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00:00Why don't we start off talking about, of course, when everybody was tuning in for Naganu, going
00:09back into MMA for the first time in years against Ferreira, he gets that quick round
00:13one finish.
00:14I thought that he would use that grappling that we first saw in that Serial Gaunt fight
00:18against the big guy Ferreira.
00:19What I did not expect is him to just dominate like he did so quickly.
00:23I thought Ferreira would give a little bit more fight, maybe get over that one and a
00:25half rounds.
00:26He works his way back in for the first time, gets that ring rust off, but he didn't show
00:30any ring rust.
00:31He showed that he is still the Predator that we knew and loved from so many years ago.
00:37He looked fantastic.
00:38He looked stronger, but lighter and leaner than he has in his last couple of fights.
00:44Certainly in his boxing matches, he came in quite heavy.
00:47He looked a little slower than normal, but this time around, he came in at 256 or something.
00:53He moved incredibly quickly, was able to get Ferreira down to the floor and maul him
00:58a lot quicker than I was expecting.
01:00One thing I will say is that Ferreira's triangle attempt was pretty good.
01:04We can clearly see that his ground game is developing, but Ngannou just took him straight
01:09out of his comfort zone.
01:10He was able to avoid that big right hand, put him on the floor, and then the power of
01:14Ngannou is dangerous wherever you go, especially if you're stuck up against the fence on the
01:19floor.
01:21Yeah, absolutely fierce.
01:23He's going to go down as one of the best heavyweights of all time.
01:26Someone who is already down as one of the best of all time and continues to prove that
01:29she deserves to be talked as one of the GOATs is Chris Cyborg, who also came in there winning
01:35a title for the PFL there against Pacheco, who was a tough opponent.
01:39Really, unless you were ... Kayla Harrison was someone who couldn't get the best of Pacheco.
01:44That's the only one who was beating her.
01:45She got the best in their third matchup.
01:46Then since Kayla went and tried other promotions, Pacheco has been running the PFL, 10 fights
01:52that she won in a row, and it proves that all that doesn't matter when you face one
01:56of the best of all time in Cyborg, who, again, did it maybe unconventionally from what we
02:00are used to.
02:01I think the takedowns were the things that kind of put her over the top.
02:03They both had their moments on the feet, but Cyborg throwing in that wrestling, that grappling
02:07that we're not used to seeing, that might have been the things to seal it for her.
02:10Yeah, I agree.
02:12She looked very strong, particularly with that first takedown that she hit.
02:16It completely caught Pacheco off guard, just powered straight through her.
02:20She looked very strong with those level changes, and that, I think, is where experience showed
02:25through.
02:26I think it was quite clear that Pacheco, much like Henan Fajeda in a lot of ways, she's
02:30developing.
02:31She's maybe not quite hit her peak yet, and the experience of Cyborg showed through.
02:36Even with the damage that she sustained in the first couple of rounds, she wasn't shaken
02:40by it.
02:41It didn't affect her confidence.
02:43She stayed focused.
02:44She listened to her corner, and she came out with that beautiful shiny belt to add to her
02:50extensive collection.
02:51Yeah, I'm sure.
02:52I hope she has a whole room of those, with all the things that she's done in MMA and
02:57boxing.
02:58She just continues to amaze, even at her age, just dominating still.
03:01Another guy who dominated was Eblen, keeping his belt against Edwards in that rematch.
03:06The first fight was a lot of, not necessarily back and forth, there was a lot of respect,
03:10a lot of hesitancy at times, maybe.
03:12I thought he wanted to be the first one to make the move before Eblen gets that knockdown
03:14in the third round.
03:15It seemed like Edwards was still fighting that same fight.
03:18Until the fifth round, he was kind of just in there and just waiting to see what Eblen
03:22was going to do.
03:23He never really turned it on until it was too late, otherwise it might have been a much
03:25different fight.
03:26I agree.
03:27I think the threat of being taken down by Eblen, of course, was keeping Fabian hesitant
03:34to open up, but at the same time, when he did in the fifth round, I think he was really
03:38able to see what he was capable of.
03:41He was able to land a significant amount of strikes on Eblen compared to the other
03:45rounds.
03:46I think he'll be annoyed with himself, but ultimately, that's where Eblen shows he's
03:50the champion.
03:51He shows those championship qualities he did in that last fight with that nasty cut that
03:54he got from the elbow, being able to regroup and come and get the finish when he really
03:58needed it.
03:59This time around, he showed great body lock wrestling, as he always does.
04:03I think his striking is clearly improving, and I think one thing that needs to come off
04:08of Amit is his striking, is his confidence in his striking.
04:12He always knows that he's got that wrestling to fall back on, which gives him that ability
04:17to maraud forward, if you like, and land heavy shots, but at the same time, I think he has
04:24to realize that he's got power in his hands as well.
04:27Because people are expecting that wrestling game, he might be able to surprise a few people
04:31with that, the pop in his punches in future fights.
04:38I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches
04:42in future fights.
04:43I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches
04:45in future fights.
04:46I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches
04:47in future fights.
04:48I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches
04:49in future fights.
04:50I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches
04:51in future fights.
04:52I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches
04:53in future fights.
04:54I think he's going to be able to surprise a few people with that, the pop in his punches
04:55in future fights.