Combat Chat Podcast

This episode the combat crew breaks down ONE's first card since global lockdown, headed by Rotang vs Petchdam and Petchmorakot vs Yodsanklai it looks to be a stacked card  but not overly long. The boys also look at Eddie Bravo's new event, Jiu-Jitsu Overtime. Which is takes the same idea of the overtime section of EBI and made it into a tournament. Finally they look into the old boys Mike and Roy jones signing to fight each other in an exhibition bout and some of the action in the last few UFCs.

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This Episode the fellas have Zoe Putorak of Phoenix gym in Canberra on the podcast to talk to her starting Muaythai at a young age to become a mutliple WMC national champ and a Gold Medalist at the IFMA games in 2019. They also talk to Zoe about her helping mentor some of the newer fighters on the Phoenix team coming up and how teammates have to keep each other accountable if you want to be the best and how she has spend her time in lockdown but is now back into training.

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This episode the Combat Chat crew go over updates on some fight shows going forward in Australia and others that look in dire straits. Glory's situation clarified by Kickboxing insider K1 Anoop, also they go in UFC's fight island matches and the new clothing line deal made public for 2021 with fight brand Venum.

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The Combat Chat crew look at Glory's recent action of filing for bankruptcy and breakdown when they first came about, their constant push to break into the American market and a few speculations why Glory couldn't grow a it's fanbase despite having a solid roster of fighters. They also look at a few big promoters recently exit using Rajadamnern to host their shows and UFC 251 fight island losing one of it's main event with Gilbert Burns testing positive for Covid. 

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This episode the fellas have a chat to Elliot "the Dragon" Compton and talk about his life in martial arts, from starting at 4 yr olds training (and still training) under his father, to fighting in Thailand, to caged Muaythai champion in Australia and now the first Aussie to sign and register a win in ONE championship. We also talk about how he is now doing motivational speaking for troubled youths using his own background of losing his direction in his younger days and then using combat sports to better his life for the better.

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This episode the fellas had a chat with owner of Nova Martial arts in Newcastle Rod Staader. Rod has pretty much done it all, competing in Muaythai, Boxing, MMA and Submission grappling and has produced a stellar team of fighters with guys like Matt Sullivan, Nathan Jones and Niam Stephens to name a few. They talk about coaching philosophies for Muay thai and MMA, How Rod when from competing in Muaythai to Fighting in MMA and also his team's regular appearances at the WMO muaythai games representing Australia.

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This episode the fellas recapped UFC's Woodley vs Burns and then went into some fantasy match making for the Welterweight division. Also they looked at ONE's recent signings for their 70kg super series Muaythai and Kickboxing stables and shared how epic this division is and the match ups that can be made within it.

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This episode the fella recap and breakdown the action of a some of the brutal offerings the UFC has given us as the first live sport during COVID. They breakdown down Justin Gaethje putting a stop to Tony Ferguson's 12 fight win streak and set himself up as  number 1 contender to Khabib. Henry Cejudo being the first man to stop Dominic Cruz and Cruz being extra salty about the ref's stoppage. Lastly, they look at Glover Teixeira's prolonged beating of Anthony smith and use all three fights to look at when should fights be stopped in MMA.

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This episode the fellas talk to Canberra's Muay U gym's owner, Kieran Walsh. They touched on many topics, like: Kieran starting up his own gym after his competitive fight days were over from a debilitating condition in his wrists, WBC's back story of getting involved in Muaythai, is strength and conditioning prioritised to highly over technical training, getting a to live long time dream of going to Japan for fighting through one of his students and having fighters on the big stage of ONE championship.

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This episode the fellas have on Rockhampton's Snake Pit Gym's owner Torin "The Taipan" O'Brien. Torin hasn't had the most conventional fight career so far fromafter a few fight he  rented out a space to train himself with no coach and go on fight shows to still taking up fights with top ranked opponents under circumstances that most people could not handle as well as he did, he has gathered a few of the most insane stories we ever hear in the combat sports community. All his stories though have the message of his love of Muaythai and how it has provided him a constant positive outlook that no matter what life throws at you, there is always a way to pull through and grow for these experiences.  

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