Fight Club

We are finally out of COVID Lockdown ... well sort of. We aren't back in the studio just yey, but thought it was time we chat some fights.

The Fight Club podcast is back with a bang as we recap a crazy month of mixed martial arts action.

Jon Jones is no longer a champion or a UFC light heavyweight,
Stipe Miocic is the GOAT heavyweight and the hype train of Sean O'Malley has been well and truly derailed. 

Also City Kickboxing's Kai Kara-France joins the show and runs down what two weeks training in a MMA bubble looked like.

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The UFC 252 main event is upon us and the winner could rightly proclaim to be the greatest big man in the history of the sport.
So who are the contenders to rival Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier? The Fight Club Podcast runs through the list of potential GOATS.
And what comes of the UFC heavyweight division following Sunday's epic conclusion to one of the greatest trilogy's in combat sports history? We dive deep into the division and offer a few fantasy matchmaking situations.
Former middleweight champion Chris Weidman is finally back in the winning column for the first time in three years - is there a road back to the title for the man that stopped the Anderson Silva era? 
And we reveal the UFC division that could just be the most stacked weight class, with contenders to burn. 

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City Kickboxing's Mike Angove is live in studio discussing various combat sports topics.

Is Paulo Costa worthy of his UFC middleweight title shot against Israel Adesanya?
Mike gives his evaluation of the Brazilians stocks. Also, how will Adesanya combat the aggressive gameplan Costa is promising to bring to the cage?

We look back at UFC's latest card in Las Vegas, where veteran middleweight Derek Brunson halted the latest hype train.

And Mike offers his thoughts on how the Government's COVID-19 quarantine rules will be a devastating financial hit to Kiwi fighters. 

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The final of four epic UFC Fight island events featured a stellar middleweight showdown between former champion Robert Whittaker and Darren Till. The two elite strikers engaged in a 25-minute technical brawl, but did the right man get his hand raised? Mike Tyson is back! How serious should we take this comeback fight against Roy Jones Jr. And a plethora of local combat sports events are I'm the pipeline for August - we cover off all you need to know. 

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UFC 251 wasn't without controversy with featherweight champion Alex Volkanovski scoring what some punters perceived as a debatable win over former champion Max Holloway. Was it really a robbery though?

Also, Dan Hooker on if the UFC could hold an event in New Zealand to a live audience, and we discuss if there is any welterweight capable of stopping Kamaru Usman's winning streak.

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City Kickboxing's Mike Angove joins the show to deep dive into UFC 251's marquee fights - plus he gives us a little insight into life in quarantine post his return from Las Vegas. Speaking of that fight - Dan Hooker gives us an update on his road to recovery and we catch up with WWE NXT superstar, Auckland's own Dakota Kai. 

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Kiwi lightweight Dan Hooker's brutal five-round thriller against Dustin Poirier will go down as one of the greatest fights in the history of the division.

The two warriors battered each other for 25 minutes, with the American coming out on top via a close unanimous decision call.The fight proved Hooker belongs in the top echelon of lightweights after he came within seconds of finishing 'The Diamond' in the second round.

This week Fight Club takes a deep dive into the fight and breaks down what the result means for both fighters.

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