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Mar 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We traveled to south Florida to sit down with @GilbertDurinho ahead of his mega clash against Khamzat Chimaev.

We discuss why he took Chimaev fight, sports psychology changing him, what Usman loss taught him.

Tomorrow on @morningkombat.
I cannot overstate how thoughtful Gilbert is through this 45-minute talk. His reflection on his journey, what moves him and how he honors his values is illuminating.

Most folks know I don’t do interviews much anymore and that’s by choice. Delighted to make an exception here.
And yes, that’s Kamaru Usman there in the video. That’s not stock footage. He was there the day we arrived working with Gilbert Burns. We talk all about that as well.

11am ET the video interview with Burns drops on the @morningkombat YouTube channel.
Updating this thread with the live link to the Burns interview: #UFC273

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I tracked down the articles cited in UFC President Dana White's anti-media video today related to the UFC's efforts during the coronavirus. Might be worth revisiting them to see what they say and if pushback on them is warranted in light of the very good year UFC had.

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It's worth mentioning up front the UFC had two coronavirus experiences.

Once they began working with commissions in May - especially in NV or Abu Dhabi govt - virtually all criticisms went away. At that point, they were working inside updated state medical protocol or beyond.
Before that, however, is when the overwhelming majority of pushback took place.

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Gyms in DC are having success in battling Covid. Many have zero cases of Covid spread to either patrons or staff. The curious part according to one major gym owner in the city is women are returning to the gym at less than half the rate of men. No idea why that'd be so pronounced
When I say gym, I mean fitness, not MMA/BJJ.

Here all gyms have a 100% mask requirement for all patrons/staff at all times. No locker rooms. 25% of normal capacity can train at one time. Touchless entry. Heavy cleaning. Temp checks.

Generally, these are interventions that work.
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I do not take it seriously when Gillette or Nike try this because it's all still part of profit maximization.
Or plain hypocrisy, e.g. Nike uses suspect labor standards in developing nations.

So, it should come as no surprise that Disney - who talks a great deal about corp social responsibility (thewaltdisneycompany.com/social-respons…) created a moral horror with the new Mulan: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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I'll have a Dissected out tomorrow trying to make sense of Max-Volkanovski 2.

3 pts:

1. The detail & subtlety of Volk's game is extremely difficult to pick up on in real time
2. 'Watching fights again' as a fact check is pointless
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On point 2, we're fact checking wrong. It doesn't matter who did what in terms of scoring when everything is slowed down & assessed.

What matters is what a judge can reasonably identify in real time without much aide. Certain kinds of styles will always benefit from that fact.
I've done the whole "I slowed the fight down and X beat Y" argument. but what does it actually prove in terms of scoring? The judges got it wrong? Maybe they did except if they did it's probably because...they didn't get to watch it more than once or in slow motion.
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