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THE W.A.D.E. Concept - WEEK IN REVIEW - Jon Jones is a CREEP and Sean O'Malley
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If you guys have been around my channel for the last four years, you'll know there's rare occasions where I have to cover something that's just not something I want to talk about because it's so weird or it's so disgusting or it's just so bad that me personally, I don't even want to talk about stories like this, but I feel it's important to do so because without talking about it, there's a certain sector of my audience and probably the audience online that doesn't get a full picture of their favorite athletes or their favorite sport. And in this case, once again, we are here because of Jon Jones. Why, you may ask? No, not because of the Tom Aspinall saga drama that keeps going on. He's ducking. The UFC won't strip him. We know this chapter infinity. We get it. No, this time it's because of things that John is doing outside of the cage or has done outside of the cage. And you can chalk this one up on the latest instances of what the is wrong with Jon Jones, but this is not the time he hit another car that had a pregnant lady in it in an intersection and then fled the scene. This isn't the time where he put his hands on his own wife. This isn't the time where he threatened officers and rammed his own head into his car after driving drunk away from a scene. No, the this wasn't one of the other times where he was driving drunk and got stopped. It wasn't one of the times where he purposely hid from a drug testing body for eight hours under a practice MMA mat so that he wouldn't be caught. No, this wasn't one of the times where he screwed over the UFC and had them reschedule a card after testing hot, or cancel a card after testing hot or remove a card from a Vegas location to a California location because he tested hot. No, it's not any of those things this time. It's just again, another instance of looking at probably the greatest MMA athlete of all and saying, you are a horrible representation for this sport and this isn't a mistake. This is just Jon Jones being a scumbag, a douche, and quite frankly, to say it bluntly, wearing Pride Month. And Jon Jones has a story out that's at the least a very crude and homophobic joke that says more about Jon than it says about anybody else, and at the very worst is sexual assault on an individual that was trying to help him. I've described this in the best way I can, but let's take a listen to see what the I'm talking about. Jon Jones, as reported by Big John McCarthy at one point in his career, essentially sexually harassed an individual right before one of his fights just because he could. And it's so weird and creepy and gross and honestly sounds exactly like something Jon Jones would do. Let's take A listen.
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But when I went into John's locker room, he's, you know, bouncing around having, you know, he's having a good time. And so I got a question for you. I got a question for. So, yeah, what's your question? And he says, I need somebody. And there's. There's an individual there. And that individual was a black belt in Brazilian Jiu jitsu and was working for the commission. And he says, someone get on the ground for me, right? And so this guy being a ground guy and being someone that was, man, I'm in John Jones's locker room. This is great. And so he says, oh, I'll do it for you. He says, you know, I know how to roll. And so he goes down, he says, you know, just, you know, put me in guard, right? And then John decides to do a sexual act with him, saying, if I. What if I do this, right? You know, what, you know is this, is this, this isn't illegal, right? And it, the, the guy who was on the ground, you know, quickly his eyes went, you know, as big as they could get, like, what are you doing? And I said, john, knock it off, right? And, you know, I helped the person up. And he goes, I'm just, just joking. And he goes, but, but really, what could you do? I said, I could disqualify you for being unsportsmanlike. Go ahead and do it. Let's see what happens.
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Are we serious? If it was anybody else, you'd think, okay, that's an over the line joke and very out of character for literally anybody else to do in the UFC legitimately. Anybody else legitimately? Name another fighter that you would see doing that. How about the other guy that's trying to help? Jon Jones? A part of the commission that's there to help Jon not only understand the rules, but, but also prepare him for any new rule changes or anything like that. John just taking advantage of the situation. Hey, let me play a practical joke. By dry humping this guy on the ground, by simulating sex, by grabbing him and thrusting into him. Sorry, I'm using language. Because that's what the guy did. He's a weirdo and a terrible representation of the sport. But that guy, fan of Jon Jones black belt. It's like, holy shit. I get to demonstrate with Jon so that he has no more questions about the fight he's going to go into. John didn't give a. Again, one of the things about Jon Jones is no matter how much of a scumbag, terrible person he is, he is one of if not the best fighter on the planet, couldn't give a F about none of that, didn't have any questions or anything like that. Man knew he was probably going to go in there and dominate, but instead he's got to take some time out of this guy's day and horrify and traumatize him and get his rocks off, I guess by dry humping the dude. And what's so embarrassing and sad about this is this is not even one of the worst things Jon Jones has ever done. And listen, I've been in locker rooms, I've been in college locker rooms where dudes play practical jokes on each other and I've even seen some weirdo scumbags do dumb shit and weird shit that would not fly had some coach or somebody else seen it. And I've known guys being around athletes that have had situations where people have been kicked off teams and out of organizations for doing crude and just absolutely nonsensical again, harassment bordering on assault, whether it's sexual or not, things to other players on teams and it never makes any sense. But for Jon to do this right before his fight and in the full view of the commission, in the full view of John McCarthy. And I think part of this clip we didn't get to see was Greg Jackson coming over and apologizing to the guy and to John McCarthy, like, hey, sorry, Sean Johnson done that. His own head coach has to come over. Like John's father has to go over and apologize for a bad kid at school. He's a grown man acting like this. And again, that guy was a Jon Jones fan that in real time, literally, as John McCarthy said, opened his eyes and saw who this dude really was. It's like every other MMA fan that has wanted to support Jon Jones as the, one of the greatest, if not the greatest the sport has seen and maybe will ever see. And yet all of us just like that guy in that moment are horrified, traumatized and embarrassed that we ever looked up to this guy. Part of me wants to just have John retire and never hear from him again and have the sport move on. Part of me wants Tom Aspinall to beat the out of him. But that's not because Jon is a good heel character. That's not because John is a is a bad guy. And I got you to hate me with all my trash talk and my mannerisms and cursing out all the fans. No, he's just a bad person dude that makes everyone around him uncomfortable for his pleasure. I've had the same energy for Conor McGregor in the allegations that he's continually come up against. But it's like the greatest of our sports are so bad at representing the sports, not only just themselves or their families or any. It's the sport that they represent. And I just wanted to share this because. Because it just. It just burns me out on, like, even caring about Jon Jones fighting. Because, listen, I was excited about Jon and Tom fighting. That was. That was a fun fight to me, trying to forget all the stuff that Jon has done outside of the cage. And a part of me still, like I said, I want to see Tom whip his ass. But another part of me is just like, bro, just. Just leave so we can be done with this type of shit. Strip him of the belt, move the on so that we can all just stop thinking about how much of a piece of shit Jon Jones is. I'm done. That's it. Another debaucherous chapter in the Jon Jones book. Again, another instance of him at the very lightest, sexually harassing a guy that was trying to help him get ready for a fight. I don't even know what fight it was. It doesn't really matter. And at the worst, sexually assaulting a man in front of a group of licensed commission officials right before he's about to go and fight because he thought it was a joke. Jon Jones is the actual joke. Yeah, that's it. Peace. All right, so we are back on the way concept presented by the Ring magazine, the bible of boxing. But today we're taking a look at the MMA side of things because I want to break down UFC 316's main event. Sean O' Malley versus Merab D. Valishville. This is going to be a rematch that the UFC needs. A rematch that will really determine where the sport is and where it's going and honestly may determine, based on Merab's resume, one of the greatest, greatest 135 pound fighters the UFC's ever seen. But I think this rematch is going to be a lot different from the first fight. I think that Sean o' Malley has something to say about that and I think this time around he will have a lot more success. Will he win? Will Marab win and continue this dominant streak and capture big name after big name on his resume? I have my answer, I have my prediction. So let's get to it. UFC316's main event, Shadow, Mali and Marabashville. I hate saying that last name because I know I do it well. And it sounds like I'm mumbling a bunch of Sounds I'm trying my best. Marab. I apologize. But who wins and why? The breakdown. Let's go. All right, so, number one, Shawn o' Malley and Merab. Let's get things out of the way that we already know. Number one, the fight already happened the first time. Merab won by essentially controlling the fight. That's a little bit of a light term, but it's the one that I have to use. Marob controlled where the fight took place. When he did not want to engage, he circled around the cage or at a distance that was safe for him and not in the firing line of Sean o' Malley. When he did want to engage, he was able to close distance, avoid the big strikes of Sean o' Malley and take him down. Whether it was a single leg that he would try to raise and Sean would get out of, and then the second attack would get Sean to the ground. And when he did get Sean o' Malley to the ground, he was able to be very successful. Ground and pound again, holding him in position, whether it was on the ground or on the cage. And generally just being able to control Sean o' Malley and the fight with that tactic, with that ability, he has to really never get tired or at least never show that he's tired. While it wasn't anything that jumped off the page at you on the feet from me, Rob, in that fight, the next fight against Umar Nurmagomedov, he showed better striking, I would say. And so that can definitely be a part of how this second fight goes. Murad potentially showing better striking than he did in the first. Although I still don't think it's a great idea to stand in front of Sean o' Malley with flat feet and look to strike with him. I don't think Merab is going to do that. In the first fight, Sean o' Malley looked a bit stagnant, looked a bit lost for the volume, the variability, the combinations. And finally, the ultimate thing that Sean o' Malley seems to do to everybody, which is find the shot that will eventually either KO them, hurt them, or start the downhill stumble to a long, painful for the other fighter decision victory. Look at what he did to cheat over or Chris Moutinho piece both of them up like they were puzzles on your grandma's table. That was a dominant performance, but in a way that Sean o' Malley was able to control the fight with his volume, reach, and eventually precision striking. This is, you know, what you would consider a classic grappler versus striker matchup, where the idea is Sean o' Malley needs to gain respect or at least gain the advantage in this fight by hurting Murat with a punch, with a kick, with whatever he's going to need to slow down the Thomas the Train little engine that could motor that Merab possesses and seems to not really care about whether he's tired or not. I think there was a quote, I don't know who said it. Someone essentially said Merab D. Valishwilli is the only fighter they'd ever heard of that doesn't fear fatigue. And now everybody knows at this point. The old quote is, fatigue makes, you know, cowards of us all. Especially in the fight game, if you are tired and another guy across from you is not, it's probably the most terrifying thing or position to be. And not to make excuses for anybody because Merab has fought with. Pretty sure he fought with staff. At one point someone said he might have broke his toe in this camp. So we'll see how that affects him. But he has gone into fights injured before, Sean and Tim o' Malley is putting a lot of investment into the idea that because he had a torn hip labrum going into the first fight and wasn't able to grapple and train grappling the way he wanted to, or really just train in the positions he wanted to for that fight, that it affected him. And the fact that he's gotten the surgery and now feels healthy that it's going to be a different fight this time around. And that very well may be the case, but that's not something that I can really look at and point to and say that will make things different. Let's talk about things that potentially can be number one. I think that Sean o' Malley has an elite level of accuracy and precision with his striking, and he is a bit of an unpredictable striker. Right. There are people that have what they do best, Conor McGregor's left hand, and you know it's coming, so it is a bit predictable, but yet he still finds a way to land it. Francis Ngannou with the big overhand in the left hook, everybody knew he had it, but eventually it would still be thrown and landed. These things we know that in fights guys like to do. For Sean o' Malley, he might be one of the most unpredictable strikers in the game right now. He can not only box, but also kick out of both stances as a striker. He might be the most fluid in mma, maybe Bar Israel Adesanya, but even Sean, I think, pieces combos together better and that unpredictability obviously gives him so many different weapons. To catch the classic striker versus wrestler paradigm off guard. He doesn't have to throw a certain strike to keep a wrestler off him. In the first fight, there were moments in the fifth round where he threw the cheap kick to the stomach and it hurt Merab, or at least Merab was known for, I guess, faking being hurt just to capitalize on it. He did give visceral signs of, oh, right to the stomach and put his hands there as if it did hurt him. And Sean found that a couple of different times. But that was the most significant stuff outside of maybe a switch stance up jab that Sean would throw from the orthodox position, standing in bang with the up jab, then goes southpaw. Those things are very small moments in a much broader stagnant and lack of creativity fight for Sean o' Malley. So number one for him, he needs to be creative. I think that there are things that Merab didn't even see out of Sean in that first fight that Sean still has in the tank and in the bag to be able to show Merab and potentially catch him in positions. And this is the most important thing for Sean o' Malley. He absolutely has to catch him. He has to hit him with something that either wobbles Merab or gains his respect. And Merab has been wobbled multiple times. He doesn't have a granite chin. He doesn't have this. This unbreakable face. He has an unbreakable will. He has an unbreakable gas tank. But his chin can be tested and can be exposed. And for Sean o' Malley, it's almost a need. It's not even a want. It's a need for that to happen. Because as we've seen in every fight Marab has had recently, if you don't hurt him or you don't stop him, he is going to mow you down, he's going to run you over, and eventually he's going to find the control that he had in the first fight and continue to use that to dominate space, time and the fight. So if you're Sean o' Malley, what are the two things that I just laid out for you guys? Me, the creativity and being able to catch mirage. Well, the two things in this case equal pockets in space bars. Sean o' Malley has to create traps and has to create space for Merab to walk on two shots. Because standing in front of me, Rob, and just trying to hit him with things without Merab engaging, like you kind of saw in the first fight where Marab was just circling one side to the other. And Sean was kind of there plotting forward and throwing a shot at a time and a shot at a time and never really getting Merab's attention or getting him to fight in a way that Sean wanted, walking him into space, cutting off the octagon and using that space to then get Merab to either shoot. Because that's what Merab wants to do, is find a way to level change under some strikes from Sean o' Malley, get to his body and take advantage of that space, drive Sean into the cage and take him down. Sean wasn't able to do that. And so there was no space to even create opportunity. It was either Merab was all the way out or all the way in. The middle ground wasn't a spot where Sean could really take advantage of. And there were small moments for him to take advantage of it in the first place. So this time around, again, whether it's Tim Welsh in the corner talking about go Marab, go. And creating that opportunity like we saw with Aljo, even though Aljo said he never heard that instruction. But Al Joe created an opportunity for Sean o' Malley to drop an absolute nuclear of a right hand on his head by shooting without anything to cover it up. Sean o' Malley has to get Marab desperate enough to start shooting more without any sort of COVID to give Sean the ability to pinpoint accurately land counter punches, whether that means Sean needs to throw strikes to get a reaction out of Morab and make him shoot to. Then step back and look for the uppercut, step back, look for the right hand, step back, look for the knee. There's. There's a lot of options he has to go to, but he's going to need to find a way to make Marab a bit more desperate. I was shocked by the under utilization of Sean o' Malley's kicks in the last fight as well. And I know that that is a big no no when it comes to grapplers that they ca kick or if you're off balance and they blitz as you're kicking, that's an automatic takedown. And as we saw in the first fight, that can be minutes upon minutes upon rounds on the ground for Sean o' Malley as Marab again, he's got great control when he is in that top position and ground and pound or he's in half guard, he can stay there for the entirety of the round and steal around without really much happening at all. So again, I think the formula is simple and. And I say it's simple because, yeah, verbally, when I Sit here. It's simple to say Sean o' Malley needs to be able to cut off the octagon and when doing so, remain very creative in his striking. With all of that combining to bait or draw in Merab d' Volashville to do what he normally does to people, to rush them, to grab them, to look for a single leg, to look, to chain wrestle, all the while not being there or stuffing that takedown, or sprawling or stepping back and having that ace up the sleeve, the attack that he needs when it all happens, then finish off the masterpiece that is a stoppage victory on the other side of things. Again, I said that the Sean o' Malley fight plan was simple. And it may again, just verbally coming out of my mouth, be simple, but in reality it's very difficult to execute. Which is why the striker wrestler matchup, unless you have incredible takedown defense and the wrestler gets tired, usually goes to the wrestler because they can continuously control the fight with their grappling, control the fight with their pace, control the fight with their top positioning. Because a striker who isn't as great at defending the takedown or isn't as great at getting off their back and can't land their fight changing, difference making strike will ultimately fall victim to the same things that Merab has put guys in bad positions with before. And the reason he's become an all time great in the UFC is absolutely maniacal. I don't even know if that's a word, but ridiculous pace, pressure and grappling ability. And when it comes to the second fight, Marab, you know, is a bit of a showman in there. He likes to stop. And even the first fight was kind of showing when Sean would miss a kick, he was doing the Billy Joe Saunders. And that all is derived off the confidence that at any point in the fight he can take the fight back over with his cardio, with his pressure, with his pace. And again, even in the, the Umar fight, he, he started to believe in his striking more. Again, not something that I would necessarily, if I'm coaching Merab, say, hey, let's go and strike for strike with Sean o' Malley. Definitely not the ideal game plan, but it is there. And he is even in the first fight, landed some shots on Sean o' Malley that most people don't because of the other things he's good at. So when you look at this second fight and what Merab should do differently, what Merab should look to implement this time around, it's really hard to top that first performance in terms of Controlling the fight again, he was safe when he needed to be safe. When he did engage, it was on his terms and it was exactly what he wanted to. So if it is not broken, do not fix it. Don't go out and try to top your first performance by going, you know what, I'm going to be a bit more stationary and I'm going to strike more? No, if Merab wants to strike, he can do that. But again, with the same mentality involved being at a distance that is either safe for him, bouncing around, sliding, shuffling laterally, or in the pocket looking for strikes to take downs or takedowns to strikes. These are the things that Merab does very well, and it doesn't make sense to not go back to them knowing that you have a guy in front of you. That one. Sean o' Malley is not taking a fight since the Murab fight. It's coming up close to a year now. It was about eight, nine months ago. And that's not the craziest layoff ever, but it is someone that the last time they were in the Octagon tasted defeat at your own hands. How confident is Sean really? Or is it just window dressing for things are going to change because I'm healthier and we got a new approach and this, that and the other, we don't really know. As a matter of fact, what we do know is that Sean is coming off a surgery, he is coming off a little bit of a layoff, and he is coming off a loss. All things that at least mentally work in the favor of the guy that just beat him. And Merab is coming off another win. He is more active as the champion now. And again, the truth of the rematch is Sean has to do more. Sean is the one that lost. Merab did exactly what he wanted to do, how he wanted to do it, when he wanted to do it, for the most part, in the entirety of the fight. I think Sean had success in the early parts of round one with his striking and the latter parts of round five with his striking. But outside of that, this was a clean sweep for Murab. This was not a very competitive fight because he was able to stay safe while attacking, while entering the fray, while being at the range where Sean is dangerous and Sean could not keep him at that range. So not only was he safe on the blitzes, but when he got to the spots where Sean was vulnerable, he was very vulnerable. Murab took Sean Omalley down with ease. And I know that Omalley's camp is saying that's because of the hip. That's because of the hip. It also may just be because Murab Devalishvili is far better as a grappler. The Georgian grappling we're starting to see more and more now is as good as what we've seen out of certain fighters out of Dagestan as well. And Umar looked toe to toe with their grappling. So it's a matchup problem for Sean o' Malley. Even with the healthy hip and with this reinvigorated life, it's a really tough matchup. The only thing I would caution Merab against is fighting, falling in love with trying to have a better performance than the first fighter, topping that first fight performance by adding in more wrinkles to the game plan that are not necessarily in his favor. Like Marab going out and trying to exclusively strike to prove a point or to look for a knockout with his striking and get overzealous and reach out and overreach on a punch or over commit to a takedown and give Shannon Alley that opening he's looking for for a counter shot and one that could end the night. So yeah, I expect Merab to move laterally, really never stop moving in this fight. I expect him to be very bouncy on his feet. I expect a lot of faint. I expect some leg kicks from a Rob and I expect that at some point for him to either level change under Sean o' Malley throwing big damaging punches and get to Sean o' Malley either single leg body lack something to where he can dump Sean on the ground, hold him there while Sean's getting back to his feet. Look for ground and pound, look for shovel hooks, look for things uppercuts to damage Sean knees to the leg that he had in the first fight. It's definitely a possibility. We could see this second fight go the exact exact same way or at least in a similar way we did the first one. But with all that being said, here's how both fighters win. I think it's time for me to predict. I think this fight is going to go differently. I think that there are opportunities for Sean o' Malley to hurt Merab and I think even in those opportunities, Sean o' Malley still is going to have failures in this fight. I think it's going to be a back and forth one. I think there are going to be times where Murab looks to have taken control of this fight by taking Sean o' Malley down especially early. I think that first round potentially could be one there. You're like Here we go again. Merab is going to do what he did the last fight, but I don't know why. Maybe it's the Wade curse, but I see Merab falling in love with the idea of doing it better. I wouldn't say getting more relaxed with technique because Merab is unorthodox and a wild man as it is, but letting apprehensions go and fighting as a crowd pleaser, potentially. Right. Doing the looks into the crowd and talking to Sean o' Malley and maybe potentially some of that funneling into his game and his steadfast belief in his invulnerability and the fact that Sean is far better than he showed in the first fight. I think there are pockets in Merab's striking game that are very, very available. They're very, very open, Is not a polished striker, and he does take some risks. To get to the grappling exchanges, to get to your body, to find ways to put you on the ground, you have to pressure you, try to get you around the cage and then strike. And here's the interesting part about this. Merab is so unorthodox that the first time you fight him is for most fighters, I'd ass a bewildering experience, one that you can't really replicate in the practice room, or at least not in the way that is exactly Merab, but especially when you can't replicate until you see it. And Merab has never rematched anyone, which I think is a very interesting wrinkle to this fight as well. I may be expanding into like the Grand Canyon here, but I think that's a big part of why I'm going to lean towards Sean o' Malley in this rematch. Like I said, I think they're massive holes in Merab striking game, and he's able to cover those with insane pressure and cardio and ability to control time and massive parts of the fight by being literally connected to his opponent or completely out of range. But in those moments where the striking exchanges happen and in the first fight where Sean o' Malley had not seen anything like that in front of him before, there will be a familiarity in this fight that potentially can present patterns to Merab's game. Let's be honest, it's not a very complicated fight style that Merab d' Valish really has. You're looking low leg kick, jab, right hands, bounce, circle, bounce, bounce, level, check, change, take down, ground and pound. Get up. Take down, ground and pound. Get up. Separate, way back out of range. Bounce, bounce, jab, jab, right hand, low kick jab, and it's kind of the same thing. And again, there have been moments where Merab has paid for this. Again, maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and the smart money would be on marab by decision or marab by submission or marab by mauling or however you want to look at it. But Sean o' Malley has this ability to flip narratives and change fights in one strike. He is an insanely accurate striker. I think he's better at getting back to his feet. Maybe not with takedown defense, especially with Murab, who finds chain wrestling as easy as breathing out of his mouth because his nose is up, but Sean o' Malley has a strike for every action. I think that Sean o' Malley stops Merab d' Valishvilli and again, it's based off a very unlikely circumstance of things, but that's how I tend to look at fights. Maybe it's just me trying to find the one variable that I think is the most important and stretch it out to mean that that's the difference maker and it probably won't be. But if you believe in the Wade Curse, then go the opposite of what I'm saying because I think Sean o' Malley wins this fight by knockout and we get the rubber match, potentially the third one, which I think would be warranted based on the fact that Merab did get Sean the rematch. But we'll see how it goes. Comment section this is where you help me out. Why am I wrong or right in your opinion? How does this fight go? Does Merav get it done in dominant decision fashion again? Or does Sean o' Malley, with a renewed commitment to mma, with a new hip apparently, and with the experience of being in front of Merab for 25 minutes and having Merab in the first rematch where someone has been able to study him and go and try it again. Will all these things lead up to another Sean o' Malley upset knockout performance? Performance? I don't have those ANSWERS, but UFC 316 is this week and hopefully I'll be done with commentary for the night because I am going to be doing some boxing commentary on Saturday night so that I can get back and stream the fights. But if not, we'll be back here Sunday to break them down. But you guys let me know what you think down below. Who wins this fight and why? I don't have those answers, but guess we'll find out.
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On the way concept presented by the Ring magazine and I just woken up, as you can see. Bed's not made. And I've learned the news that a bittersweet journey has come to an end. Vasily Lomachenko has retired from the sport of boxing and we have to talk about it. The breakdown. Let's go. All right, so Vasily Lomachenko retires from the sport of boxing and he adds this video along with it. Before we even get into what a legendary and storied career Lomachenko leaves behind and the legacy he leaves behind, let's take a look at his message, I guess his confirmed actual retirement.
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I want to thank our Lord Jesus Christ for everything he has done for me. For guiding a prideful young man down a path that ultimately showed me that fame, legacy and recognition are not the true purpose of life. I am grateful for every victory and every defeat, both in a ring and in a life. And of course I wouldn't be remiss not to thank you, my dear boxing fans around the world. You have always supported me with passion and live through unforgettable fights alongside me for over a decade. I hope you continue to love and respect this sport. Just a personality because the men who step in the ring risk their health for the sake of their families. Peace to all.
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There he is. And it's almost as quickly as he rocketed onto the scene, he was gone. No flash, no big retirement tour, no super formal press conference announcement. Literally just sitting down in a chair and professing his faith to Jesus Christ and leaving. And for as quiet and even kill as he is when he's sitting in this video or when he was outside of the ring, inside of the ring, Lomachenko was one of the greatest styles of fighting you may ever see. And you know, I'm sure today will be a day where people take an opportunity to debate how good Lomachenko really was compared to maybe some of the push or some of, you know, the early on comparisons that he drew. But regardless, if you think he's one of the greatest of all time, if you think that he is a good fighter or a great fighter, but nothing more, nothing less. If you think that his amateur record carries a lot of the water for how good Lomachenko really was, I think he had won over 390amateur fights or 380amateur fights with one single loss, which is insane to Think about obviously the two gold medals that he won as an amateur and all the other accolades from world championships and everything else. He was both as an amateur and then obviously in the pro game, a unique fighter. And what I mean when I say that is Lomachenko's style in itself was so unpredictable. The way that he was able to run circles around you while standing in front of you to make you miss and make you pay without being out of range. He could be right in front of you and you wouldn't be able to see him. He was almost a matador at times. He would even show it to you in the ring. And while his pro record was 18:3, and he, you know, on paper lost fights against Devin Haney, which has been disputed. The Devin Haney fight, did he win? Did he not? Who knows? That's up from interpretation from you guys, the fans. But also losing the Teofimo Lopez fight, I don't want to make today about like, how great was he? Was he the best ever? Was he world class? Was he just good? Was he just below that? Like, to me, and I'll just, you know, we'll just say it here, I think Lomachenko was, he was world class. I think his style, again, how fluid he was in between offense and defense, how he could stand right in front of you and at the same time be out of range somehow. You couldn't touch him. He threw punches in bunches at times and he also threw from different angles. It felt like he had more power sometimes in his lead hand than his backhand. And yet he was knocking people out clean at 125 pounds. And when he wasn't doing that, he was able to win big time decisions. I mean, he won the WBO World Featherweight title, I know it was vacant, but he won it in his third fight. Absolutely schooled Rigondao, beat up Jorge Linares, ran through Jose Pedraza. It wasn't even competitive when he fought Luke Campbell. He had this ability to make good fighters to great fighters look average at times, right? I mean, he absolutely, completely and utterly destroyed George Cambosis after Cambosis had his big time win over Teofimo Lopez. And you know, the one kind of glaring, not great performance from Lomachenko to me was the Teofimo Lopez fight. So you have to give Teofimo credit there. But Lomachenko had so much hype coming out of the amateurs that the question will always be asked, did he live up to it? And I guess, you know, in one sense, maybe not just because, you know, he ends his career with, with not very many fights, but at 18 and 3 he did most of the things that you would want to do. He didn't become undisputed or didn't unify the belts, but he won world titles multiple times. He did win two gold medals. He did take on some tough competition and fought at the highest level. Do I wish that he would have fought the likes of Gervonta Tank Davis? Absolutely. I wish that that was a fight that we were sitting now and talking about happening last year. But it didn't and that's unfortunate. But we did get to see him in high level matchups versus to, versus Devin Haney. And I guess at the end of it all I was always just a fan. I mean that's, that's where I leave it. I was always just a fan of his, his style. I was a fan of his approach, how he fought, how he treated fighting. And I guess just as a personal thing for me, how he conducted himself outside of it. Obviously being Ukrainian, you know, there is a bit more of a humble sort of conservative lifestyle that I identify with a little more. But yeah, I don't know, there's really no words. Because you thought, especially after how easily he dismantled George Kambosos, that this was going to be maybe the resurgence of Lomachenko. And it doesn't really surprise me, I don't guess that he's retiring, you know, he's 37 years old. I guess maybe he's asking himself the question, if I can't fight Tank Davis, then what other fight is there for me out there? Rematching Devin Haney's out of the question because Haney's moved up. Rematching Teofimo is probably out of the question because Teofimo's moving up. If it's not GERVONTA DAVIS At 135 pounds, what is the big fight still left there? But you saw what could happen when a guy was pushed and given the attention that again, I think he deserved coming out of his amateur ranks and coming out of being such a high level amateur. And I feel like sometimes, especially now, you know, in boxing we have this issue with pushing guys early because of what can happen and because of potentially losing early on and potentially not having, you know, that signature win until you're 20 and 0. And historically that's how guys have been, you know, built in the sport. That's how most guys records tend to look. But Lomachenko, because he was such a decorated amateur, came out and was taking tough fights right away. He was a unicorn, he was unique. And I think that fighters, if they look at how they moved Lomachenko, if they have the experience coming out as amateurs and if they are of that world class level, they can look at his career and see a blueprint to potentially be different. A blueprint to not, not just spend your formative years racking up meaningless wins in fear of losing your O. Because there's one thing that Lomachenko didn't have fear of, and credit to Devin Haney and credit to at that point, Teofimo Lopez. Although we may have a video coming out very soon about Teofimo and why right now he's acting more like a mallard than a fighter. Yes, I think TO is ducking Devin Haney right now, which is crazy to say, but the Vasili never had that fear of losing, right. He didn't have that fear of his legacy being tied to a zero in the loss column. And I think that's again, one of the bigger frustrations with the sport of boxing that I have right now is everybody being terrified of taking a loss because no one gets better by fighting people that aren't good. And one thing Lomachenko and his team knew early is that they needed to push him into the upper class of pro competition because they were gonna be here for a good time, but not a long time. And that's, I think, the best way to describe Vasyl Lomachenko's career. He was magnificent, almost magical as a fighter. He was willing to take on big time challenges. He was one of the greatest offense to defense transition fighters I've ever seen. His IQ was insane. Again, his ability to make you miss and make you pay. He had power at 25, he had power at 30, and he had power at 135 pounds. That still kept you in check, while at the same time he could put you in the matrix. He could make you quit, AKA no Mashchenko, or he could absolutely break you down and win a unanimous decision in quite dominant fashion. That didn't leave a viewer thinking, wow, what another boring 12 rounds of point fighting. He was looking at all times to change the fight to finish the fight. And if he didn't get that finish, he was going to make you feel it for the next however long. So the only thing I'll say left is congrats to Vasily Lomachenko on a fantastic career. I don't really know what's next for him. You know, this could be one of those situations where we don't hear from him for the next two years, three years and he just pops up somewhere it feels like especially again on the Ukrainian side and the Eastern European side when fighters retire, that's kind of it. You don't really see him out and about. And obviously, you know, the elephant in the room with the Ukraine and Russia situation and I'm sure that that's got something to do with, with, with some of this. I assume, you know, having to serve actual military time and having to be involved in that conflict obviously is a tragic thing for everybody involved there. But yeah, I really don't know what happens next for Vasili Lomachenko. It's just kind of a shock, but not really. But all I can say is what a career. And thank you to Lomachenko for blessing boxing fans with his performances and his style and just to his attitude and his willingness to be great. That's all I got. You guys let me know what you think down in the comments below. But now it is official breaking news. Maybe not by the time you see this, but Sil Lomachenko has retired. I will call him a legend in the game because that's what I believe he is. What a fantastic career and what happens next for him? I don't have those answers, but I guess we'll find out. All right, so we are back at the way concept presented by the Ring Magazine. I am just finishing up most valuable prospects number 13 in Orlando, Florida and I wanted to wait until this card was over, until I fulfilled my duties as a play by play commentator before I commented on the absolute bizarre and just self sabotaging nature of one Keyshawn Davis. I'm sure by now you guys have seen that Keyshawn Davis has completely flipped his reputation in about a 36 hour period. If you didn't know coming into this weekend Keyshawn Davis was a world champion at 135 pounds. He had won his first belt months ago. And I'm going to be honest with you guys, I haven't watched every single Keyshawn Davis interview. I haven't seen how he's been moving in this scene. But from what I've seen now looking back in retrospect, it seemed like Keyshawn Davis was buying into the superstar mentality a little too much coming into a hometown fight in his backyard of Norfolk, Virginia. He was going to defend his WBO belt against against Edwin De los Santos and unfortunately that fight was canceled after Keyshawn Davis not only missed weight because sometimes a miss is excusable, but he flat out didn't even try to make the weight he missed by 4.3 pounds. And if you ask me weigh, why are you so sure he didn't try to make weight? Well, for one, he stood on the scale and flexed and smiled while his picture was taken after missing weight by a completely unprofessional amount while making the weight for a world title fight only month ago. So that already is a red flag if you're looking at Keshawn Davis and how he handles being a superstar, how he handles being a top name in the sport of boxing, because let's be honest, he just now got to the top level of this sport. He just now became a world champion, starting to become potentially a household name. Even had the back and forth with Abdullah Mason on press conference day talking about how he wanted to fight Abdullah at some point coming up. And funny enough, Abdullah Mason saved his event in Keyshawn Davis backyard, operated like a true professional and went out on fight night and won his fight in a fourth round stoppage, something that Keyshawn couldn't do because he couldn't even qualify to fight not only for his belt but at all. The fight was canceled and that's bad enough as it is because that's your hometown show and let's be honest here, it's ESPN's last top ranked show. So not only did you ruin the earnings of this event by showing the people of your hometown that they weren't important enough for you to take this seriously enough to make weight, but also you tried to game the system. And I said the same thing about Ryan Garcia, how they didn't really care about the belts and okay, that's fine. But you're a world champion and you've signed to make a designated weight. So I don't care if your body can't handle the cut to 135, move up in weight, don't take away from the fans, don't take away from Edwin De Los Santos who did make the way, who showed up like a professional. And certainly don't take away from everybody in your camp that worked hard to put you in the right positions. I'm sure Bomac wasn't too happy about that as well. And also tonight, as the card was going on, here's a video of Keyshawn Davis shoving popcorn down his gullet. And again, there's nothing wrong with that, I guess if you're a fan, be a fan. But that's supposed to be the main event of this card. A little disrespectful, I think, to the People that showed up to watch him fight, and also, again, the people that put in time and effort to. Effort for him to treat this so blase, like it didn't matter at all, like he was above the belt, like he was above making weight, like he was above main eventing in his backyard. And again, the missing weight was just a fraction of the complete misjudgment and idiotic stance that comes from Keyshawn Davis. Because tonight, as the card is going on, Keyshawn Davis and his brother Keon Davis, who is also a professional boxer, go backstage for whatever reason and jump. Naheer Albright, who is on this card and just won his fight pretty easily and convincingly and yet is now in the back of the locker room trying to defend himself from these two guys that are not on the card. They're not scheduled to even take place and be a part of this event. But again, for whatever reason, I don't know what was said, but really, I don't. There's no excuse. I'll lay out the scene for you. Keyshawn Davis, in front of his family in the backstage of the arena in his home city in Norfolk and with his brother, decided to jump a fighter that had already gone through a fight. Again, reasons unknown. Quite frankly, I don't care. Decided to insert themselves into a situation they didn't need to be a part of that makes them look terrible. And to do it in front of a national TV camera in front of their family. Keyshawn Davis is speedrunning how to lose fans in professional boxing in less than 36 hours. And the only reason I'm so frustrated by this, because this is a young man with real talent and I'm sure he'll have opportunities in the future. I don't think this is the end of his career, but it's certainly going to be a step back. I don't know who is going to look at that and go, yeah, that's the person I want to represent me as a commission. That's the guy that is going to bring fans to the arena. Not now, not after you purposely miss weight, have your fight canceled, and then instead of fighting in the main event, you're backstage jumping a fighter that already won his fight to put in the win work that made the weight won his fight. You and your brother are going tag team in the back part of the arena in front of friends and family, because that's. That's what a professional does, right? That's what someone that wants to represent this sport and represent themselves like a Professional does. No, it is, it's an absolutely moronic move for Keyshawn Davis. And, and I don't know that I've seen outside of, you know, being arrested or fighters participating in some sort of illegal activity, I don't know that I've seen someone just run off most of their fan base or their potential fan base in less than 48 hours like Keyshawn Davis has done this weekend. And again, I don't know who's going to trust him in a main event anytime soon, especially at 135 pounds. You best believe he better fight at 140 next fight. Otherwise I don't know any promoter that's going to take that risk. The WBO has already stripped him of his belt. I don't think he'll be fighting for it again anytime soon. Again, it's just an all around complete, complete misjudgment, just a lack of awareness to what an ambassador of the sport does, a lack of awareness of how, how much potential he really had still has. Again, his career is not over, but how much potential he had to gain. New fans on espn, the worldwide leader in sports. And you throw it all away because for as long as Keyshawn Davis has taken this sport seriously, he got gold on his shoulder and decided he was bigger than the sport. That's, that's the way I read this, that he was bigger than the moment, than the sport. And listen, I work with the Ring Magazine, Keyshawn Davis works with the Ring Magazine. But I'm going to tell it like it is. This was just a flat out miss. But even me as someone that, that represents the Ring Magazine as well, I'm not going to turn a blind eye to that stuff because it's not what champions do, it's not what the sport's about and it's just a terrible, terrible look. For everything that Keyshawn Davis, all the hard work that he's put into this sport, all the years of sacrifice to throw it away over something so silly as an argument backstage or, or £4 that you signed to make. It's just unfortunate to see because the young man is, is so talented and yes, I was so excited to see him and Abdullah Mason going back and forth this week because how fun would that fight be? Boxing needs those young, fresh matchups at the lower weight classes, at the higher weight classes. And again, it's just unfortunate. I don't think this video is going to be a very long one. I just had to say it. Keyshawn Davis again, speedrunning how to lose fans, showing the immaturity level, showing just just how silly and how in an instant, quite frankly, you can go from being on top of the world to completely sabotaging yourself. Anyway, yeah, this is why boxing sucks sometimes. I'm be honest. But congrats by the way to Abdullah Mason and I hear Albright as well, who performed and put their their reputation and their careers on the line to go in there and show the people of Norfolk, Virginia a good show because Keyshawn just he couldn't be bothered to do it. Anyway. That's what I think. You guys let me know in the comments what you think about this entire situation and what happens next for Keyshawn Davis. I think he needs to get his head on straight because right now I don't have those answers.
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Lenovo Find out folks, I may have cursed Sean O' Malley the way it curses alive. For sure it never fails. What are you laughing at? Okay, she's chirping me in the background. Listen, UFC316 just wrapped up. I have just called about six hours of boxing matches here at Most Valuable Prospects and I'm still in awe of the performance. We just saw bars from Merab Dwalash Willi. It was effortless, almost dominant and completely dismantling in the main event. And Merab d' Wallish Willie, I'm just going to say it now is the greatest bantamweight I've ever seen and I'm not even disappointed to say that. I'm just. I'm just a little bit baffled. Maybe I shouldn't have been. Maybe I should have seen this coming. Maybe you all in the comments that called me the casual concept. Maybe I am. Maybe that's what it is. Let's talk about it though. The breakdown. Let's go. So UFC316, I'm gonna be honest, I didn't get to see a ton of the card. I did get to see Kevin Holland submit Vicente Luque, which is insane, especially after Kevin Allen was tweeting things out like this before his fight. Don't know what that was in reference to. Pretty sure that he said he lost his phone or something, but that gave me a little bit of a heart attack even sitting ringside calling my fights. But that was an insane performance. Again, I only saw the highlight of it. Fair play to Kevin all. And I saw he also called out Colby Covington after that fight. I listen, I would want to See it, him and Colby, especially now, knowing that Kevin Holland, again with those long, lanky limbs, has got some jiu jitsu off his back. Very, very interesting. I think he finished it with an anaconda choke. That was pretty nasty. I also saw that Joe Pifer beat Kelvin Gastelum. Unanimous decision. I didn't see exactly how I heard a head kick dropped. Kelvin already got dropped with something else in the fight as well. And the people were a little wonky on. On the scoring of the fight, but regardless, Joe Piper gets it done. Kelvin Gastelum still has the most insane chin in mma. Apparently. Just not able to be knocked out. Just not going to happen. There was a viral knockout as well, and I want to make sure I got it right. Jusang you or you sang you again, Casual concept, but just landed a nasty. One of the most nasty left hooks maybe I've ever seen and sent his opponent face down into the canvas. That's beautiful work. And again, you'll see some of those finishes almost out of nowhere on a UFC card sometimes, especially in. In a big time moment like that right in the middle of Newark. So a great card overall for the ufc. But then we get to the co main event. Kayla Harrison and Juliana Pena, Obviously, you were on one side or the other here. You loved the trash talk of Juliana Pena or you loved the idea of the potential for Kayla Harrison to become one of the most well versed and dominant women's combat sports athletes ever. With her medals in judo and now winning world titles in the MMA scene, now in the UFC's bantamweight division, this was one of the only times I think I've ever seen the Challenger be a -700 or 750 favorite in the fight going into the co main. And quite frankly, listen, I think we all understood that Juliana Pena's path to victory had to be starching or at least touching up Kayla Harrison on the feet to stop the takedown or to. To hopefully get there before the takedown happened. Because once Kayla Harrison grabbed a hold of Juliana Pena. Pause. She was going to be able to have her way with her again. Pause. I'm not trying to do this. So with that being said, when Kayla Harrison does eventually grapple Juliana Pena, what we think is going to happen happens in the second round. She takes down Pena and honestly, with about eight or seven seconds left in the round, locks up a kimura. And it looked like she was going to snap the shoulder in half of Juliana Pena, but instead, Pena taps and that is it. Your new women's Bantamweight champion. And how about this? How about the story of Kayla Harrison. Not just, you know, the moment, not just the fact that she is becoming, if not already is, one of the most accomplished women's combat sports champions ever. And all of that stuff is awesome. But at the same time, Amanda Nunes has entered the fold. That's right, the quote of women's mma. The two time champion at bantamweight, the champion, former champion at featherweight. She was holding double gold. And she's back to reclaim it. Her legacy on the line versus Kayla Harrison at 135. I love it. Feed me more. They're both former training partners at American Top Team and now they are foes. They did a face off in the middle of the octagon and I was ready to watch it happen right then, but. But I assume that's going to be later on in the year, maybe toward the end of the year. I haven't seen Dana White's press conference if he did do one, so we'll see what he has to say. But that was just the chorus that led into the final crescendo that was the main event of UFC 316. And again, I feel I may be responsible a bit. The Wade Curse is all powerful and I did put it upon Sugar Sean o' Malley to get this done by knockout. And that is not what happened, ladies and gentlemen, before we even got to the fight, the Wade Curse almost took advantage of the railing in the arena. Did you see that? Merab is walking to the cage and the railing in the arena falls over. One man's legs look like they were trapped and he was screaming for help. That was one of the most insane things I've ever seen. Chloe's gonna check on the fan. But it was a brutal happenstance occurrence that could have been really, really bad. Thank goodness Merab had the wherewithal, like he was shaking hands with the fans on the side that it fell and he happened to just get away from it. But yeah, this is, this is insane that he was able to just continue his walk, act like nothing happened, not let it affect him and get into the cage. And when the fight started, that's how he fought, like just unaffected by anything. This moment, this new journey and lifestyle change that Sugar Sean o' Malley had been on. We talked about, you know, how he had had hip surgery and he was rededicated to his training. No jerking off, no smoking weed. That's a real thing, I promise you. But this was a brand new thing for Sean o' Malley and, and at the same time, he was going back to his roots, no hair dye. And. And it just didn't matter, did it? Yes, I bought into it hook, line and sinker. But what I did not understand, or at least what I didn't take into account, was that Merab Dwallish Willie has always lived this way. There was no need for him to to change anything in the fight because he won. The guy is so committed to MMA that it makes this easy for him. And I said at the beginning of the video, he is the greatest bantamweight I have ever seen. Look at his resume. And it's not just an on paper thing. He has beaten some of these fighters in their prime. He's beaten some past it, but at the same time, he's beaten them all. The fight started and Sean o' Malley again came out very hesitant. A guy that you could see clearly understood that he needed to be around for five rounds in this fight and that he didn't want to take too many chances and risk Merab getting a hold of him. And Merab wasn't rushing the takedown. This is something I thought was super impressive in the first fight with Sean o' Malley. You would think because Sean is so good as a striker that you may want to rush that takedown, but Al Jermaine Sterling tried that and got knocked out for his troubles. Merab wasn't rushing anything. In fact, he was actually landing on the feet and outlanding Sean o' Malley on the feet. For all the boring wrestler accusations that are out there against Merab, he did not show any of that. Yes, he wrestled, but it was entertaining because he mixed it into his striking, because his striking was where he led. And he was winning in the striking. Not only in the first round, he ends up winning that round after a decent start from Sean. But you saw just one shot at a time from Sean o' Malley. No volume striking. The thing that I thought would be able to take him over the edge and potentially get him this win is the volume that he would come with in this second fight and he just didn't see that. Only Sean o' Malley can tell you why. Again, maybe it was just the threat of the takedown, maybe it was the openings weren't there, but I don't really know what that was. But Merab found his openings and outstruck Sean in the first round, got him to the mat temporarily. Sean got to his feet, but still in the last part of that round, definitely controlled and I thought won the round. Now, some controversy from, from the Online Twitter space, which I know shocking when you're talking about the most intelligent, intelligent people on the planet. But this round seemed to be a swing round to some people. People thought that Sean o' Malley won the second round and I just didn't. I saw the second round a lot like I saw the first. But Rob was more successful grappling, he still outstruck Sean, landed some big time punches, and in moments was pushing Sean back against the cage without even trying, just with his pressure, as the kids say, with his aura. But outside of that, Merab was tagging Sean with left hook, right hands and he was finding ways to land his punches. And it was, I was just befuddled. I was just, I, I couldn't believe it, that Sean was getting outstruck. Rob take Sean down again. And his chain wrestling was so beautiful here. And I do want to give some credit, Sean did have some decent takedown defense, but it's almost like watching Conor McGregor fight Khabib Nurigametov. Being so focused on takedown defense, being so focused on not getting taken down or trying to stuff a takedown that you will completely get away from the game plan, which is if he encroaches range, I'm dropping right hands, I'm dropping damage on his dome piece and then see how, how likely he is to take me down. I'm throwing hooks, I'm throwing kicks. The teep kick wasn't there for Sean. He threw two spinning back kicks to the stomach. But the most dangerous he was in the first fight was when he was teep kicking to the stomach and hurting Merab with the body shots. Those were non existent again, maybe because of the threat of the takedown. Regardless, I thought Merab won the first two rounds slightly on the second one, but I thought he still did enough. We head to the third round and this is where the beginning of the end started. He started to grapple a lot more and Sean had done a good job of, like I said, stuffing some of these takedowns, getting back to, to the feet, getting back to the positions where he could potentially try to be successful. And you thought, okay, maybe this is what Sean needs to do. Maybe he has to fight a little bit more of a conservative fight and just try to, to, to squeak by rounds. Even though I disagreed with that, I thought more volume would be the answer. I think it potentially would have been if it could have been. I know that sounds like me making up a scenario, but I just don't know if it's possible. I don't, I Don't know if it's possible to be a volume striker in front of Murab with that pressure, with that pace. I thought so before I saw this second fight. I really did put some stock into Sean o' Malley not having a, a fully healthy hip. I put some stock into this rededication to the sport. But again, I, I, I almost fight hyper focused on the small and, and forgot the other side of it, which is Merab doesn't need to refocus. He is locked in year round training every day. He'll probably be in the gym tomorrow after doing whatever and celebrating tonight in Newark, New Jersey. He'll probably be back in the gym tomorrow. It's just, it's a lifestyle for him. It's not something he has to commit to. It's what he does. It's like breathing for Merab. And this third round he went back to the basics. He shot and finally got Sean to the mat. And when he got him down this time, he kept him down. He smothered him with punches, with ground control, with more punches. I saw a stat halfway through the third round like Merab had landed 61 strikes to Sean's four. Insane. But then you saw that chain wrestling where Sean would get out of the first attempt and Marab would take a single leg and spin him around and get to his back. And when he got to his back, Sean would flip and try to get to his knees and get back to his feet. And there were some great exchanges from both guys. But eventually when you play the grappling game, or at least, least when you are forced into playing the grappling game, you will lose to the better grappler always. And even Merab, who's not a massive submission threat, and I don't know if he even has a submission win in the ufc. I could be wrong. Comments? I know you'll let me know. But he finds a way to get to Sean's neck from the front facing position and locks up. What I thought at first was going to be a Darce choke, and it looked like the setup for a Darce choke that he just turned into a neck crank and just rolled with Sean. Again, Sean was probably not expecting a submission, seeing as Marab was like a plus 750. Not that they checked the odds, but that's because he's not a dangerous submission artist, at least not to most fighters. And Merab neck cranked him and choked him right at the end of the third round. That's all she wrote. Merab, Dwallish, Willie and still your UFC bantamweight champion of the world in a moment's notice. I was not only completely wrong about this main event, but also genuinely happy to see Merab go out and perform at a high level. It just. It seems like he's getting better and better with age and with performances. He's 34 years old. Looks like he's in his fucking prime right now. And I really don't have any other words other than just wow. Because this wasn't the. The Merab pressure and take down failure. Win. This wasn't to push him into the cage and hold him there. Win. This was Merab dominating every aspect of this fight. He beat Sean on the feet. He beat him in the control time. He beat him in the grappling, he beat him on the ground, and then he finally choked. Rob Dwallish Willie earned his victory tonight. He earned the right to get past the allegations of boring fighter right in the middle of his main event rematch. And he comes out and beats Sean o' Malley worse than he did the last time. And I've seen people saying, oh, Sean, he's got to hang the gloves up. That's his last fight. He lost two in a row. Please, MMA fans, don't. Don't do this. Don't do this thing where we start talking about guys should hang it up. He's 30 years old. This isn't boxing, and I love boxing, but boxing has done itself a disservice by protecting the O or protecting the record. Sean o' Malley is going to be fine. Is he the best bantamweight in the world? No, he's not. That's Marath. Is his career over? Are they not still entertaining fights at £135 for Sean O' Malley? Do you guys not want to see a Sean o' Malley and Peter Riyan rematch? Tough fight. Sure. Maybe. Maybe make him work his way back to that. I understand. I'd be willing to watch it. There's other fights for Sean at 135 pounds. I don't know who that's going to be right now. He's talking about going home and, you know, seeing his wife. He's got a new baby. Sean took the loss. At least from what I saw in the cage. He took it with some humility. Not obviously the night he planned for, but I. I liked that version of Sean. Now, does that mean that Sean needs to go back to smoking weed and fucking jerking off and Jay and the peen 24 7? I don't know. What I do know is Marab Dwalish. Willie looks unstoppable right now in the ufc. If it's Corey Sanhagen, if it's Pieran, whoever it is, that's going to be that next challenger. I don't know if they have enough. He's the best band and weight I've ever seen, and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon. What a night for the ufc. What a night for me. Rob what a night for Kayla Harrison and Kevin Holland. UFC316 Another one in the books. I'm gonna try to start live streaming these. I really would have guys had I been home, but I'm gonna be home this week. UFC Fight Night Joaquin Buckley and Kamara Usman I think is this week. That's it for me. What do you guys think about the ufc, the direction it's headed with this card? I think it was a very good start to the month. They have a ton of great cards coming up and ultimately my question I leave off with Is Merab the greatest bantamweight in UFC history? Is he the greatest bantamweight you've ever seen? Because he certainly is to me, but I don't have those answers. You guys let me know in the comments. And then, and only then, I guess we'll find out.
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