Edmen Shahbazyan, Anthony Smith and Phoenix Carnevale
UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra
Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa LLC
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Matt is joined by friend of the show Phoenix Carnevale to talk about the Zabit/Kattar fight, virtual reality, his favorite Beatle (wait till the very end), and much more.
First, #10 Middleweight Edmen Shahbazyan joins to talk about his goal of being the youngest UFC champ in history, how he cracked the Top 10, and his manager -- Ronda Rousey.
Then, Jim calls in from LA to talk about the Zabit-Kattar fight, Matt's relationship, and then Jim realizes he's watching a show that Phoenix is in.
Finally, Matt and Phoenix catch up with Anthony Smith, to talk about the Light Heavyweight division, including what went into Jon Jones' reported choice of Dominick Reyes as his next opponent, his beef with Corey Anderson, and what he thinks will go down in the Jacare-Blachowicz fight this weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a new breed of MMA, man. I'm a new contender. There's middleweight division, so everybody watch out. |
| 0:13.4 | That's a big challenge. |
| 0:19.4 | Lionheart Smith rules again. Absolute silence and smirk gets to submission victory. |
| 0:27.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, Anthony Lionheart Smith. |
| 0:31.4 | Hey, even you're great. Wait, wait, wait, wait, start right. Hold on. |
| 0:38.4 | Now welcome to UFC unfiltered. I spilled this right when we started through me off. |
| 0:43.4 | I feel like the use spilling coffee is like your version of dedicating things to your fight homies. |
| 0:50.4 | Come again. You know how like you was fill out, spill out like a 40. |
| 0:55.4 | Can I say your homies? Speaking about a fallen 40, listen to me. This has something to do with that. |
| 1:00.4 | What? It's so funny. You said that. This is a sixth story, and I only got five minutes to say it. |
| 1:05.4 | Did we got Edmund Shabazion? |
| 1:09.4 | Close. You say it. Shabazion. |
| 1:12.4 | I just said that. Edmund Shabazion. Shabazion, right? |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah. So listen, he just came off that ridiculous knockout of Brat the Varus. |
| 1:23.4 | That was and Brad's a durable dude. Yes, UFC 24. I got there. I was there with the misses, but I got there late. |
| 1:30.4 | I got there, you know, for the main card. Or I got there with Corey Anderson. It was taking care of business. |
| 1:36.4 | But listen, hold on for the MMA action. You were just talking about my fallen homies. |
| 1:41.4 | Yes. So tell me if this is bad. If this is morbid. |
| 1:46.4 | My friend passed away. I took them out on the show. I got choked up. |
| 1:51.4 | Whatever. But listen, so my old my tight coach at my school, you know, he's teaching the more tight James Gabriel. |
| 1:56.4 | You know, the angry snowman. So it's a beautiful like like a little memorial of him. A picture of him. |
| 2:02.4 | It's nice. You know, so we made it. So then like the little kids, the Christmas, we they did. I miss you coach James and they put a goodie bag up. |
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