BTG 156 - Fighting Nerds suffer another loss

[Music] Hello and welcome to another episode of Breaking the Guard. On today's episode, I'll cover some events that happened recently, particularly EBI 25 and uh the Canelo fight and the UFC Noce UFC, right? Uh I'll start with no UFC because that's uh fresh on my head. I tuned into the last couple fights and uh I will say that main event wise I was rooting for Diego Lopez. I personally think Jean Silva is kind of annoying as a fighter. Although he's a very dangerous fighter, I think his antics are kind of annoying to me. So, um, again, I'm going to give some spoilers here. So, obviously tune and out if you want to watch the event before getting spoiled, but Diego Lopez won by TKO in the second round. A very strong performance by him. a very gutsy one as well because Diego marched down uh John Silva the entire time, stood right in his face in range and did absorb a good amount of shots. Like he wasn't it didn't seem like he was blocking that effectively. Like I think it was a right hand from Jean or maybe it was a left. I'm not sure, but it was a cross that kept getting through, but it didn't seem to face Diego at all. And he got clipped with some elbows. Uh, so he did take some punishment standing, but in the first round, the the the most significant thing, not a lot of strikes was happening. It looks like they were kind of measuring each other out. And Jean like overextended himself and gave Diego a very easy takedown and he jumped right from half guard straight into the mount which to me is insane. Like at this level where you're trying to fight for like a title shot and you have zero guard work is just I don't even know what to say about that. That's I I know he's predominantly a striker, but like you have to have some ground gain. Um, and Diego was able to mount him and did some real damage from the mount. He was very calculating about what he wanted to do, which was downward elbows, which are now legal. And he cut open at least three different cuts on the top of his head and had him bleeding all over the place. Was landing some really good ground and pound. Gan looked pretty helpless from the mount. Uh he kept trying to just bridge, which wasn't working because Diego was with a high mount. So the bridge doesn't really help you too much there. Uh he tried to get his legs over. Couldn't get that. Uh exposed his back a few times, but Diego was good at sticking to him and staying mounted on him. It was only at the very end of the round Diego I mean John was able to escape get back up to his feet but not able really to do anything to sway that round. That was a easy 109 for Diego arguably maybe a 108 because he did a lot of damage. Uh and I wish more people would take advantage of the mount that way. Like it's a frustrating to me sometimes you see someone get a mount and they just like they don't do anything. It's like, man, it's strike. Yeah. And the DO did a fantastic job of capitalizing on that position and showing why the mount's a dangerous spot to be in. Second round, they pretty much marched right into each other and started exchanging. And honestly, it looked like Gene was getting the better of it because he was starting to connect a lot. And even though Diego was landing also and they were both like hurting each other, but it seemed like this fight was the type of fight that John wanted, right? Like he was willing to get into these exchanges uh because he felt that he had the better puncher power and had the chin to absorb it. But Diego looked like he had the Cheni absorber because he got hit a bunch of times and didn't seem too phased by it and he kept marching forward through the punches which to me looked a little wild. I'm like, man, don't don't give this guy a chance. Like get him back on the ground. Uh Jean once overextended himself again, but didn't get taken down. He was temporarily Matt returned, but then he was able to pop back up. And towards the end of the round, they started getting really crazy towards the the cage wall. And John a couple times threw this spinning back elbow that kept missing, but like it was like, "Oh, like it's close." And like if one of those connect, it's a game over. And then out of nowhere, Diego throws a spinning back elbow and it's like a vertical slicing one, which was really nice. And it just grazed him on the temple it looks like, which was enough to go lights out. Drops Jane. He gets on top, starts pounding away. And John like recovers a little bit, but he's getting demolished. And the referee comes in, stops it maybe a a tad early. uh uh you know, especially for someone like him who's he he's a dog, like you should probably gave him a little more time. Uh but not a necessarily a bad stoppage. He was getting pounded out. So Diego ends up winning that, cementing his uh number two spot. He wants to do whatever it takes to get back into title contention. For the fighting nerds, now it's three fights in three weekends that they've dropped if I recall correctly, which is pretty rough for the team because remember they were touting how they were undefeated as in the UFC and then like one of their guys lost like well he doesn't count and then now it's pretty much everybody in the team has lost now. if I if I understand it correctly. So that undefeated thing is gone. But it's pretty brutal when it's all happening back to back to back which would tell you from a team standpoint there's a systematic failing, right? like for everybody to drop their matches, you know, and my these were well-matched fights. There was nobody that was completely outclassed or anything like that. So like they there was a way to win each of these fights and they weren't able to find it. So they had to have a real moment to discuss like what's happening in training, what's happening with the team management aspect of this because for them to drop, you know, three fights in three weekends, it's pretty rough, right? Uh puts the team in a pretty bad spot. It's a that's a lot of bad mojo to build up, I think. Uh, and I know I think Sean Strickland was critical of uh, Chiao Koreo because he actually cut weight to be an alternate the week before his fight to jump in in the main event. So, he basically cut weight two weekends in a row. And yeah, if you did that, you would be pretty jacked up because with cutting weight, you don't bounce back right away, especially if you have to do it twice in a row. Not a great idea. So, uh, wasn't advisable to do that. So, that could have been what, you know, caused him to fight uh, last weekend with Jan. It looked like well he had zero ground game so he took a good amount of damage in round one and then obviously that's going to affect you going to round two because now you know like I can't let this guy get any takedowns because if he does I'm it's going to be a game over for me and that makes you a lot more either gunshy or high risk. In his case, he seemed like he went into high risk where it's like I got to put them out quickly. Uh Diego wasn't really going for a lot of takedowns. He was only going after the ones that were gimmies. Like he he didn't shoot and get sprawled on if I recall. Like every takedown he went for was whenever Gene overextended himself and then he tried to get on top of him real quick. But yeah, not a good uh month for the fighting nerds. they got to go back to the drawing board and figure out why they're dropping so many matches. And if it is bad matchmaking, then they, you know, their agent or manager, whoever, you know, needs to get checked, right? you're you're uh biting off more than you can chew, you know. And sometimes agents can do that or managers because they're like, oh, you know, whether it's because they believe in the fighter so much but not realistically or they just see a big payday, you know, so like, hey, hey, you jump in this fight, you know, like you have to be selective, especially when you're trying to build somebody up for like a title run. like you have to make sure that each of these fights we can we have a good path to victory. I don't think any of uh well the these last two are fresh on my mind. They were winnable there. There was ways to win. I think with Diego it was a rougher fight with uh Ka like he definitely had a better shot at it. But in any case, yeah, when you have consequent failures, have to check it out. With the Canelo fight, I jumped in late to the party. I only watched part of the co-main and then the main event. So, I missed all the knockouts. I just got to see the long drawn out fights and especially after watching the UFC, I remember now like why MMA is so much better than boxing because man, it's for me it's just boring. It's hard for me to watch the boxing fights compared to MMA. Uh yes, there's a lot of, you know, technical fighting going on regarding like, you know, who's scoring the more shots, whose guards better, the footwork, all that. But it's just not as fun to watch because it's a lot of point fighting where we're not really getting the big knockout. We're not really getting even like strong exchanges. It's just like, oh, he got a good one, two there. Oh, a good body shot there. And then you're watching almost the same progression for 12 rounds for 36 minutes. It's just it's a lot, you know, and it's crazy to me that these fights are still getting so much money. Like apparently Crawford and Canelo were each getting over $100 million for this fight, which is insane. I mean, kudos to them. But then we're we're looking at the UFC and we we don't even have guys making a million dollars, you know, for the fights. Uh, and it's going to be interesting to see what happens once it goes into the new Paramount deal because is there going to be no more pay-per-views and how they're going to fund it? This event was also on Netflix streaming, so I think it's the first boxing fight I've seen in many years cuz I don't care to watch pay-per-view boxing anymore. I hate the judging of it and it's usually rigged and then the fights are usually not that exciting to me. But this one I'm like, "Well, it's on Netflix. I already have it, so I might as well check it out." And apparently the whole event was over eight hours long, which is insane. You remember I was complaining about CGI? Man, this thing is That's such a slow pace. And what's funny, I seen people clipping it. Uh Dana was criticizing other events for bad pacing. Meanwhile, he has an event going eight hours long. And they they played some type of music concert just before the Canelo fight. It's just dude. It's like, no, no one wants to see that man. Like, just put the fights, dude. You need less time. We're in a time of social media. Like, when you're doing all this crazy stuff between fights, I bet you a lot of people are just on their phones and they tuning out, you know, like you need short form content. In my opinion, events shouldn't be any longer than four hours. And like, you better have the action packed in there. Like, you're really cranking up the adrenaline cuz 4 hours is a lot of time to devote to watching something without getting bored. So, it's possible. I told you PGF did it for me. Like, I was sitting there for four hours and I was entertained the whole time. Any more than that and I would probably start phasing out, you know, and I'm a super fan. uh of grappling and MMA for boxing. Oh man, it's it's a hard watch with all the delays and theatrics. Not not great. But they were able to pay it out because they had um I don't know somebody from the Middle East whether it was Saudi or UAE or whatever but uh he was there front row with Dana and I believe he was the money guy and obviously to them it it's nothing right like they find 100 million in their couch between the couch cushions. So, they don't care about it, I guess. But Dana is not dropping 100 million anytime soon on a fighter. So, I don't know how the pay-per-views or now there is going to be no pay-per-view. I think they confirmed that now in the US markets, there's going to be no pay-per-views as it's going to be streaming on the Paramount platform. Other countries will still have pay-per-views like Canada, Japan, UK, and all that. I can't imagine that brings that much money to them compared to the US market, right? I know Pride had suffered a lot as a result of that because the US market is the dominant pay-per-view market. All the other countries don't really have that economy built up. Now, I think it's also collapsed quite a bit in the US. And that's why they're going towards the streaming model now. But I wonder how the return is going to be as far as the profit sharing for the main event. Are they going to get the equivalent? Are they going to get more? Are they going to get less? That's going to be interesting to see. Uh hopefully they get more. But knowing Dana, they'll probably get the same if not maybe a little less. Uh, we'll have to see. But yeah, that was a reminder to me. Boxing is nowhere near as entertaining as MMA to me. This is your MMA made event. There's always something happening, a lot of action, and there's so many more variables. It makes it more exciting. There's no stalemates or referee separations happening all the time. U anyhow, moving on to EBI25. This was lightweights. I believe it was 155 pounders. There was quite a few people from the PGF here, which was a little puzzling to me because they had Landon Elmore and they had Derek Rafield. Now, Derek competed in the PGF finals. you know, he lost in the semis to Jet Thompson, but Landon was supposed to be in the PGF playoffs, but didn't show up, which to me would be like, well, I guess he's injured or, you know, I don't know what happened. But then they announced that he was going to be in EBI. It's the same prize money, 20 grand, and EBI actually has four matches, whereas PGF has three to get to the 20. So, and you would argue that EBI had more decorated competitors who are also fresher because they haven't done like six, five weeks of competition. And you had guys like Keith Cororan, you know, and uh Ganna Grippo, guys who are real vets, you know, who've competed all over the world. So, you would think, well, the PGF, the critique you can make is that a lot of these guys are newer. But, uh, Landon skipped PGF for whatever reason and went to EBI instead. Mind you, they're all 10th Planet Network, right? And Brandon is the accommodator there as well. So, I guess he it was done with his blessing. I just found it uh strange as the competitor. To be fair, uh I think for Landon, the PGF would probably been a harder draw than the EBI. And I say that because at least with the EBI, the weigh-ins were the day before. So everybody had to weigh at 155. Whereas in PGF the weigh-ins were once on the first week of competition and after that they stopped carrying. So a lot of those guys bulked up considerably whereas Landon is a probably small 155 if I'm being honest. So, he would have been at a big weight disadvantage to guys like Jet or like Derek, for example. Uh, but Derek still made 155 there, too, which is crazy. He's a he's a big boy. Um, any case, pretty good match as far as the EBI is concerned. probably one of the best EVIS I watched uh recently because there was a lot of finishes. You know me, I hate the EBI over times and there were very few of them. Most of the matches finished in submissions. So, and regulation too. So, awesome. I'd like to see that. Uh, the ones that stood out to me, well, Landon got started early. Quick leg lock. I think it was in under a minute. On the other side, I believe um Derek won on points. Gianna Gripple won with a leg lock. Uh, Keith Cororan won by submission. And then I'm trying to remember the last gentleman. Oh, Reese Fever won by submission. So like the first round was all subs. Uh then they went into the the quarterfinals and oh Bryce Mitchell had competed as well. Oh, wait. There's eight matches, man. I'm I'm not going to remember all the the matches, guys. Let's be hon. But Bryce Mitchell competed uh against another PGF alumni, JJ Powers, but he lost in a close match to Bryce. So, Bryce ended up meeting Landon. Landon jumped a flying triangle with him and then Bryce threatened to slam him, which if you remember, Bryce knocked out uh Chrome Gracie from a guard slam. But so he was being nice about it though. He didn't actually slam him. He was just holding him up. But he was talking crap. He's like, you know, I'll do it. You know, I'll do it. So then they stopped the match and they restarted. didn't help him too much because he jumped another triangle, but this time he he when he started getting lifted, he let go and went into a leg lock and caught uh Bryce with a leg lock. And again, under like a minute and a half or so, actually another short match for for Landon. Uh Derek Rafield ended up going against Reese. Uh Reese won OT escape time, I believe. I remember in a that match. Now, the one thing I don't like that Derek was doing a lot, he was letting people pass his guard and he was getting side control a lot. And I I always tell people when you have I know Derek is comfortable there because he's very good at buggy chokes. He's good at those unconventional escapes, that double outside ashi position he does from bottom out like Jordan does. But when you have a trap game, when you make it obvious, it's hard to do, right? Like you got I've talked about this before, but I feel it's the same problem that Derek is having. He's trying to play a trap game, but he's going right into the trap and say, "Here, come get this mount." It's like, "Yeah, I'm not going to want to get it now. And if I do, I'm going to be very alert, so you're not going to get your your traps." Like, play a strong game and let the trap happen by their forcing it, not by you forcing it. Anyhow, so Derek advanced. So on one side of the bracket you had two Kingsway guys Reese Lef Fever and Landon Elmore. On the other side Giana Grippo advances and who was the other and Keith Correan advances as well. So left side the bracket Landon strikes once again. Another quick leg lock under a couple minutes he got Reese. And on the right side, Kikoran won, I believe, an OT. He got a submission in OT if I remember correctly. I can remember. Yeah, he got a a choke. And um it looked like because they were the comparators were seeming to think that Giana would have the advantage with back control and he had a good ride time for back. I think he had it for like a minute or so, but then when Keith Kakoran's turn came for OT, he he locked in the rear naked right away. Face crank and and it didn't matter. His chin was down because, you know, the face cranks was crazy. And he powered it through and got the finish in OT. So, it was the final with Landon and Keith. And interesting matchup because Keith is also a very good leg locker, you know, so you would think, well, maybe he could hang with the leg locks of Landon. Nope. Another match under a couple minutes. Landon puts him away with another leg lock. Just insane run for Landon. And obviously me being questioning like, oh, why did he jump out? Well, maybe he knew something I didn't. Maybe he knew that this is a very good bracket for him and he was going to be able to win it pretty well. uh get featured in another event card. And overall, I think it helps PGF because look, like one of the studs from PGF that didn't even do the playoffs came here and wrecked everybody in EBI, which is supposed to be like the higher level event. Kind of raises the the standard for PGF. Like our guys are legit, too. We got we got teeth, you know. Uh, so amazing job by Landon. His leg lock game is undeniable. And I think it would have to be insane to try to play footsie with with him, which everybody did. And I I've talked about this before. A lot of the lightweights like to play these leg lock shootouts. It's not wise in my opinion. I think like you're going to have trouble, especially with Landon. He he's shown that his leg lock game is next level, right? He's able to get them from very weird spots with very little attachment. He's great at those akis like and you'll see like we're used to at least I'm used to leg locks where you know we're controlling the knee line and we got you know a reaping leg and we got the inside whether it's outside or inside and we got the knees pinched you know so there's a lot of securement to keep the knee stable at least from spinning so that when we start rotation it's strong and we have some control of the hips. These locks are very open. and it's just like outside butterfly hook making some space and small twist of the heel and it's a done deal. Uh so I think it's a very and they're very strong. So it's a dangerous game to play with somebody like him and I I know everybody probably has that ego like oh I could beat this guy like he's going to be the one that's gonna be panic tapping. I'm like it hasn't happened yet man. I haven't seen anybody in the past seven weeks and he's competed I think uh well 19 times 19 matches that I've watched no one's been close to getting one leg lock and he's probably tapped like 10 people minimum with leg locks. So no matter how proud you are or how you know like confident you are your leg lock game, you got to ask yourself, is it worth rolling the dice with this one? In my opinion, it's a big no. I would play him elsewhere, right? Like I'll work a guard passing game. It's in my opinion. I could be wrong, but I train with a lot of these guys and I train with guys who are really good leg lockers who are in PGF. I'm not going to, you know, name names, but I don't get in any leg locks. It's pretty easy to avoid if you just don't engage it, right? You don't let them split your legs if they're on top. You don't step over their hips when you're when you're on top. You know, if you stay in butterfly guard, pretty hard to get you in a leg lock, right? uh from the bottom position, you know, and if you're on top, you're just constantly making sure that there's no legs that are weaving in. It's not difficult to avoid if you know what to look for. And if you know someone's really hungry for those leg locks, you know, you're just not giving them an opportunity to get in there. But most people are allowing them to happen and thinking they're gonna win this dog fight, you know, and like why get into the dog fight? Go into the one-sided beating. It's like I tell people, I like striking when it's ground and pound, one-way traffic. I'm throwing all the damage, you're receiving it. I don't like exchanges on the feet where like I can hit you, you can hit me. It's like not that great, right? Like I'm now we're seeing who's going to roll with the punches better. Uh who's got the tougher chin? Who's got the more punching power? Like no, no, I rather take you down. And I won't have to worry about getting my chin checked because it's all going to be on you. And I feel the same way when attacking from any position, any type of attacking. Why am I going to get into a submission exchange when I could just have a one-way submission street? Right? And you can get that by passing the guard, right? You're you pass a guard, it's generally one way traffic minus the few buggy jokes and, you know, crazy like counter submissions which are easy to avoid also if you know what's coming. Um, you should be in control of the submission attacks, right? That's another thing. I saw someone get caught uh really high level guy get caught in a buggy choke in the absolute final and I was surprised because it was like big boy division and I I felt like man like I trained with guys who do buggy chokes really well. I've never been close to getting buggy choked and it's because I know where it comes from. You your side control, you get really tight, that's when it happens. And you have to know when you're going with somebody who does have that capability, have to have a framing arm on them at all times. When you have the cross face on them, they're going to lock on a buggy choke, right? Like if they're good at it, they're waiting for you to get tight because that's when it works. So you have to kind of do the opposite, which is like, okay, I got to get now a frame instead is now I can make space. He's not going to be able to get close enough to lock that buggy choke. So it works through the opposite of what you would think, right? Like normally to avoid the submission game, we get really tight with them, but that's the one spot that it works against you. You know, side control, you get really tight, now they get their buggy choke and you're in problems. Um, so when I train with people who who are good at buggy chokes, I play it differently. I usually have my knee on belly that because that kills it immediately. There's no buggy choke because you can't get your legs up. My knees covering your legs. or at the very least I have a crossface arm instead of I mean a frame instead of a cross face because if I feel anything happening I'm able to extend and if they try to get it now they're choking themselves. Uh so I've never been caught on that and I hope I never do because I know I'm not saying it's not a real submission. It is a very real submission. Like I've had people demonstrate it on me because uh one of my friends is trying to get me to do it. I'm like dude it's not happening with my belt. You can do it. I'm like, "No, I'm not nowhere near as flexible uh enough to be able to do it." But I have felt it. It is a real joke. It It's slow, but slow in a dangerous way because it kind of like like you like, "Oh, I'm okay. I'm okay." And then, "Oh, you're out." So, uh because it's soft in the sense that there's no sharp blade. Like a guilt is a painful choke, right? like you got the the wrist blade in your Adam's apple, you know you're in trouble the whole time and everything's hurting. But uh like arm triangles, they're also somewhat painful because normally there's a bit of a neck crank element involved, you know, so you know things are not going great. Renee get same thing. But uh this style of choke, it there's no hard edge in the middle of your throat, right? It's kind of a soft edge on the side of your neck on both sides that's just slowly squeezing. So the the lights are just slowly coming out. So uh it can slip away from you. So that's why I've seen a lot of people get tapped out to it. Obviously we talked about, you know, at CGI 2, uh Sonic went out twice, you know, and it's probably because he thought he was fine until he wasn't, you know. Uh, so it is a very slow acting choke, but it's easy to avoid if you know what to look for and I feel you have to have some awareness when you're going against somebody like, okay, especially someone like Landon who the past five weeks everybody's been buzzing about him online about how good his leg lock game is. So like, why am I going to get stuck in leglocks with a guy like him? And um, you really shouldn't. And that's the same thing with the buggy chokes. Like if I know I'm going against a guy who's a buggy choke officado, like all right, I'm not going to play side mount the way I normally do. I'm going to be neon belly or frame, you know. And on certain guys like Jordan, for example, like I know like if I go to mount, I don't mount them with both my feet over. I have a neon belly from the mount or I have like almost if you will butterfly mount, right? where I'll put both my my feet inside the under the hips, knees across. So, is it the ideal control amount for me? No. But can he do those outside double ashy thing? Nope. I'm safe, right? I'm splitting the legs, so he can't, you know, wrap over mine. And someone like Derek, and you know, Jordan does it also where like they throw if you go into their if they go into your closed guard, they'll throw both their legs over. Guess what? I don't play close guard with them, right? Like like you have to be smart and know like where people are dangerous and just don't let the game happen when you're like chancing. You're like, "Oh, I'm going to see how I'm going to counter." Like, well, that's you're rolling the dice. And like I said, I rather not roll dice. I rather take sure things. I know if I pass your guard, you give me a kimora grip, it's a done deal, right? I'm gonna get a finish or at the very least get a strong position as a result of this. So, uh, I feel the lightweights roll the dice a bit too much. I think the guard passing is a bit tougher of a road. So, they start, you know, taking the what I would call like the easier path, which is just trying to spam the leg locks for the win. But, it's risky, right? I feel play a more conventional game, the type of game that you could do in MMA, and it's going to resolve better. But the exception to this is Landon because he's proven that you give him a leg lock and he's going to finish it, dude. So, not a guy to be trifled with, you know, like and if I was going to grapple him, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to let him anywhere near my legs, right? And you know, besides the I mean, there's a few things you would have to do to avoid getting leg blocked like someone by him because he's pulling guard constantly. So, he's shooting to try to get under your hips. So again, you would have to keep your head at his level of his head so he can get underneath you. Got to keep your hips back so he can get his hips underneath. Hips low so he can get his hips underneath. Right? Uh and don't allow him to split your legs, right? Keep your feet in the middle. Um so that none of those leg entanglements happen. But if you're diligent like that, it becomes very difficult to leg lock you. And I know because I've trained, like I said, in a lot of really good leg lockers. You know, I'm a pretty decent leg locker myself. Uh I've gone to New Wave when it was New Wave at least and wasn't getting caught in any leg locks. They don't even go for it that much because I think they know it. It's it's kind of like it's they understand for them it's difficult to leg lock each other generally. Uh and I know because that's kind of the problem I had as well. Like once your training partners know your leg lock game, you know, and they and they understand the leg lock game, it becomes a lot harder to score, right? Cuz you just avoid the positions or you just know the defenses really well. That's why I always like the Kimura game because there's just no easy way out of it. I can always catch it. It doesn't matter how good your defense is. If I'm able to lock it up, you're still no problem. Leg locks is not entirely the same. It's easier to nullify the game if you don't want to enter it. Anyhow, uh that's my take on it. So, EBI 25, you know, if you guys heard me, historically, I usually give a lot of to EBI because the competitors tend to gain the overtime. This time around, that didn't happen. The I felt the vast majority of the guys were fighting for finishes. I I honestly think all of them were. I didn't I might I I think I missed a couple matches, but I didn't see people stalling out. There were people actively working the whole time trying to get submissions. So, the overtime played the role that it was supposed to do. And there were, like I said, there were finishes in the overtime as well. So, um I appreciated that this was a good EBI, you know. uh this is I felt like PGF the athletes followed the spirit of the rules didn't try to game it and it resulted in a great event so you know kudos to Eddie for that one good event good athlete selection as well and um with the UFC not to UFC oh the the one fight I didn't comment on Kelvin Gastelin he ended up winning against Dustin Stalstus and that that looked like a an eliminator match, you know, as far as but both of them haven't had a great run recently. But Kelvin came in apparently five or maybe I think it was 5 lbs overweight. But Dustin still took the fight. He even joked beforehand that he hopes that u Kelvin misses weight cuz he wanted to take a third of the purse, which is what they were offering him. Careful what you wish for. All right, because he got it. And he, mind you, Dustin fought well, uh, but not well enough. And, uh, Kelvin got the better shots landed, rocked them a few times, but Dustin never quit. He was trying to score takedowns at certain points, but, uh, wasn't able to really secure positions long enough to do any damage with him. And Kelvin, besides being overweight, you know, he fought well and he showed his hand speed still there, still can crack. I don't I don't know how you miss weight by five pounds. It's disrespectful. Uh, in my opinion, at this stage of the game, cutable offense, right? It clearly you just don't care, right? Like you're like, "Ah, whatever. I'm not I'm not going to put the effort." So, yeah. And it's not like he's just shredded, you know? So he's like, "Oh, like he just he doesn't have the weight to lose." Like, dude, the guy's fluffy, you know? Like he's got the weight to lose. So you know, he's as Dustin put it, like he put after the weigh in, he was eating tacos. He's like the correct order, weigh in, then have tacos, right? Uh it looks like Kevin was having the tacos before the weigh-ins. It's a shame because he's still good but not disciplined. And without the discipline, you're not going to really go that far. And yeah, that's all I have for you guys. So, I'll let you all go and I'll see you next week.