Combat Chat Podcast

This episode the fellas dive into team NZ's City Kickboxing 3 for 3 wins in UFC Melbourne and The Stylebender getting crowned the new middleweight king. we also cover GGG's latest fight where he was given a run for his money against a little known up and comer. They also breakdown the action Fire in The shire 4 with Hugh being the main event and ONE championship have a literal full day of fights on Oct 13th starting at 9am and going well into the night.

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(30s-11min) WTF/What the Fight: Jeff Fenech in Hospital in Thailand, WWE bring in Cain Velaquez to fight Brock Lesnar and Tyson Fury makes an appearance. One Clarissa Shield's entourage coward punches the trainer for her opponent after weigh ins.
(11min-36min) Recaps: Whittaker vs Adesanya, Hooker vs Iaquinta, Riddell vs Murklarkey and GGG vs Derevyanchenko.
(36mins-1hr12min) Preview of Fire in the Shire: Nathan jones vs Josh McCulloch, Dion Beattie vs Edimar Teixeira, Rachel Rathjen vs Marina Verissmo and Hugh O'Donnell vs Ryan Black.    

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This episode the fellas go into breaking down the olympics equivalent of grappling events in ADCC, where Lachlan Giles and Craig jones became the first Aussies to medal in ADCC history. They also cover what happened at Glory's last event and UFC Copenhagen. Finally they give a detailed analyst of this weekend's UFC in Melbourne headed by Whittaker vs Adesanya for the middleweight strap.

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This episode the fellas get back into the coaches corner, they cover the question of how to develop a style suited to you. The boys tell there own personal journeys of how their styles evolved over time, the many trial and errors they went through and seeking advice from others to shape what they do in training/fighting today and how to keep progressing it into the foreseeable future.

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This episode the fellas go into Rodtang's continuing ass whooping tour after a banger of a fight with Saeksan, Tyson Fury guts out a win in an unexpected tough fight after a massive cut on his head in the 3rd round and Keenan Cornelius takes gold at No Gi Pam Ams at Absolute division plus has a hot take of where a prime Rickson Gracie would stand with today's Elite Mat monsters. Hugh also goes into a recap of some of the amateurs and the whole pro card of Siam 2 Sydney's last event and we cover the action of Cowboy v Gatheje at UFc fight night 158.

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This episode the fellas go deep into the WTF section. Lots was covered with USADA doing testing at the upcoming IBJJF worlds, Phoenix gym owner Anthony Manning released a rant video on Mod Thai in Australia, The UFC looks to be putting together Diaz vs Masvidal for the BMF (Bad Mother Fucker) title and what is with Ramzan Kadyrov's appearance at UFC 242? We also recap ONE's recent event in Vietnam which was entirely Muaythai and Kickboxing, then we breakdown Khabib vs Poirier and touch on what would a winning gameplan against Khabib look like?

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This episode the fellas breakdown the action that happens in Hugh's last fight and the rest of the Eruption Muaythai card, The grappling wizardry of Lachlan Giles and Gordon ryan at the last Kinetic grappling event and the crowning of China's first UFC champion Weili Zhang. Plus we preview ONE's immortal triumph card in Vietnam which is entirely muaythai and Kickboxing, also we look at the top end of UFC's Abu Dhabi card headed by Lightweight title showdown Poirer vs Khabib.

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(30s-18min) Eruption Muaythai
(18min-38min) Kinetic grappling and UFC China
(38min-52min) ONE championship: immortal triumph
(52min-1hr) UFC 242: Poirer vs Khabib 

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This episode Shane and Hugh breakdown the fight card of Eruption Muaythai that is on this Friday, headlined by a Light Heavyweight battle between NSW's Charlie Bubb and QLD's Jayden Eynaud. The Fire from the Shire himself is also going to be fighting on that card as well against the Strike force gym's rising talent, Cory Still.

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The fights will be Live streamed on Live Combat Sports HERE

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This episode the fellas go to town on a fight event they attended over the weekend and all the bad stuff they witness there, also they discuss how it's time to start making a stand to these unethical promotions if everyone wants a dickhead-free NSW combat sports scene. They then do recaps on ONE's Muaythai/Kickboxing heavy show: Dreams of Gold and the stellar main card of UFC 241.

Time Stamp:
(31s-31mins) WTF:What The Fight?!: Rant on how there is still crooked fight promotions in NSW and it's time to do something about it.

(31mins-1hr8mins) Recaps: Dreams of Gold - Ramazanov v Topic, Bangpleenoi v Nolan, Savvas v Lerdsila, Muangthai v Yamada, Sana v Askerov, Nattawut v Petrosyan and Petchdam v Ennahachi. UFC 241 - Romero v Costa, Diaz v Pettis and Cormier v Stipe.

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This episode the fellas breakdown the upcoming action of ONE's Bangkok card: Dreams of Gold. It has a lot of Muaythai action and also the super hot kickboxing featherweight semi finals. We also breakdown UFC 241 with greats fights like Cormier v Miocic 2, Romero v Costa and Diaz vs Pettis.

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(30s-21min) WTF/What The Fight!: Mike Perry's smashed face, Ciryl Gane maybe a beginning of a better Heavyweight crop, Manachai gets suspended from Yokkao, upcomining fight night for Team Double Dragon at Jez Promotions.

(21min-1hr 12min) ONE championship: Ramaznov v Topic, Bangpleenoi v Nolan, Savva v Lerdsila, Muangthai v Yamada, Sana v Askerov, Nattawut vs Petrosyan, Petchdam v Ennahachi. UFC 241: Diaz v Pettis, Romero vs Costa, Cormier v Miocic.

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This episode the fellas spend the majority of the time breakdown the action of ONE's last event: Dawn of Heroes in Manilla. Because there ain't shit going on this weekend and we'll be damn to pretend we're interested in UFC fight night 156's abysmal card.

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(30s-24mins) WTF/What The Fight?: Lion fight 57 all up in arms, Frankie Edgar moves to Bantamweight, Cris Cyborg gets released by UFC to test free agency, the King of Lethwei Dave Leduc stops a former UFC fighter.

(24mins-1hr) Recap of Dawn of Heroes: Kingdad vs McLaren, Mighty Mouse vs WADA, Alvarez vs Folayang, Haggerty vs Rodtang and Nguyen vs Matsushima.

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