BTG 161 - Quitting on the Stool

Hello, welcome to another episode of Breaking the Guard. On today's episode, I'm going to talk about the UFC fight night in Vancouver. And uh there's some interesting things that happened uh I thought I feel are worth commenting on. This is obviously spoilers, so u don't watch this if you plan on wa viewing the UFC later. Now, I'll start off from the three fights I told you guys. I was interested in Marlon Vera with Zahabi, uh Kevin Holland, with uh what's his name? Mike Mallet. And then we had the main events, Brendan Allen and RDR. So I'll start with Marlin. Now Marlin was a underdog on this and I thought, man, he hasn't been finished by anybody. He's lost I think three in a row, but all champions that he lost to and he lost like decision split decision. So it wasn't like he got dominated. Whereas Zahhabi is, you know, on a well or he was on a sixight win streak, so he's got rising momentum, but he has a lot of split decision wins. And uh some people felt like he got gifted some of those matches. I thought Marlin would be able to take this and round one very tight. Uh, it was all striking and neither guy wanted to really grapple or even seriously go for a takedown. It was all striking. Pretty even first round. I thought Marlin won the first three minutes of round one, but then he kind of put the brakes, let off the gas pedal, and especially in the final minutes, Zhabi really stole the round, I feel like, because he was putting a lot more pressure, and the punch stat reflects that, right? He out he outpointed him. I I think Marlin had the better strikes, but uh Zahhabi definitely looked busier when it had mattered. And uh I think I was rooting for Marlin, but it doesn't look good for him. This looks like he let the round slip away from him. Round two, similar striking exchange. Marlin drops Zahabi, but he doesn't rush him like you would expect. He kind of just stalks him and doesn't really go for the kill. Now, I understand there's a risk, especially with a guy like Zahab who who does have power, that if you try to rush in there, you're going to get caught with a heavy counter punch and now you're going to be the one on the canvas. There is that, but at the same time, you definitely have to put a lot of pressure on the guy because they're hurt and you want to capitalize on the opportunity. Marlin didn't seem to do that. He just he was in his face, but he wasn't going hard on him. Like he was still waiting for like, okay, I'm going to find another position shot. Meanwhile, Zahabi went purely defensive. Didn't do anything. He wasn't even punching back. So crazy to me like this would have been the time to just let loose. Uh but Marlin didn't and then towards the end of the rounds the happy started taking over again but because of the knockdown obviously it was a Marlin round right but what could have been a 108 round became a 109 round in my view. The final round, more the same. Again, very close round. Although I think Zahhabi did more to win that round, but uh in the end, Zahhabi won another split decision. Marlin felt like he got robbed. I don't I feel like I could see it go either way. You kind of let it happen to yourself, right? In my opinion, I think Marlin probably should have won it because the two rounds, round one and round three, you could have scored them as draws and no one would have been upset. But the only definitive round in my view was round two, which Marlin won. And that's why I would have favored Marlin for the for the win. But I could see the case round one and three going to Zahabi and then like okay and like he did a great job of attacking at the end. He left the best final impressions because Marlin would kind of ease off at the end of the round of every round he eased off and it's like man it's such a bad look optically like you got to be [ __ ] going out there and trying to finish the guy at the end of the round not you know easing off. It's kind of like a runner who sees a finish line and slows down. It's like you're gonna get overtaken by the guy who's doing a sprint. So, there's a lot of things there I felt like were not very high fight IQ from Marlin. He's very capable. Like his striking's great. He didn't really get I mean, he got caught with a couple decent shots, but he never got rocked. you know, he was always in there, but and you might even say technically he was a better fighter, but just not employing good strategy. And for the love of Christ, like not one taken out of 10. It I mean, I think he went for a few, but not serious. And they were more predictable. I don't know. It's MMA. It's not kickboxing. Like, utilize all the the tools. is going to make your striking a lot more effective when they think you're going to go for a takedown. So, a little frustrating because now I think Marlin his four fight four losses in a row, although he didn't look bad in any of them. It's just like he's not strategically fighting well. And you know, it's funny because I talked about this the other day about doing the mental leg work, you know, but it's like you you have to do some soularching there, Marlin. It's like, man, like you're letting fights slip away from you that are winnable, you know? Uh, and arguably like you might even be the better fighter on paper, but you're just not delivering. Anyhow, so there was that. The next fight we had Kevin Holland with Mike Mallet. This was a um I thought would be a more interesting fight. Round one was pretty uh you know it moved around quite a bit. There was a good amount of ground work involved. There was some takedowns, some strikes, but then the most significant strike of the whole fight happened which was Mike Mallet throwing an inside leg kick going right into the crotch. And u in fact this was his second time doing it. He hit him once but Kevin just like he let it play through. I guess it didn't catch him too bad. The second one though, he dropped and was down for the count. And he had a really difficult time getting up to his feet. It took him about 3 minutes to be able to stand up. And people who have never been hit that hard might not understand that. They might think he's, oh, he's playing to the crowd or playing, you know, trying to be cute. No, that tells me he it was a real injury or at least he know how the real injury looks like because I've had that happen to me in sparring. My brother, I was throwing a roundhouse kick as he was throwing a step sidekick and again so my legs are split open. That foot went right into my balls and I was down and in my case I didn't get up for at least 20 minutes. It was I didn't I wasn't wearing a cup. Again, this was back in 1998, I think. So, like we were still fighting like savages and I could not get up for the life of me and I really wanted to because my brother was kind of laughing at it. Didn't take it seriously and I was furious, but I could not get off my knees. It there's something about getting hit to the groin that just kills your legs. You just can't move around the same way. And uh that's clearly what Kevin was going through because you can see he tries to stand up multiple times in that fiveminute thing and he couldn't. It was only about three minutes in he was he was able to get up but he wasn't even able to stand up straight. He was like bent over but he was on his feet and he had to use all five minutes and it looked like he wasn't even good yet. But at that point, once you use your 5 minutes of recovery time or injury time, you either have to withdraw from the fight or go on. And he wanted to fight. But you could see like he pretty much there was one minute left in that first round and he just ran away for the rest of the round because he he kept grabbing his balls and adjusting them because he was hurting. And uh I can appreciate that because again, I said, I've been on both sides of this. another time, and I've told this story before, but like I was sparring a guy who was a good kickboxer, boxer, and I was still new to, you know, fighting, and he was just lighting me up. I was getting dominated. And then I threw one inside kick that went high, caught him in the nuts, and like it took him like a minute to recover. And after that, I started destroying him. And I realized then like, oh my god, what a unfair advantage I just gave myself by this foul. And you know, it was his training, so who cares? But I understood from an early age and fighting because this is like my first year of fight training, like how significant a growing strike is in the the result of a fight because now he's not able to get that back. He's lost his legs now because that's basically what happens. like your legs don't move well anymore, right? When you get hit hard in the groin for whatever reason, I'm not a doctor, so I don't know the physiology, but your legs get stiff and you have a really hard time moving. Like I said, that's why you can't even get up to your feet in some cases because it is just really shot. And even in this case where it wasn't like the worst nutshot in the world, he could barely move around on me and I was just dancing around him, you know, potshotting him all over the place. So seeing Kevin push into round to to fight and mind you he got hit in the nuts a third time after that. The craziest thing about this was there was no point taken which to me is insane. And Kevin actually I think on the scorecards had won round one and then lost rounds two and three. But if he would have won round one with the point deduction it would have been a draw. So, he really got screwed there. And I don't know why the ref didn't take a point away because in the previous fight uh earlier in the car, Drew Dober got uh a point taken off his first groin shot because it was a significant one and it was another one that was accidental, but you know, or accidental, but it still happened, right? I I don't feel like, oh, because it's an accident means that it's okay now. No. If the the standard for a foul to me shouldn't there's two things right there accidental or flagrant. If you flagrantly foul someone you're disqualified immediately. That should be the criteria of if I know I'm going to full blast groin strike this guy or I'm going to gouge his eyes and it's obviously intentional. Disqualified immediately. That's not a point deduction. That's a disqualification. You're you're a cheater. You don't belong here. You're out. And probably if that's me, I'm banning you from the sport right there. Maybe extreme, but I think extreme punishments make people not do this type of stuff. And if they do, they don't belong there. The other metric then is was there damage incurred? So, if I throw a a groin strike and an accidental groin strike like inside kick, which it does happen, right? It does happen and it just barely grazes you, doesn't do anything serious. Okay, warning, continue. But if I say throw that same accidental strike even on the first try, but it lands flush and the guy drops, point deduction. It doesn't matter if it's accident or not. The consequence is the same. He's not going to be the same fighter now when he comes up. He's hurt now. He's being tough and he's continuing to fight, but he's not the same guy that he was before that groin strike. I can tell you it affects you severely. And if you don't know that, just believe you me. Like, it is for real, right? Getting hit hard in the boys is not a fun time. is not something you can shake off. If you've been hit in the nuts, like it's not a big deal. It's because you really haven't been hit there. Like you got you got off easy. And I'm not saying that like to like uh belittle your experience. It's just the reality of it. Because when you get h get hammered there, h it is terrible. Uh you can throw up there. You know, a lot of bad things could happen from a severe groin strike. So, uh, in my opinion, the there's two things that the the referee should be using as a criteria for how to determine what to do in the case of a foul. Is it an accident? Yes or no. If it's an accident, you don't disqualify them immediately. Right? If it's flagrant in in immediate disqualification. Now the second thing, was there significant damage incurred? Yes. Point deduction. No warning. And then I'll put a throw criteria. How many times has he done accidental fouls with warnings? If this is if he got off, you know, with one warning where he just grazed the guy, no significant damage. Okay. Okay, you know, no point deduction. Just let let the game play on. Twice in a row. Maybe a point deduction. Three times. Definitely a point deduction. Right. So, I'm not sure. There's a gray area there between two. Again, it I feel like three. Yeah, you're you're playing poorly if you're allowed if you fouled somebody three times in a row twice. Yeah, it could happen, you know, especially if you're throwing a lot of inside kicks. But the main thing is, you know what? No one's forcing you to throw inside kicks, right? Like it's your weapon. You have to be responsible for using it, right? You can't just be throwing kicks willy-nilly when we have rules about targeting, you know, like we can't target the groin. We can't target the eyes. We can't target the back of that spine, right? So, you have to be responsible for how you throw your weapons. Anyhow, in my opinion, Kevin Holland got jipped there. Probably should have been a draw. Honestly, he probably shouldn't have continued to fight. They should have stopped it for him. But he's a tough guy. You know, I give him a lot of crap because of fight IQ, but that was a gangster move on him. being really tough pushing through that. It's he obviously had a hell of a like even in the third round he was still adjusting his groin, you know, like he really took a bad shot and uh to be able to still fight and survive with a guy like Mike Mallet who's no joke, that's impressive. And I I felt like he should have had the point deduction which would have made that fight a draw. But honestly, it should have been just a no contest. He was clearly hurt and he was not the same guy. Anyhow, we moved to the main event, RDR with Brendan Allen. And you guys know I was rooting for Brendan here. And uh I mean not Brendon, RDR. And it looked like it was going to be a easy night for him in round one. He got the taked down almost immediately and was able to work to the back mount, back mount. However, he was not able to really get any finishing looks like. And a little weird to me, a guy like him, he he definitely had opportunities. The one thing he wasn't doing was capitalizing on his position. So, he didn't look like he really went hard for any choke, nor did he land any significant ground pound. He was just controlling. Brendan, to his credit, was doing a great job of back defense when he was getting uh backmounted. He was baseball back ripping the entire time, not letting RDR get really close to any chokes. He kept moving. So he did what he had to do to survive but obviously it was a very dominant round for RDR a 109 easy but didn't do any damage. If he would have been throwing some serious ground and pound it could have easily been a 108 but he didn't really throw any strikes. They go into round two instant taked down to the back again. However, this time RDR gets a little too high. He's chasing uh it looked like he was going for an arm bar maybe and then gets dumped, gets put on his back. And this is maybe about halfway through the round. Then Brennan Allen does what you're supposed to do in a fight in my opinion when you're on top is he starts landing significant ground on power. He stays in uh RDR's guard, throwing elbows, throwing shots to the head, evading any submission attempts. Meanwhile, RDR does not attempt once to get to his feet. Does not go for any submission other than an arm bar that he keeps telegraphing. And it looks like he's using the arm bar to also set up um inverted triangle choke, which is again also difficult to catch. Like these are two things that are hard to do. And he keeps going for those two same things the entire rest of the fight because what happened in round two happens in round three and also happens at round four. right where uh RDR secures another taked down in round three but then gets reversed and then stays on his back the whole round and the punishment gets worse and worse every round and what's really weird is that after round two is over RDR has a really difficult time getting up to his feet and round three it takes him a bit of time to get up and round four looked like he was not going to be able to get up and he has some damage But it wasn't the worst beating I've ever seen. Like he's just getting ground and pounded. But it wasn't like there was no risk of a stoppage. Let's put it that way. He was just getting beat. But the wear and tear that he has doesn't really match what happened in the fight. So it's confusing, right? He didn't have any hard wrestling scrambles. Didn't even have any hard grappling scrambles really. Uh, and I mean from rounds from the halfway point of round two until round four, he just gets ground and pounded enough to to to lose the fight. Obviously, he lost those three rounds easily, but his level of exhaustion or hurt is doesn't match what happened in the fight in my opinion. So, it it makes me wonder like what's going on here because you you're you're looking pretty rough for somebody who's getting beat but not getting destroyed. He looked like he was getting destroyed how hard of a time he had getting up to his feet. And in round four on the stool, the corner asked him, "Are you all right?" And he's like, and then the referee had said something about they're going to have to stop the fight if he can't come up to his feet on his own uh fast enough. And at a certain point, it looks like the corner threw the towel in and the fight was over. They he quit on the on the stool. Terrible look for him, right? Like and obviously all the top contenders took a dump on him, right? like Fluffy uh Bora like all these guys went on social media to say oh what a loser quitter you know has no heart etc that's the easy thing to say to me I wouldn't be surprised if something was wrong with him he is I think 35 or 36 bit long in the tooth for a fighter this is his fourth fight this year He's been very busy and he just came back from a fight with uh Bobby Knuckles that was a really tough fight and he did much better in that fight than he did in this fight which doesn't make sense, right? Like in my opinion, this was a step down in competition for him. So, I think maybe he was trying to throw too much on his schedule and having to cut weight that many times at and being older so tightly put together can have consequences on your on your health. And apparently, I didn't see it, but they said he had a really rough weight cut this time around. that will also factor in. It doesn't always happen immediately, but it'll kick in at some point. And it looked like it kicked in in round two, maybe even round one, because like he had a lot of opportunities to finish and never really took him. So, it's it's strange to me. And it's again easy to kick a guy when he's down. And yeah, it does look bad optically. And yeah, obviously this version of RDR loses to all the guys. Fluffy, Borinia, these guys have gas tanks and they can go deep into the fight, you know, and they can survive a first round domination on the ground. So, uh, yeah, it does blur the picture of RDR's championship hopes. The only way I could explain this, like I said, is if it's because he's taken on too many fights in a row. Basically, being in camp for like eight months or a year is not great for you. Another thing I can speak to from experience. The one pro MMA fight I lost, I was in a fight camp for six months and it I wasn't suffering from weight cutting, but I felt like I did suffer from just extended camp. And what ended up happening was I was supposed to fight in like May in a King of the Cage and a main event against a kickboxer, Craftton Wallace. And then that fight card fell apart. And then they the UFC said, "Oh, we're gonna have a card in June." Oh, not the the UFC, I'm sorry, WEC, World Extreme Cage Fighting. And they said, "We're going to put you in that card with we're going to move that fight to this card." I'm like, "Oh, even better. It's a more It's a UFC feeder event, you know, great." Then that fight fell through and then they switched the opponent around and then it became uh another guy who was a southpaw kickboxer. I'm like, "Okay, little bit different, not super different." Uh then that fight fell through like a month. Well, they they delayed the the card until like July, right? So it went another month back. Then they scrapped the card. Then it was something like, "Oh, okay. Now, this is the last WEC and then the the winners of this fight are going to go into the UFC. I'm like, "Oh, okay. Stakes are going up." But what initially was a three-month camp for May, then went to June, then July, then like a week out from the fight, opponent drops, they swap him for a new guy who's a wrestler. And this was Aaron Simpson. And he was not famous at the time. He was just, you know, four wins. And I had a tape of him that looked like he was kind of sloppy in his feet and it was just all wrestling. I'm like, "Okay, different totally different fight stylistically, but you know, I was working a lot my Kimmor trap game. I'm like, okay, I can utilize this and try to out strike this guy from the feet when he tries to take me down, get into my my grappling game." The day before the weigh-in, fights canceled because it's a hurricane warning and then the events postponed another month and a half. you know, uh, so there's so many changes. I remember at one point I felt like, man, this fight's never going to happen. Like, it's this is cursed. You know, of course it did, but I felt like being in camp for so long wasn't great for me. Like, I should have probably just said, "Nah, forget it. I I need a break. I need to rest. My body needs to recover." You know? Um, so and like I felt like I was at the disadvantage now because he would have been at a disadvantage as a one week notice guy or two week notice. I think it was a short notice for him for sure. But now it was like six, eight weeks. He's like now he's getting a proper camp and now I have been in camp for six months, you know. So not great. My point being that training at a high level for a very long time is not good for your body. And RDR is having a much worse in the sense that I did because I didn't really have to cut a lot of weight, you know, whereas RDR is cutting a lot of weight. He's 6'4, you know, and he's fighting at 185 and he's a big dude. Um, he's probably cutting 30 40 pounds. Doing that four times in a year is rough, especially since pretty much you have to be monitoring your hydration levels the entire time and sodium levels and all this stuff and having to push through a fight camp is not easy. So, I feel like this is his coaches failing him or his management failing him by allowing him to have this type of strength of schedule because he's had a lot of tough fights. Uh especially after the the Bobby Knuckles one, it would have been okay, let's take some time off, recover, let your body heal, and then let's come back in it. I know again because he's older, they might feel like we need to rush him to the title, but there's risk with that. And this is one of the risks whereas your fighter is depleted. Again, I'm I don't have inside information here. I'm just looking and connecting dots and this wouldn't make sense because what happened in the fight doesn't make sense with his previous fights because he didn't he's been awkward but he wasn't gassed out of his mind right which in this fight he was and like I said he wasn't really damaged in this fight before he started showing heavy signs of fatigue so it didn't add up like that to me sheds that something he was unwell even before the fight started Uh, otherwise I don't know. But it was interesting because Brendan Allen had called it. He said, "I'm going to break him." So, I wonder if Brendan had inside knowledge or maybe he saw the weight cut and saw, "Oh, this guy's going to be freaking gas out of his mind because he did a horrible weight cut." Uh, I don't know. But he seemed to be very confident that uh, RDR wasn't going to last. Now, the other interesting thing, they both trained at the same facility at Kilcliffe in Florida, but he ended up moving to Chicago. Brendan Allen did uh once this fight camp started, but apparently they never trained together in that camp or were even friends because I guess Brendan Allen figured that he was going to have to fight this guy someday. So, they kind of split them apart. But obviously he would have a lot of inside knowledge on how RDR would work and I'm sure RDR did too. But he must have known something that oh you know I can break this guy or maybe he just had you know little spies telling him things and he figured this out because he despite getting you know dominated in round one and taken down didn't seem like he was defeated at all. It looked like he knew like he just had to weather the storm and he did. So kudos to him because that's a a good win for him. Steals a lot of that momentum from RDR who event essentially came from unranked guy to number four in less than a year. And Brendan Allen was at number nine right now. So that's probably going to bump him up a bit. Uh and gives him hopes of trying to get back into the title picture. Although personally I don't think that's going to happen. I think after this, the next logical contender is Fluffy. He's got the gas tank. He destroyed Brendan Allen. He's a great grappler. Maybe great overestimation, but for MMA, he's a great grappler and he's game as hell. So, he is probably the next top guy to make a challenge for the belt. Although the comat match is not great for him, he would have to out tough him, which he definitely could do. I think Fluffy has shown the best gas tank in that division. Maybe Strickland's up there with him, too. But, uh, and he's shown he's got a solid chin. He can throw strikes. He can fight everywhere. So he might be able to beat Kamza by attrition, right? But he would have to be able to the the trick is though he has to be able to get into or rather stay out of positions that he would get held down because if he gets the DDP treatment of getting taken down and blanketed, all that cardio is meaningless, right? You're just you're not able to get your opponent tired. So he would need to be have better takedown defense and be able to keep the fight in his feet where he would be able to fatigue Kamza that I don't know if he has in him but based off this fight I think that's the next matchup that would make sense in my opinion but uh yeah I guess we'll have to see what happens but anyhow I just got back from vacation You might tell I'm a little more tan than I usually am. I was in Bonire scuba diving for a couple over a week and that was a lot of fun. Uh I managed to come back lighter than I left which is always a good thing on vacation. I I wasn't sure. I stay on diet when I'm on vacation now and I eat the same things I do here. In fact, it's like I was telling somebody now when I travel, I always look for a place with a kitchen. And that's why I usually pretty much Airbnb now because hotels don't usually have kitchens. So, uh you're going to have to eat out and I don't like that now. I rather cook my own steaks. I think I do a better job at this point. So, I just find an Airbnb that has a half decent kitchen. Go to the grocery store. And like this time around, I just bought like overall like 12 lbs of meat, mostly ribe eyes and some ground beef and salt and pepper and I and butter and I can make my steaks at home. And in fact, I even make my own dessert, which is just a flowerless chocolate cake, which is just eggs, dark chocolate, honey, salt, and and butter. That's it. And that is a great treat. So, I'm able to make all that in my own kitchen, and I did that in the first day. So, then now I'm set for the rest of the of the trip. And we got a lot of diving in. It's like three dives a day. Uh we're doing two a double dive in the afternoon and then a night dive. And that was a lot of fun. And Bonire is great because you don't need a boat to dive. You can the shore the reef is just like maybe 30 yards from the shore. So you can just go out and it dips down, you know, as deep as you want to go. I typically dive somewhere between 60 to 80 feet. So that was a lot of fun. and you don't have to go with a group or with a guide or anything like that. You can just do it all your own. So that that was a a great trip for us. My wife really enjoyed it. So much so that we're going back in a month to do it all over again. Uh but yeah, even uh and that what's interesting about the diving, like I said, because I came back slightly lighter than I left, like I think I was like 198, I came back 197. Uh what's interesting though is like obviously I didn't do any weightlifting. I didn't do any jiu-jitsu training. I didn't do any cardio or nothing. The only thing I did was dive. And diving is not you don't imagine it as strenuous and I don't experience it as strenuous to be honest because you're just in the water floating and you know you you pedal but you have fins so you can propel a lot stronger but being in the hour a water in the water for an hour even though it's not a lot of strain it is your body does have to cool or heat up the water around you And like Yeah. Yeah. Because basically the ocean's stealing energy from you the entire time because ocean water even though there is quite warm was 84 you know you're internally we're like 98.6 the surface is a little bit cooler of course but it's still taking energy from us and like we have to build more heat. So there's there's a lot of that going on I feel like. And also since I'm the the man, I have to load up all the tanks from the truck, put them on, and those tanks are heavy, you know? They're like I think the whole kit's probably like 4550 lbs moving around. So, lifting it up, putting it down, walking to the beach with it, it is some exertion. I just found it funny that that was enough to get me to to lose a little bit of weight on the trip. And I was glad that even after like I think it was like 11 12 days off. I trained twice when I got back. I trained on Friday and I trained on Saturday just doing six five minute rounds. On Friday I did situationals and then on Sunday it was just I mean Saturday was just a open mat and that went really well for me. Cardio was still on point. Everything worked great. I'm going back to now just following the rule I had before which is limit myself to six five minute rounds. And the reason why before my trip I trained on a Wednesday at the UFCPI with Jason Manley's group and Sean Strickland. are like these are all 185ers, but they're actually all like 220 lbs because they cut to 185. So, bigger guys, uh, most of them, some of them are closer to my size. Um, but they ended up doing like a lot more than six rounds. I think it was a two-minute round day because it was wrestling, but I did like 18 or 20 something rounds and I did fine. But on like the 17th round, pulled something on my back a little bit. Not severe, but okay. I kept going. And then like a 19th round, rolled my ankle. Wasn't that great. And I realized, man, like, and this is like basically towards the end of the practice. I'm like, I my cardio has gotten a lot better now where I can push harder and I also have more longevity, which like I I can definitely do more rounds. But the problem I I realized like I'm going back into what I told you guys before, which is for me at least after 30 minutes of sparring, the injury risk is much greater now. And I'm looking back and all the injuries I suffered were after the 30 minute mark. So I'm like, you know what? Let's go back. There's a reason why I told myself this and I should stick to that rule. 30 minutes if it's 65 or 310, you know, or 15 twos, whatever, like nothing more than that. And uh I did that on these sessions and worked out well. didn't get hurt. I was able to train pretty pretty good. I definitely felt like I'm missing out a little bit because like they I think they did 10 fives and like I definitely had the ability to do more. But which one of those rounds are going to be the one that I, you know, roll an ankle or, you know, bust my neck up or something stupid like that? I'm like, I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe. But there's a definitely a risk. I feel like the risk of injury before that is really low. You know, probably less than a percent. But once I'm over that 30, it's definitely over 1%. Right? So, uh I'm like, I'd rather have more in the tank than be hurt. What I'm going to try to do though is now that I know that I do have that tank is push harder in the rounds, right? Like let's now let's make it difficult for myself to make it to six five minute rounds like because I'm working I'm going to push the throttle more since I know now that okay, I'm not doing a marathon. I don't have to conserve as much. I can really push harder to try to get finishes or just get more action, score more points. So that's where my mind is going now. But I share it that way just because I know a lot of you guys are older that follow me. So another little tip there on avoiding injuring yourself during sparring. Just limit the amount of rounds you're doing. And I found um and I know I spoke with somebody else and they also agree with me and that they try to do like five rounds only or you know I think Jake's in that same tip and uh I think it's wise. Anyhow, that's all I have for you guys. I will catch you all next week.