 Hello. Two men step in the octagon. Only one will walk out. Well, you've got to count the referee. And if there's a big old melee at the end of the fight, you've got to count all those peeps too. Hello. I'm Betty St. LeVoe and this is Octagon St. LeVoe, where we talk about novice fever, octagon fever. Today it seems that looking back over the past so much has happened. 2019 appeared to be kind of a quiet year, but it's slowly heating up. We have Mr. Chailson in retirement. We had a big old fight between Tony Ferguson and Donald Sorone. And then news of a Daniel Cormier-John Jones trilogy fight, which I'm not too keen on either of them, but props to both men. All right. Okay. So let's start off with some stats of Mr. Sonnens. All right. So I don't have the entire dossier on him today, because I really talk about him along the show. He's a good guy in real life from what everyone says. Beautiful family. He's got a beautiful family. Nice to everybody. And he will fight anyone at any time. This is where we see that MMA is a subject of sport, because you have to like a guy like this. How can one not? Also, he's funny. He's funnier as all get out. Okay. So let's just go slow with this. We're going to talk a little bit about Chail Moore in the next episode of Octagon. All right. 29, 14, 1, or his stats. He was born April 3rd, 1977 in Westland, Oregon. His striking accuracy was 44%. His significant strikes land in his career were 565. His grappling was at 59%. He had 78 attempted takedowns. His takedown average per 15 minutes was 3.78, which I think is awesome. His significant striking defense was 63 degrees. His takedown defense was 67%. Oh, pardon me. His significant striking defense was 63%. His significant takedown defense was 67%. His standing was by his significant striking by position standing 170%. That's 30%. His clinches, 79%, 14%, and ground. I believe that's ground. 56%. I hope I have that right. Height, 73 inches. Weight, 205 pounds. Reach, 74 inches. His Octagon debut was October 7th, 2005. Muscles of steel and all that sex appeal. You've got to give it to Mr. Chail. He just thought Lierre, Michetta, and a fight, I want to say it was last Saturday. I think it was last Saturday. And it's interesting that Michetta has fought three men who were either on edge or thinking about retiring. A lot of people consider Michetta a dirty fighter. You have to give the man a few props. Number one, he said, I'm not going to get into a bell of words with Chail. I'll just lose. Yes, of course, we all know that. But the fact that he used his knee twice, I'm not into it. So I have to quell my disappointment over how that fight turned out. But when the American gangster retired so gracefully and put his gloves down, what a class act. We all love you, Chail, and we wish you nothing but the best. Okay, we'll talk about you more in maybe next episode. All right, so now let's go to El Kokui, Mr. Tony Ferguson, and Saroni, the cowboy. All right, this was a long, anticipated fight. I want to see the fight. I watched it, and I can see how Mr. Tony can make an opponent tired. I tried to follow the kicks and jabs. I went to Weasel for the breakdown. Weasel gives great breakdowns, and as I am checking out Weasel's breakdown, I'm seeing how Cowboy got into trouble. Now, during the first part of the fight, Tony and Donald are trading kicks. But at one point, Cowboy has his hands back. This is what I'm noticing. And Tony's kicking out, but Cowboy's attacking. And then Tony does his elbow thing, and he did it a couple of times. And I think that gave Cowboy some trouble. And then the second round, or at the end of the first round, Donald appears to be giving Mr. Tony some trouble. He's not really. And the second round was all over. Tony, he punched him. The bell rung. Tony punched him. The ref was too slow. I think Tony was in the heat of the moment. He didn't do it. I don't think he did delivery at all and broke Cowboy's nose. And then Cowboy blew his nose, and the fight was over because his eyes swelled up. That's how I saw it, and I think that that's how it happened. So someone on YouTube said, Tariq P, the lightweight division are straight-up killers. Okay? And this is the lightweight division, and I'm very drawn to lightweight. Almost every fighter seems incredible. None of them are afraid to fight. Tony did the kick jab combo, and he did a round leg kick. And it was left to offset Seroni. That's what Weasel says. Weasel also said Tony stayed midrange most of the fight, and Cowboy was trying to land his combinations. But Weasel said, Tony, Mr. Tony was able to duck and block them. It's true. If you look at the Weasel's video, Cowboy's coming out. But Tony seems to just, the punches glance off his ear or off the side of his head. So Cowboy took most of the beating. Tony's jabs are very strong. Tony has an incredible punch, as does Amanda Nunes. If you're a fighter, you want to give more punches than get their punches. Let's just put it like that. Okay. So at one point, the fans are chanting Tony's name, but at the end of the fight, the fans are booing, which is a terrible thing. Mr. Tony has won something like, I want to say 25 fights in a row. He's had 25 wins and three losses, and Cowboy's had 36 wins and 11 losses. Tony's a former interim champ, and he's ranked number two in the world, however, at that time. And Mr. Cowboy Dalsoni was ranked number one, which was weird to me because how can the interim champ be ranked number two? I'll figure it out. Great fight by both men. They both brought it. Tony's 35 years old. Donald's 36. Tony's 511. Donald's 6-1. And Mr. Ferguson weighs 155 pounds, and at the time of the fight, Mr. Dalsoni weighed 155 and a half. Okay. And I saw that. It was pinned by Fight Corner and published June 8th, 2019, the tiny, simple fight that I was checking out. All right. Congratulations, Mr. Tony. He's my favorite fighter at the moment. My favorite active fighter at the moment, Tony Ferguson. Okay. And Cowboy has been sneaking up on me. I adore Cowboy because like Mr. Chale, he'll fight anyone, anytime, anywhere. A fighter like that is to be admired. All right. So now we're going to go into athlete rankings. Only three categories. We're not going to go through them. I'll do all of them as of June 22nd, 2019. We'll do pound for pound. We'll do featherweight, and we will do lightweight, and we'll do women's bantam weight. All of these weights I am slightly obsessed with. Pound for pound. Daniel Cormier is a champ. John Jones. Henry Sajudo. Oh, pardon me. Daniel Cormier is champ of heavyweight. This is simply pound for pound. And all of these people are champs or interim, most of them are champs or interim champs. Pardon me. Okay. So pound for pound rankings. Let's start over. Daniel Cormier, John Jones, Henry Sajudo, Max Hallway, Amanda Nunes, Kamara Usman, Dustin Poirier, Kwana McGregor, Robert Whitaker, Steve Mielkik, Tony Ferguson, Valentina Shepchenko, Taran Woodley, and Jessica Andrade. All right. Featherweight, Max Hallway is champ. Alexander Volkanowski, Brian Ortega, Jose Aldo, Frankie Edgar, Renalta Mocan, Zabit, Mango Shapil, Thiv, Jeremy Stevens, Josh Emmett, Calvin Qatar, Niseid Betek, yeah, Rodriguez, Chan Soongyong, Shane Burgos, Ricardo Lomas, and Damian Elkins. Right on. That's featherweight for lightweight, which I think is my favorite weight class at the moment. Champion, Camille Nomegadoff, Dustin Poirier was the interim champ, Tony Ferguson, Conor McGregor, Donald Cironi, Justin Gagey, Alec Quinta, Edson Barbosa, Kevin Lee, Anthony Pettis, Paul Felder, Charles Orizia, Gregor Gulespie, Alexander Hernandez, Islam Machiv, and James Vick. I love this weight class. All of those fighters I've kept my eye on for quite a bit now. Lastly, we're going to come to women's bantam weight, my favorite weight class in women's. Champ, Amanda Nunez, Jermaine Derade, Holly Holm, Kitten Vera, Aspen Ladd, Raquel Pennington, Kat Zagano, Yana Kuneskaya, Mary Ann Rinea, Irene Aldana, Sarah McMahon, Macy Cheson, Lena Lansberg, Tanya Avenger, Sejera U-Banks, and Bech Clara. If I pronounce anyone's name wrong, I'll make sure to get it right at some point within the next month or two. What a great listing, okay? So, I think that that's just about it for me today here at Octagon St. Leveau. I'm your moderator, Betty St. Leveau. I simply have novice fever. I'm not an expert yet, but I am planning on getting my yellow or green belt someday. And I love MMA and UFC. There are so many different types of fighting championships out there. The next episode we'll talk a little bit about strike force and affliction, some that have come and gone, and some that are here to stay for quite a while. Until next time, babies, love each other. Ciao.