Unexpected Fight Outcomes in UFC: The Eastern Takeover

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00:00You've been around long enough to know, as have Hyde, I've said this for years,

00:04oftentimes the star-laden card or you're expecting fireworks

00:07and it turns out to be a boring card,

00:09and other times you don't have any expectations for a card

00:12and it turns out to be very exciting.

00:15There's an Eastern European takeover, obviously, going on right now in the UFC,

00:20and I think people kind of take a lot of these fighters for granted

00:23because they're not big fans of theirs.

00:26They're not like big media darlings in North America.

00:30And they're deemed, oh, they're boring, but all they do is win.

00:35And put it this way, imagine if Colby Covington won 14 fights in a row

00:42or Conor McGregor, like the hype, but Davos Schill, you guys won 14 fights in a row.

00:48No one really ever talks about. That's a hell of a run, man.

00:52Yeah. Well, part of the problem with Murab, unfortunately,

00:54I mean, Murab has been endearing to fans.

00:56I think he's certainly won people over,

00:57but part of it is he doesn't finish a lot of fights.

00:59So I think for the fans, they want to see finishes.

01:01Alex Pereira can't speak English, Gabe, but he is a star in the UFC

01:05because he finishes fights.

01:07And he has just enough English to kind of get by, you know?

01:10So that's what it comes down to.

01:11And listen, I don't blame Murab.

01:13The guys that he's fighting are very tough to finish.

01:15Like a Corey Sanhagen, I think, has only ever been finished once in his career,

01:18and that was years ago.

01:19So I don't blame him.

01:20And listen, he almost finished the fight in the second round.

01:22If you remember against Sanhagen, credit to Sanhagen and his durability,

01:25he was able to survive that second round and ended up going the distance.

01:27But I think that's why Murab doesn't have that superstar status

01:30because he's not getting the finishes.

01:31But he's got a good personality.

01:33I just don't – I think it's so hard in today's day and age to build stars.

01:37Like, it's so hard to replicate a McGregor where you have that good self-promotion

01:40and you're finishing fights and you're from a part of the world

01:43where, like, you're getting a lot of that notoriety.

01:45I think for Murab, it's – he's an amazing fighter.

01:47And I'll confidently say this, Gabe, and we can disagree on this.

01:50I think Murab is the best bantamweight of all time.

01:52Like, if you look at the resume he had even prior to getting to that title shot,

01:55he has beaten the who's who and he's getting – and he continues to get better.

01:59Like, to finish Sean O'Malley in his last fight prior to the Sanhagen one,

02:02that's super impressive.

02:03He just dominated him in that fight.

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