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Mario Pinto

Mario Pinto

MMA fighter

Sep 8, 2026

191:42
It feels like you're a part of that movement.
191:44
Absolutely.
191:45
I think the UFC understood now they're trying to get a different type of heavyweights in, a new type of hybrids of heavyweights, you know, former athletes in different other sports.
191:54
So it's great.
191:54
I always said now, though, the heavyweight division is almost at a point where it's a lot harder than it was before because everyone's well-rounded.
192:00
No one's like, there's not much specialists anymore or they're not good at one thing.
192:04
Before it was more strikers, more grapplers, but now everyone can do everything.

10 MINS LATER

202:29
Do you think about that a lot? Do you feel the pressure of that zero?
speaker_3HOST
6:51
How do you look at the division?
6:53
Right now, I think we're at a point now where we've got a lot of like skilled fighters.
7:00
I'm talking like, we've got like a new breed of hybrid heavyweights.
7:04
Okay.
7:04
You know, and a lot of that is not being seen and everyone's talking about everyone, it's not as exciting as it was before.
7:10
Now everyone's gotten better.
7:12
So it actually is hard for everyone to look really good against each other apart from the top five.

6 MINS LATER

speaker_3HOST
12:48
But Rico's going to give this a good go, isn't he?

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