Combat Chat Podcast

This episode the combat crew talk to owner of Revolution gym in Phuket, Tim Fisher.  Tim has a vast amount of experience running gyms in Australia, Ireland and now lives in Thailand running one of the best camps International that host fighters that compete in all the major stadiums, Lion Fight in America and ONE championship. Tim talks about some of the positives and negatives of running a gym in Thailand, dispels some myths why Thai kids start off in Muaythai and also talks about the current situation with all the stadiums being closed and international travel on hold that is leading to a lot the businesses shutting down in Phuket and Koh Samui. 

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Yah boys are back this week with another special guest, former Multiple world champion during the golden era of Australian  Kickboxing, Grant "The Bomber" Barker. Grant Talks about going from a Rugby player/kings cross bouncer to starting to train under one of Martial arts pioneer Mick Spinks that set him off on a journey to win a world title and how it felt after he achieved his goal and it isn't probably what you think. Grant has fought people like Stan Longinidis, Vitali Klitschko (he tells the story in the podcast) and Peter Aerts to name a few. Now Grant is looking to pass on his knowledge and experience to others and instill them with a champion mindset and this is driven by his own account of not having much self belief when he was fighting.

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This episode yah boys had a great talk with Top Australian female Pro Muaythai fighter and owner of Martial Spirit gym in Victoria, Spring Sia. They learn about Spring's martial arts upbringing in Aikido and how she transitioned to Muaythai, also go over the transformation for her style with the help of some of her Aikido philosophies and also how she is trying to find that balance between life and being a fighter.

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This episode the combat crew talk to Nugget's Thaiboxing gym OG, Ghot Seurnoi. He is a veteran of of Australia's Golden era muaythai promotion Evolution and fought on other great shows like Eruption, Warrior's way and China's EM legends. Ghot is making his return to the ring after a couple years off and talks about this mindset getting back into compared to earlier in his career.

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This episode the boys have back on  Siam 2 Sydney promoter, President of Muaythai NSW and own of PTJ gym, Andrew Parnham. They talk about the return of Muaythai in NSW through Andrew's Siam 2 Sydney Sessions event happening Nov 29th catch the live stream at www.siam2sydney.com/live the event itself took a lot of paperwork to get it approved by the state sports authority and will look very different than what we are used to, but it's great to be talking about upcoming local fights again and getting the Muaythai community back together. Andrew also answers a bunch of our Instagram questions that were sent in.

Stream for Siam 2 Sydney: www.siam2sydney.com/live 

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This episode the combat crew talk to ONE championship veteran Reece "Lightning" McLaren from Potential Unlimited Martial arts. Reece is an action type of fighter that is easy to see when he fights, he likes to play to the crowd and is always intent on finishing the fight instead of getting decisions. He talks about his mindset inside and outside the cage, how the opportunity came to fight for ONE by taking a match for them on 8 days notice, he also talks bout the jarring procedures that he needed to do for his last fight in Singapore in October and much more.

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This week the combat crew have on Published author, Podcast of On fighting in Thailand, Max muaythai Commentator and Social media Manager of Fairtex and Nak muay legends, Matt Lucas. He talks about his experiences in Thailand as someone who came originally for Train-cation purposes to eventually leading him to stay on and make a decent living being there and being a respected foreign figure in the sport. They cover topics like what should overseas fighters expect when it comes to Thai culture and treat the  gym you are staying at as a family and not a paid for a service type deal, Matt's time as a foreigner liaison for F.A group, How fighters should be using their social media for marketing/sponsorship and much more. 

Checkout Matt's books here:
https://www.amazon.com/Boxers-Soliloquy-Matt-Lucas/dp/0692211438
https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Thailand-Guide-Sport-Motherland/dp/B083XX512S

Matt's Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-fighting-in-thailand/id1463743600

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This episode the combat crew split this one up into two parts. First part they are all together talking about the fights on ONE's Reign of Dynasties II and on part two yah boi Hugh talks about all the exciting fights on MTGP headlined by George Mann vs Chris Watts. 

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Rob Cox is the owner of Kiatphontip gym, Muaythai photography/journal site: Muaythai Focus and pretty much the Foreign Ambassador of Muaythai in for a chat. Rob talks about his Martial arts beginning in the UK and how see Muaythai one day set him on a path that lead to him moving and living in Thailand and becoming a renown figure in the sport. He is also a commentator on Max Muaythai and a Judge for ONE championship, he is an absolute encyclopaedia on Muaythai and you'll grab many gems from our talk with him.

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This episode Co-promoter of Muaythai grand Prix and of Head MTA R&Js in WA Darius Doutch jumps on the podcast to talk about how he got into the fight promotion game with Gavin Fuller to lead one of Australia's consistently stellar Muaythai shows in one of the countries deepest talents pools, Western Australia. We break down most of the main card which is headed by guaranteed bangers line Roy wills vs Max McVicker and George Mann vs Chris Watts, which you can catch via live stream in the link below.

Livestream of MTGP: McVicker vs Wills
http://www.liveboxing.com.au/online-store/

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