Shadowing Practice: Will Conor McGregor Come Back and Fight Paddy Pimblett? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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That's a scary one for fighters too because
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The thrill of cocaine for some reason is exciting to people who love like exciting things.
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Like there's something about fighters or adrenaline junkies.
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They like to be pumped up and yeah.
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Connor seems to enjoy it, which is one of the things that makes me think he probably won't come back.
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But if he does come back, it's got to be now.
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You know, again, at 36 years old now.
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Patty Pimblitt.
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That's the fight.
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That'll be a big...
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- That's gonna be a big fight.
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- Big, big fight.
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- Yeah.
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I don't even think Conor's in the drug testing pool anymore.
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no?
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I don't think so I don't believe so I don't believe so.
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See if you can Google that.
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Find out if he's in the drug.
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I think he pulled out of the drug test.
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I think he's going to come back.
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You think so?
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Yeah.
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If they give the opportunity to, I don't know, to guys like, I don't know, 40 years old, like Arlovsky.
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You can have so many names that they fought at four years age.
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Why not Conor?
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I know that you won a world title fight at 155, but would you make an exception for a Conor McGregor fight at 155?
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Thank you.
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But right now?
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No. No. No. Good for you.
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Do you think it's gonna be excited if I beat Islam and then I give the chance to Connor?
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No, I mean like right now before Islam.
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Like if the UFC calls you up and says, I know you want a world title fight, we guarantee you a world title fight after this.
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Actually, we had that talk.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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But yeah, I don't know.
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What was that talk?
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Tell me what that talk was like.
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No, no, no. Come on, come on, come on.
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After this one, I'm gonna get sound calls.
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You know how the UFC is.
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They are very specific.
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Yeah.
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Don't say anything.
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To no one.
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Well, no one's listening.
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You can tell everybody.
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Yeah.
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Only a couple of million of people is listening.
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Yeah.
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No one's gonna know who it is.
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It'll slip right by.
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I say, "Yeah, if they offer me a fight against Conor right now,
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We'll see why not why not why not why I wouldn't say no I wouldn't say no just for the numbers Yeah, cut of that paper and it hits 2 million pies.
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Yeah.
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Whoa.
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Why not?
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That's the thing about Connor.
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It's like still Yeah, even though he might not be the best fighter in the world right now.
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He's still the he's the golden goose.
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Of course he is.
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Yeah, that's something crazy You can't take up kind of amazing, you know, that's still he still guarantees that many eyeballs will go to see him
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great one but What excites me more is the fight with Patty.
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Really?
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Yeah, that fight excites me even more.
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And if they could put that fight in Spain in the Bernabeu Stadium.
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I know that Dana doesn't like to put the events in the stadium, but that's the only stadium in the world that they can close the roof.
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Oh, okay.
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Yeah.
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And this prepare for that kind of...
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How many people?
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80 ,000.
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You get 80 ,000 in Spain easy too.
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Yeah.
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If you're fighting in Spain?
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No problem.
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Oh my god, that would be insane.
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I might have to go to Spain for that.
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And a lot of people could travel from England to Spain.
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Oh yeah.
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And that happens very often.
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But if they do it in Spain, it's got to be on Spain time.
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They can't do that shit that they did when Leon Edwards fought.
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It has to be in Spain time, but I think that with the negotiations they are having with ESPN
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and I don't know which platform they are going to put the UFC events.
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they're going to ask for space for four or five events in Europe in the prime time. For Europe.
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Yeah, for Europe.
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Europe prime time.
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Listen, Europe prime time is fine because it's in the afternoon in America.
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That's fine.
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So the fights at one o 'clock in the afternoon, people watch football games, a hundred million people watch a football game at one o 'clock.
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Europe still has to be a virgin market, you know what I mean?
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Yes.
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You got...
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500 million people in Europe.
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It's more than the United States, even.
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Right.
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Right.
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And if they did it on Netflix, everybody has Netflix.
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Everybody has Netflix.
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That might happen.
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That's why.
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They're in negotiation right now.
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That will be a massive one. In Spain? In Spain.
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Oh my god.
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Against that pimple.
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What happened with you two?
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Because I saw the video where you guys are yelling at each other.
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Was it in a hotel or something?
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Yeah, he said something about Georgia.
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Oh, he said something about your country?
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What did he say?
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He said, "Now I understand why the Russians are bombing Georgia or something like putting bombs in Georgia.
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Whoa.
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Whoa.
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Don't joke with that.
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You can joke about me.
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Say whatever you want to say about me.
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Whatever, he's a mushroom, he's this, he's that, da da da.
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Don't talk about war because you don't know How is it?
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Right.
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That's a crazy thing to say.
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Don't say that.
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- Yeah.
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That was the beginning of it.
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Just out of nowhere he said that?
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He said that on Twitter.
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Oh, wow.
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He said that on Twitter.
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Maybe he was Too high, too drunk, I don't know.
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He was talking shit, you know, I mean it gets people to pay attention.
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He's really good at getting people to pay attention.
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Yeah.
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He is.
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He's really good at that.
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I mean, he could be the next Conor McGregor star.
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Like that kind of a star where the whole world is watching.
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He has that weird personality.
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Yes.
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Yeah, he has that.
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Well, he's very disarming.
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Because people, they see, I talked about this in the last pay -per -view.
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I said, I said it's a very sneaky trick.
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Because guys like you look at you the way you carry yourself, that's a fighter.
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Like you look at that guy's a dangerous motherfucker.
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But when you see Patty, he's dancing like this, his hair is flopping around like he's in the Beatles.
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You know, he's like, he seems silly, but then he fucks people up.
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And so I think people get confused.
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Yeah, but he fucks people up like...
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Michael Chandler Right.
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But when he he he faced a real fight who did he face?
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Well, he hasn't faced anyone that good yet.
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But he fucked up Michael Chandler better than Charles Oliveira did.
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It does.
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And Charles Oliveira even this what I was telling you before like when you got 10 losses in your record,
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it's not one, two, three, four, five, six.
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That's ten.
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Yeah.
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Like...
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When you're walking with a guy that has 10 loses, The level of confidence is completely different.
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It's completely different than when you walk in with a guy that is undefeated.
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Right.
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He's a dangerous guy in the striking, in the ground game, everywhere you look at him, he's a dangerous guy.
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He never takes a lose.
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That's a different mentality.
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You gotta you gotta have to kill him to give up.
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He's not gonna even give up You're gonna have to kill him in the case of Charles if he finds some adversity, He's gonna go to the ground,
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he's gonna sit, and he's gonna be waiting, like, till you end up the fight.
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This is what I think, this is what I feel, this is what I see.
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Well, that was certainly the case early in his career.
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I think things changed with him when he had a child.
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Then he went on that run and became a champion
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and like when he beat Justin Gaethje when he beat all those guys He was he was pretty elite man.
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He was really fucking good and when he beat Chandler, when Chandler beat him up in that first round, he came back in the second round and fucked him up.
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Chandler.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I know what you're saying.
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I get it.
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Connor's been tested 11 times last year, five the year before, and none this year.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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Yeah.
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He was tested this year?
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No. None this year.
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None this year.
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That's what I'm saying.
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11 times last year.
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Yeah, I'm not sure if he's in the testing pool anymore.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I've heard no plans.
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You know the UFC would tell me.
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I would say, "What's going on with Connor?" and I don't even bring it up anymore.
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It's...
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I think with him it's gonna happen like instantly if something happens.
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Well, that's crazy.
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I mean
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if he's gonna prepare he needs like a real Long camp
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to really get his body back to fighting shape like real fighting shape
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and he's got to remember You know what happened when he came back from boxing and then fought Dustin Poirier.
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It depends who he's gonna face because if you put him against a Against me,
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he needs to die and be burned again.
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Yeah.
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I hear ya.
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Yeah.
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When you think about like your division when you were the champion at 145, would he have been the fight that you would have won when he was in his prime at 45?
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Would that be the number one fight that you would have wanted at 145? For sure.
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- Yeah.
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- For sure.
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- My God.
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- For sure.
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He was a dangerous guy in 145.
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- He was so big.
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- He was big, dangerous.
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He had that knockout power, smart.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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you know but He wanted to fight Walter weight when he came back like when they were talking about Chandler.
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He said he wanted to fight at middleweight and And Chandler was like, okay, but...
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You know, part of me wonders whether he was ever really going to come back, you know?
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It's You know what I mean?
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I really think that at some point he's gonna come back because I don't think that he
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He wants to leave the sport with a defeat.
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Right.
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This what I what I don't think.
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I think that he's going to come back, try to get the win, and then retire in the octagon.
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Well, I'd like to see that.
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I'd like to see him one more time.
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um, It'd be good for him, too, to actually go to a real camp and stop partying.
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you know.
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It would be good for him, for his family, for everyone. For everyone.
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But at that same point, he's going to stop.
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He's got a lot of legal problems, too, you know?
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There's a lot going on with him in Ireland.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Will Conor McGregor Come Back and Fight Paddy Pimblett?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: fight, Spain, Chandler, Europe. This video has 234 sentences and 1817 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:17. The speaker talks at a natural 177 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| excite verb | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| negotiation noun | /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/ | The process of achieving agreement through discussion. |
| adversity noun | /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/ | The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity. |
| disarm verb | /dɪsˈɑɹm/ | To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. |
| eyeball noun | /ˈaɪ.bɔl/ | The ball of the eye. |
| middleweight noun | A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and… | |
| octagon noun | /ˈɑktəˌɡɑn/ | A polygon with eight sides and eight angles. |
| sneaky adjective | /ˈsniːki/ | Elusive; difficult to capture or observe due to constantly outwitting the adversaries. |
| adrenaline noun | /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/ | Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter. |
| flop verb | /flɑp/ | To fall heavily due to lack of energy. |
| knockout noun | /ˈnɑk.oʊt/ | The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO. |
| undefeated adjective | Never defeated; always victorious. | |
| mushroom noun | /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/ | Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood). |
| thrill verb | /θɹɪl/ | To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
| come back from verb | To become successful, confident or effective again after an injury, setback, failure, embarrassment, etc. |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| take up verb | To pick up. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I think he's going to come back.
- After this one, I'm gonna get sound calls.
- What happened with you two?
- I said, I said it's a very sneaky trick.
- I know what you're saying.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be pumped · is undefeated · been tested |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | hasn't faced · I've heard · have been |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 58 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, gonna, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: negotiation /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/
- Long words — get the stress right: negotiation /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, adrenaline /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like excite, whoa, negotiation.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.