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UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra

UF235: (Real) Tony Ferguson, and Nita Strauss In-Studio

UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra

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Grappling, 868329, Brazilian Jui Jitsu, Combat, Jim Norton, Sambo, Dana White, Stand-up, Bjj, Sports, Fight, Mma, Sports News, Ufc, Zuffa, Striking, Fighting, Judo, Wrestling, News, Combat Sports, Boxing, Matt Serra, Comedy

4.52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

"El Cucuy" Tony Ferguson makes his first appearance on the show and talks to Jim and Matt about returning to the Octagon less than six months after knee surgery to fight Anthony "Showtime" Pettis in the co-main event of UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor, how he dealt mentally with rehabbing his injury, the aura of fight week, and much more. First, heavy metal guitarist Nita Strauss joins the guys in studio and discusses her debut album Controlled Chaos, getting into UFC watching TUF 6, Khabib vs. Conor, and more. Plus, the guys make their UFC 229 picks.

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to UFC Unfiltered. We have guitarist, Needis Strouston Studio. We have El

0:06.2

Kukui, Tony Ferguson on the phone, and we do our picks. So much fun.

0:10.9

Chas are dropped throughout this arena. Nobody is sitting down. Jason, that finished

0:20.3

Elbow's raining down. On the button. Are you kidding me? Oh, he heard him again. He's out.

0:26.9

This is UFC Unfiltered. And now your host, Jim Norton and Matt Sarah.

0:38.4

We need to change the intro, obviously. As Matt has been let go, Dana was so annoyed at my

0:43.8

questions the other day that he fired Matt as punishment. No, Matt's train is running

0:47.9

late. You know, Matt takes the train from Long Island. He does his roles in the morning.

0:53.1

There's something going on with the trains today because it's not getting in until he's

0:57.0

already normally here. Yeah. So he will be here shortly. And of course, we would normally

1:00.6

wait for Matt. But our guest has a hard out time. Needis Stroust, thank you for coming.

1:06.1

Thank you so much for having me. I didn't screw your first name up, right? Because Chris,

1:09.1

he wrote the pronunciation out phonetically. Like I'm going to go nightay. Nighty day. I'm

1:14.6

just glad he didn't write Nina because most people's phones auto correct me to Nina. Yeah.

1:19.8

So you have no idea how many times we've had to restart a podcast because of someone's

1:24.3

phone auto correcting my name. That's okay. I've had auto correct screw me up and I've been

1:28.6

talking to a lot of girls. And I want you to suck my cop. And it probably worked out better,

1:34.0

actually. Yeah, it didn't just block me. So yeah, why why you need to who you named after?

1:38.9

I'm not named after anything. Oh, it's just a cool original. I guess so. Yeah, super creative

1:43.0

parents. And you're a big, I know you're a UFC fan and I know you're a fan of Matt. He

1:47.3

will be here. So I felt bad when we had to start without Max. I know you're a big mad fan.

1:51.0

Yeah, yeah, actually, and I'll say it again, I'm glad when he comes here. But when I start

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