#2289 - Darryl Cooper
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guys today, I think they're the highest level fighters all the time. We run. Hey, Daryl. What's going on, man? How's it going? We were just talking UFC. Yeah. I think this is the the we were talking about how exciting the Nikolaev and Pereira fight was even though people didn't they didn't like it because it wasn't like some crazy result in a giant knockout like you get in most Pereira fights, but it was so technical. And per Nikolaev just did a fantastic job of shutting down the scariest guy in the division. Yeah.
I just and the psychological aspect of it of just he made him back up and second guess himself. Yeah. And, you know, that's you can't just do that by being aggressive. You can't you know, you really gotta get in there and you gotta hurt him a little bit, and you just have to put that on him. And it was it was amazing to watch. I thought it was a great fight.
Well, it was so interesting because the consequences of exchanging with Pereira are so high, but also Uncle Ives. Uncle Ives knocked a lot of people out. We always look at Pereira as knockouts, but uncle I has knocked out some of the best guys in the division. And he only lost one time, and that was Paul Craig has the nastiest fucking triangle. It's so sneaky and so quick, and you don't expect it. He's so high level off his back, And he caught him, I think, with, like, one second to go in the third round of fight that he was losing. Yeah.
He he broke Jamal's arm or Mhmm. Yeah. Dislocated his elbow too. He's one of those guys like, that, you know, like Ryan Hall. It's like, you know, they're on the feet dancing around. It's like, you know, what are we really watching here kind of, but, man, as soon as they hit the ground Yeah.
He's there's a giant disparity between his stand up, which is good, his good stand up, you know. And the the Bo Nickel fight was entirely stand up. It was a good fight. You know, he was he looked good on the feet, but you would never say, you know, this is like an Israel Adesanya type character. He doesn't have that level of proficiency with striking. But, God, when he gets on his back, you're in such danger. Like, nobody else in the division. It's weird. Because most guys, you're on their back. You're not really worried about it. With Paul Craig, it's like, everything has to be tight.
Especially guys that size, you don't really see it as often. No. You don't. Especially in an era when, you know, the off your back jiu jitsu is kind of, I don't wanna say, like, you know, they figured out the game on that yet, but, you know, it's not quite to that level. You still have your Craig's and Oliveras, people like that who who really are dangerous off their back, but it's it's not as common anymore, you know. Well,
it's really hard to do. Yeah. And also, most people don't wanna be on their back. So they don't even practice off their back and the common thought amongst coaches is when you're on your back, there's two minutes to go, you're probably not gonna pull a submission off. You gotta concentrate on getting back up to your feet, minimizing whatever scoring your opponent has done while taking you down and whatever shots they've landed, mitigate those as much as possible and get to the feet as quickly as possible. Yeah. That's what everybody's trying to do now.
Especially in a three round fight. I mean, it's like Yeah. You let yourself get laid on for three minutes in the first round, nothing really happens, but you lost that round. You better win the
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