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Welcome back to the Fighter versus the writer. I am Damon Martin. He is UFC legend Matt Brown. And Matt, I know you were fresh home from Houston. You had a week or a few days at least down in Houston with your boy Josiah Harrell. I know it didn't go his way. But obviously, you know, short notice fight, you got to take that opportunity. And that's what fighters do. Yeah, man, he's a killer. He's going to be back. It was a tough fight to take on eight days notice to begin with. But he stepped up to the challenge. And I think he could have done better than he did. I think he thinks he could have done better than he did. You know, I don't think that's just me saying that. you know the the funny thing is i don't think a lot of people notice this and i didn't even notice it live

when i watched it but uh you know he got knocked out on the takedown when he took down uh jacobby

smith he hit his head and i don't think it completely knocked him out but it like clearly

rocked him real bad and then and then of course Joe he got an easy finish after that but

that was news to my ears but I'll tell you what man that's the first time I cornered someone

and they got knocked out and he's a good friend too obviously you know obviously like I'm pretty close with him, train with him for a while now, you know,

and started coaching him recently since my retirement and his kind of coming up.

And, man, I'll tell you what, that was, that shit hurts, bro.

That shit is hard to deal with, man.

Looking in the cage and, you know, watching him stumble over himself. And they sent me in because they needed some because he's trying

to, you know, grab the reps and the doctor. And they sent me in to try to calm him down and

have, you had to look in his eyes and tell you, bro, you lost. Like, you need to stop. And, um, that's fucking hard, man, especially knowing when he's, to add, you know, more to that, the fact that he had the brain surgery, you know, and, um, and, you know, actually, being that I've never cornered someone that, knocked out before. Like I didn't actually know

kind of what it's like. I've just kind of seen it on TV. I've never been in the corner before.

And to watch him kind of come back from it, I mean, it was a scary thing, man. It was actually

one of the few times, I guess probably the only time I, or I've been in the corner and kind of my heart kind of dropped, you know, and actually got a little bit worried about someone. You know, it is, it is scary in that moment. And, you know, credits to the EOC when a guy gets knocked out, they'll generally just linger on him. You know, they're not trying to put it in the spotlight that he got knocked out. But obviously just as the moment happens, like you see like when Josiah got up, like you see he's stumbling, you know, trying to, you know, struggling to get up.

And that's scary, right? spot like they got knocked out. But obviously just as the moment happens, like you see like when

Josiah got up, like you see he's stumbling, you know, trying to, you know, struggling to get up.

And that's scary, right? Like when a guy gets knocked out like that, and that knockout in particular,

like, it is pretty brutal. I didn't notice the takedown knocked him out either. I don't know it was

a great takedown. And then it did seem weird he got reversed so quickly. Like I know Jacobi Smith, Oklahoma State wrestler, not taking anything away from him, but it was weird how he got to take that boom. It was like immediate reversal without any real resistance. I think it makes sense now that he was kind of knocked out from that. And then obviously, you know, when him getting punched and obviously getting finished right there, makes more, like I said, not taking any way of jacobby did the right

thing and you know who knows what would have happened after right like that's and a win's a win and

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