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🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Chael opens the show by breaking down Miesha Tate's impressive win in her first fight following a five-year layoff. Then, Chael discusses his impressions of Islam Makhachev and if Dan Hooker's callout will be enough to lure in the young phenom (11:55). Plus, Conor McGregor's camp has more to say (18:40) and Chael gets you pumped for Saturday's bantamweight showdown between Cory Sandhagen and TJ Dillashaw (33:25).
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0:00.0 | What's happening guys? Happy Wednesday and thank you for joining another special episode |
0:12.6 | of your welcome. I hope you enjoyed our special show about the Oregon wrestling season that |
0:18.2 | came out on Monday. If you missed it, go check it out after today's episode. But coming up |
0:23.7 | on today's show, the Conor McGregor Excuseter has commenced TJ Dillishaw versus Corey Sandhagen |
0:30.7 | is going down on Saturday and I'll even respond to a comment from one of you guys before |
0:36.7 | we get to that. Let's begin with my thoughts from Saturday after I got done watching and |
0:42.0 | exciting night fights. |
0:48.7 | Alright, let's recap. A couple of things that happened over the weekend. First off, the |
0:52.1 | return of Misha take now before we get into what happened or how wonderful Misha looked |
0:58.8 | you. You have to back up because you can't give her her full complement with how to understand |
1:04.0 | the story coming into this. Alright, let me take it from my perspective. I've known Misha |
1:08.2 | forever. There's something called cadets where you can wrestle in a division called cadets. |
1:13.6 | It's for 15 and 16 year olds, but that's the first time I ever saw Misha. She was fourth |
1:18.2 | in the cadet national. So I go back with Misha ways. It seemed like she fought forever |
1:24.0 | and then a little bit longer achieved everything including world championships stuck around |
1:29.5 | retired. And I remember when she retired going, well, yeah, yeah, you know, you've been |
1:33.5 | doing this forever. Sure, you're going to retire. And then there was like a tale of the |
1:36.6 | tape that came up. It showed her age. It was the very first number. She was like 29 years |
1:41.8 | young. I did not really because she had achieved so much and she had been doing it for so long. |
1:47.9 | And I bring that to you only because her retirement was not retiring in or out of your prime. |
1:54.1 | She wasn't in to her prime or out of her prime yet. She had just done it a lot. And there's |
1:59.1 | a lot of times in this sport when you can get ground down. You could train so hard. Be |
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