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I'm such a sucker for a specialist, whether it's a stylebender specialist or a striking specialist or a Damien Maia specialist.
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I love watching the guys that are like at the tip of the ability in whatever their discipline is.
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And Stylebender, man, he seems to be getting better every time.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, for him, it was just avoiding takedowns.
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Like, he was so high level as a kickboxer.
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He's so clever.
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Like, he's, like, in my opinion, probably the very best in the sport at setting traps.
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Yeah.
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He'll, like, gauge you, see what you're doing, those stances.
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He's getting some information.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, it's not, it's not random.
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And I like the way he deals with the takedowns.
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I mean, he knows where he's safe and where he's not.
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You don't see that he's panicking.
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He's like, yeah, let's come in.
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Let this cook a minute.
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But I see what this attempt looks like.
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I see what this one looks like.
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Walking it through.
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All right.
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Now my party's gonna start.
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Yeah, here's a guy I talked to one of his guys
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he trains with I was refereeing some fights in China and
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And it's one of the guys he trains with in New Zealand.
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And this guy was telling me so much
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and showing me different things about angles they do and things
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that they set up in their striking that I never knew or thought about.
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And this was before I saw him start fighting in UFC.
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You know, just everybody was aware of him, but he hadn't been in the UFC yet.
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And man, these guys...
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These guys are really smart these the the techniques like this sport is growing so much, you know, yeah Yeah, that's what I was saying like when
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when you're seeing like really high -level super technical strikers like him like who's a
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World -class I mean as good he easily could be world
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champion in many organizations as a kickboxer To see him now in the UFC and see guys having to deal with that.
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It's like right okay This is like the Anderson fight is a great great example.
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We'd know how great Anderson is yeah, and still look pretty good against style bender could see why style bender was special in
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that fight did he add like another level of trickery yeah yeah
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and i mean and stuff john jones is doing yeah yeah
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but so you can't call him a specialist because man he does
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so many different styles right it's like it's really like a kung fu movie right where you change styles yeah
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and then they do they do something yeah yeah well john's
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such a good kicker too i mean that's that's interesting that he started out as a wrestler because like how how
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It's a giant part of his game is utilization of those long ass legs.
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Right.
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And and he's it's interesting like how uh, how much time he looks like he's getting information a lot.
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Right.
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And then all of a sudden then, then, then when he shifts gears, it's like, okay, I've gotten a lot of information and here's what I'm gonna do with it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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He's gonna fight Tiago Santos, right?
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Yeah.
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That guy goes for broke.
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I mean he goes for broke
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It's interesting to watch him fight because You want to talk about like a wild reckless dude like Santos is dangerous.
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I john jones should and probably will be a heavy favorite
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but santos he does he throws some hay makers no no
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it's gonna be it's a it's gonna be a it's a great fight to watch yeah
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that guy's gonna go out on his shield no he
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and he puts pressure i think the interesting thing about uh uh Well, for me, what's interesting when I watch any of the heavier guys fight is like, you know, they really have to understand where they're safe and where they're not.
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That's something that John does really good.
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Yeah.
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How to be in the pocket and the places where he's safe and, you know, knowing where, yeah.
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He's the best ever at utilizing his reach.
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Like no one's ever been better at controlling reach and then never letting a guy reset.
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When guys try to reset, bam, he kicks him, bam, he kicks him again, bam, he kicks him again.
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He's like, he knows when you're trying to get comfortable, when you're trying to settle in, and that's when he kicks you.
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Like it's almost like he senses it.
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Battering you like he sees like no no no brakes no
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brakes no brakes no brakes no brakes like the Brakes what about a man?
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Max Holloway.
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Oh, dude, he's the king of no brakes There's no brakes.
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Oh, he just pours it on you.
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He just keeps coming.
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Yeah, I
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- "I'm such a sucker for..." (to show strong preference)
- "at the tip of the ability" (top-level skill)
- "setting traps" (strategic moves to outsmart opponents)
- "shift gears" (change approach suddenly)
- "getting information" (analyzing an opponent’s moves)
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