 Two men walk into the Octagon, only one will walk out. Well, unless you count the referee, and the big old ballet happens at the end of the fight, you've got to count that too. Hello, I'm Betty St. LeBeau, and this is Octagon St. LeBeau. I do the show because I have an obvious fever. I'm not someone who knows a lot about MMA, but I've been studying it for a year now, and I'm such a fan, I totally adore this sport. It is everything, honor, glory, heartache, and glory. Also, the warriors that I study and admire, they're all about the fight. And they battle one another before they walk into the Octagon, and sometimes, and most of the time, they hug each other when they walk out. Now, this particular show will focus on the fact that I think it was week four last. It was International Fight Week, UFC's International Fight Week, so it was very, very exciting. And ever since last year, I kind of have been looking at some of the matches, and I've been bored one bit, but the Amanda Nunes and Holly Home Fight was very surprising, very stunning. Both these ladies had taken out Ronda Rilesi. Amanda was fighting Holly. Holly was sort of the last person to cement Amanda's legendary status as both Ben and Wade, and I want to say Walter Reed, but it's not Ben and Wade, and I should better listen. Let me check out my notes to make sure. Amanda is both the featherweight champion and the bantamweight. She's both the bantamweight champion and the featherweight champion. She has made history by not only having both those titles, she is now one of the greatest fighters that have ever come around, especially in modern times that we know of. So let's start out with some pound-for-poundage statistics first, and then we're going to go to the two fights I wanted to discuss. So, pound-for-pound featherweight division. The champ is Max Holloway. We'll start from number 15, and then we'll go up to number one. So, from 15 to 1, Nisse Bectic, Ryan Hall, Shane Burgos, Arnold Allen, Calvin Qatar, Renato Modicano, Josh Emmett, Jeremy Stevens, Yael Rodriguez, Chan Senyum, Zebette Nago-Shoklu, Frankie Edka, Jose Aldo, Ryan Otega, Alexander Volkanovsky, and the champ is Max Holloway. I especially like the featherweight division. They seem very interesting, and it seems like the lower weight divisions, they catch my eye. In the welterweight division, we're going to start from the bottom up. Vincente Lucca is number 15, Eliza De Santos, Neil Magney, Leon Edwards, Damian Maya, Robbie Lauer, Ben Astrum, Santiago Ponson de Vivo, Anthony Pettis, Stephen Thompson, Darren Till, Raphael Los Angeles, Jorge Macedol, Kobe Calvington, Tyron Woodley, and Kamal Usman is the champ. This division, they are very visible to me. I like all their styles. Stephen Thompson's nickname is Wonder Boy. Robbie Lauer had an intense historical fight with Roy McDonald in catch on YouTube. I tried to watch that fight. Please check out the welterweight division when you can. Lightweight champ. This is the lightweight division. The champ is could be, of course, but we're going to start from number 15 again. James Vick, Islam Makovchev, Alexander Hernandez, Gregor Gilebsi, Charles Lodiera, Paul Felder, Anthony Pettis, Kevin Lee, Edson Barbosa, Alicante, Justin Gagey, Don Cironi, Conor McGregor, Tony Ferguson, and Dustin Poirier. A lot of my favorite fighters are in the lightweight division and the champ is could be Noma Gadoff. They're incredible. Incredible. And the way that they all handle Mike is something too. At first I thought Mr. Woodley was a little sick on the Mike, but I think that he's just getting used to doing that. But these guys, the way they fight, incredible. So, featherweight. I think I just did that, right? Well, let's just do it again just in case I didn't. Featherweight, starting from 15. Nersay Bechtek, Ryan Hall, Shane Burgos, oh yeah, we did it. Okay, so the champ there is Max Holloway. Oh, now I know why I'm looking at that list again. Max Holloway and Brian Ortega had the most intense. They had an incredible intense fight. Brian Ortega is just that tough. He got all marked up. Max Holloway didn't look like he had a scratch on him. That fight happened a couple months ago. Something I won't forget at the time of the tournament. That's why I went back to that list. Okay, so let's check out the ladies division. The two divisions that I'm particularly fond of are straw weight and bantam weight. Alright, so let's look at straw weight first. We're going to start at number 15 again. Yon's Yonam, Courtney Casey, Carolina, Cole K. Vitz, Felice Herring, Cynthia Calavito, Alexa Grasso, Carla Esparaza, Tisha Torres, Michelle Waterson, Relaizan, Claudia Guadela, Johanna Euseik, Nina Asron, Tatiana Suarez, Rose Semenousius, and Jessica Arande. Carla Esparaza was actually the first straw weight champion of Ultimate Fighting Champion. Rose came in second on that fight. Rose has just lost her title look. For many of us, she will always be champ. Okay, I love the Rose. Bantam weight division. Again, starting at number 15. Viviana Rojo, Sejera Leubanks, Lena Landsberg, Macy Chasen, Sarah McMahon, Irene Adena, Maren Renau, Yana Cuniskaya, Kat Zagano, Raquel Pennington, Aspen Ladd, Julia Pina, Holly Holm, Keating Vera, Jameen Durrani, and Amanda Nunes, who's actually a champ champ because Amanda holds both the bantam weight and the feather weight. How can I forget? Okay, so to all of my fighters and to the ones I don't know yet, congratulations and frocks to all of you. You're doing such things and working out the way you are with your lives that I never could when it comes to fighting. All right, so I thought I had some notes about Amanda here. Amanda is incredible. 239, July 6th, Timo Boirena. She consolidated her legacy by beating Holly Holm. Both these women, the nicest woman you could ever meet, both of them intensely athletic. Holly Holm's nickname is the preacher's daughter, and Amanda Nunes' nickname is the Linus. They went at it, and Amanda won by a head kick knockout. Pretty intense. She dropped back away to do this KO. Amanda Nunes has the longest title run of any female. She's on a nine-fight winning streak, and both these women smashed Rhonda Riles a couple of years ago. Props of both of them, and let's not forget Amanda, knocking out Chris Cyborg, who is formidable in a 51-second knockout some time ago. All right, thank you Linus. You are an inspiration to us all. Okay, so to the 400-pound Elf in the room, we're going to discuss Jorge, Gamebread, Messedall, knocking out Ben Ascrin for it. Ascrin in five seconds flat a couple of weeks ago. Ben Ascrin is an admired crackler and wrestler, coming out of the Midwest. He's got a 19-0 winning streak. He came to the UFC, he was traded with Demetris Johnson. I think Ben came out one, the promotion, and Demetris Johnson went over to one. Ben came in the UFC, and all he's been doing is talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. He fought a fight with Robbie Lawyer. Very controversial decision. He won that fight. He's a known grappler. Jorge Messedall stirred out as a semi-projet of Kimbo Slice. He's been fighting since 2000 and three, I believe, or longer than that. Ben hasn't been fighting as long as Jorge has been. There's Ben's notes right there. Let's look at Ben's stats real quick because he's right there. Born July 18th, 1984, known for his massive afro and pinning star. He came out Bellator, he's married with three kids, impressive grappling skills. His weight is 170 pounds. His reach is 72 inches, and he's been active since 2009 until the present. And yes, he has 19 out of 21 fights. He's won. Jorge, I know I've got Jorge's stats somewhere right here. Jorge's pretty serious guy. See if I can find Jorge. But right off the top of my head, I think I can talk about Jorge. Partnered with a beautiful woman named Iman Alaw. He also has three children. Jorge is funny but lethal. Let's see. Well, we're going to talk more about Jorge in another episode at any rate. I can't believe I forgot my notes on him. But this is how it goes down. If you look at the Mack life, July 7th, 2019, you'll see that this particular after-pressor of Jorge's has 1,431 and 675 likes. The fight happened, the fight was over in five seconds. He made UFC history. Ben Asken had continually been talking a lot of crap and Jorge went into the octagon with his hands behind his back. Ben came at him with this signature move which consists of going down, taking the guy down and Jorge spun out of his side of the octagon with a knee kick and knocked the guy out flat and then gave him two punches for good measure. As the announcer saying, your fight clock is bought by Modelo, the fight was over. When you look at the pressor, Jorge explained that why should he be taken to task for celebrating and making fun of Ben when all Ben was doing was trash talking him but not really backing it up. He said, for a guy like that, it was a come down to fight a guy like him. He said, I'm a fighter. This guy, he's not a mean guy. He wants to hug me and put his face in my crotch. This crotch is not for men. You pay a heavy toll when you do that. And he said, Ben has other problems besides me knocking him out. I mean whole foods. I'm still going to slap him up. When I off the cuff kind of comment that on YouTube, my comment got 246 likes. I never get like like that on YouTube if I make a comment but this fight was polarizing in a way. Ben did not know where he was when he got up and again, he doesn't look like he's built like a fighter. All respect to every woman out there. The fans say this guy's built like a 59 year old grandmother. I know 59 year old grandmothers who are smoking hot. Okay, so I don't want to disband per se but again, mostly men on YouTube are like, he's so handsome. He looks like a Greek god. Jorge's other nickname besides game bright is street Jesus. Jorge's beautiful. Ben could be beautiful. He's got the nose, whatever. Everyone's like, oh, he's Chail's son and son. Pardon me for one moment. Son of Chail is Chail's son and son, his young son. Ben Askren cannot touch Chail's son when it comes to grappling, pardon me, or even trash talking, which is what he did. So when you have fighters like Colby Covington and Ben Askren and they kind of don't fight a lot and they talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. You end up not really liking them a bit and this is why this sport is so subjective. When it comes to football, baseball, you can see the statistics and you can see the talent. When it comes to fighting, you can also but when someone is a pompous fool and they talk, talk, talk and they can't back it up, you don't want to see them fight and I will never pay to watch Ben Askren fight. I just won't and I'm a chick. I'm shallow. He's not that good looking because he's not really giving off any charisma. However, Jorge, who I didn't really notice at all and again, this being a subjective sport, I can't keep my eyes off this guy. I cannot keep my eyes off this guy. He's got a dry sense of humor. He's a serious fighter. He's there to fight and he said, here's the deal. I'm going to steal some of that hype, grab it for my own and go for a title shot. Well, that's all up to Mr. Dana White. So we'll see what happens with that. I find that it's easy to pick sides in a fight when you're not a fighter and you're not a warrior and all you want to do is see the blood. That's not very good. I hope I always remain a humble novice. I hope that I remember my own lack of objectivity in this sport. But I don't want to hear a guy put down anyone's heritage, their family, their woman or nothing. You get in there and you fight. You talk about your skills. You don't diss the person. Call the other person a coward and get knocked out after five seconds. It's just not the dumb thing. So an international fight week totally kind of perked me up. It's not that this year hasn't been exciting and it's not that there haven't been any great fights. But that five second knockout took everyone's breath away and is still taking everyone's breath away. And Ben Askren, people say he is, you know, said, I deserved it. Just, you know, try not to get knocked out next time, dude. And try to do something more than go for the guy's torso, okay? Professor Jorge Mascal, I'll be checking you out, all right? You know how to get the job done. And I think that I wouldn't want to do that at me. Okay, so that's it for me for the moment. This is Octagon St. Laboux. I'm your hostess, Betty St. Laboux, discussing novice fever. If you're into MMA, check it out. And if you're not, that's okay too. Bless you all. Peace and love to you all. Okay, take care. Until next episode, chat.