Combat Chat Podcast

During the week Shane had a opportunity to interview Australia's top boxing cruiserweight Jai Opetaia at Final Round Gym. Jai has a IBF inter-continental title fight in Belgium next month that if he wins will propel him into getting the big names fights very soon.

• Jai Opetaia vs Kurt PegoraroHERE

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Today we had one of Double Dragon's gym senior Instructors Steven Austen, a lifetime martial artist that serviced as a soldier for the Australian army and a Police special operations team member. We covered his takes on coaching from teens, fighters and everyday people, we also give a run down on the upcoming GGG vs Canelo boxing match and the epic card that UFC 228 was.

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Today we had the pleasure of Sy Nadji calling on our show who is the man behind Australia's biggest Muaythai show Rebellion and the BOA super 8 submission grappling event. We talked about his pursuit for maximum entertainment on each of these events and if he plans to venture interstate again. We also talk about his other show "Roots" which is an off shoot of Rebellion with a goal of building Muaythai talent for the future. We cover the state of officiating across Australia and geek out over our favourite fighters. Be sure to also catch his own podcast "Outliers" and the Fights from Rebellion in the link below

• Rebellion Muaythai:HERE

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Lots of shows to recap this week, we start with our outing to VT1 martial arts for another MNSW development day, then we go onto Rebellion muaythai's latest show, Kasai 3 and the Craig jones vs Palhares debacle, Glory 57 event in Shenzhen and Gaethje vs Vick on UFC

Time Stamp List

• (1min) Brodee's performance at VT1's development day
• (5min 45s) Recap of Rebellion Muaythai 20 best matches
• (37min 30s ) Kasai 3 pro grappling show review
• (49 min) Glory 57 lastest event in China
• (1 hr 4mins) UFC fight night 135: Gaethje vs Vick

Video link to the fighters we talked about today

• Rebellion Muaythai:River Daz vs Andy juniku
• Rebellion Muaytha:Toby smith vs Jakub Benko

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This week we had Hassan Owner of Final round gym and his Heavyweight ABL boxing champion Michael come in the the studio to talk about, the state of Aussie boxing, training fighters, Michael's journey from being overweight and how boxing gave him the tool to achieve goals and live a healthier lifestyle, Michael's first muaythai fight coming up and much more

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In NSW the Muaythai action takes a bit of a lull and we usual get the fight team to do some amateur boxing to sharpen up their hand skills, we talk about some of the recent events we been to and have a bit of a rant about why Aussie olympic boxing is in a slump. We also get to breakdpwn Rebellion Muay thai's awesome up coming 20th show with a stacked main card and we take a look at the match of Craig jones vs Rousimar Palhares on Kasai pro's grappling event this weekend

Time Stamp List

• (1min 30s) Talk about Hugh's, Luke's and Karina's boxing matches and rant about the state of amateur officiating
• (19min)Shane talks about his experiences at the Phil Daru's combat athlete performance seminar
• (33min 40s ) Rebellion Muaythai and Kasai Pro fight card break downs
<1i> (1 hr 10min) We look back at the crd that was UFC 227

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Back again this time we are all about that MMA, We all watched One's event event in Manilla from the magic of their phone app and we dissect some of the fights. We also go over the fights and make some picks for the UFC on Fox Alvarez vs Poirier and Rizin FF 11, with this one we recorded before these events happened so you can listen too if we got the narratives of these fights right.

Video link to the fighters we talked about today

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This week the gym held a MNSW Development day, which is the newest entry level in muaythai fighting in NSW, it was done in the IFMA style of equipment. We talk about how Team Double Dragon went, also we cover a bit on the grappling event Spyder Invitational in Korea, recap Glory 55, a glance at the upcoming UFC Hamburg and how exciting Bellator's welterweight tournament looks...until our laptop killed the last part of the podcast, well enjoy it anyhow!

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This week we covered a Craig jones seminar Tretn and Shane went to while Hugh went to see Final Round promotion’s best of boxing and MNSW Siam2Sydney shows. We aslo got to recap Polaris, One Championship, Bellator kickboxing, UFC 226 and Pacman vs Matthysse

Time Stamp List

• (42s) Craig jones seminar, Best of Boxing, Siam2Sydney
• (23min) UFC 226
• (43min) Polaris, One Championship super series, Bellator kickboxing
<1i> (1 hr 9min) Manny Paquaio vs Lucas Mattysse

Video link to the fighters we talked about today

• Giorgio “The doctor” Petrosyan
• Craig jones Guard study by BJJ scout
• Manny “pacman” Paquaio vs Matthyse Highlights

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We made good on our promise and did back to back weeks on the show, we'll see how long that last! But Luke "the Tomahawk" Thompson came in to tell all about his SIlve medal at the IFMA muaythai games held in Cancun Mexico this year, the Injury he carried into the Gold medal round and stayed back to talk about his training and other Combat sports event that happened since the last podcast. No timestamps this week, covered too many topics.

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