This week we recap a huge night in Melbourne for the Hardcore Promotions 8-Woman Eliminator. 

Tournament favourite Katie Mitchell took out Olivia Kerr, Paris Rose and Nyra Boyle all in one night to take home the WBC Nak Muay Ying Championship belt and a cool $20 0000. 

Tune in for a recap of the full tournament, a discussion about what could be next for Katie plus your questions answered. 

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After a huge weekend of of fights, there's a lot to get through this week:

Round 1 (00:01:17) - An update following Hugh's fight against Victor Teixeira and what's next

Round 2 (00:05:16) - Your questions answered, including why is it so hard to maintain an Australian Muay Thai Ranking system and some of my favourite tournaments of all time. 

Round 3 (00:22:23) - RWS Recap, Nuenglanlek makes his presence felt at Welterweight, Capitan retires. 

Round 4 (00:26:53) - Muay Thai Super Series debut event, a new world champion is crowned, some controversial decisions and does WA's amateur system need some work? 

Round 5 (00:39:22) - Hardcore Promotions 8-Woman Eliminator, a look at the field, Hugh makes his pick to take the win and suggests some fighters to keep an eye on. 

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A special episode this week, Sam Cassidy stops by to catch up. 

Sammy has been a guest on the show before (catch up here https://tinyurl.com/8vkevbpp), since then he's taken on the role of head striking coach at Southside MMA where he's added MMA Striking to his coaching repertoire and worked with athletes from the UFC, PFL, ONE Championship and more.

Hugh and Sammy chat about what's happened since the last episode, how Sammy used his background in Muay Thai to develop his MMA Striking system, his ambitions as a coach, the opportunity training in Thailand presents to fighters from around the world and more. 

If you liked this episode stay tuned because there are some fun announcements to come. 

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A little bit of everything this week from scoring controversies to world-firsts in Thailand. 

Round 1 - Hugh Recaps the results from Saturday night's Muay Thai League event and why MTL is an emerging powerhouse promotion. 

Round 2 - After an action packed event, some controversies and talking points remain about judges decisions. 

Round 3 - Khunsueklek is back! After an upset of the year KO in Japan, Khunsueklek has settled the score with Ryuki Matsuda and regained his Rajadamnern Stadium Bantamweight title.

Round 4 - For the first time ever, a foreign fighter had claimed the coveted Channel 7 Stadium championship. What does this mean for the future of Muay Thai in Thailand and the role of foreign fighters? 

Round 5 - A stacked line up is on deck this Friday from Lumpinee stadium headlined by Superbon vs Jo Nattuwat. 

A few hot takes this week, what are your thoughts? 

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After a busy weekend of fights including one from your host, we are back in the studio to tackle this week's big topics over 5 action packed rounds. 

- ROUND 1: Breaking down Hugh's on again, off again short notice fight, and why it pays to stay ready while training in Thailand. 

- ROUND 2: Your questions answered, including a discussion on what UFC at the Sphere could mean for the wider world of Combat Sports. 

- ROUND 3: RWS Recap, Super Lightweight Group Stage. Dam Parunchai shines again, Sangmanee back in form?

- ROUND 4: Lumpinee Chairman Suchart Daengprapai's plan to revive 5-round provincial Muay Thai and what it means for the sport's future.

- ROUND 5: ONE Championship to move quarterly "tentpole" events back to the Impact Arena. 

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It was a big weekend for Muay Thai all over the world with the final round of the Rajadamnern World Series Welterweight Group Stage as well as One Championship continuing their move into the United States. 

This week we dive into an in depth recap of the deciding RWS welterweight bouts and the match ups we have to look forward to moving in to the finals, as well as talking through all the action from ONE: 168 in Denver where Superlek Kiatmoo9 claimed the ONE Muay Thai
Bantamweight Championship. 

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Tomorrow, live from the Melbourne Pavilion, Australia's premier Muay Thai Promotion returns with an exciting new concept.

"Road to Rajadamnern" will be a full day Muay Thai festival showcasing fights, food and culture with 4 marquee bouts seeing athletes compete for the chance to perform at the world's oldest Muay Thai stadium. 

In this episode we preview the 4 main bouts:

- Kai Weate Jones vs Ramesh Habib
- Bryony Soden vs Corban Harvey 
- Ibrahim Abou Saleh vs James Kostic 
- Diandra Martin vs Shannon Gardiner 

Be sure to catch the action live on livecombatsports.com.au and check back next week for our recap. 

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It's been a minute! Welcome to the new and improved Combat Chat Podcast. While we've been away, Hugh moved to live and train full time in Thailand and has been fighting regularly, as well as commentating for WLF and RWS. 

From here on out we're back better than ever, with a brand new format. For the first show back, a quick catch up on Thailand so far and a preview of what's in the works. 

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This week Hugh talks repeat guest, Sy Nadji of Rebellion Muay thai. They go over some of Rebellions historical moments, why Sy steered away from having titles on his show for a long title until changing that very recently and also the 70kg 8-man tournament he has in store for his next show that includes everyone's favourite ginger...wait, sorry it's not Nathan jones, it's Hugh.

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This week we got a bunch of questions from instagram and answered as many with could within the hour. loads of great stuff was covered from the Aus amateur scene compared to internationally, best gyums in NSW to what is Hugh's actual day job. plus loads more, if you have any questions we also would love to hear them and answer them on the podcast or Instagram live

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