, oliveira is one of the rare few that is almost always dominant when he's playing off his back, yeah, but I just actually think I don't know, I feel like he's done better striking, like, even though he has a lot of submission finishes, or the most submission finishes, I think, of all time. Yeah, he does better striking. I don't think pulling guard was the right idea. Yeah, from the, from the outset, I'd agree like I don't know if you remember, like I think, george, oh no, sorry, my bad. Anyway, continue please. Um, so that was lit, but it was a shame to see olivera lose. Um, and then who did we have up next? We had, um, fuck, we have main event. Welcome back from that.
Speaker 1:
We had wiley and yan, the two chinese women, and then the five. She was wiley zhang, cause I I just tuned in on updates on this she choked the chick unconscious, right, put her out, right and and so shouldn't the fight be over? I think this is kind of controversial. Like it was end of round one, right? Yeah, she was. Technically, she was out, she was out, yep, she was out. And then she like, as soon as she released the choke, she like popped back up, yeah, and was wobbled in the corner.
Speaker 1:
People all came in and were like, come on, let's get back to the stall, but it should be over from there, it should be. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what they do about that. And you said, because I didn't see the rest of the fight, I just saw someone's phone, you know, like I was following through stories, so I didn't get to watch the whole card, folks, I was doing some other stuff. But to me, like, because also Gary Tonin was fucking blowing up, was he? Are we going to continue? She's unconscious. He's like, are we going to continue? She's unconscious.
Speaker 1:
He was like this is ridiculous, like he was blowing up. Wow, I mean, I'm sure. Yeah, right, like you think about all of that stuff with the athletic commissions and like brain injuries and stuff, and it's like Fido got KO'd so they got a mandatory three-month suspension. It's like Chick just went unconscious and you're letting her come out for the second round, even though she looks fine, that's, and she fought great, she fought hard. Disappointing thing was that wiley took her back like another three or four times through the fight and just couldn't. Never got close again to the finish. Could be wrong about it, but yeah, from from recollection, yeah, the the yarn just didn't let her like I don't know. She had a good angle on the back when she applied that first choke. She never got there again, but Wiley still got the win. So fucking biggity, bam, that's good. There you go, poiton Dude. Well before that, no.
Speaker 1:
Holloway and Gaethje oh right, yeah, of course that was one of the most lit fights I've ever seen. It was just classic by the two of them. But fucking, gaethje knocked Holloway down twice with a leg kick. Dude Hit one leg and just swept him on his ass. Yeah, and Holloway is super susceptible to the leg kicks.
Speaker 1:
Yes, that's how Volk beat him, right, yeah, but Holloway was just dialed in. He was just like so focused, strong, right, yeah, but Holloway was just dialed in. He was just like so focused, he looked strong, right, man, he was big. Yeah, he was big, he looked fair, he looked better. Yeah, a little bit more weight on him. Yeah, I mean he could you know, think about him in the? Was it featherweight? Yeah, he's so much taller than everyone. He's so much taller than everyone. He's so much taller. He's obviously cutting like a motherfucker. Yeah, yeah, I think he looks great at what is that? Lightweight? Yeah, lightweight, 155. Looks fucking amazing, I mean. Yeah, so you know you could see him fighting a Makachev or someone like that. Yeah, and so, because we touched on it before, so I didn't, I only saw highlights from the rounds. So I only saw highlights from the rounds.
Speaker 1:
You said that pretty early Gaethje's nose was broken. Yeah, so at the end of the first round, holloway throws this like spinning heel kick, but like a short one where the knee's real bent. Yeah, kind of like those little spinning backs this week at the elbow bend, yeah, and Gaethje ducked it and ducked right into it. It just heel hit him in the nose and then like he stumbled out of that and then the round ended and Gaethje was like instantly touching his nose and the whole thing had gone red and they brought him back to the corner and I don't think they acknowledged it at the corner, but you know the commentators are talking about it and you could see it. His nose was like instantly 50 bigger than it was before he got kicked. And then, you know, like he was mouth like I don't think h's nose probably functioned that well anyway, from a respiratory point of view, right, he was definitely not. He's not going to be, he's not going to be doing the hostage tape.
Speaker 1:
At that point he looked uncomfortable, you know, and um, he kept touching it in that next round. And then fucking Holloway eye poked him like two times, which is On the jab, yeah, just on the like the fend, like just stay back, get range, fine, kind of thing. But it was Gaethje coming in and Holloway sort of pouring him away and it was like Straight in Half of the index finger disappeared into the eye socket and you know Gaethje's a tough guy. Did he get penalised for that. He didn't, and it's one of those really awkward parts of the sport because it was accidental both times, but I do feel like the second time there should be a punishment.
Speaker 1:
You don't have to fend with your fingers out, you can fend like even though it gives him range, right, well, you don't have to fend with your fingers out, you can fend like even though it gives him range, right? Yeah, you can fend like… With your hand up, yeah, it's true. Anyway, whatever, continue. And they also say the gloves hold the fingers open. A little bit. Well, they've criticized the design of the UFC gloves because by default they sit open. But there's other gloves like, I think maybe the ones they're using, like bellator and stuff, that by default close the fingers, right anyways, um. So, yeah, he's getting eye gouged, cop, two eye gouges, got his nose busted up and he's just got this.
Speaker 1:
Holloway is just fucking prime. He looks so good and so, anyway, the whole fight was holloway, like gaethje, had some amazing moments and he clipped him a bunch of times, had those like full car collision moments where both fighters come in and you just hear this like bone on bone action, um, but holloway was leading the whole time I I don't know if gaethje would have won a round, so, coming into the last round, gaethje had to fucking pull out, you know, had to stop him, yeah, and anyway he clearly wasn't able to. Ten seconds before the end, holloway points to the centre of the octagon. Ring it. Yeah, they come in and just start banging and then two seconds to go, it's just a flurry of punches. Right, they're just haymakers, boom, boom. And then he just comes overhand and Gaeth makers, boom, boom. And then he just comes overhand and gaichi, as you saw, face down on the canvas.
Speaker 1:
It was bastard, it was sensational, like it was. Everyone is saying it's the knockout of the century type thing. Yeah, biggest knockout in a long time. Yeah, fuck. But you know it's. It only happens when you have a willing participant, which is gaichi. Yeah, right, like any men who are prepared to. Yeah, like, okay, one of us is going out here. It has to happen, you know. So it's like, yeah, it's spectacular.
Speaker 1:
For all those reasons and, like we were saying before, I think Gaethje, of all fighters, would be honored to have played that role. He accepts, even though he came off second best Terms and conditions. Yeah, he's like, he's become a lot more intelligent, but you know that he's a brawler at heart, yes, and so he's always like on a leash kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, and so in that way I don't think he'd give a fuck, no, but I just. For me it's hard because that highlight is going to be played forever now. It's historical, right, yeah, it's the same with like Izzy knocking out Powhatan yeah, that is like um. Is he knocking out powertown? Yep, that is just one of those. Oh, wow, yeah, they're just going to keep playing it and playing it. I feel bad for the guy on the end of the knockout. That's all like. I like both fighters. If it look, if it's conor mcgregor, I wouldn't mind, I'd be, I'd be stoked, I'd be like I want to see conor mcgregor get knocked out.
Speaker 1:
That highlight of when dustin finished in the first time sensational, amazing, yeah, but yeah, wow, what it was. An incredible knockout, it's all. My whole feed is just destroyed. Oh, bro, with so many angles, yeah, right, yeah, because they have the um. I haven't seen this in the ufc before, but I first saw this. This is what they had in the matrix when they were filming that. It was the first time they'd use it in movies, but it's where they have slr cameras right positioned in a 360 degree setting around the subject. So they're all around it, yeah, and so they shoot this sequence, yeah, and so they can choose a frame and then zoom around. Oh yeah, it's really cool, it's crazy good. Yeah, it's pretty fun, yeah, amazing. But so that?
Speaker 1:
And then we had the, then we had the the two chinese women fight, and then we had powhatan, had the the two chinese women fight, and then we had powhatan and jamal hill. And I just gotta say my hill shouldn't have been there. Jamal hill, they should have given him a warm-up fight, right, you know he? So he beat glover for the title. Then he was playing a charity basketball match for the ufc and that's where he ruptured his achilles. No, yeah, yeah, they showed the footage on the countdown.
Speaker 1:
I was like, oh, poor dude, like all fought so hard to get there, got the title, and they're like, all right, I'll go do this thing for the company. And it's just like there was a bunch of fighters and he's like, oh, went down out of nowhere. That's so terrible, bro. And then the lack of emotion on the guy Bro, he is just stone cold.
Speaker 1:
Wasn't that first round? Yep, and how you see him. Push off Herb Dean, yeah, so he's like, coming in and Jamal clips like a leg kick, that kind of clipped the balls, and Herb Dean walks in Once they give him a second, he's like no, but Poit time doesn't take his eyes off jamal, he just pushes her away and then, finishing sequence, he's like I don't care if I've just lost the testicle, I'm killing this guy. Yeah, he just not like. It's like true, like you know he did as the does the archer thing. It's like true stalking. Yeah, like like of a hunter where, like, once it's dialed in, he's like I know how I'm gonna get this finish, kill you. It's so cool, but I'm such a fan.
Speaker 1:
How badass was the jamal hills. He's like see, yeah, see, yeah, he really drew that out too. I didn't realize, but jamal had been a bit of a dick in the pre-fight conference. He had brought in a smashed skull or something they were saying and was like holding it up like he's gonna smash poltan. I mean, whatever, they gotta sell the fight, right, gotta sell it, yeah, yeah. But I think it just.
Speaker 1:
It's difficult. If you've won a championship, right, and you think I'm the champ in your mind, right, you You're like I'm the champ now. Very hard for you to reconcile that with looking at another dude who is many times champ kickboxing world champion. You know like hard for you to, because it would undermine your confidence to acknowledge how tough and how good your opponent is right, because you've got to bring yourself to go in there in front of that guy. So he'd have to do whatever he could to convince himself I can beat this guy. I suppose I. I see your point. I think if, if that's the way like, if that's how you feel yourself, I've never felt like I would I would always be more the other way of like, no like, like, say, powhatan, he was like. So when you were UFC champion, joe, well, it was different back then, pre-rob Whittaker, because how can you you know what I mean Like.
Speaker 1:
What I find interesting is so the Schmo who we met at the ADCC. The Schmo is an interesting guy but he actually asks good questions and he will ask a fighter how do you see this fighter beating that fighter? Like, what does it take for Sean Strickland to beat fucking Priscus? You know, duplesis, sorry. So you know like he will ask this question and most fighters don't. Actually they're not always good at answering that. They're like oh, just get in there and bang, you know. It's like no, you need a fucking strategy. This guy's got longer reach, he's fucking bigger than you. He probably hits harder than you. Like, how are you going to win?
Speaker 1:
I think a lot of fighters don't ask that. They just try and overcome with like, oh, I'm more confident, yeah, and I kind of I guess I'm thinking like I see kind of two different ways of viewing it. You can be the fighter, that's like. I just fucking like I give them no credit and I just know I'm going to destroy them and I come in and do my thing. Um, and I don't entertain the idea that there's any threat to me or the idea that there's anything that anything other than me winning is going to happen.
Speaker 1:
And then I think you got the other ones that are like I fully respect that this person could, could, could beat me, and so I've thought about all ones that are like I fully respect that this person could beat me, and so I've thought about all of that and you know, and so that's why I'm doing X, y, z, yes, you know, and I'm like, yeah, fuck, whatever works. Like, say Adam, he has that. When you talk to Adam about competition, he's like I'm winning this competition and anyone that mentions anything about like my mind doesn't go there. I'm like my mind is camp there a hundred percent of the time. Why don't win championships? No, no, no, it's different because it can work. If your mindset works for you, then that's right. Yeah, everyone's different. So in that way, yeah, I think Jamal like I mean surely he would have had to have been like fuck, this is going to be a tough fight to win. Yeah, you know, oh, yeah, poor fella Bro. So big card, big card, it was a goodie. It was a goodie.
Speaker 1:
There's a lot of fights I didn't see. Would have loved to have watched Jim Miller's fight. I don't know what the result was. No, I didn't see it. I'm sorry folks, but he's been around. I remember watching him, maybe like 10 years ago. Yeah, yeah, even like in that era of, like Joe Lozon. Yeah, I love those guys. Yeah, it's such a good Sick grappling Era of fights. It was really the first generation, I think, of true hybrid MMA. Like you're getting guys who can grapple, can strike, can everything all over the ring. So, man, fuck there.