 Two men walk in to the octagon and one walks out Well, unless you count the referee or unless you count a Malay that happens in the octagon. Hello. This is octagon St. Leveau and I'm your hostess Betty St. Leveau on this show. We basically talk about MMA UFC facts Bell tour facts history and history of the octagon I usually start out with the professors and made professors that I've been Looking at at YouTube because they were the ones who fed my interest in MMA UFC and Bell tour fighting championships I've realized that I'm much more in the documentaries that I am into the actual fighting, but we'll talk about that later Let's start off with my favorite YouTube shows One is the wonderful mr. Curve and Reverend Kitty of alpaca the source Mr. Curve is a smooth talking knit and he knocks it out of the park with his psychological breakdowns He's my favorite right now. I really like him a lot My second favorite is mr. Mix Molly Whoppery who sort of has an accent of these them and those guys his videos are action-packed with lots of music in the background and Lots of cussing and swearing. I don't mind it one bit My next third favorites. It's a tie between mind smash and weasel the weasel He seems to be on the young side, but his breakdowns are incredible. He's totally an unbiased Observer of the sport and my hats off to him mr. Mind Smash is also young just as incredible His psychological breakdowns and his observations on what is to be a warrior are most excellent Then we have the fun stuff MMA on point Which is sort of the list verse of the MMA world, but they do other stuff more than that too so please check them all out and last but not least my crush mr. Chale Sonnen and Chale is I think he's just perfect as a Announcer and they really need to cast him in some of those Mike lawyer Lawyer movies about Jodi Malko. They're usually called house rules, but there's seven novels based on a guy who His dad used to work for the mob, but he's a lawyer working for a high-powered senator in DC Chale Sonnen would be perfect for the part So let's take a wish out for mr. Chale and hope that they give him some movie time some day So on with a breakdown now October 6th could be and Connor No one could guess the outcome of this one because the pressers press conferences had been so spooky both of them and unsettlingly Unpleasant I was moving towards could be because he seemed very calm Part of that was the language barrier and part of that is that I think he and Veto Emilia Go kind of share the type of water killer stance that you just can't really know what you don't understand You don't know what they're thinking. It's not only because they're fighters, but it's also another culture and Cultures are different if you go from one to the next these guys aren't as What do you call expressive as most fighters so During the press conferences could be either was quiet or he would retreat and withdraw only a few times Did he spar verbally with Connor? I Could not count out mr. McGregor because he is a genius at striking and fighting He's a true fighting man. What a warrior because The the first press conference had involved and bring up Bob whiskey and then the second press conference Involved could be leaving I'll be leaving before Connor even got there Everything was tinged Bizarrely for me. It didn't look like the fun pressers I'd been watching over at the bell tour camp where there's some verbal sparring, but there's not Violence in the words and violent hijinks at the same time these guys are fighters They're not they're not going to walk in the park together before after the fight so Now let's go to My actual looking at the fight. I wish I'd taken some notes. I just thought it would always be on YouTube, but the the Segment the fight that I saw well a backtrack I woke up a quarter of five in the morning October 7th I have had a little bottle of gray goose to celebrate. I go over to see who won I see the thumbnail of Habib having the belt so I know he's won not surprised and then I Go to where I can watch the fight and then I see a thumbnail where there was a Malay after the fight So I go to the fight The announcer I think that was Joe Rogan Announced the fight and then the commentary was in Russian Which I adored because I was able to not have all the noise in the ear I would have turned the sound down if it had been in English, but I just didn't feel like doing it Well as in Russian so I was able to observe what what went down so From what I remember the grappling Happened very quickly in the first round and it was a stained grappling the Audience after this went on for some minutes started to boo, which I found very annoying They just wanted to see you know people get their brains bashed down lost striking a lot of blood But Habib's a grappler and I thought Connor was very clever to Make that as a component in his strategy So what I've been learning about Strikers and grapplers is that the striker is has a powerful powerful punch and he's fast But he's expending a lot of energy where else the grappler is more about to nasty and I want to say sustained motion but They have more Staying power. I believe their cardio is more intense. I'm sure that Habib Namagatov and Tony Ferguson's cardio's are off the chart just intense intense and that is a fight I'd like to see so by the There was something I think it happened the second or third round Habib rocked Kana hit him and He did get knocked down. I can't remember what round that was but I could see Connor tiring you could His his face his eyes were sort of They weren't high up or concentrating through kind of low. You know, he's not looking down and he kept Putting his hand out. Mr. Curve of alpaca the Soros said something to the effect of its What he does for those of us who are not Familiar with that With his habit of doing that but it looked a little bit odd to me and he kept sort of Kicking out. I didn't understand that but I did understand the grappling. I didn't understand when the fouls were taking place I studied that After the fight I went over to my websites and people talked about the fouls. So I see Connor down. I See some grand and pound fights over and then I go the thumbnail and pressed where the Malay happened and then After I see the Malay there. I guess Connor's camp was saying stuff to Habib while he was fighting Connor And then I watched the announcers poor mouth Mr. Nima Gadoff because Connor has been saying all these horrible things about his family and his mama and his papa in his country Whatever but he's not supposed to explode so Shale and dude man. He's ESPN guy, and he's not a fighter. I don't know all respect I don't know what you were doing there, dude, and I wish Tyrone Woodley had been there and it was somebody else and they were Shaming Habib and doing that but excuse me Chale if someone you are the Mr. American gangster from Westland, Oregon if someone dissed your family and your country you would have given them a Dose of whoop ass two shakes of lamb's tail. So that's why I look at it. These men are fighters. They're not They don't teach kindergarten they're fighters. Okay, so I've ignored all the other stuff that came after I've ignored the he's not going to get his money He's not going to get his belt. Everything's fine the UFC because they've promoted this fight in such a disgraceful manner And I'm sorry, but it's true. They kept playing the trailer of Connor throwing the dolly at the bus about a year and a half ago. I got sick of watching that and to me It's not part of the dialogue It's something that occurred and it was actually a criminal act, which is why I was amazed it was in the But at the same time If it's played over and over again, it loses its punch in power and it looks like mob hijinks It doesn't it looks like WWE which is what some of us are kind of trying to get away from in our fighting We want the real thing. So at any rate I was glad that that was sort of my first technically my first fight I've yet to do pay-per-view, but I'm thinking I'm going to get UFC fight pass and to Follow the advice of mr. Curve going to some of the history of UFC MMA. All right, so We'll talk about We'll talk a little bit more about Habib and Connor and future episodes It's something that one will always go This particular fight people are going to Revisit it for a few months. I'm thinking so it's going to be fresh in everybody's heads All right, so the next fight I'd like to talk about was the one that happened this past Saturday night that Took me by surprise because I don't pay enough attention to Bellator Scott Coker's outfit as I should and that was the match between Chail Sonnen and Fedor Amelie Echo. Fedor Amelie Echo is one of the greats of UFC He's up there with Renny Couture and Chuck Liddell. All right the guy is an intense amazing athlete of Stone-cold killer, but I can't say that he's a killer because I'm sure he's just like an ordinary guy You know in real life, but he's very lethal in the octagon so Chail Sonnen is to me Goat which is greatest fighter of all time because he will fight anybody and I don't care about his losing record He will fight anyone. He's totally unafraid Which makes me afraid for him because he's like 41 Fighters don't really quit until they kind of have to quit and so I was worried that Fedor was going to kill him in the ring Yes, I was he was going to murder my American gangster So that didn't happen, but it was a quick fight and I'm not surprised what I adore about Chail is that I saw the Pressor after the fight. He came out He's cut. He doesn't look bad. You could tell he was in a fight, but he was cheerful Losing he's graceful. He was funny. He Self he had good humor about himself and that's a gangster. All right, plus he's very handsome I can't help but say that and I'm sure mrs. Brittany doesn't mind so Watching I didn't watch that fight. I watched the highlights and that card was incredible And of course, I didn't really pay attention to everybody else who was fighting I wish I had but it was an incredible card the card the UFC card on the 6th in Las Vegas with Kabebe and Connor featured a fight between Mr. Pettis and mr. Ferguson and there's just one picture Where they're both totally bloody It's hard to look at and I'm realizing that it's not just a sport. It's a savage sport. So During the chat session that I was looking at while Chail and the guy from ESPN and the other gentlemen were talking about The fight in Las Vegas. I was looking at the the chat running down and someone people were People were being kind of funny, but someone said the sport is demonic And the thing is is that it's one thing To you know, you do your thing you like UFC and you like MMA and you like bell tour And you read and you think about what it is to be a warrior and how it's all right to Fall the path and not be afraid of death or whatever But then when it comes right down to an ordinary life, it's always probably good to know a little self-defense. Hello. Okay, so a lot of What we read on paper For instance this book by Kochi Tohei the book of chi The Zen Way to Martial Arts by Taysian Deshmaro and taekwondo basics Keith Yates and Brian Robbins You can read about this stuff, but Applying it into your life takes work and energy. So I did a simple experiment A few days ago where Uh, I walked like the apex predator. I was walking down the street. My chest is out. I'm doing breathing exercise it's something that mind smash and Uh, not Taysian, but someone here recommends and it takes a lot of energy Um, it doesn't take much energy just to kind of slump over do your thing look down the ground But it takes a lot of energy to have controlled breathing While you're walking and you're walking back and you're walking like you're a movie star, you know good in your oscar Okay, so these men expend incredible amounts of energy doing what they do and It's a discipline. It's only a discipline of the body. It's a discipline of the mind, which means that um as you are If you do practice and start to Um acquire martial arts techniques, your soul is also learning It's one of the reasons why I like uh this fighting sport But I'm understanding that it's not all fun and games and there's An attractive side to it the side of these men fighting in combat with one another is not the unattractive side I think the unattractive side is um maybe Fans not understanding that they wouldn't last two seconds in a ring with any of these heroes And maybe some of these promoters aren't as You know even keeled as the next but um to me it's still the pure sport that I can see Daniel Cormier cried in the ring ring last year, but I don't see any of them exhibiting signs of Of um weakness. Okay on the playing field so I think that that's almost it for me I will mention That while I was checking out this press those two press conferences I could not help but remember This past summer when I was watching mix molly wapri's extant trilogy Discussing Rose demayunas and yohana yujake checks Battle yohana was a reigning champion and during the press conferences She was always shouting, you know shouting out to uh rose and being aggressive and telling her she was the boogie woman She was going to come to get her and then Oh, pardon me I believe that was alpaca the source is excellent. Pardon me. I'm getting my guys mixed up there alpaca the source is excellent trilogy concerning um Their combat their their match at any rate What occurred was that mr. Corv broke it down to the fact that yohana was doing a lot of yelling But rose was controlling her emotions and she was controlling her breathing so that she can concentrate On what was going to go down in the ring and believe me. Yohana didn't come out. Okay. All right That's where trash talk gets you I mean you're not happy if you're going to trash talk you got back it up so the other Example well the other example. I thought while I was looking at conor do his thing with the bebe trying to get us into his head Was the round arousal route by holly home and then you're led by amanda newness and There are fans in the ma world who Got tired of ronda sort of being a bully um When you have an attitude as a fighter That yeah, you can do anything and you're right and you can kick anyone's ass I think that that's a very dangerous attitude have especially When I've seen a couple of these fighters make so much money And then it's like the money made them soft. I think sometimes fighting I think some of these fighters are at their best when they're hungry, you know when life is hard and believe me I think that that's what hones a person is A bit of discipline a bit of Adversity a bit of you've got knocking the tenacity sometimes you've got to fake it to make it and again, that's why I love uh, mma ufc beltor now um One last thought Off the cuff last night. I caught a clip of michael bispig This being joey dios and someone else. I didn't know who the gentleman was. I think he's on the fighter They're all talking about the fight and joey dios was mentioning about how You get soft. You get you get soft when you make too much money He said something about he was cursing about i'm just i'm just old i'm just fat But he said that two years ago he'd walked into a jiu-jitsu um A jiu-jitsu training Place I guess in california. I'm not sure and He walked they put him on something and he was doing something and he walked out He was totally exhausted. He thought he's going to have a heart attack And then he walked he walked two blocks and he's like no i'm just going to keep trying it And so as he was trying it. He was telling both uh, bispig and the other gentleman that He had done everything He has done everything all types of combat. Okay. I'm sure that's what he was saying He'd done everything but he has nothing but respect for adherence of jiu-jitsu Because it takes a long time to get that black belt. All right, so I think that that's it for me. I'm your host is spetty st. Levoe spreading a little novice fever your way All right, the show is about mma ufc and bell tour fighting championships. I hope you enjoyed this episode We'll be back in a week or two I think that we're going to talk more about the octagon the history of octagon part two talk about the octagon again and maybe we'll discuss how You know cardio plays a large part in a fighting man's Winning streak so until next time you all peace love one another and Take care of yourselves. Ciao You